MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 & 17, 2019
7:30 PM

Barbara Hannigan
Board of Officers Room, Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$75
http://armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/recital_series_barbara_hannigan_2019

Barbara Hannigan may or may not be the very best singer in the world (she's certainly up there), but she has a very solid claim to being the most interesting. Her piercing interpretive intelligence, her questing taste — and a musical command that makes her an excellent conductor as well as singer. Tuesday's program will include a local John Zorn premiere that she'll sing with a Zorn expert, pianist Stephen Gosling. Thursday's program will include Schoenberg's anguished-tonal-to-serene-atonal String Quartet No. 2 (there's a vocal part), performed with with the Emerson String Quartet. Both shows are long sold out, but last-minute availability does occur at this venue — so keep checking.

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