MUSIC
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019
7:00 PM

A Far Cry
Naumburg Orchestral Concerts
Temple Emanu-El
1 East 65th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan

Free (ticket required)
https://naumburgconcerts.org/concert/second-concert/

This summer's strangely indoor iteration of the normally outdoor Naumburg Orchestral Concert series (while the Bandshell is being repaired) continues with the Boston chamber orchestra A Far Cry, which specializes (like our ownKnights) in mixing old and new. The new here is everybody's favorite, Caroline Shaw, and Lembit Beecher, another of those composers who use old sonorities in new ways -- and whom I've come think deserves to be a lot better known. The old is Early Baroque from Muffat (my taste exactly) andTchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, which even Late-Romantic-hating grouches like me have to admit is absolutely delightful (Tchaikovsky's OK when he's forgetting to be lugubrious and instead trying to sound like Mozart).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vaucluse is one of the better of a very sorry bunch in this horrible neighborhood.