MUSIC / PERFORMANCE

Catalyst Quartet feat. Machine Dazzle: Bassline Fabulous

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16 & 17, 2022
7:00 PM

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$130
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Only a mind as intensely rigorous but endlessly inventive as J.S. Bach’s could have created The Goldberg Variations, where the ground bass always stays the same and everything else . . . doesn’t. The Catalyst Quartet will play them here in the well-received string-quartet arrangement they made a few years ago. Now I know people who incorrectly think the Goldbergs are boring: as one wag of my acquaintance put it, “if the Goldbergs were written (as is widely believed) to cure some courtier’s insomnia, they sure must have done the trick!” Well, those benighted souls should be kept occupied by an accompanying performance-installation by the fabulous star-in-his-own-right Machine Dazzle, who for years has been Taylor Mac’s genius costume/visuals designer.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep the fabulousness going at Jeremy’s cocktail bar.