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Credits

Matthew Evan Taylor, composition and saxophone

Evan Runyon, double bass

Developed and produced by Metropolis Ensemble

Andrew Cyr, Founder/Artistic Director

Christopher Botta, Editor

Videography: Sam Kann

Juniper Creative LLC, Art

Commissioned and produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts

This program is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art.

Matthew Evan Taylor: Postcards to The Met

Postcard 5: July 2021

Postcard 5 was filmed in Middlebury, VT, May 7, 2021 and Paradox Lake, NY, July 16, 2021.

Program Notes

To Evan –

We emerge from isolation into a world both familiar
And alien.
We work tirelessly to keep the demons at bay,
But still the damage is done.
The smoke from the west reaches the east, and makes the south more violent
The north less predictable.
One way out of this reality –

Stay grounded
Be attentive
Connect
And BREATHE

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