Metropolis Symphony Deux Ex Machina

Metropolis Symphony Deux Ex Machina

Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of<br>Superman's first appearance in the<br>comics, Metropolis Symphony has been<br>performed by orchestras all over the<br>world. Hailed by the London Times as a<br>'Symphonie Fantastique for our times,'<br>Metropolis Symphony is a musical<br>response to the myth of Superman,<br>expressing the energies, ambiguities,<br>paradoxes, and wit of American<br>popular culture. Deus ex Machina is a<br>piano concerto inspired by trains of the<br>future and past: Fast Forward<br>re-creates the machine-like rhythms of<br>modern trains admired by the Italian<br>futurists; Train of Tears recalls<br>Abraham Lincoln's funeral train; Night<br>Steam evokes O. Winston Link's<br>historic photographs of steam<br>locomotives rumbling and whistling<br>their way into extinction.