McLoskey: Zealot Canticles / Nally, The Crossing

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Label
Innova Recordings
Release Date
September 28, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MCLOSKEY, LANSING
    • PERFORMER
      The Crossing, Nally
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 28, 2018
    • UPC
      726708698423
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      INN984
    • LABEL
      Innova Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Renunciation: Preludium (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    2. Let's start (Soprano, Baritone)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Performer: Rebecca Siler, Elijah Blaisdell

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    3. Perched on church steeple (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    4. I intend to be blunt (Baritone)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Performer: Elijah Blaisdell

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    5. I shall ram pebbles in my mouth (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    6. Armed with book and beard (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    7. The writing on the wall (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Performer: Rebecca Siler, Maren Montalbano-Brehm

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    8. I shall place nettles on my tongue (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    9. Seek havens of peace on ocean floors (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Performer: Elijah Blaisdell

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    10. The dog in dogma (Soprano)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Performer: Rebecca Siler

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    11. I am right, you are dead (Baritone)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Performer: Elijah Blaisdell

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    12. I shall place werepe on every tongue (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: Maren Montalbano-Brehm

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    13. I turned to stone (Mezzo-Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    14. The man dies

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    15. I'll drop ratsbane on my tongue (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    16. The 13th Canticle (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    17. Where are all the flowers gone? (Soprano)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Performer: Rebecca Siler

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    18. Bi o ti wa (Baritone, Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: Elijah Blaisdell

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    19. Bi o ti wa l'atete kose

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    20. On fire today (Chorus)

      Composer: Lansing McLoskey

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Conductor: Donald Nally


Lansing McLoskey’s Zealot Canticles is based on Wole Soyinka’s Twelve Canticles for the Zealot (2002)- a strangely beautiful and terrifying look into the minds of fanatics. Seven of these poems form the bulk of the libretto, interwoven with excerpts from Soyinka’s plays, interviews, lectures and speeches; they reflect his upbringing in an environment of tolerance and condemn the current climate of intolerance, bigotry, and violence. The result is a concert-length choral ‘oratorio’ for clarinet, string quartet, and 24-voice choir, commissioned and performed by The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally and winner of the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Soyinka’s texts and McLoskey’s responses are universal pleas for peace and tolerance, yet they force us to look into the mirror and recognize the thin line between devotion and intolerance, zealotry and radicalism- themes that dominate our public discourse every day. Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian poet, playwright, novelist, and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African American recipient of the award. Throughout the set of canticles, Soyinka makes universal pleas for peace from multiple languages and religious cultures. Seven of these poems form the core of the libretto of Zealot Canticles. Interwoven with these poems are excerpts from Soyinka’s book The Man Died, his play Madmen and Specialists, and interviews, lectures, and speeches reflecting on his upbringing in an environment of tolerance, and condemning the current climate of intolerance, bigotry and violence.