MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019
8:00 PM

Julia Wolfe: Fountain of Youth
New World Symphony
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$12-$80
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2019/05/01/New-World-Symphony-0800PM

Julia Wolfe has composed an orchestral showpiece for Michael Tilson-Thomas's Miami-based youth orchestra -- and there's no reason to expect it to be any less vital, astringent, and compelling that the others in Wolfe's recent string of excellent pieces.  As for the rest of the program, the dazzling pianist Yuja Wang playing Prokofiev is as sure a bet as there is (here, his rather rare [because hard to pull off] but, in the right hands [I'm betting on Yuja], fun and amazing Fifth Concerto).  And the last time I heard Tilson-Thomas conduct Berlioz's psychedelic-avant-la-lettre Symphonie Fantastique, it was just right.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I swear it isn't because this orchestra is from Miami, but I just think this concert deserves the sheer fun of the Cuban nightspot Guantanamera.