MUSIC
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018
7:00 PM

The Tenri Cultural Institute
43a West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Free
http://www.momentaquartet.com/mf4/

An annual festival put on by the excellent Momenta Quartet in which each of the four members gets to curate a show.  In this opening one, violinist Alex Shiozaki concentrates on song form.  So the titanic Lucy Shelton sings two folk-based works, a Villa-Lobos Suite for Voice and Violin and Cristóbal Halffter's very beautiful Andalusian song settings for voice and string quartet.  And why not program some of the greatest music ever written, Beethoven's late String Quartet No. 13, with its glorious song-like Cavatina (music said to have made even Beethoven cry)?  Not sure how Anna Clyne's Rest These Hands for solo violin, a memorial to the composer's mother, fits in here -- but if I were a violinist, I'd program this gorgeous, haunting, intensely moving piece for myself to play, too.  Oh, did I mention there's FREE BEER?

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