For Homegoings: Live, Matthew Evan Taylor built a one-man orchestra before our eyes, using looping pedals and wind instruments, like saxophones and flutes. For our deep listen, we’ll listen to an edited version of Matthew’s creation.

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.

“Life Returns is a monumental work that melds free improvisation and through composition to celebrate resilience and triumph in the face of despair."

Matthew Evan Taylor is a music composer, improviser, and performer from Vermont who has not let the feelings of being unwelcome stop him from participating, teaching, and leading in the world of classical music.

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.

“Middlebury College professor and composer Matthew Evan Taylor's "Life Returns" celebrates the coming of Springtime, and will have its digital premiere on February 14th.”

“Resilience has been central to many of the projects supported by Ms. Arsht, including Life Returns , which reflected on the resilience of individuals in the face of unprecedented adversity.”

She sang while accompanying herself on a spinet piano, both in her home in Birmingham, Ala., and at her local church, the Saint Paul Smithfield AME Church, where she often took her grandson.

It began with a sound from a woodwind instrument (Matthew Evan Taylor) that reminded me of a human groan or a moan.

Saxophone player Matthew Evan Taylor performs May 14, 2022 at the Winooski Methodist Church as part of the Waking Windows festival.

MetLiveArts and the Metropolis Ensemble commissioned Life Returns, an evening-length composition from composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor.

Witness a yearlong time-lapse musical performance of an original work by composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor.

What began as an attempt by Matthew Evan Taylor to collaborate with fellow musicians during the isolation of the pandemic ended up being a yearlong project that culminated in an evening performance at the Met.

Composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor's Life Returns is an evening-length composition that draws on African American, South Indian, and European musical practices.

“Elemental Culture” brought them to back to the basics: how to create works of art that have a tangible impact on the community and give back just as much as they take.