MUSIC

Crypt Lab Series: Sybarite5

TUESDAY – THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – 30, 2023
7:30 & 9:00 PM

The Crypt Sessions
The Crypt, Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan

$70
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Like their model Kronos, I find string quintet (standard quartet plus contrabass) Sybarite5 eclectic to a fault — not every kind of music needs to be adapted to the Western string format. But if they wanna do new pieces by people like David T. Little, Kamala Sankaram (how have I not noticed till now that all the vowels in her name are the same?), Laura Kaminsky, and Curtis Stewart, I’ma wanna listen. (A different program each night.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s a wine-and-cheese reception starting an hour before each show — but I never tire of complaining that, for the high price charged for these concerts, the abominable quality of the wine and the cheese is deplorable. In any event, good burgers at At The Wallace — but most exciting of all, I’ve heard it reported on good authority that the fried cheese curds are as good as in Wisconsin.