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“Canto Ostinato” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
David Rubenstein Atrium 1887 Broadway, New York, United StatesAMOC* and Sandbox Percussion perform this seminal minimalist work by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt.
“Harawi” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall 1941 Broadway, W 65th St., New York, NY, United StatesThe New York premiere of Harawi realizes Olivier Messiaen’s deeply affecting, hour-long song cycle for voice and piano in new physical and dramatic dimensions.
“Julius Eastman: A Power Greater Than” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
David Geffen Hall 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, United StatesGRAMMY-nominated Seth Parker Woods curates a weekend-long celebration of Julius Eastman's art and the greater context of his life, creativity, and humanity. The weekend opens with the New York premiere of a boundary-breaking concert at David Geffen Hall, showcasing AMOC* members alongside colleagues including artists from Wild Up.
“Julius Eastman: The End Is Not in Sight” and King Britt – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
Josie Robertson Plaza 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United StatesGRAMMY-nominated Seth Parker Woods curates a weekend-long celebration of Julius Eastman's art and the greater context of his life, creativity, and humanity. The celebration concludes with a Silent Disco set by producer, composer, and performer King Britt.
“Zarabanda Variations” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
David Rubenstein Atrium 1887 Broadway, New York, United StatesZarabanda Variations brings together a group of visionary composers, improvisers, and performers to draw inspiration from the musical histories of 16th- and 17th-century New Spain (present day Mexico).
“Edinburgh Rollick” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
Jaffe Drive Jaffe Dr, New York, NY, United StatesEarly music band Ruckus and AMOC* member Keir GoGwilt celebrate the legacy of Niel Gow (b. Perthshire, 1727-1807), one of Scotland’s most important musicians, with the New York premiere of a dynamic folk-baroque feast of Scottish dance music.
“Dance in the Park” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
Hearst Plaza 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, United StatesA tender, joyful, and fiercely experimental performance featuring dancers Julia Eichten and Bret Easterling.
“Music for New Bodies” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
David Geffen Hall 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, United StatesThis first collaboration between AMOC* Co-Founder Matthew Aucoin and director Peter Sellars inspired by the visionary poetry of Jorie Graham, addressing some of the most urgent questions of our time.
“The Cello Player” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
Hearst Plaza 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, United StatesThe Cello Player excavates the complexity of ancient relationships: the tortured conception of friendship as a messy amalgam of love, hatred, insecurity, and neediness.
“Rome Is Falling” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall 1941 Broadway, W 65th St., New York, NY, United StatesAMOC* presents the New York premiere of Doug Balliett's zany lesson on the absurdity of what can happen when influential people lose power. The story is a mixture of politics, betrayal, immigration, religion, climate, pandemic, natural disaster, xenophobia, and bad luck–everything human and everything we face today.
“the echoing of tenses” – Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall 1941 Broadway, W 65th St., New York, NY, United StatesAMOC* presents Anthony Cheung’s large-scale song cycle that sets the texts of Asian-American poets reflecting on memory, cultural and personal identity, family, migration, and loss.
“Music for New Bodies” at Tanglewood
Seiji Ozawa Hall 297 West Street, Lenox, MA, United StatesA major new work and first collaboration between AMOC* Co-Founder Matthew Aucoin and director Peter Sellars is brought to life by five vocalists and an 18-instrument ensemble conducted by Aucoin. Music for New Bodies is inspired by the visionary poetry of Jorie Graham, addressing some of the most urgent questions of our time: In our quest for immortality, what have human beings done to the planet, and what are we doing to ourselves? Music for New Bodies is a 360-degree portrait of the moment we are living in, a piece that brings together questions of environmental responsibility, scientific progress and the ethics of humanity’s questionable quest to surpass the human.