MUSIC
THURSDAY, MAY 31
1:00 PM

TOTAL EMBRACE:  Leonard Bernstein at 100
NOVUS NY
St. Paul's Chapel
209 Broadway, FiDi, Manhattan

Free
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music-arts/2017-2018/total-embrace

Kicking off the final stretch of Trinity Church's Leonard Bernstein centenary tribute, this concert uncharacteristically focuses on orchestral music.  They'll want you to get excited about a new orchestral piece by Music Director Julian Wachner.  But my money's on the other pieces:  Connotations, a late piece byAaron Copland that ditches his populist style for a more austere High Modernist approach -- and succeeds very admirably.  And one of the more delightful pieces in the standard rep, for my money:  Mahler's Fourth -- all the more delightful because its whimsy is etched in acid.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Lenny would have wanted you to go to Harry & Ida's Luncheonette for hipster pastrami.  He'd probably have gone himself.