MUSIC

Felipe Lara: Double Concerto

WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, MARCH 29 – 31, 2023
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
2:00 PM FRIDAY

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

$54.50-$232.50
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Felipe Lara is a very good, very distinctive composer: he writes with a modernist edge, but his music keeps an underlying lilt that bespeaks his Brazilian upbringing (it’s the same thing with Brazilian noise music: nobody else’s lilts). You can really hear it in the terrific Double Concerto he’s composed for (wait for it) the flute of Claire Chase and the double bass (and vocals) of esperanza spalding. The remainder of the program isn’t too shabby, either: Ives’sThe Unanswered Question—a piece for which the adjective “ineffable” could just as well have been invented for — as a curtain-raiser; and Stravinsky’s Petrushka(a ballet about a PUPPET) — complex fun — after intermission. You can now enjoy Susanna Mälkki’s sharp conducting without obsessing whether she’ll be the Phil’s next Music Director.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can just 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 and Friday shows (IF you can get in!). Friday, maybe Épicere Boulud.