Crossing 32nd Street, named Phoenix's "Best New Classical Music Ensemble" by the Arizona Republic, strives to increase the awareness and understanding of modern music through an aggressive commiment to performing relevant contemporary works at the highest level. Performances routinely include the music of the modern masters, including, among others, John Cage, Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Iannis Xenakis, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, John Luther Adams and James Tenney, as well as the exciting new works of emerging composers. More
The 2017-18 season marks our sixteenth year of making music together. This season we are focusing on large ensemble works and some of our repertoire pieces. Performances of Reich's Drumming, Stockhausen's Musik im Bauch are on tap along with new works by our own ensemble. We are working on new recordings of our recent repertoire and our in-house production team of Nottingham/Reed has started the next collection of the music of composer Christopher Shultis. More