Jennifer Koh

MUSIC
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2020
7:30 PM

Music Mondays Web Stream

Free
https://www.musicmondays.org/

Ace violinist Jennifer Koh plays Bach with the same fierce clarity and innate understanding she brings to alt classical and New Music.  And I said last week, Bach is one of the composers that I, for one, find myself returning to again and again in The Quarantine (the others being Pauline Oliveros and John Luther Adams).  The combination of inexhaustibility of detail, absolute logical rightness, and surface impersonality underlain by a profound undertow of awe and dread:  they all seem so right, so needed, right now.  Those, and the incontestable evidence Bach's works provide that humans are capable of achievements beyond our wildest imaginings.

MAKE NIGHT OF IT:  Spring Forward:  pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. dry Vermouth into a frozen mixing glass and throw in a trimmed ramp or Spring onion (RAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMPPPPPPSSSS!).  Muddle — but just a little (you don't want the allium to get too bitter).  Now, fill the shaker with ice and stir.  Pour into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.  Garnish with another trimmed ramp or Spring onion (RAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMPPPPPSSSS!).