MUSIC

Sharon Isbin & Pacifica Quartet

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022
7:30 PM

92nd Street Y In Person & Live Stream
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$25-$60 in person; $30 age 40 and under in person; $25 live stream if money, sound quality, and immediacy mean nothing to you
TICKETS + INFORMATION

Any chance to hear the fabulous guitarist Sharon Isbin and the fabulous Pacifica Quartet play Leo Brouwer — the best composer for guitar now practicing — is worth serious consideration. A new piece for guitar and string quartet by Joseph Schwantner, sure. And course we all adore Piazzolla. Boccherini’s guitar quintets are some of the most entertaining music around — and the Fandango is his greatest hit. Turina’s La Oración del Torero is always good to hear (even when played by a string quartet instead of the originally intended lute quartet). Vivaldi on modern instruments . . well, you’ll just have to decide whether you’re man or woman enough.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, god Italian at Sfoglia. Streaming at home, have an Old Pal: pour 2 oz. Rye and 1 oz. each of dry Vermouth and Campari into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.