Early Thursday morning, Dec. 2, David Ng of the Los Angeles Times reported on the nominees for the 53rd Grammy awards, including your very own Metropolis Ensemble: Excerpt:
“Dorman’s "Mandolin Concerto” was nominated for instrumental soloist performance with orchestra. The L.A. composer said that he wrote the 15-minute piece specifically for mandolin performer Avi Avital, who performed the concerto with the New York-based Metropolis Ensemble. “I wrote it using Middle Eastern sounds and a lot of North African scales and rhythms,” said Dorman in a phone interview.“