MUSIC
SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2019
4:00 PM

PhiloSonia
Dweck Center, Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Free (registration required)
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/classical-interludes-central-library-dweck-20190414

This Brooklyn chamber ensemble presents a superfine program of music touching on the divine unknown:  Osvaldo Golijov's Klezmer-inflected The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, a really good piece; and an out-and-out great one, one of the greatest of all, in fact:  Messaien's strangely beautiful (what other kind of beauty could you expect to be conjured by an inmate in a Nazi prison camp?) Quartet for the End of Time.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Before the show, stop into Tom's Restaurant for the best pancakes you'll ever have out.  Afterward, Oxalis:  you can either go for the astonishing-value $60 tasting menu in the dining room, or for cocktails, wine, and highly imaginative bar food in the bar in the back.