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Gershwin: Lullaby for String Quartet (Catalyst Quartet) | MetLiveArts
Enjoy the Gemünder quartet’s unique voices with George Gershwin’s peaceful Lullaby for String Quartet.
February 3
The Catalyst Quartet perform on a spotlit stage
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Jessie Montgomery: Strum (Catalyst Quartet) | MetLiveArts
In December 2023, Catalyst Quartet—The Met’s 2023–24 Quartet in Residence—gave voice to a special set of Met collection instruments for the first time in over 70 years.
July 29, 2024
Cécile McLorin Salvant performing in the Unicorn Tapestries room at The Met Cloisters.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant at The Met Cloisters: Dame Iseut
In July 2023 MetLiveArts welcomed three-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for an exclusive recording session in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters. For Salvant, also a skilled textile artist, the tapestries have been a source of inspiration.
November 16, 2023
Cécile McLorin Salvant performing in the Unicorn Tapestries room at The Met Cloisters.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant at The Met Cloisters: D’un feu secret
In July 2023 MetLiveArts welcomed three-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for an exclusive recording session in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters
November 13, 2023
Illustrated drum sticks play atop a DIY drum made of a tin can decorated with colorful cut paper shapes; wavy arrows like sound waves point to the drum
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What Does Sound Look Like?
Make an instrument and a special tool to visualize sound.
July 5, 2023
Collage of a fish and conch shell emanating sound waves towards an ear
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What’s the Science behind Music?
Sound is invisible, yet it’s all around us! What’s going on here? What exactly is a sound, anyway?
July 5, 2023
Andrés Segovia plays his Hermann Hauser guitar.
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Andrés Segovia on His Hermann Hauser Guitar
Watch this 1955 interview with Andrés Segovia in which he discusses his relationship with master luthier Hermann Hauser and plays the guitar Hauser built for him.
Andrés Segovia
March 22, 2022
Bob Grillo performers Ah, Marie on an Archtop guitar.
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Ah, Marie, Performed by Bob Grillo
Bob Grillo performs Ah, Marie with his guitar.
Bob Grillo
March 22, 2022
The Met Fifth facade
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The Musical Legacy of Ostad Elahi
Watch an exploration of the musical legacy of Ostad Elahi through his remarkable art of the tanbūr.
April 5, 2019
Installation of musical instruments suspended on the air, surrounded by a transparent case.
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Fanfare Installation Time-Lapse
Watch a video featuring time-lapse photography of the installation of Fanfare the signature display of The Met's four Musical Instruments galleries, on view at the Met Fifth Avenue in gallery 680.
September 30, 2018