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.”

1/27/15 1/27/15

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.

1/23/15 1/23/15

Brownstone

American Irish Historical Society
January 23, 2015

10/3/14 10/3/14

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.

10/1/14 10/1/14

Brownstone II

Northeast Tour
October 2014

9/2/14 9/2/14

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.”

6/9/11 6/9/11

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.

11/20/10 11/20/10

In the Living Room

Audience members get a front-row seat to performances by Metropolis artists at Brownstone in Clinton Hill.

11/16/10 11/16/10

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.

11/15/10 11/15/10

Metropolis Featured in New York Magazine

Music may feed the soul, but it still goes best with a drink.

11/12/10 11/12/10

Brownstone Reverberations

People who came out to the Metropolis Brownstone event last Thursday crossed over the threshold of a beautiful three-story Brooklyn apartment into a different sonic universe.

10/30/10 10/30/10

Feast of Music: Brownstone

Everyone seemed to congregate in the kitchen, which is where everyone always wants to hang out during house parties.

10/28/10 10/28/10

Brownstone

224 Washington Avenue Brooklyn
October 28, 2010

10/18/10 10/18/10

Behind the Scenes at Brownstone

I’m not really sure if “concert” is the right word at all. Installation? Event? Happening? Experience?

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