MUSIC
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2019
3:00 PM

Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra: Simple Strings
Fort Washington Collegiate Church
729 West 181st Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan

Free
https://www.washingtonheightsorchestra.org/march-strings

There are plenty of community orchestras in New York City -- but do any of them feature as consistently fresh programming as the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra?  In a program like this for string orchestra, maybe you'd expect the young Britten's delightful Simple Symphony, although I for one never hear it as much as I'd like to.  Things get a little more surprising withKorngold's rarely heard (some would say for a reason) attempt to return to serious composition after gaining fame writing movie music, the Symphonic Serenade.  But would you ever expect pieces by Michael Torke and Anna Clyne (her heartrending elegy for her mother)?

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Anyone in the neighborhood would tell you to go to George's Pizza.