If you are searching for Whitman-related events in the the New York area, please also check the Walt Whitman Birthplace website (we highly recommend the tours of the house Whitman Sr. built and Walt lived in for his first four years) and the Whitman House in Camden, NJ (step inside Walt’s home for his last decade).
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This lecture and performance features 2018 MacArthur Fellow Matthew Aucoin, composer and writer of the original opera Crossing, based on Whitman’s Civil War writings. The opera was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2017 and by the Los Angeles Opera in 2018. This lecture-performance will offer a rare opportunity for audiences in the [...]
"Starting from Paumanok: Whitman, Long Island, The World" is a half-day symposium at Stony Brook University that will explore Walt Whitman’s impact on literature, music, and the visual arts. Topics will include “Whitman’s Poetic Legacy,” “Whitman’s New York,” and “Whitman and the Civil War.” The event will culminate with a lecture and performance featuring 2018 [...]
To celebrate the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth and his lasting contribution to American letters and song, Lyric Fest presents two concerts with distinct programming of Whitman songs in Philadelphia. Presented in two parts, Lyric Fest premieres of 10 new works alongside extant settings of Whitman with each concert featuring a quartet of singers, a [...]
