“Music for New Bodies” at Tanglewood

“Music for New Bodies” at Tanglewood
August 7, 2025
Seiji Ozawa Hall

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Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies (2024) is an uncategorizable work of music-theater: part opera, part song cycle, part vocal symphony. Based on poetry by Jorie Graham, the piece is a portrait of our moment in history as seen through the eyes of a cancer patient undergoing a drastic medical procedure. As the patient experiences the transformation of her own body, she meditates on questions that range from the personal to the cosmic: in a time when life is more and more virtual, what does it mean to have a body? And above all, after our species has poisoned the planet with uncountable toxins, can we still listen to what the earth has to tell us?

Matthew Aucoin*, Composer and Conductor

Meryl Dominguez, Soprano
Taylor Raven, Mezzo
Paul Appleby*, Tenor
William Socolof , Bass-Baritone
Sandbox Percussion: Jonny Allen*, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney
Doug Balliett*, Bass
Brad Balliett, Bassoon
Miranda Cuckson*, Violin
Keir GoGwilt*, Violin
Baron Fenwick, Piano
Carrie Frey, Viola
Emi Ferguson*, Flute
Hunter O’Brien, Flute
Iva Casian-Lakos, Cello
Coleman Itzkoff*, Cello
Joe Jordan, Oboe
Jacqueline Kerrod, Harp
Ning Yu, Keyboard

An * asterisk next to an artist’s name denotes that they are one of AMOC*’s seventeen founding company members.