New York Times: In Visible Roads Festival
These three concerts in this collaborative group’s In Visible Roads festival all look at the piano in one way or another. On Friday there’s a glimpse at composers who are either synesthetic or take an avowedly coloristic approach to composing.
New York Times: A Room-Size Painting Becomes a Cello Concerto About Versailles
Timo Andres’ piece, which features the cellist Inbal Segev performing with the Metropolis Ensemble, is based on John Vanderlyn’s “Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles” (1818-19), a massive painting on nearly 2,000 square feet of canvas that requires its own circular gallery in the Met’s American Wing.
Fifteen Questions with Inbal Segev
Inbal recommends the panoramic installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that inspired composer Timo Andres to write a new cello concerto.
The New Yorker: Goings On — Time Travelers to Versailles
The MetLiveArts concert “Time Travelers to Versailles” with Metropolis and TENET is a featured event for The New Yorker.
Huffington Post: A Requiem for Cambodia is a Phoenix Rising from the Flames
This is one of the most poignant stage works I have seen in my life, which recently left BAM and goes on to tour parts of the US and Paris, before heading back to Cambodia.
The Saturday Paper: Interview with Him Sophy
You remember your ancestors who have passed away. But bangsokol also gives hope to people who are still alive … It’s good to not only think about death, but also about the living.
Feast of Music: Metropolis Ensemble Celebrates 10 Years of Musicmaking at Angel Orensanz Center
So, it was only fitting that for their 10th Anniversary this past Tuesday, Metropolis took over the Angel Orensanz Center on the Lower East Side for an ambitious party that offered free flowing wine and dozens of works, some performed simultaneously.
Brooklyn Magazine: At Home with “Brownstone”: the Metropolis Ensemble Celebrates Ten Years
What makes “Brownstone,” as an evening-long event and as an individual piece of music, different is “that individual audience members have near total control over how they experience and hear the work,”
New York Times: Al-Quds Jerusalem
Mohammed Fairouz, a prolific and inventive young composer, has written a new oratorio seeking to capture some of Jerusalem’s complex dynamics and sounds.
Village Voice: Classical Music Gets Casual
“It’s not about gimmicks, it’s about feeling allowed to break with convention and enjoy the music as you like.”
Vice: Multisensory Concert Experience Marries Food, Music, and Art
“A sensory overload in an Upper East Side mansion.”
Associated Press: Student who ran rogue eatery trying to find post-grad path
“This week, a day before he graduated, the economics and sociology major cooked up his experimental cuisine.”
Edible Manhattan: At This Pop-up, a Composer and a Chef Sync Performances
Jonah Reider is the culinary half of the duo behind “Brownstone,” a food- and music-based pop-up billed as “an experiential treasure-hunt of sound, taste and color.”
Vice: 'Drifting in Daylight' Floats Free Art and Performance into Central Park
Two ship captains—Fung Lin and Duke Riley, Nordic boat specialists—emerged and entered the boat, followed by dapperly dressed brass players from the Metropolis Ensemble, a non-profit professional chamber orchestra.
Wall Street Journal: 'Brownstone’ Is Half Concert and Half Art Installation
In the Upper East Side townhouse that the American Irish Historical Society calls home, a violinist ambled down the stairs while tuning her instrument and a harpist improvised with electronic sounds that came from the walls.
Concord Monitor: Chamber group brings site-specific composition to Kimball House at Capitol Center for the Arts
This site-specific electro-acoustic composition living art installation by Jakub Ciupinski will not only be performed this weekend, but it will be performed by Metropolis Ensemble through the historic, Victorian-era Kimball House at the Capitol Center for the Arts.
Portland Press Herald: Victoria Mansion will become a stage for the Metropolis ensemble’s ‘Brownstone’
The New York-based ensemble, with roots in Maine, will perform at the Portland mansion on Oct. 3.
Bates: Andrew Cyr ’96 and Metropolis offer concert, workshops
“With its performers dispersed throughout the Olin Arts Center at Bates College, Metropolis presents the innovative site-specific piece Brownstone.”