Metropolitan Museum Revamps Concert Series April 5, 2012, 4:38 pm The Metropolitan Museum announced its 2012-13 season of concerts, lectures and other presentations on Thursday, the first entirely programmed by Limor Tomer, who became concerts and lectures general manager last July. Renamed Met Museum Presents, the series reflects a heightened emphasis on programs tied to Met exhibitions and collections. The season opens with a Patti Smith salute to Andy Warhol, to coincide with the exhibition "Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years." Tan Dun's 70-minute condensation of Tang Xianzu's classic 19-hour opera, "The Peony Pavilion," conceived for presentation in a garden in Shanghai, will be staged in the Astor Court in connection with an exhibition of Chinese garden imagery in painting and the decorative arts. The Salomé Chamber Orchestra will play concerts on instruments from the Sau Wing Lam Collection of rare instruments, also on display. The Endellion String Quartet will perform Beethoven's 32 string quartets over two weekends as curators discuss Beethoven's role in the dawning of Romanticism. This minifestival resonates with the museum's programming under Ms. Tomer's predecessor, Hilde Limondjian: the Beethoven quartets were often performed during the residencies of the Guarneri Quartet and the Pacifica Quartet; the Pacifica, in fact, just completed a six-month cycle of the Beethoven quartets in March. Other holdovers will be the Met Museum Artists in Concert and holiday concerts. But major elements of earlier classical programming, like the piano series, are gone. Paul D. Miller, a k a DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, an eclectic media artist, will also command a seasonlong residency, the Met Reframed. "I'm not interested in a younger demographic," Ms. Tomer said at a news luncheon. I'm interested in a curious demographic.