The Crossing commissions Robert Maggio “Democracy” for SATB chorus

PRE-ELECTION FILM RELEASES

new works of Ayanna Woods, Robert Maggio, and Nicholas Cline
featuring Echoes amplification

October 24-November 3, 2020

The Crossing‘s contribution to the charged political atmosphere leading to the General Election. We will release three new short films. Nicholas Cline’s “she took his hands” is a moving, minimal blend of heart-break and hope, dealing with immigration. Ayanna Woods, new to The Crossing, brings stylistic skill and versatility to her new work “Shift,” which questions the story America tells to itself, about itself. And, Robert Maggio’s new “Democracy” centers on FDR’s Arsenal of Democracy speech (1940), with the climactic words:  

I would ask no one to defend a democracy which in turn 
would not defend everyone in the nation.