MUSIC

Orchestra of St. Luke’s: Beethoven and Clyne

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2022
8:00 PM

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$55
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Anna Clyne is one of those composers who would be genuinely popular if we had a living mainstream Classical Music culture. There is nothing about her wonderful work that couldn’t appeal to a large mainstream audience — if they weren’t too lazy and timid to think for themselves about music, rather than bathing in works that have already been endorsed for them as “great”. She has two fairly new chamber pieces on this program. Fittingly, the other piece is what has to be Beethoven’s single most entertaining score, one that makes you forget all about the legendary grumpy growler — and a huge hit upon its release, although it doesn’t loom large today when we only listen to “masterpieces” — the Septet.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: When were you last at the Burger Joint?