MUSIC

From Maple Leaf Rag to the Prepared Piano: The Making of an American Music, 1899–1948

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2022
7:30 PM

Focus Festival 2022 In Person & Live Stream
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School
155 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free
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Juilliard starts off this year’s Focus Festival (focusing on 20th Century American music) with a bang, with a program in which Joel Sachs and the New Juilliard Ensemble trace the emergence and progression of the American Maverick Non-School in the first half of the 20th Century — recognizing that ragtime had a generative role to play. From Joplin to Ives to Varèse to Cowell to Crawford Seeger, there is literally nothing on this program that you shouldn’t be dying (not literally, I hope) to hear.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, before the show, let’s keep it all-American with a Cadillac burger proceeded by a Martini (and shit, why not some oysters with that Martini?) at P.J. Clarke’s. Those streaming at home can also have a Martini: pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. dry Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir (a lot: you want that sucker to be cold). Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist or an olive.