Metropolis Ensemble Spring Concert May 24, 2007

General Ticket $20.
The Metropolis Ensemble, New York’s premier professional chamber orchestra dedicated to emerging a new generation of composers and performers, hosts its second annual Spring concert Thursday, May 24th @ 7:30pm at the Lower East Side’s Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts (172 Norfolk Street). With the support of the Smithsonian Magazine, There and Back Again honors and acknowledges music inspired by composers’ respective memories of past experiences and musical journeys. The Metropolis Ensemble, along with special guest artists Avi Avital (mandolin) and Tibi Cziger (clarinet), will perform a range of musical styles including the U.S. premiere of Avner Dorman’s Mandolin Concerto, Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances, arranged for mandolin and string ensemble, Osvaldo Golijov’s mystical quintet Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony op. 110a.

Official Website: http://www.metropolisensemble.org