Scholar Lucy Caplan, in partnership with the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), leads LISTENING TO TOM-TOM, a discussion of the 1932 opera by author, musicologist and composer Shirley Graham Du Bois. Following an introduction of excerpts from the work, Caplan and fellow panelists, including AMOC bass-baritone Davóne Tines, will discuss the opera's complex representations of race, gender, and history, as well as the opportunities and challenges of presenting Tom-Tom today. 

AMOC brings a vibrant program of chamber music to National Sawdust, featuring AMOC artists Keir GoGwilt (violin), Coleman Itzkoff (cello), and Conor Hanick (piano). Pieces will include Its Own Accord, written for GoGwilt by Matthew Aucoin and premiered at Dumbarton Oaks in 2017, and Celeste Oram's Sanz cuer / Amis, dolens / Dame, par vous (2016), a work which takes Guillaume de Machaut's ballade of the same name and uses it to explore the permeability of music between the sacred and the mundane, the virtual and the real, the performative and the every-day. 

Join us at WBUR's brand-new venue, CitySpace, for an evening of music and conversation with Matthew Aucoin, Radio Open Source host Christopher Lydon, and violinists Miranda Cuckson and Keir GoGwilt. Musical selections will include the concert version of the violin duo With Care and Its Own Accord, for violin and piano.

AMOC countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, tenor Paul Appleby, and Co-Artistic Director Matthew Aucoin bring a new recital program to Caramoor. Built around Britten’s dramatic canticle Abraham and Isaac, Veils for Desire features works that “veil” or transform an unspeakable desire into a new, mysterious form. Also included are songs composed specifically for each of these extraordinary singers, including an AMOC-commissioned world premiere by Harold Meltzer and music by Aucoin.