MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019
8:00 PM

García Lorca: Muse and Magician
New York Festival of Song
Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$20-$62
http://nyfos.org/lorca/

Federico García Lorca -- poet, Flamenco proponent, trained musician -- has inspired a good deal of 20th Century song.  Look at the list of composers here (aside from the poet himself):  Poulenc, Montsalvatge, Revueltas, Billy Strayhorn, Leonard Cohen, William Bolcom, Surinach, de Falla -- there's no way this won't be fantastic.  (PS -- Bet you didn't know that, aside from being influenced by Lorca as a poet, Leonard Cohen was something of a Flamenco fanatic.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Every once in a while it's nice to return to that neighborhood French charmer La Boite en Bois.