MATA Continued:  Aizuri Quartet/ Ilari Kaila

MUSIC
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2018
8:00 PM

Shapeshifter Lab
18 Whitewell Place, Gowanus, Brooklyn

$20
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The great conductor/ wit Sir Thomas Beecham once joked that the famously echoey Royal Albert Hall was "the only place where a living composer can hear his work twice."  The invaluable MATA Festival aims to contravene the "one performance" syndrome with a new series of second performances of previously featured composers.  Here, the splendid Aizuri Quartet -- what a pleasure it's been to make their acquaintance over the past year -- plays (with guest flute and piano) works by Ilari Kaila.  I've never heard any of Kaila's stuff, but a young Finn with South Indian Carnatic influences sounds good to me.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Excellent Oaxacan at Claro.