MUSIC
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2019
4:00 PM

Spektral Quartet
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-20190407

A typically fascinating program by Chicago's questing Spektral Quartet.  You get some Elliott Carter, you get a recent piece by Hans Thomalla, you get a pleasant movement by Mozart.  And you get Beethoven's last string quartet, one of that remarkable string of late quartets that sound like they could have been written yesterday (the only non-contemporary music I'd say that about).

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 excellent cocktails and highly imaginative bar food in the bar in the back.