An extension of The Month of Moderns, Olivia sings with The Crossing again in New York City to perform Aaron Helgeson’s The Book of Never, with excerpts of Gavin Bryar’s new work, The Last Words of Immanuel Kant, as one of their featured soloists. She also joined them to record The Book of Never album.
The Book of Never, winner of a 2024 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, is a choral exhortation based on the ancient Novgorod Codex – a wooden book of psalms from 999 A.D. owned by a monk who was sent as a missionary from Kyiv to the city of Novgorod (later annexed by Russia in 1478) and subsequently excommunicated for combining Pagan ritual with Orthodox Christianity. To save his culture, he poured layer after layer of wax over the book on which to write his liturgy, his alphabet, searing retaliations, and visions of the apocalypse.
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