MUSIC

Matthew Evan Taylor: Life Returns

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022
7:00 PM

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$25
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We say it all the time here so it’s getting tiresome, BUT: for so-called classical music to regain its relevance to an actual functioning not-brain-dead-or-on-autopilot audience, it has to reflect/incorporate/use music that people actually listen to, that has relevance to their lives (as it did back in the day). Composer Matthew Evan Taylor is definitely part of the solution. Over the last year or so he’s been working, under the aegis of the Met Museum, with the Metropolis Ensemble on a series of online performances working with African-American and Indian traditions. That project culminates in this (finally!) live performance with the Ensemble and the Indo-Jazz band RAJAS.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can’t do better up there than the outstanding bistro Quatorze.