MUSIC FOR NEW BODIES: https://t.co/JzQv2QJJLt (excerpts from the world premiere performance, Houston, April 2024) @DaCameraHouston @KathrynLewek @ShepherdSchool

“Two decades into George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s creative partnership, it feels neither premature nor hyperbolic to suggest that theirs is among the most successful composer–librettist collaborations in operatic history.” —@aucoincomposer

Matthew Aucoin (@aucoincomposer) on George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s tender, crushing opera Picture a day like this

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 https://t.co/uVMqJmPVRw

"Eurydice" is headed to Boston! see you next spring @BostLyricOpera: https://t.co/vKd3Nsv3bj @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: https://t.co/0wT3TUZacw

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

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 https://t.co/Bt1yMABfAq

I wrote about @aucoincomposer, Anthony Davis, @T_Blanchard and their @RecordingAcad nominated operas. One of those rare instances where the 3 competing works are all gorgeous and visionary. 🌿 https://t.co/MJPzC1VT1h

“Classical music in the UK has long enjoyed the kind of robust public support that American artists can only dream of,” writes @aucoincomposer. “At the moment, however, the integrity and consistency of that support is seriously at risk.”

I wrote about the UK Arts Council's muddled, misguided decision to cut off annual funding to the @E_N_O for @nybooks: https://t.co/0xsN8omoFj @ace_national

The @newyorkermag agrees, EL NIÑO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED is the piece to see this holiday season! Choose-what-you-pay tickets are still available and start at just $5, on sale at the link in bio. Thanks to @oussamazahr for the shout-out!

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 https://t.co/M6nT5a5tgJ

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