MUSIC
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2019
1:00 & 3:00 PM

Schola Antiqua: Maximilian's Musical Armory
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan

$65; $1 accompanying children ages 6-16
https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/fy20-schola-antiqua

I love going to Early Music concerts at The Cloisters. I love walking high over the Hudson through Fort Tryon Park from the subway to get there; I love communing with the unicorn before the show; I love interacting with the single nicest usher in all New York; I love walking down the precipitous steps outside the Cloisters after the concert and stopping by to pay obesiance to Her Most Serene Highness Elsa la Reina del Chicharron (see below) afterwards. (NB: Go to the Cloisters via the 190th Street A stop; leave [and access Elsa's] via the Dyckman Street stop — you want to walk down those stairs not up.) Today, Chicago's Rennaisance vocal group Schola Antiqua sings music from the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, who liked the arts as much as he liked fighting the Netherlands and expanding the Holy Roman Empire by marrying off his children and grandchildren. Unusually for Rennaisance polyphony, there will be an emphasis on low voices. You can check out Maximilian's non-musical armor in an accompanying exhibition at the main branch of The Met.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: So the last time I was at Elsa la Reina del Chicharron, the guy in front of me on line ordered a morcilla — and it looked GREAT. I had a radical thought: maybe you can go to Elsa's and order something other than the celestial chicharron. Then it hit me: you can order a smaller portion of chicharron and get both.