Aizuri Quartet

MUSIC
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021
2:00 PM

Tuesday Matinees
Kaufman Music Center Stream

$15
https://lincolnsquarebid.org/event-detail/5362

The exciting Aizuri Quartet used to be rising, but now I guess they've risen. This afternoon they give us contemporary pieces by Eleanor Alberga (tonal, rhythmic, wonderful to listen to — and you can sort of tell she grew up in Jamaica) and Rhiannon Giddens (classically trained blues/folk musician who doesn't prettify her blues/folk but rather demoticizes her classical). And the first (and easiest-going) of Beethoven's astonishing string of Late Quartets, in the aggregate the greatest Dead White Men music there is.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Passport: pour 1 oz. each of Campari, Vermouth Blanc, and grapefruit juice, and 1/2 oz. each of lime juice and Simple Syrup, with 1 dash of rhubarb bitters, into a Collins glass over ice. Top with club soda. Garnish with an orange wedge and some cucumber slices.