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Written By Armistead Booker

Metropolis Ensemble has launched ambitious musical works, streaming performances, and innovative digital installations since 2020 with expert musicians around the world.

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Loud and Soft

In 2024, composer Molly Joyce and Metropolis Ensemble produced a video and audio web presentation with Sandbox Percussion exploring transitions from non-pitched to pitched instruments and detailing the subjectivity of sound.

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LIQUIDVERSE: Microcosm & Macrocosm

The Meta Simulacrum

Thomas Edison's A Christmas Carol

Matthew Evan Taylor: Postcards to the Met

Cambodian Living Arts Festival

Free Assembly

Fritz Lang: Metropolis

Desdemona + Adam Holmes

Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia

Prophet Cycle

Tan Dun: Martial Arts Trilogy

Hallucinations

New Music 101

The Rite Remixed

Recent Press

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"The addition of the Metropolis Ensemble added an extra layer of depth and grandeur to Rose’s performance, elevating her already stellar songwriting to new heights."

Melodic Magazine

“Awash in beauty and tension… sensational was the Metropolis Ensemble, effectively and excitingly led by Raquel Acevedo Klein.”

Night After Night

“You could not have asked for better performers… In A Grove is a triumph and among the finest works at this year’s festival.”

The Observer

“Grief mixes gospel harmonies, simmering post-hip-hop instrumentals and wounded balladry.”

The New York Times

Armistead Booker

I’m a visual storyteller, nonprofit champion, moonlighting superhero, proud father, and a great listener.

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