MUSIC
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2019
7:30 PM

George Crumb at 90: Part II
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-ii-april-16-2019/

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 second of two surveys of Crumb's music?

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