Podcast appearances and mentions of donald nally

And the Grammy goes to…The Crossing! This Philly-based choir was just awarded the Grammy for Best Choral Performance for their album “Ochre.” The Crossing is a professional chamber choir that has now won four Grammy Awards after being nominated nine consecutive times. They might just be the most successful Philly musicians you didn't know about. Last year, host Trenae Nuri chatted with Donald Nally, conductor, Nate Barnett, tenor, and Chelsea Lyons, alto and the group's community engagement manager back when they were nominated for the Grammy to talk about their soulful sound and the secret to winning big in the music industry. This episode originally aired on December 4th, 2024.  Call us and sing us a song: 215-259-8170 Get Philly news & events in your inbox with our newsletter: Hey Philly We're also on Instagram: @citycastphilly Advertise on the podcast or in the newsletter: citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The powerful sound of The Crossing Choir — a multiple-Grammy award winning chamber choir based in Philadelphia — just hit a new record: The 25-member group received its 10th consecutive nomination this year. Host Trenae Nuri talks with Donald Nally, conductor; Nate Barnett, tenor; and Chelsea Lyons, alto and the group's community engagement manager, about their latest album Ochre, their soulful sound, and the secret to winning big in the music industry. Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly. We're also on X and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly. Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail or send us a text at 215-259-8170. Learn more about the sponsor of this episode: BetterHelp - get 10% off at betterhelp.com/CITYCAST  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“It is not my job to answer the questions. It’s my job to ask the questions.” Programming for our choirs carries with it a wide range of challenges, from the skill levels of our groups, and their needs to the considerations of speaking to an audience. There are many ways to wrestle with this balance. … Continue reading "Episode 203: Programming as Storytelling with Donald Nally"

Donald Nally, who conducts The Crossing Choir of Philadelphia, speaking about the ensemble and its music-making in anticipation of the CD release of their recent recording, "Carols After a Plague," featuring commissioned pieces by 12 different composers performed by The Crossing. The release date is Friday, January 6, 2023, on New Focus Recordings. www.crossingchoir.org/

In this episode, we speak to Donald Nally, music director of The Crossing, Philadelphia's Grammy-award winning chamber choir, about creating choral performances through the pandemic and the process of "musical journalism", to capture and reflect our times.

GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases its 25th commercial album, WORDS ADORNED. WORDS ADORNED features The Crossing with the Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture’s Takht Ensemble – led by Hanna Khoury, who served as a musical coach for the project – and Palestinian vocal soloist Dalal Abu Amneh in commissioned works by Kareem Roustom and Kinan Abou-afach inspired by Andalusian poetry, and the traditional muwashshah When He Appeared by Muhammad ‘abd al-Rahim al Maslub. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1350/Words_Adorned.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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#50. If you're a choral nerd, get ready to nerd OUT. You're about to hang out withThe Crossing's two-time Grammy Award winner Donald Nally. One of the remarkable things about Donald is that his immense talent does not stop him from being vulnerable. In fact, I'm sure his openness and humility, along with his singular goal of choral honesty, are the reasons why he enjoys such success. So give a listen and discover what professional endeavor Donald avoids because he says he's a disaster at it. What it was like to meet Mick Jagger and perform with the Rolling Stones. WhyThe Crossing has performed with the LA Philharmonic and the NY Philharmonic but never The Philadelphia Orchestra. What Donald really thinks about Zoom. And what it really feels like to win not one, but TWO Grammys. And you'll hear Donald's answer to the question of what the "secret formula" is to winning a Grammy. Obviously, he's figured it out. Or has he? This is an engaging conversation, with the inimitable singing of The Crossing threaded throughout. If you don't already, you'll understand just why this ensemble has won two Grammys. But that's decidedly not why Donald does what he does. You'll find out what drives him in this very special episode. Our two-part conversation begins with something I found rather curious in his bio on The Crossing website. It ends with an excerpt fromThe Crossing's recording of Jim Primosch's Carthage , which has earned Nally and the ensemble its 6th Grammy nomination and maybe its 3rd Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Break a vocal fold Donald! Every piece that is highlighted in this episode, along with a link to buy it so you can know this incredible artistry and support The Crossing and the composers it champions, can be found on my website's blog. Or you can go directly to crossingchoir.org. (Donald Nally's Photo Credit: Beck Oehlers)

On THE TOWER AND THE GARDEN, the multi-GRAMMY winning choir The Crossing and conductor Donald Nally ponder the fragility of the earth, the awe of nature, and the power of language to unite, or divide, society. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1210/THE_TOWER_AND_THE_GARDEN.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

In this episode we speak with choral conductor and Illinois graduate Donald Nally. He is conductor of the professional choral ensemble The Crossing, which has received many accolades and awards, including two Grammy Awards and six nominations. Currently they are nominated in the category of Best Choral Album for Carthage: the Music of James Primosch. In addition to Carthage, we’ll discuss some very innovative ways that The Crossing has adapted to making music in the age of COVID.protect yourself from infection by David Lang The Forest - a film by The CrossingRising w/ The Crossing

On THE TOWER AND THE GARDEN, the multi-GRAMMY winning choir The Crossing and conductor Donald Nally ponder the fragility of the earth, the awe of nature, and the power of language to unite, or divide, society. Purchase the music (without talk) at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1210/THE_TOWER_AND_THE_GARDEN.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Donald Nally is the artistic director of one of this country's most adventurous and creative choirs, The Crossing. John Pitman talks to the conductor about Michael Gordon's Anonymous Man, a 65-minute choral work in 7 movements, which is a memoir of Gordon's life with his family on Desbrosses Street in lower Manhattan in the 1980s. New York, especially Tribeca, was very different then: the legendary lofts that artists could afford to live in were in that area, since replaced through gentrification. But one constant has been the presence of houseless people, and Gordon's work shares his personal interactions with two men who lived on the street in his neighborhood then. A compelling document of a specific time and place, but which could really be anyplace, including here.

