METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE AT ECSTATIC MUSIC
Bell Orchestre & Metropolis Ensemble
Metropolis Ensemble is actively monitoring the novel coronavirus/COVID-19. The health and safety of artists, volunteers, and staff is our greatest concern and we wish to be responsible partners in community health. This concert is currently postponed.
Merkin Concert Hall / 129 W 67th St / New York, NY
7:30pm show
Tickets: $25 / $20 per 2 Ecstatic Concerts / $162 9-Concert Ecstatic Pass
Take a sonorous trip into the energetic abysses and meditative heights of orchestral music at this presentation of Bell Orchestre’s soon-to-be-released third album House Music, in a euphoric large ensemble arrangement by renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Owen Pallett. Bell Orchestre consists of six musical mavericks, including Arcade Fire members Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry, who, on their critically-acclaimed first two albums, have shifted the boundaries of instrumental music. The group cites such diverse influences as Talk Talk, Lee ‘Scratch’ Parry, and Arvo Pärt, which come together to form a contemporary sound, as if Debussy had composed his fragile impressionism with the knowledge of the ecstatic possibility of a pop concert. Bell Orchestre will be joined by the dynamic, Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble, known for its performances of “new music played with the same kind of panache and bravura we usually experience only in performances of standard repertoire” (Esa-Pekka Salonen).
The only music series that exclusively presents new work resulting from collaborations, Ecstatic Music has been hailed as “a who's who of the music scene” (WQXR) and "audacious combinations and post-genre hybrids" (The New Yorker). The Ecstatic Music series is curated by composer Judd Greenstein.
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