Ensemble Connect

MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021
6:00 PM

Carnegie Hall Citywide
Madison Square Park
Between Broadway & Madison Avenue and 23rd & 26th Streets, Madison Square, Manhattan

Free
https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2021/08/11/carnegie-hall-citywide-ensemble-connect-0600pm

This is a particularly appealing installment of Ensemble Connect's series of chamber recitals amidst Maya Lin's Ghost Forest installation. This week fields a wind ensemble (I am admitted partial to wind ensembles). But it's more what they're playing. A piece by the hypnotic Hans Abrahamsen, whom you should hear whenever he's played. Movements from underplayed wind quintets (in the case of Seeger, WAY underplayed) by Nielsen and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Excerpts from an extended wind piece by the marvelous Hannah Lash (which, as it happens, I was just listening to at home — the universe is pushing this piece on us). Piazzolla, Hindemith in his bad-boy fun period (a lot of people don't know he had one), William Grant Still, and more. This promises to be a piquant delight.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Try to walk into the red-hot new NYC branch of the legendary, centuries-old Tokyo soba restaurant Sarashina Horii; you certainly can't get a reservation. (Walk into Sharashina Horii: ho ho I crack myself up.)