SORA Quartet

MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020
7:00 PM

Areté Venue & Gallery
67 West Street #103, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

$15
https://www.aretevenue.com/events

Bartók's string quartets are some of the best things in Western music (and the closest classical music comes to sounding like late-'60s Stones).  No. 1, being played tonight, might be the best of them — but being not the best of a very great lot is still really something.  Anyway, it's not like you get to hear any of these amazing pieces every night.  Philip Glass's string quartets are near the top of Glass's enormous ouvre (and accessible to people who normally don't enjoy Glass) (if there are any of them left); No. 5, played tonight, is one of the best of them (and also one of Glass's least typical pieces).  The local SORA Quartet is new to me; let's see how they do in this remarkable music.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Nice cocktails, nice food at Esme.