MUSIC

Merz Trio: Undiluted Days

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2022
7:30 PM

Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$30; $15 students
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A really stimulating piano trio program, ranging from Monteverdi and Gesualdo in the Renaissance to Jeffrey Mumford, a High Modernist whose recent ubiquity on concert programs proves that playing long-underplayed music by composers who aren’t White Men isn’t any sort of tokenism, but rather brings the repertoire where it should have been in the first place. Speaking of composers who aren’t White Men, there’s also some Alma Mahler (not an overlooked major talent) and, for that matter, Edith Piaf. Tchaikovsky is going to seem horribly lachrymose by comparison.

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