Listen on-demand to Metropolis artists on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase hosted by Emi Ferguson, including excerpts from Matthew Evan Taylor's Life Returns.

Emi Ferguson: Tonight, you’ll hear a roster of recent fellows performing powerful music by Richard Strauss, Earl Kim, Matthew Evan Taylor, and Carl Fruhling.

Matthew Evan Taylor creates music for layers of saxophone, Lea Bertucci uses an empty grain silo for layers of processed alto sax, and Viet Cuong writes glides and slides in a two-part work for PRISM Sax Quartet.

A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music.

Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green. We sample composer/saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor's album "Say Their Names," a musical response to the 2020 protests against police brutality.