MUSIC

Tai Murray et al.

MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2022
7:00 PM

Music Mondays
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free
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Back in my prior life, when I was a young law associate and Thriller was everywhere, a colleague superciliously remarked that Michael Jackson’s melodies weren’t as good as Mozart’s. I couldn’t help but point out that Mozart’s rhythms weren’t nearly as complex as Jackson’s (including in the miraculous vocals!). South African composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen brings some of that rhythmic sophistication to the European Classical tradition, and good for that. European melody, meanwhile, is represented here — at its very very best — by Schubert’s Trout Quintet, paired with a piece by the excellent Judith Weir taking off from Schubert. Vaughan Williams’s Piano Quintet is nice if you’re in the mood.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Izzy’s Smokehouse and hope they have their pastrami. (If not console yourself with some brisket.)