MUSIC FOR NEW BODIES:. (excerpts from the world premiere performance, Houston, April 2024). @DaCameraHouston @KathrynLewek @ShepherdSchool.

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RT @nybooks: Matthew Aucoin (@aucoincomposer) on George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s tender, crushing opera Picture a day like this https://….

I'm making a piece with Peter Sellars based on poetry by @jorie_graham. It's called MUSIC FOR NEW BODIES. Wow I don't have words for how excited I am for this one. See you next April at @DaCameraHouston @ShepherdSchool.

"Eurydice" is headed to Boston! see you next spring @BostLyricOpera:. @SydneySoprano @elportillo.

the Ed Sheeran trial takes a shocking turn with the arrival of a surprise witness: Theodor Adorno 👀🍿.

"The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera" is now out in paperback!. it's a book that has been described (by me) as being "like listening to opera without having to listen to opera." check it out here:.

last night at a party a friend was talking about wanting to stage “Gurrelieder.” an innocent bystander had a horrified expression on his face. I believe this is because he misheard the title as “Girl Eater.”.

this is one of those weeks where I feel like a very lucky composer. two orchestral performances in the same city (Boston) on the same night! . I will be sprinting from Sanders Theater to Jordan Hall in an attempt to hear both…. @NewEnglandPhil #harvardradcliffeorchestra

RT @nybooks: Matthew Aucoin (@aucoincomposer) on the conductor Carlos Kleiber, the nonpareil of podium alchemy

"The Kleiber aesthetic is founded on the interdependence of delicacy and violence.". I wrote about Carlos Kleiber's never-quite-articulated theory of performance, and the surreal weirdness of his letters (written in flawless English) for @nybooks .

RT @ErnestoLechner: I wrote about @aucoincomposer, Anthony Davis, @T_Blanchard and their @RecordingAcad nominated operas. One of those rare….

RT @nybooks: “Classical music in the UK has long enjoyed the kind of robust public support that American artists can only dream of,” writes….

I wrote about the UK Arts Council's muddled, misguided decision to cut off annual funding to the @E_N_O for @nybooks:. @ace_national.

RT @RunningAMOC: The @newyorkermag agrees, EL NIÑO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED is the piece to see this holiday season! Choose-what-you-pay tick….

I like to refer to male authors as “Man Bookers”.

the @MetOpera recording of "Eurydice" is nominated for a Grammy!. so proud of our whole team: @nezetseguin, @morley_erin, @barihopkins, @BelCantoBhoy, the @METOrchestra and @MetOperaChorus, and the *wizardly* engineer David Frost.

effective altruism is not doomed. the movement's central ideas are too strong to be brought down by one ex-billionaire. but I really hope the FTX catastrophe teaches EA's leaders to stop snuggling with unhinged crypto-futurists who risk derailing EA's core humanistic mission!.

everyone everyone everyone should sign this petition protesting the demented, nonsensical defunding/relocation of English National Opera (@E_N_O):.

on my second-to-last day in Houston, pure late-afternoon glory at Rothko Chapel and the @MenilCollection