Benjamin Hochman & Friends: Moodrunk & Erotic Obsession

MUSIC
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020
8:00 PM

92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$25
https://www.92y.org/event/benjamin-hochman-and-guests

Benjamin Hochman is a really good pianist, and what's more he has very good friends — among them Lucy Shelton, one of the great vocalists of our time (if only the person who titled this program had matching parallel-construction skills).  On this program, we get two song cycles that represent peaks of that literature in the last century:  Schoenberg's almost unbearably evocative (you will hear the Moon) Pierrot Lunaire (and trust me, you don't lightly pass up a chance to hear Lucy Shelton sing that) and Janáček's Diary of One Who Disappeared (which, just so you know, isn't about political incarcertation but rather erotic obsession) (and trust me, hear it once and you'll wonder why it isn't played all the time).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Kaia for South African food and wine.