 |  |  | | |  | | 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.
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Buy tickets → |  | | Activation—The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble | Shortly before Jennie C. Jones's 2025 Roof Garden Commission, Ensemble, opened to the public, Jones invited musicians Tomeka Reid and Luke Stewart to explore the sculptures' sonic potential.
Ensemble is on view in the Cantor Roof Garden through October 19. This exhibition is the final Roof Garden Commission before the space temporarily closes in preparation for the construction of the Tang Wing, The Met's new home for its collection of modern and contemporary art. The series will resume following the anticipated 2030 reopening of the renovated wing, which will feature an expanded Cantor Roof Garden on the fourth floor.
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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.
SQÜRL: Live Music for Four Films by Man Ray is presented in conjunction with the Bluff Collaborative for Research on Dada and Surrealism.
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 | | | |
