MUSIC
THURSDAY - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 - 7, 2019
7:30 PM THURSDAY
11:00 AM FRIDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
10:30 PM NITECAP SATURDAY

Steve Reich: Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$32-$168
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1920/bronfman-and-beethoven

A new concerto grosso by Steve Reich: a big deal. Also, not-quite-first-string Beethoven's sunny firecracker of a Symphony No. 2 and the best of all piano concertos?, Beethoven's Fourth — the latter played by no less than Yefim Bronfman. (Jaap conducts.) On Saturday, the concert is followed by a separately-ticketed ($40) Nitecap in the Kaplan Penthouse curated by Reich, featuring Reich's own music, a piece by Nico Muhly, and a world premiere by Gabriella Smith, quickly becoming everybody's new favorite. It's $40 – and sold out.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: For the nighttime concerts, Boulud Sud. In the inconceivable event you're going to the morning concert (it's not even a matinée!), Épicere Boulud. For the nightcap, P.J. Clarke's.