MUSIC
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019
7:30 PM

Daedalus Quartet: Music from Exile
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan

$36; $16 students
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The expert Daedalus Quartet offers in an interesting program that seems rather depressing in theory, but won't be so in practice. There's Viktor Ullman's Third String Quartet, a bright Neo-Classical work that was written in Theresienstadt (the bright pieces stopped coming when Ullman was moved on to Auschwitz). There's a recent quartet by Gabriel Bolaños, who often uses electroacoustic combinations to create compelling textures, but here will use the forces of a good old string quartet. And the quartet will be joined on piano by Renana Gutman for the monumental Piano Quintet of Shostakovich protegé Mieczyslaw Weinberg (when I was learning music he was called Moishe Vainberg), as engrossing a piece of 20th-Century post-Romanticism as you could hope to hear.

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