Following the acclaim of his Golden-Globe-winning score for The Theory of Everything, Jóhann Jóhannsson is set to premiere two pieces at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday, March 17. Uniting with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble and the 2014 Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth; Jóhannsson will perform pieces titled Chaconne, featuring violinist Yuki Numata Resnick; and Drone Mass, which "uses texts based on the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians."
Jóhannsson's art, impressive as it is on record and on screen, is even impressive in a live setting; often, the composer includes an electronic visual media component that shows him to be an experimentalist at heart—a composer who knows how to bridge classical music and a contemporary milieu.
The specific venue for this performance, however, will be anything but contemporary: the Met's Temple of Dendur. If you're going, don't forget the kids! Though adult tickets are $40, kids can come for just $1.
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