MUSIC

Thomas Adès: In Seven Days

THURSDAY – SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 – 18, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY

New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$38.50-$144.50
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This is getting Listed for Thomas Adès’s concerto for piano and moving images In Seven Days, a really good, even cosmic piece — especially with Kiril Gerstein as soloist. Tal Rosner’s moving images should be more effective than ever with David Geffen Hall’s new enhanced video capabilities. But let’s not fail to give a mention to a rare airing of a piece by Grażyna Bacewicz, one of those mid-20th Century Boulanger-student Neoclassicists (although Bacewicz also has appealing Neoromantic tendencies) who wrote attractive music that is a pleasure to hear. Ruth Reinhardt — who’s making the Bacewicz Overture a calling card, and good for her — conducts (although we no longer have to treat it as a Music Directorship audition).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can make it to Kwame Onwuachi’s in-house Afro-Caribbean restaurant Tatiana (not to be confused with the one in Brighton Beach) for dinner after the Thursday concert; after the Friday and Saturday you can get bar snacks there.