Constellations Virtual Concert: Reflections in Time

MUSIC
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2020
4:00 PM

Constellations Chamber Concerts Live Stream

Free
https://www.constellationsmusic.org/event-details/reflections-in-time

A welcome chance to hear the music of Jonathan Dawe.  Dawe is another of those composers who delight in combining Baroque usages with a contemporary idiom, and if his music inclines more to Modernism than to the lighthearted Alt Classical styles of the Balliett brothers or Caroline Shaw, it's none the less provocative for that.  The rest of this solo cello/solo harpsichord recital mainly features genuine Baroque music, which of course has its own enormous appeal.  Cellist Paul Dwyer and harpsichordist Nadia Lesaulnier play the tunes.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  You know how odd buying patterns during The Quarantine find you stocked with odd things?  I have a bunch of end-of-season Meyer lemons that are about to hit their eat-by date, and (don't ask how or why) some spring spruce tips.  So when I came across a cocktail that uses both those ingredients, you can imagine my joy (and relief!).  Spruce Bringsteen (I don't make up the names; I just report them):  pour 1-1/2 oz. Pisco, 3/4 oz. Yellow Chartreuse, and 1 oz. lemon juice (I'm using Meyer, obvs) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.  Garnish with spruce tips.