MUSIC
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2019
7:00 PM

The Orchestra Now: De Profundis: Out of the Depths
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$12.50-$60
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2019/05/02/The-Orchestra-Now-0700PM

Former wunderkind Leon Botstein is a frustrating conductor.  He's a whiz at programming, playing rare, interesting repertoire in thought-provoking combinations.  But he's a stolid, sludgy music-maker.  (To be sure, he has a lot more going on in his life than just conducting.)  So this show, themed around interpretations of Psalm 130 ("Out of the depths . . . ."), is full of music you'd love to hear, even if the performances may leave you wanting more.  A contemporary violin concerto by the graceful Lera Auerbach.  A piece by Lili Boulanger, a French post-Romantic whose tuneful music with a hint of tartness would, people are now coming to realize, be played all the time if the composer weren't (a) a woman who (b) died tragically young.  A Virgil Thomson piece that gives the lie to the commonplace that the poptart American composer/critic never wrote anything deep (no pun intended).  And obscure Germanic High Romanticism by Joachim Raff, whose work will, if nothing else, make you really appreciate Brahms.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  A good night for the Modern Indian at Indian Accent.