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The Crossing & Donald Nally - 2023 David Shapiro- Sumptuous Planet (A Secular Mass) 

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https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sumptuous-planet-a-secular-mass

On Friday, November 10, 2023, The Crossing, one of our greatest choirs, will release SUMPTUOUS PLANET, a virtuosic and spectacular concert-length work by composer David Shapiro based primarily on the writings of the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (famous, in part, for his defense of atheism). Sumptuous Planet is an expression of belief about the nature of life and the joy we can find in understanding it, paradoxically told through a Christian Mass and Dawkins’ secular world view. The work is at times an impassioned romp; at others an intimate meditation.

This is the 31st studio album of The Crossing, the 24-voice choir that specializes in new music, comes on the heels of the choir’s third Grammy Award-winning album Born, while this month The Crossing was named 2024 Ensemble of the Year by Musical America.