Bell Threads — Metropolis Ensemble

Join harpist/composer Hannah Lash and violin/viola duo andPlay (Maya Bennardo violin and Hannah Levinson, viola) for an evening of music to celebrate the release of composer Adam Roberts’ Bell Threads on New Focus Recordings. The concert will feature the world premiere of Rounds for solo harp, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation for Lash, as well as the New York premiere of Diptych.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

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Hannah Lash

Harpist-composer Hannah Lash enjoys a varied and active career as a soloist. She has been presented and featured by such venues and organizations as Carnegie Hall, Miller Theatre, Jordan Hall, NYPhilharmonic Biennial, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Morton Arboretum in Chicago. She has been a concerto soloist with the American Composers Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Colorado Music Festival, and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. She frequently appears with the JACK Quartet and Loadbang, and collaborates with such artists as Jeremy Denk, Samuel Suggs, and David Shifrin. She is a tireless proponent of new music, old music, and everything in between. She also enjoys crossing genres as a performer and improviser.

Adam Roberts

Called “a powerful success,” “arresting,” and “amazingly lush,” (the Boston Musical Intelligencer), “an attractive mix of the familiar and exotic” (Boston Classical Review), and “invigorating” with a “persistent melodic urge” (American Academy of Arts and Letters), composer Adam Roberts’ music has been performed internationally by the JACK and Arditti Quartets, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, New York New Music Ensemble, Guerilla Opera, Transient Canvas, andPlay, and at festivals such as Wien Modern (Vienna), Tanglewood, the Biennale Musique en Scene (Lyons), and the 2009 ISCM World Music Days (Göteborg). Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fromm Commission, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center. A dedicated educator, Roberts has taught at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Istanbul Technical University, the University of Georgia, and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Kent State University. In addition to this album, other music by Roberts can be heard on Tzadik, New Focus Recordings, and Lila Müzik.

andPlay

Described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration” and performing “with a welcoming and dynamic spirit,” andPlay is committed to expanding the existing violin/viola duo repertoire by commissioning new works and actively collaborating with living artists. The “genre-busting” (Midwest Records) New York City-based duo of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola, first played to an eager crowd on Fire Island in the summer of 2012 and has since commissioned over forty works. andPlay’s performances have been described as “sheer virtuosity” (Cinemusical), “otherworldly” (New York Music Daily) and “an awful lot of fun for people who gravitate towards stark, edgy harmonies and textures” (Lucid Culture).

Metropolis Ensemble’s COVID PROTOCOLS for Rivington

We’re beyond thrilled to host you in our space after more than a year away. To make sure this in-person experience keeps you, our staff, and our performers safe and healthy, we are requiring all attendees to follow our Covid-19 guidelines. We will be updating our Covid-19 policies to keep in line with official guidance, this version has been updated August 4th 2021. Please contact info@metropolisensemble.org if you have any questions or concerns.

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WHEN YOU ARRIVE

Once doors open a half hour before the performance start time, our front of house staff will check your ticket and proof of vaccination at the exterior door. Once checked in you’ll be able to enter the space.

In addition to having your ticket or QR code ready when you reach the door, you will also be required to provide proof of full Covid-19 vaccination and a photo ID. IN ALIGNMENT WITH CDC GUIDELINES, FULL VACCINATION INCLUDES 2 WEEKS POST FINAL DOSE.

If you do not have either of these pieces of information, we will not be able to admit you. Our front of house staff will issue a full refund for your ticket.

ACCEPTABLE PROOF IS ONE OF:

Excelsior pass, offered by the State of New York here
-A CDC Covid vaccination card
-A clear photo of your CDC card which shows your name and date(s) of vaccination
-Other electronic record of vaccination that includes name and date (e.g., some chain pharmacies have an app with this information)

In all cases the name on the vaccination record must match that on your ID. All staff and performers will also be vaccinated. You are, of course, welcome to continue wearing a mask.

Shows will be running at reduced capacity. Those will be noted in the event descriptions.

WEARING A MASK INDOORS

Because of an increase in Delta breakthrough cases, we are requiring that everyone be masked. We have masks available at the door and inside the venue if you need one!

Performers are encouraged to be masked when backstage or in the house but are not required to wear their masks onstage. All staff will be masked.

OTHER COVID SAFETY MEASURES

Before and after each show, our staff sanitizes chairs, bathrooms, and any other surface our audience or performers come in contact with. We’ve also just installed brand new MERV-13 filters in our air filter system.