MUSIC
TUESDAY - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 - 10, 2019
6:00 PM

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
String Orchestra of Brooklyn
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

https://www.deathofclassical.com/angelshare/pergolesi-stabat-mater

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is one of the prettiest things in Western music: not beautiful, not sublime, just pretty — which can be reward enough. Nevertheless, its subject matter — a reflection on Mary watching the death of her son (oops, "Son" for those of you who believe in such things) — seems appropriate to the Catacombs. The other pieces on the program — Barber's indelible Adagio (that funeral regular) and Pärt's piquantly dour Fratres — are also pretty Catacomb-appropriate. And there'll be appropriately somber video projections up and down the long corridor of the Catacombs. Undercutting it all is the unlimited whiskey to be poured for audience members before the show.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: All that reflection on death will make you want MEAT. Serbian at Korzo. (The fried burgers are legendary — and eating one will definitely raise thoughts of mortality.)