MUSIC
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2018
7:00 PM

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

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

Cellist Michael Haas gets his chance to program the concluding Momenta Festival concert.  Normally I'd be going on about the contemporary piece on the program, Eric Nathan's fast-paced, kinetic Four in One.  But fine as that piece is -- and it really does move -- we must pay our obsequies to Bartók's Fourth String Quartet, one of the peaks of the literature, as fresh and modern as the day it was written -- and one which always makes me think of a really nasty track by the early Stones.  Also, a relatively rare chance to hear Enescu's Octet (the Argus Quartet joining in), a joyous youthful work where you can actually hear Modernism emerging from Romanticism.  Tonight beer returns to the free-drinks table!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Gotham Bar & Grill has been chugging along as its good self for so long that people have stopped thinking about it.  This may be a mistake.