New York Philharmonic: From Silence to Celebration

MUSIC
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 – 19, 2021
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$52-$166
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2122/from-silence-to-celebration

Some complain that the new emphasis on expanded representation among performed composers leads to tokenism. But if leads to the New York Philharmonic's putting first-rate contemporary classical (Anna Clyne) and unjustly obscure 20th Century American (George Walker) on its (re)opening program, I say, hell yeah. Also Aaron Copland's ineffable Quiet City, and the world-beating Danill Trifonov playing The Greatest Piano Concerto Ever Written (don't worry: Trifonov ain't no empty virtuoso, and this ain't no empty virtuosic piece — quite the opposite). Strange title for such an elegiac program, though: should be more like "From Silence to Quiet".

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very winning country French at La Boite en Bois — and they'll still be open after the evening shows.