MUSIC
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2019
8:00 PM

JACK Quartet / Colin Currie
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$53
https://www.92y.org/event/jack-quartet-and-colin-currie

It's percussion week at the Y, as master percussionist Colin Currie joins the redoubtable JACK Quartet for pieces played separately and together. Among the pieces played separately is Currie's performance of Xenakis's Rebonds B, which manages to simultaneously be rigorous High Modernism and a barrel of fun. JACK will return the favor by playing Xenakis's stunning string quartet Tetras, a signature piece of theirs that they play better than just about anybody. Then, speaking of fun, a new quintet by Andy Akiho, one of the grooviest composers around. And one by Suzanne Farrin, who's extremely vivid if not groovy.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sfoglia is not quite as good an Italian spot as it once was. But it's still plenty good — have some of that bread — and it's still right across the street.