MUSIC
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JULY 13 & 14, 2019
7:30 PM SATURDAY
6:00 AM SUNDAY

Pierre-Laurent Aimard et al.: Caramoor Takes Wing!
Caramoor
149 Girldle Ridge Road, Katonah, Westchester

Aimard: $30 each recital; $45 all three; $15 aged 18 and under
Everything else: Free
https://www.caramoor.org/events/caramoor-takes-wing/

The centerpiece of this celebration of birdsong is (as you might guess) a three-recital series by Pierre-Laurent Aimard traversing Messiaen's titanic collection of transcribed birdsong, the Catalogue d'Oiseaux. Pianist Aimard is Messiaen's preeminent interpreter (if you don't believe me, listen to Messiaen himself and his wife, the splendid pianist Yvonne Loriod, who should know). So I was pretty excited about this -- until I noticed that one of the three recitals starts at dawn on Sunday (6:00 AM on Sunday not being a time that's in my repertoire -- much less in Westchester). Surrounding Aimard's recitals are some enticing free performances. One is by clarinetist/naturalist David Rothenberg, who is not only an amazingly distinctive stylist on his instrument, but a recognized expert on the interplay of human music and bird and insect(!) song (so he's got both ends of that food chain covered). And a performance of John Luther Adams's songbirdsongs by Sandbox Percussion with Emi Ferguson and Catherine Gregory on piccolos!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Picnic!