 |  |  |  | | ETHEL: SEASONS NOW | Friday, December 12, 7 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Met Fifth Avenue
Special limited-time offer: enter code HOLIDAYX25 for 25% off select seats. Valid until Monday, December 1, 2025 at 11:59 pm.
Celebrate the holidays at The Met with an evening of seasonal string quartets by four trailblazing composers, paired with signature arrangements of Vivaldi's iconic The Four Seasons.
The "vital and brilliant" (The New Yorker) string quartet ETHEL brings joy, verve, and rockstar energy to The Met this holiday season. Experience the quartet's original program SEASONS NOW, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi's timeless The Four Seasons by pairing ETHEL's signature arrangements of the Baroque concerti with new compositions by Ching-chu Hu, Layale Chaker, Leilehua Lanzilotti and Daniel Bernard Roumain. Talented guest artists Colin Stranahan (percussion) and Blair McMillen (keyboards) join the quartet to ring in the season with the sounds of the passing year—then and now!
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For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Man Ray: When Objects Dream, and Divine Egypt,
Trajal Harrell: "Five Friends in Five Acts" is presented in conjunction with the Bluff Collaborative for Research on Dada and Surrealism and the exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream.
Chamber music at The Met is made possible by support from the Grace Jarcho Ross and Daniel G. Ross Concert Fund.
Vocal performances at The Met are made possible with support from the estate of Katherine Walter Stein.
For MetLiveArts program funders, visit metmuseum.org/metliveartssupport.
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Image: ETHEL, photo by Matthew Murphy | Trajal Harrell, Okidoki or Everything Not in It's Right Place II, Pulitzer Art Foundation, St. Louis, photo by Virginia Harold | Triad of Osiris, Horus, and Isis. From Egypt, probably Thebes, Karnak Temple. Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, reign of Osorkon II (about 872–837 BCE). Gold inlaid with lapis lazuli. Acquired in 1872. Paris, Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities (E 6204). © 2025 GrandPalaisRmn (Louvre Museum). Photo: Mathieu Rabea | Alex Da Corte, ROY G BIV, 2022 (Video, color, sound; 60 min., wood box with back-projected screen, paint, performance, and powder-coated chairs). Courtesy Alex Da Corte | Kahil El'Zabar and Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, photo by Stephanie Berger | | | |
