ETHEL and Friends is a music series lovingly programmed for “Date Night” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall at the Balcony Bar by The Met’s Resident Ensemble, ETHEL.
The Great Hall Balcony Bar “Date Night” Artists perform 2 sets on Fridays and Saturdays:
6 PM to 7 PM and 7:20 PM to 8:20 PM
ABOUT ETHEL
ETHEL is one of the most acclaimed ensembles in contemporary music. With an eye to tradition and an ear to the future, the quartet is a leading force in concert music’s re-engagement with musical vernaculars, fusing diverse performance practices into a vibrant, engaging sound. ETHEL and ETHEL members perform regularly and they welcome celebrated friends to the series–such luminaries as JP Jofre, Alexis Michelle, Kaki King, Allison Loggins-Hull and Raja Rahman.
ETHEL & FRIENDS SERIES CALENDAR
October 3rd & October 4th
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Program:
Performing the ever-popular music of ETHEL members, as well as audience favorites by the group’s celebrated colleagues and collaborators — Mary Ellen Childs, Phil Kline, and DBR.
October 10th & October 11th
Serene
Serene — piano
@serenepianist
Program:
Serene is a concert pianist and computer scientist. Despite skipping conservatory, she concertizes with orchestras worldwide and is an endorsed Bösendorfer Artist. She also composes avant-garde cyberpunk music, improvises, and collaborates with artists across many genres, and is considered one of the most significant hackers in the world (WIRED).
Her work lives and breathes at the intersection between the traditional and cutting-edge.
Composers to include: Ravel, Liszt, Scriabin.
October 17th & October 18th
Booked by The Met
October 24th & October 25th
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Program:
Performing the House Band’s Greatest Hits, including music by Philip Glass, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Janis Joplin.
October 31st & November 1st
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Program:
Performing the infectiously engaging music of ETHEL (your House Band!), as well as audience favorites by the group’s eclectic crew of contemporary composers — Marcelo Zarvos, Ulysses Owens Jr., and Hye-Kyung Lee.
November 7th & November 8th
Chung–Nagano Duo
Junah Chung, viola · Jasmine Nagano, piano
The Chung–Nagano Duo makes its Balcony Bar debut with works by Beethoven, Schumann, Janáček, Bach, Kosch, and Ratner. Violist Junah Chung performs with The Lion King on Broadway, teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, and is a former member of NY Philomusica. Pianist Jasmine Nagano is active with ʻIolani School, the Hawai‘i International Music Festival, and the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra.
November 14th & November 15th
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Ralph Farris, viola · Kip Jones, violin · Corin Lee, violin · Dorothy Lawson, cello
The Balcony Bar Café’s House Band returns with an evening of audience favorites — vivid, high-energy works by Philip Glass, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Janis Joplin, all delivered with ETHEL’s fearless edge and unmistakable heart.
November 21st & November 22nd
ETHEL (Booked by the Met)
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
The Balcony Bar Café’s Ensemble-in-Residence brings another dynamic mix of crowd-pleasers — from minimalist icons to rock-inspired showstoppers — celebrating nearly three decades of ETHEL’s adventurous sound.
November 28th & November 29th
Lavinia Pavlish
Lavinia Pavlish, violin
Lavinia Pavlish — violinist of Balcony Bar favorite Rock Paper Scissors — is a dynamic New York City-based artist whose versatile career spans orchestral, chamber, film, and television music. Music of Bach, Vivaldi, Bartók, and Farris.
Stay tuned. More dates to be announced.
ETHEL at THE MET
ETHEL has been in Residence at The Met for over a decade– originally on the Balcony Bar, and for the past two years in the virtual realm, producing The Met’s celebrated “Balcony Bar from Home” series where the group presented weekly celebrations of ETHEL’s wide world of music, featuring collaborations with an extraordinary collection of guest artists from Svjetlana Bukvich to Jarrett & Raja; from Layale Chaker to Rhett Price; from Ron Carter to Todd Rundgren.
Visit ETHEL’s YouTube Channel, featuring a playlist of some of ETHEL’s classic BBfH offerings.
Here is a sampling:
