MUSIC
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18*
8:00 PM

JACK Quartet/SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg
Time Spans Festival
Mary Flager Cary Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$20; $10 students/seniors; $50 five-concert Festival Pass
http://timespans.org/concert/2018-concert-v/

In the final Time Spans concert, the JACK Quartet -- surely the best New Music string quartet in New York, and up there with the very best in the world -- is joined by electronics from the legendary SWR Experimentalstudio Freiburg.  The big draw on this bill is the U.S. premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's String Quartet No. 7, for quartet and electronics.  No one plays Haas quartets like JACK.  Every tonal subtlety in these unique post-Spectralist-cum-microtonal works is fully realized, while the underlying structure is never lost sight of.  You as listener just have to pay close attention, and you're taken somewhere new and different.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Let's kick it Old Skool and visit Barbetta, the ancient Piemontese restaurant on Restaurant Row.  DEEP cellar of Barolos and Barbarescos.  A true New York experience.