This Week: TENET And Metropolis Ensemble Perform New Works By Caroline Shaw And Timo Andres
By: A.A. Cristi Apr. 16, 2018
This Week: TENET and Metropolis Ensemble Perform New Works by Caroline Shaw and Timo Andres Inspired by Versailles at The Met
Saturday, April 21, 7 p.m.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at The Met Fifth Avenue
Metropolis Ensemble
Andrew Cyr, Artistic Director/Conductor
with Inbal Segev, solo cello
TENET
Jolle Greenleaf, Artistic Director/soprano
with Virginia Warnken Kelsey, mezzo-soprano, Jesse Blumberg, baritone, and Marc Molomot, tenor
Early-music vocal group TENET and the Grammy-nominated new music group Metropolis Ensemble come together for an evening of works that include Charpentier's masterpiece Les Plaisirs de Versailles and two world premieres: a cello concerto by Timo Andres, inspired by John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, and a new work for period and modern instruments by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw. This concert is inspired by the exhibition Visitors to Versailles (1682-1789), on view at The Met Fifth Avenue April 16-July 29, 2018.
Program:
Timo Andres (World Premiere)
Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra
Metropolis Ensemble
Andrew Cyr, conductor
Inbal Segev, solo cello
Caroline Shaw (World Premiere)
for 3 treble singers, harpsichord, theorbo, piano, cello, bassoon, bass
Metropolis Ensemble with Tenet
Jolle Greenleaf, soprano; Abigail Lenox-Hayes, soprano; Virginia Warnken Kelsey, mezzo soprano
Marc-Antoine Charpentier -Les Plaisirs de Versailles (1682)
Tenet
La Musique: Jolle Greenleaf, soprano
La Conversation: Virginia Warnken Kelsey, mezzo-soprano
Comus: Jesse Blumberg, baritone
Le Jeu and Un Plaisir: Marc Molomot, tenor
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