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From the sublime to gobbling turkeys: The MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall

By Rebecca Lentjes, 11 March 2015
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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Zankel, New York City on 8 March 2015
Programme
Stravinsky, Octet for winds
Ives, From the Steeples and the Mountains
Ives, Scherzo "Over the Pavements"
Carter, The American Sublime (World première)
Cage, Atlas eclipticalis
Wuorinen, It Happens Like This
Performers
MET Chamber Ensemble
James Levine, Conductor
Evan Hughes, Bass-baritone
Charles Wuorinen, Conductor
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Rebecca Lentjes
Rebecca Lentjes
Rebecca graduated from New York University in 2012, where she studied Music and Romance Languages. She now works as an assistant editor at RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) and as manager of contemporary music collective ensemble mise-en.