Thursday, June 20, 2019, 7:30 pm
Tickets:
$35; $25 for members
Matthew Aucoin, Ben Lerner, and John Moore
In conjunction with the exhibition Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy, composer and conductor Matthew Aucoin curates an evening of spoken word and music featuring Walt Whitman’s letters and poems with musical excerpts from Aucoin’s 2015 opera Crossing and works by John Adams and Leonard Bernstein. Featuring Matthew Aucoin, piano, John Moore, baritone, Ben Lerner, poet/writer, and author Molly Dektar. Aucoin is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.
The exhibition Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy will be open at 6:30 pm for concert attendees.
Matthew Aucoin. Photography by Steven Laxton.
John Moore. Photography by Richard Blinkoff.