MUSIC

Catalyst Quartet: Lost in the Galleries

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, APRIL 7 & 8, 2022
5:30, 6:30 & 7:30 PM

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

Free with museum admission
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The Catalyst Quartet lurks among the galleries — I’m not sure how you’re supposed to find them, but I guess it will all become clear once you’re in the Museum — surprising you with music by marginalized composers in the Western canon. Of this weekend’s composers, the problem with reviving Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is that there’s already too much music from the mid-19th Century in the Western canon; I’m all for equity for the unfairly excluded, but I don’t want to hear any more of this stuff. In the case of Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six, on the other hand, all I can say is: MORE MORE MORE.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An American replication of an Austrian impression of an American cocktail bar at Jeremy’s.