MUSIC
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018
7:30 PM

Solera Quartet
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$30
http://ps://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2018/10/23/Solera-Quartet-0730PM

The reason I'm Listing this concert is the inclusion of Caroline Shaw's quite wonderful string quartet piece, Entr'acte (as I keep saying, if you think you're allergic to New Music, just listen to Caroline Shaw).  But it sure doesn't hurt to have on the program one of the greatest pieces of music ever written,Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 -- one of the late quartets, in which current listeners miraculously experience nearly 200-year-old music the same way as contemporary music, with no stylistic filters or allowances (I can't think of any other 19th Century music I'd say that about).  Mozart's teenage String Quartet No. 13 is pleasant.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  The great Neapolitan-style pizza we have in New York now tends to crowd out the merely very good ones.  But Pizzarte is a worthy dining spot.  The pasta's good, too.