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The Sounds of Style
Exploring fashion through the lens of music in The Costume Institute Library.
Julie Lê
July 22
Manuscript page with a labeled hand diagram, flanked by scrolls, two religious figures, and Latin text.
The Guidonian Hand
How did this revolutionary musical notation technique, developed by a monk in the tenth century, transform music pedagogy?
Rebecca Lindsey
July 20
Purple mannequin hand holding a body shaped guitar
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Exhibition Tour—Musical Bodies
Join Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Curator in the Department of Musical Instruments, and Ava Valentino, Research Assistant in the Department of Musical Instruments, along with Brett Renfer, Senior Project Manager of Emerging Technologies, to virtually explore the Musical Bodies exhibition.
Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Ava Valentino, and Brett Renfer
June 18
A woman in a detailed dress plays a viola da gamba in a room with a curtained bed and a table. The setting is serene and elegant.
My Gender Is a Cello
How do instruments in The Met collection complicate gender assumptions?
Max Keller
May 26
Two men with their backs to the viewer play elaborate grand pianos on a spotlit stage.
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The Met Collection Pianos in Concert featuring Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner and Derek Wang | MetLiveArts
Listen to an extraordinary concert featuring two historically significant pianos from The Met collection in a program of music from the height of the instruments’ turn-of-the-century popularity.
March 6
Scenic landscape with low green scrub and brush against blue-gray mountains cast in sunlight and shadows.
A Song of the Stone
Celebrated composer Gabriela Ortiz sets her latest vocal work to a new Nahuatl poem to mark the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Emery Kerekes
November 6, 2025
Wu Man, hands aloft, playing the pipa on stage against a deep blue background.
Power of the Pipa
Renowned pipa player Wu Man returns to The Met to perform Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto with The Knights.
Emery Kerekes
September 2, 2025
A blue and red stained-glass window nestled between rectangular stones.
A Forest of Sound
Michael Gordon’s new work animates spaces across The Met Cloisters with percussive sound.
Emery Kerekes
July 2, 2025
Three musicians seated on a dark stage
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Abhishek Raghuram | MetLiveArts
In 2017, award-winning Carnatic vocalist Abhishek Raghuram came to The Met’s stage for a program deeply rooted in the traditions of southern Indian classical music.
May 12, 2025
Singers and musicians, all dressed in black, in performance in the Fuentidueña Chapel
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Johannes Ockeghem: Missa prolationum (The Clarion Choir and Orchestra) | MetLiveArts
To celebrate Johannes Ockeghem's six hundredth birthday, New York's own Clarion Choir and Orchestra took to The Met Cloisters with a five-hour marathon of his music.
March 24, 2025