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Sight and Sound:

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now

Performances

April 10, 2022

2 pm

The Met Fifth Avenue

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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The Orchestra Now, Conducted by Leon Botstein

Dvořák, MacDowell, and Delacroix: The New World
Sunday, April 10, 2022, 2 pm

Wynona Wang, piano

Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” (Mvt. 2); Ferruccio Busoni’s Indian Fantasy, Op. 44 for Piano and Orchestra; and Eugène Delacroix, The Natchez

The Met continues its ongoing series exploring the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Conductor and music historian Leon Botstein draws connections between Eugène Delacroix’s painting of a Natchez family forced to flee after the massacre of their tribe and composer Ferruccio Busoni’s Indian Fantasy (1913–14), which is based on Indigenous melodies and rhythms, and the second movement of Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (1893), which was inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's much-critiqued poem “The Song of Hiawatha.” The program will be followed by a Q&A.

Eugène Delacroix’s The Natchez is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 801.

Piano by Steinway & Sons.

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Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio

Heartbeat Opera

**Seating for this performance will be socially distanced.**

Music by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Original libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich Treitschke

Adapted and directed by Ethan Heard
Music arranged and directed by Daniel Schlosberg
New English dialogue by Marcus Scott and Ethan Heard

“I saw [Heartbeat’s] Fidelio, and was blind-sided by its impact.” —The New Yorker

A Black activist is wrongfully incarcerated. His wife, Leah, disguises herself to infiltrate the system and free him. But when injustice reigns, one woman’s grit may not be enough to save her love. Featuring the voices of imprisoned people, this daring adaptation places Beethoven’s masterpiece in the time of Black Lives Matter.

This program is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art, the Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation, The Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation, Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang, and Betsy and Edward Cohen / Areté Foundation.

Piano by Steinway & Sons.

Clarion Society:

Josquin des Prez Marathon

Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of the renowned Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra take over galleries across The Met Cloisters for five hours of superb performances. From dazzling early works to more mature expressions, hear des Prez’s masterful sacred and secular music as it resonates throughout one of New York’s most enchanting museums.

This program is made possible by the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation, Emilie and Michael Corey, and the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA.

Matthew Evan Taylor: Life Returns 
Metropolis Ensemble with RAJAS

Composer/saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor’s Life Returns is an evening-length composition that draws from African American, South Indian, and Western European musical practices. The culmination of a yearlong commission by MetLiveArts and the Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble, in collaboration with mrudangam artist Rajna Swaminathan’s ensemble RAJAS, Life Returns is a melding of freely improvised and through-composed music celebrating resilience in the face of despair and the triumph of light and color over darkness.

This program is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art and the New York State Council on the Arts.