Metropolis Ensemble collaborated with MATA Festival founded by Philip Glass in May 2011 at Le Poisson Rouge for newly commissioned works from Ryan Carter, Brad Balliett, Elliot Cole. Remmy Canedo, and Marko Nikodijevic.

Metropolis Ensemble and MATA Festival, the new music festival founded by Philip Glass, collaborate to present new works by Ryan Carter (MATA commission) and the world premiere of The Rake, a hip-hopera retelling of Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress by Brad Balliett and Elliot Cole (Metropolis commission), and new Metropolis commissions from Remmy Canedo and Marko Nikodijevic.

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