2008 Press

NPR Music
July 18, 2008
Metropolis Ensemble and Deerhoof perform a concert from the Wordless Music Series, recorded live by WNYC at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY.
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WNYC Soundcheck
July 16, 2008
Artistic Director/Conductor Andrew Cyr and Composer Ricardo Romaneiro discuss their new composition, The Rite: Remixed.
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ASCAP Audio Portraits
July 1, 2008
Composer Avner Dorman talks about his forthcoming studio album with Metropolis Ensemble performing his complete chamber orchestra concerti.
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Manhattan User's Guide
May 27, 2008
Metropolis Ensemble and "Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra" by Ryan Francis are featured in this daily email newsletter.
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AM New York
May 23, 2008
Highlights of summer's free music concerts in New York, featuring Metropolis Ensemble and Deerhoof.
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Time Out New York
May 22, 2007
Metropolis Ensemble's "The Rite: Remixed" is listed as one of the 10 best outdoor summer concerts of 2008.
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2007 Press

Classical Domain
October 8, 2007
Andrew Cyr and Avner Dorman talk about the concert, the Ensemble, and Dorman's music.
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Press Release
August 28, 2007
Metropolis Ensemble’s fall concert, “On Record”, showcases the complete chamber concerti of acclaimed Israeli composer Avner Dorman.
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Composition Today
May 3, 2007
An interview with Andrew Cyr ahead of Metropolis Ensemble’s spring concert, “There and Back Again”.
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Press Release
March 1, 2007
Metropolis Ensemble’s spring concert, “There and Back Again”, to feature the US Premiere of Avner Dorman’s Mandolin Concerto, along side Osvaldo Golijov’s mystical Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.
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2006 Press

Playbill Arts
October 19 , 2006
Concert featured in the Classical Music news section.
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Classical Domain
October 1 , 2006
Interview over email with composer-in-residence David Schiff, about his latest work.
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Vocal Area Network
September 23, 2006
Bad boy of the baroque returns: The Metropolis Ensemble presents Monteverdi’s Il combattimento.
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Classical Domain
January 2006
Featured in the January issue.
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Classical Domain
January 2006
A conversation with David Schiff, Marty Ehrlich, and Andrew Cyr about Singing in the Dark.
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