VEILS FOR DESIRE
Jul
25
7:00 PM19:00

VEILS FOR DESIRE

  • Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah, NY (map)
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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.

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EL CIMARRÓN
May
10
to May 11

EL CIMARRÓN

  • The Met Fifth Avenue, New York (map)
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Hans Werner Henze's El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a tour-de-force sonic onslaught based on the oral autobiography of Esteban Montejo, an Afro-Cuban slave who escaped bondage on a sugar plantation, survived in the jungle, fought for Cuban independence from Spain, and lived to tell about it all before dying at the age of 113. Henze's visceral score is a cry for freedom that transcends time and place—and a linchpin in Julia Bullock's vision for her season as Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

AMOC’s performances as part of Julia Bullock's season as Artist-in-Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art are generously supported by Ellen Marcus & The James S. Marcus Foundation.

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THE MUSIC OF MATTHEW AUCOIN
Apr
12
7:00 PM19:00

THE MUSIC OF MATTHEW AUCOIN

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.

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AMOC IN CONCERT
Apr
10
8:00 PM20:00

AMOC IN CONCERT

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. 

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LISTENING TO TOM-TOM
Apr
4
8:00 PM20:00

LISTENING TO TOM-TOM

Scholar Lucy Caplan, in partnership with 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, ethnomusicologist Fredara Hadley, and pianist Kyle Walker - will discuss the opera's complex representations of race, gender, and history, as well as the opportunities and challenges of presenting Tom-Tom today. 

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NATIVITY RECONSIDERED: EL NIÑO
Dec
21
to Dec 22

NATIVITY RECONSIDERED: EL NIÑO

  • The Met Cloisters, New York (map)
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Experience an all-new chamber music version of contemporary master John Adams's Christmas oratorio, El Niño, arranged for the forces of AMOC and adapted for the intimate setting of The Met Cloisters.

AMOC’s performances as part of Julia Bullock's season as Artist-in-Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art are generously supported by Ellen Marcus and The James S. Marcus Foundation

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RUN AMOC! FESTIVAL
Dec
13
to Dec 16

RUN AMOC! FESTIVAL

  • American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA (map)
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AMOC returns for its second annual Run AMOC! Festival at the American Repertory Theater with four brand-new, vibrant, and intensely intimate programs that show off the latest work of our formidable artists.

With two opportunities to attend each of the festival offerings (and a special preview performance at the Peabody Essex Museum on December 13), this is an unmissable chance to get up close and personal with the whole AMOC gang. Stop by for one event, or come join us for the whole day.

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WITH CARE
Nov
1
to Nov 3

WITH CARE

  • ODC Theater, San Francisco (map)
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A new work created by Bobbi Jene Smith in collaboration with Keir GoGwilt, co-commissioned by ODC Theater and AMOC.

Taking its name from the etymological root of “accuracy,” ad-curare, With Care performs the contradictions and complexities inherent in the desire that motivates both care and its removal. How do we accurately measure the shape of our desire? How does it measure us? How does care keep us together while also burdening the relationships it maintains? Continuing the cross-disciplinary work of A Study on Effort, Smith and GoGwilt investigate these questions through music, dance, and dialogue, alongside Or Schraiber (dancer) and Miranda Cuckson (violinist).

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2017-2018 SEASON
Aug
1
to Jun 30

2017-2018 SEASON

AMOC AT THE CLARK
August 26, 2018
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

WERE YOU THERE
July 6, 2018
Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport, MA

WERE YOU THERE
March 25, 2018
Bijou Theater
Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
March 18 - April 22, 2018
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

RUN AMOC! AT HARVARD
February 23 - March 3, 2018
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

RUN AMOC! FESTIVAL
December 15-18, 2017
American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA

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