MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

Matthew Aucoin and a New Generation of Composers Are Giving 21st-century Music a Body Again

The New York premiere of “Music for New Bodies” at Lincoln Center as part of the Run AMOC* Festival at Summer for the City. (Lawrence Sumulong / Courtesy of Lincoln Center)

On November 1, Meany Center for the Performing Arts presents Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies, a “vocal symphony” based on the poetry of Jorie Graham and staged by Peter Sellars — in other words, not to be missed. I spoke with Aucoin about New Bodies for The Seattle Times:

“The voice of the bottom of the ocean. The voice of the medicines moving through your veins. The voice of the core of the Earth.”

Composer Matthew Aucoin names them like a spell — presences that inhabit “Music for New Bodies,” his 70-minute vocal symphony that will receive its West Coast premiere at the University of Washington’s Meany Center on Nov. 1. ..

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Peter Sellars on Music for New Bodies

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