MUSIC
SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2019
5:00 PM

George Crumb at 90: Part I
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$32-$75
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/nyc/events/upcoming/george-crumb-at-90-part-i-april-14-2019/

What can you say about George Crumb?  That he was writing listenable, ear-catching, but never pandering avant-classical music before it became fashionable?  That his music challenges as it pleases, but also pleases as it challenges?  That his unexpected forms and textures are always right?  That, although he would never head a "school" or anything like that, he's a guiding spirit for much of what's good in contemporary classical music?  That we're lucky he's still active and at his best?  That it's hard to imagine anyone not finding much to deeply enjoy in this first of two surveys of Crumb's music (theother one's next Tuesday) -- including a nonagenarian world premiere?

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I think we're going to say Sunday evening at Oxbow Tavern.