CARTHAGE JAMES PRIMOSCH THE CROSSING Donald Nally conductor GRAMMY-winning chamber choir The Crossing is back with their latest installment in a multi-album series with Navona Records. CARTHAGE comes on the heels of the 2020 GRAMMY-nominated album THE ARC IN THE SKY, released last summer. In this latest offering, artistic director Donald Nally leads the choir through six striking pieces by composer James Primosch that confront the most elemental questions of Western philosophy. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

Grammy-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases their newest recording – Michael Gordon’s Anonymous Man – on Cantaloupe Music. Scored for 24 unaccompanied voices, Anonymous Man is an hour-long piece on history, home, and homelessness that expands on Michael Gordon’s inventive approach to composition, layering minimalistic swirls of vocal sound on top of one another to create a hypnotic incantation. The nine-movement work was commissioned by The Crossing and premiered by the group on July 1, 2017 at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, as a part of The Month of Moderns, The Crossing’s annual summer festival of new music. Michael Gordon regards Anonymous Man as one of his most important and personal works, drawing inspiration for the piece from his neighborhood in lower Manhattan. Now a residential area in Tribeca, the block Gordon was at the time an industrial warehouse district when he moved into the former Romanoff Caviar factory in 1981. He says, “When I moved into my loft on Desbrosses Street, the streets were empty, since few people lived there. But both then and now, there were the homeless. Over time the neighborhood changed from an industrial warehouse district to a residential area. Anonymous Man is a memoir about my block. The piece is built around my memories of moving in, meeting my future wife for the first time there, and conversations I have had with two homeless men who made their home on the loading dock across the street.” Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber

Donald Nally believes in the power of counseling. Donald and Kai discuss how important transferring to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was for him (11:50), the mistakes he made as a young conductor (19:30), and how counseling has played a pivotal role in his evolution as an artist (22:30). They also discuss his hilarious Grammy winning moment (46) and making an impact on the world as an artist (53).  

Just ahead of Fringe Festival 2018’s opening weekend, Donald Nally, co-founder and conductor of The Crossing, joins hosts Zach and Raina to discuss the choral group’s unexpected origins, his brand spanking new Grammy hat, and The Crossing’s Fringe Festival show Of Arms and the Man. Of Arms and the Man will premier September 16 at 8PM at FringeArts. Tickets are available at FringeArts.com or on the FringeArts app, available in the Apple app store or Google Play. Learn more about The Crossing at https://www.crossingchoir.org. Follow FringeArts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat and visit us on the web at https://fringearts.com.

It's a format as old as time: two guys sit down to play music and talk about it. Soundward, a continuing collaboration between Relevant Tones and Q2 Music, features lively conversation, new releases from composers around the globe and interesting new discoveries. Hosted by Seth Boustead and Phil Kline Produced by Sarah Zwinklis and Hannis Brown Music Canticles of the Holy Wind, mvt. I Sky With Four Suns by John Luther Adams The Crossing chamber choir; Donald Nally, conductor Crumbling Arches by Vytautas Germanavičius Trio Kaskados: Albina Šikšniūtė, piano; Rusnė Mataitytė, violin; Edmundas Kulikauskas, cello A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke: Uncut Emeralds by Vijay Iyer Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet; Vijay Iyer, piano and electronics Songlines by Michael Ippolito Attacca Quartet: Amy Schroeder, violin; Keiko Tokunaga, violin; Nathan Schram, viola; Andrew Yee, cello Canticles of the Holy Wind, mvt. IV Hour of the Doves by John Luther Adams The Crossing chamber choir; Donald Nally, conductor

July 5, 2016:  My next guest and I have known each other for nearly a quarter century, the internationally acclaimed conductor Donald Nally. Having performed in many of his choirs while an undergraduate student at West Chester University in the mid 90's, and playing and arranging percussion for him outside of the academic setting, my musical life has been incredibly enriched. In this episode we learn about Donald's love-affair with the saxophone, the effect that great (and not-so-great) teachers had on his career path, splitting his time between Philadelphia and Chicago, The Crossing choir, and his early experiences performing with Robert Shaw and Leonard Bernstein.  Donald Nally is conductor of The Crossing, the GRAMMY award-winning professional chamber choir in Philadelphia focused on new music. He is also chorus master of The Chicago Bach Project and Director of Choral Organizations at Northwestern University. 

In a program from 2009, Andrew Patner is joined by then-chorus master of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Donald Nally, discussing and playing recordings of Nally's Philadelphia-based contemporary choral group, The Crossing [...]

Donald Nally and I sit down in his office at Northwestern to talk, love, death, trust, family, passion, the love of alone time, being on the go, and doing things just for the opportunity to take chances with friends. This is a wonderful, intimate, and ranging chat. Take the ride with us!

There's a distinctly operatic feel about this latest edition of the Classic Newsnight podcast. Not only will we be hearing from Jane McCullough, who's directing Lehár's The Merry Widow for Opera UK, but also from Donald Nally, Chorus Master at Welsh National Opera. And if opera goes over your head, don't worry; we'll also be meeting a lady called Pam Westwood, who's just produced a remarkable new keyboard tutor: “It's never too late to play piano”. And Pam insists we can take the title at face value – so no excuses! Classic FM's resident doctor, Rob Hicks, is also here, talking about that scourge of the winter months, the common cold.