 |  |  | | |  | | International Contemporary Ensemble Performs Jennie C. Jones | Sunday, October 5, 2 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Met's 2025 Roof Garden Commission artist joins one of the world's most renowned new music ensembles for a discussion and world premiere performances of her musical compositions.
Artist Jennie C. Jones's fascination with sound manifests in her sculptures, from early works made from audio cables to her 2025 Met Roof Garden Commission, Ensemble, a set of abstract string instruments that "hits a high note" (Artnet).
For this special performance, "America's foremost new-music group" (The New Yorker) International Contemporary Ensemble brings to life Jones's "graphic scores," works on paper that investigate sound through visual means. Jones and the Ensemble's Artistic Director, composer and musicologist George Lewis, will also discuss the scores' formal and sonic structures, which reframe Minimalism's legacy and illuminate new intersections between music, abstraction, and experimentation.
This performance is presented in conjunction with The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble.
Tickets start at $35
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For the 2025 Roof Garden Commission, Jennie C. Jones (born 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio) has produced Ensemble. Only her second outdoor sculptural installation, the project explores the sonic potential of stringed instruments as well as their formal possibilities. In the artist's unique response to modernism, these acoustic sculptures propose the line of the string as a proxy for art history, unbroken and continuous.
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For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble and Man Ray: When Objects Dream,
International Contemporary Ensemble Performs Jennie C. Jones is made possible with support from the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Fund.
Events and programming related to the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing are made possible by the Breyer Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Thompson Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Stephen M. Cutler and Wendy N. Zimmermann, Kyveli and George Economou, Ed and Dale Mathias, the Mex-Am Cultural Foundation Inc., and two anonymous donors.
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Image: Jennie C. Jones, photo by Joshua Franzos | Red Baraat, photo courtesy of the artist | Hanzhi Wang, photo by Cesare Bora | Sierra de Catorce, photo by Florencia Podestá | SQÜRL, photo by Sara Driver | | | |
