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Credits

Matthew Evan Taylor, composition and saxophone

Rajna Swaminathan, voice and mrudangam

Developed and produced by Metropolis Ensemble

Andrew Cyr, Founder/Artistic Director

Christopher Botta, Editor

Videography: Sam Kann (VT) and Ganavya Doraiswamy and David Jacobs-Strain (OR)

Juniper Creative LLC, Art

Commissioned and produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts

This program is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art.

Matthew Evan Taylor: Postcards to The Met

Postcard 4: June 2021

Postcard 4 was filmed in Middlebury, VT, May 25, 2021 and Eugene, OR, May 13, 2021.

Program Notes

To Rajna –

Unless we listen to our hearts,
Time will pass imperceptibly.

Once we listen to our hearts
We vocalize the future we wish to see.

The challenge – to make our marks within the time we have

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