MUSIC

Philadelphia Orchestra

TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2024
8:00 PM

Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$54-$159
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin kind of continues on from last night’s concert with The MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. Let me say out loud that I don’t much like Rhapsody in Blue: Gershwin was a worldbeating songwriter, one of the best in the whole Western canon, but his longform orchestral pieces — very much including thing one — just don’t hang together. Nevertheless, the prospect of hearing this piece played by this fabulous orchestra under its flashy music director with the Marcus Roberts Trio is pretty tempting. Kurt Weill’s symphonies aren’t up to Weill’s theater music — what is? — but they deserve to be heard much more than they are — and again this orchestra with this conductor should bring out the Second’s full piquancy. And who doesn’t love Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka?

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unlikely (but deserving) hotspot (and sometime dissident hangout) Russian Samovar.