Crickets in Our Backyard

works of Tania León, Wang Lu, Ayanna Woods
words of Rita Dove, Forrest Gander, Ayanna Woods
with Claire Chase, flute

Drawing of a goat head on a blue background
  • Date September 18, 2023
  • Time 7:30 PM
  • Location Battell Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, CT

The Crossing kicks off the 2023-2024 Season: Sin Eating with Crickets in our Backyard, featuring the world premiere of a new work from Tania León, based on poetry of U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, written for The Crossing and renowned, mind-bendingly virtuosic flutist and MacArthur Fellow Claire Chase.

Wang Lu’s At Which Point, a 2021 commission on poetry of Pulitzer-winner Forrest Gander, will be reprised, alongside a new work – Infinite Body – from The Crossing’s 2022-2023 Resident Composer, Ayanna Woods.

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