Nina C. Young: Tread softly

MUSIC
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020
7:30 PM

New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$35-$133
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1920/project-19?clicklocation=hp_mc

The Phil kicks off its Project 19, featuring newly commissioned works by composers unencumbered by Y chromosomes, with a world premiere by electroacoustician Nina C. Young.  Although one gathers this piece will be strictly acoustic, what will not be absent is Young's unerring flair for timbre and texture.  And guess what?  The other pieces on the program are things you want to hear, too.  Like, Haydn's wonderful, alternately catchy and grave (and surprisingly virtuosic for a Classical period piece) First Cello Concerto, played by the Philharmonic's splendid principal cellist, Carter Brey.  And . . . Mozart's (unfinished) "Great" Mass — catnip for fans of grandeur, exultance, or melody — with a starry quartet of vocal soloists.  Jaap conducts.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Let's see how the new chef at The Leopard at des Artistes is faring.  The murals will still be the same.