Tonight: Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble Performs Music for the Silent Sci-Fi Movie Metropolis

The future of the city in 1927. Still from Metropolis
Tonight, the Degenerate Art Ensemble performs what will mostly likely be a brilliant original score for Fritz Lang’s sci-fi classic Metropolis. Degenerate Art Ensemble actually composed much of this score for the silent movie back in 1997, when it was The Young Composers Collective—DAE came into existence in 1999. This earlier performance happened at Gas Works Park and drew something like 10,000 people. During