Brooklyn Magazine: At Home With "Brownstone"
“Give these young performers points for novelty. “
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,”
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.”
Washington Post: Music takes over every inch of the Phillips Collection
“The Phillips Collection had an artsy, New York vibe on Sunday when the Metropolis Ensemble took over the place, literally.”
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.”
Wall Street Journal: Walk and Listen
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.
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.”
New York Times: Adopted by a Brownstone
Metropolis Ensemble transformed the house into a concert hall. A string quartet and a harpist were stationed in the parlor, percussion and vibraphone could be heard on the second floor, and a violin and a woodwind trio occupied the third floor.
In the Living Room
Audience members get a front-row seat to performances by Metropolis artists at Brownstone in Clinton Hill.
New York Magazine: Little Carnegies
At moments like this, new music sheds its academic strictures and finds its way back to the era of dinnertime entertainments.
Metropolis Featured in New York Magazine
Music may feed the soul, but it still goes best with a drink.