Tesla Quartet

MUSIC
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2021
8:00 PM

Lot of Strings Music Festival
Morris Museum
6 Normandy Heights Road, Morris, New Jersey

$50 for up to 2 people
https://morrismuseum.org/events/publiquartet/

The Tesla plays Caroline Shaw, who I was thinking is part of something we hadn't had for a while: a bunch of contemporary American composers writing first-rate, wholly idiomatic string quartets because they like to, not because they get commissioned or think they ought to (the others I'm thinking of are Jessie Montgomery, Gabriella Smith, and Paul Wiancko). While Schubert's last quartet isn't the kind of thing we usually recommend around here, Your Compiler must admit he loves Schubert immoderately and that quartet is fucking great.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: South and Pine has the kind of boring, played-out New American menu we're all sick of. But you've gotta love their attitude.