11.06.26 at 7:30 p.m. | NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston
DELIGHT OF THE MUSES
ANTHONY DE RITIS Jiggedy Jingle Jaunty Jaunty (2026) world premiere
SAMUEL BARBER Knoxville Summer of 1915 (1947)
Julia Bullock, soprano
MATTHEW AUCION Selections from The No One’s Rose (2021)
Julia Bullock, soprano
CHARLES WUORINEN Delight of the Muses (1991)

Anthony De Ritis’s Jiggedy, Jingle, Jaunty, Jaunty, a world premiere for orchestra and electronics, pays homage to two 20th-century giants, James Joyce and Luciano Berio ,through a dialogue that stretches across time. BMOP welcomes soprano Julia Bullock for Samuel Barber’s iconic Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a setting of James Agee’s 1938 prose text whose childlike recollection of a summer evening remains one of Barber’s most beloved creations. In addition, Ms. Bullock also performs two movements from Matt Aucoin’s The No One’s Rose, settings of poems by Paul Celan that explore memory, language, and loss. The evening concludes with Charles Wuorinen’s Delight of the Muses, a homageto Mozart based on material from Don Giovanni. Outlandish, sentimental, and a rousing good time, this ballet shows this iconic American composer at his irreverent best.