MUSIC

Alarm Will Sound: Ten Thousand Birds

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, 2022
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY

Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$45
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As I’m sure I’ve already said ten thousand times, one of my biggest thrills during The Lockdown was seeing my living room and dining room windows appear in the video that Alarm Will Sound made of one of their signature pieces, John Adams’s Ten Thousand Birds, played remotely for remote consumption. That was a radically compressed version. Now we can hear the more expansive complete version in person, the way it was meant to be experienced — albeit not out in nature, as it was also meant to be experienced. Instead, we get one of those great nights where a performance spreads around the Armory’s vast Drill Hall. Can’t wait.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It wouldn’t be an Armory show if I didn’t send you to Donahue’s Steak House afterwards: one of those absolutely wonderful places we have here in this City.