TENET: 14th-Century Avant-Garde

MUSIC
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2018
3:00 PM

Fuentidueña Chapel, The Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort George, Manhattan

$55; $1 accompanying children
https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/tenet-19-2?eid=405614&q=tenet&program=MetLiveArts&location=main%7Cbreuer%7Ccloisters&startDate=10/4/2018+10:03:28+AM&page=1

As it happens, I recently spent an afternoon listening hard to ars subtilior ("the subtle art"), an intricate and extremely rhythmically complex style that emerged at the end of the 14th Century, to the utter shock of contemporary listeners then (but of great appeal to contemporary listeners now).  This is great stuff.  So it's kind of fortuitous that here's a whole concert of it, by excellent exponents of early vocal music, in the most appropriate New York venue you could imagine.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  You don't absolutely HAVE to order the fried pork belly at Elsa la Reina del Chicharron.  But why in the world wouldn't you?