MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2018
7:30 PM

Ralph van Raat
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$38-$45
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2018/10/24/Ralph-van-Raat-Piano-0730PM

Yet ANOTHER Louis Andriessen world premiere?  The great madcap Minimalist-and-more's countryman, the excellent Dutch New Music piano specialist Ralph van Raat, brings it to us.  Also on the program are two very rare posthumously recovered works by two very similar French composers: Debussy and Boulez (are we finally jettisoning the canard that Boulez's genuinely sensous music is unduly "difficult" and unpleasant?).  And Alkan's Symphony for Solo Piano -- a work that has the reputation, deserved or not, of being nearly impossible to play.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I was recently talking to someone about the Russian Tea Room.  She said she liked it.  "How can you go there?" I asked.  "The food is so expensive -- and it even good."  "But the room is so kitschy, it's so much fun to be there," she replied.  "And if you're at Carnegie Hall, it's right there."  If you're at Weill Recital Hall, it's closer still.  I'm not recommending it.  But my friend would.