The popular Metropolis concert Brownstone is featured in this week’s issue of New York Magazine in an article entitled Little Carnegies about the informal and unusual venues to experience classical music around the city. Author Justin Davidson offers the Metropolis composition/installation at Jennifer Salomon’s three-story brownstone apartment in Brooklyn as an example for “adventurous listening and drinks,” alongside such venues as (le) Poisson Rouge, Issue Project Room, and The Tank.
“…Metropolis Ensemble gave a single performance of Jakub Ciupinski’s Brownstone. Listeners, fortified with noshes and wine, trooped through three floors of a house in Brooklyn, while ten musicians and a soundtrack of nature sounds enveloped them in an acoustic landscape. At moments like this, new music sheds its academic strictures and finds its way back to the era of dinnertime entertainments.”
Justin also suggests that “music may feed the soul, but it still goes best with a drink” and that this short-list of NYC destinations “entitles the curious to sounds they’ve never heard.” New York Magazine is on newsstands now.