MUSIC
THURSDAY - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2019
7:30 PM THURSDAY
2:00 PM FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY

Jennifer Higdon / Roussel / Beethoven/Ravel
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$32-$148
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1920/emanuel-ax-performs-beethoven

OK, you get Jennifer Higdon's greatest hit, blue cathedral, a moving and quite beautiful memorial to her brother. You get Emanuel Ax playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 — a combination made in musical heaven. You get Ravel's depiction of European culture going to hell, La Valse. But you know why I'm really recommending this concert? Roussel's Third Symphony, one of the great symphonies of the 20th Century, punchy and pungent — and, God knows why, almost never performed. Guest conductor Stéphane Denève is an excellent Roussel interpreter, too.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: After all that French music, I guess we might as well go to Bar Boulud.