MUSIC
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019
7:30 PM

György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
Ah Young Hong & Jacob Ashworth
Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$15; $10 students/seniors
http://www.spectrumnyc.com/site/calendar.ph

Nonagenarian György Kurtág is the greatest living composer. His works are aphoristic, but their brevity contains multitudes: you can't believe how much musical information a little snatch can contain nor how much thought and feeling it can convey. The Kafka Fragments, for voice and violin, are up there with his best. No one who saw soprano Ah Young Hong in Michael Hersch's On the Threshold of Winter at BAM a few years ago will forget that searing performance — nor want to miss her in this. Jacob Ashworth, a very fine violinist, takes some time off from co-running Heartbeat Opera (which has its own major thing going on this week) and that marvelous vocal-instrumental ensemble Cantata Profana to play a work he has previously performed to great effect.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Back to LaRina Pastificio e Vino, cuz it's just so nice.