MUSIC
AXIOM
MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2022
7:30 PM
Juilliard In Person & Live Stream
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School
155 West 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
A program moving from Thomas Ades’s Mod Modernism to Elliot Carter’s High Modernism, by way of Carter’s student Jeffrey Mumford, who takes Carter’s complexity and imbues it with human expression rather than puckishness. (The Carter, BTW, is the Double Concerto for Piano and Harpsichord — which you don’t get a chance to hear very often!)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good Old Skool fancy Italian at The Leopard at des Artistes. Streaming at home, have a Modern Cocktail: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of blended Scotch and Sloe Gin, 1/4 teaspoon Absinthe, 1/2 oz. lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon Simple Syrup, with 1 dash of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.