MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2019
7:30 PM

Jordi Savall: Journey to the East
White Light Festival
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$35-$110
http://www.lincolncenter.org/white-light-festival/show/journey-to-the-east

Sometimes I think that if I had to choose a single person as the World's Greatest Living Musician, it would be violist/conductor/bandleader Jordi Savall. Here, he and his chamber orchestra Hespèrion XXI and chorus La Capella Reial de Catalunya, with guest musicians playing various Asian instruments, trace the musics St. Francis Xavier would have heard on his missionary travels from Lisbon to Mozambique, India, Malaysia, Japan, and China. Despite the fact that you'll have to sit through a narration to hear the music, don't expect this to be very easy to get into.

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