NAXOS DAUGHERTY CD - Michael Daugherty Metropolis Symphony: inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of Superman's first appearance in the comics, Metropolis Symphony has been performed by orchestras all over the world. Hailed by the London Times as a 'Symphonie Fantastique for our times', Metropolis Symphony is a musical response to the myth of superman, expressing the energies, ambiguities, paradoxes, and wit of American popular culture. Includes Deus Ex Machina.