Donald Nally, the conductor of The Crossing, has won two Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance (2018, 2019) and has commissioned nearly eighty works with his choir.
Composition History
The album features two distinct musical settings of Hart Crane's poem cycle 'Voyages,' one by Robert Convery from 1994 and another by Benjamin C.S. Boyle from 2018.
Recording & Production
The recording of 'Voyages' was made possible by a generous gift from a long-time supporter of The Crossing.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Hart Crane, the poet whose 'Voyages' cycle is set on this album, was a Modernist poet who used 'a logic of metaphor' where terms were selected for associational meanings rather than literal significance.
Compositional Technique
Robert Convery's 'Voyages' for unaccompanied choir is structured as a set of variations, where the thematic material for each of its six movements is drawn from the preceding movement.
Performer Biography
The Crossing, the professional chamber choir on this recording, is dedicated to new music and has commissioned over seventy premieres, many addressing social, environmental, and political issues.
Album & Artwork
The album artwork for 'Voyages' was created by Paul du Coudray.
