MUSIC
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019
7:30 PM

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Shulamit Ran / Bach
Ensemble Connect
Weill Recital Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$32-$38
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2019/12/03/Ensemble-Connect-0730PM

Chances to hear a live performance of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time aren't so rare anymore. Maybe because it's ONE OF THE GREATEST PIECES OF MUSIC EVER WRITTEN. Here the handpicked crack musicians of Ensemble Connect will play this magnficent, ethereal, unique, utterly transporting work along with some stuff by the Israeli Shulamit Ran and, um, Bach — who also wrote some of the greatest music ever written.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friends have told me that Modern Indian showcase Indian Accent — which I've always considered just excellent — has gone downhill. Only one way to find out.