MUSIC
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2019
7:30 PM

The Seven Last Words Project
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

$20; $10 students
https://www.juilliard.edu/event/134431/seven-last-words-project

Another of those concerts where proponents of the new "listenable" New Music styles write for period instruments:  a pungent and fascinating combination.  Juilliard has commissioned a galaxy (well, seven) of such composers -- Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, Tania León, Paola Prestini, Jessica Meyer, Colin Jacobsen, and Reena Esmail -- to compose pieces to wrap around the movements of Haydn's great great meditative set of adagios, The Seven Last Words of Christ (here played in its string quartet version).  This will be great.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Haydn -- who lived in Hungary part-time at the time he wrote The Seven Last Words -- would tell you to cross the street to the Hungarian Pastry Shop.