Life Returns
Discussion and Digital Premiere
February 14, 2023 — 6–8pm ET
LIVE via YouTube and Zoom
Witness the digital premiere of Life Returns,* our March 2022 concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the culminating performance from our Postcards to The Met video series in 2021-22.
Composer Matthew Evan Taylor, conductor and Metropolis artistic director Andrew Cyr, and RAJAS founder and mrudangam artist Rajna Swaminathan joined Limor Tomer from MetLiveArts for a Zoom discussion about the project prior to the digital premiere.
*A MetLiveArts and Metropolis Ensemble 2021-2022 co-commission.
Life Returns
At the culmination of our Postcards project, MetLiveArts and Metropolis Ensemble presented Life Returns, a live performance of the completed composition on March 24, 2022 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The evening-length new work featured Matthew Evan Taylor, RAJAS Ensemble led by Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya (solo voice), and many of the Metropolis artists featured in the Postcards project.
Postcards to The Met
Life Returns is the culmination of a monthly video series (March 2021—March 2022) called Postcards to The Met, featuring Matthew Evan Taylor in collaboration with many of the musicians featured in this live concert event.
The elements of this one year time-lapse musical performance formed the creative inspiration for the evening-length MetLiveArts commission produced and developed by Metropolis Ensemble.
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Life Returns was commissioned by MetLiveArts and Metropolis Ensemble in collaboration with RAJAS. This program was made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art and the New York State Council on the Arts.