Longleash: Beethoven Reflections

MUSIC
FRIDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 & 12, 2020
7:30 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

5 Borough Music Festival
FRIDAY:  Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, Queens
SUNDAY:  Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
921 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

FRIDAY:  $25; $15 seniors; $10 students
SUNDAY:  $25; $20 students/seniors
http://5bmf.org/longleash/

The questing piano trio Longleash plays two Beethoven piano trios and responses to each of them by, respectively, Downtown wildman John Zorn and Exemplary Modernist Reiko Füting (the latter a world premiere).  The Sunday show has Ches Smith sitting in on percussion, which would make it the clear choice — if the food near the Friday show weren't so infinitely better.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  FRIDAY, the marvels of Flushing dining are boundless, so my singling out of the great Sichuan at DaXi (on the second floor — NOT in the food court — of the New World Mall) is almost random.  SUNDAY, the drudgery of Upper East Side dining is bottomless — but Flora Bar in The Museum f/k/a The Whitney, run by the folks who run Estela downtown, is a welcome exception.