Junction Trio

MUSIC
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2020
7:30 PM

92nd Street Y Livestream

Free
https://www.92y.org/archives/junction-trio

The Junction Trio comprises two players I know to be among the best, most exciting musicians in New York — pianist Conrad Tao and cellist Jay Campbell — and a violinist I don't know named Stefan Jackiw — but Tao and Campbell wouldn't have joined a trio with him if he weren't fantastic.  The program consists of Ives's highly characteristic Piano Trio — a reminiscence of Ives's college days that sounds like nothing but Ives, America's wacky Mahler, through and through — together with that very picture of musical nobility, Beethoven's grand, deathless Archduke Trio.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  You could say that all New Orleans cocktails taste about the same; you could also say that taste is pretty great.  Like a Vieux Carré:  pour 3/4 oz. each of rye, Cognac, and sweet vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, along with a teaspoon of Bénédictine and two dashes each of Agnostura and Peychaud's bitters.  Stir and strain into an Old Fashioned glass; garnish with a lemon twist.