Matthew Aucoin with Ben Lerner

In conjunction with the exhibition Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy, composer and conductor Matthew Aucoin curates an evening of spoken word and music featuring Walt Whitman’s letters and poems with musical excerpts from Aucoin’s 2015 opera Crossing and works by John Adams and Leonard Bernstein. Featuring Matthew Aucoin, piano, Ben Lerner, poet/writer, with additional artists to be announced. Aucoin is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.