MUSIC

New York Philharmonic: The Sound of Home

THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 22 & 23, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$28-$146
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Enough with the “Home” stuff already. In any event, if the Phil hooking up with Roomful of Teeth to do a world premiere by The Future Of Classical Music, Teeth bandmember Caroline Shaw, isn’t a major event, I don’t know what is. Also on the bill: Debussy’s Prelude to “The Afternoon of the Faun, one of the most sensuous things in all of music — led hear by one of the least sensuous conductors. And Florence Price’s chef-d’ouevre Fourth Symphony — which shows that your music can be boring and retrograde even if you’re a neglected Early 20th Century Black female composer. (To be clear, I’m not arguing that Price shouldn’t be played. To the contrary, much of what contemporary orchestras play is boring and retrograde, and there’s no reason to exclude this boring and retrograde music on grounds of the composer’s race and sex. But I don’t have to recommend it.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean restaurant in the Hall isn’t open yet. But there’s BIGGER news: cocktails at the Hall’s bars will be handled by List bud and Cocktail Genius Don Lee!!!!!!!! I may never remember the second half of a Philharmonic concert again.