April 30, 1995.

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Tonight is some delightful music for winds with a fabulous view

Tonight is some cool new music for cello, electronics, and string quartet with Athos Maelstrom

Tonight is anime with the Queer Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band

Tonight is an exciting program with the Danish String Quartet and Danish National Girls' Choir, including a David Lang premiere

Tonight is Johnny Gandelsman's violin version of the Bach Cello Suites, with Joyce dancers

Tonight is some Morton Feldman with the JACK Quartet and Amy Williams

Tonight is Innocence at the Met

No shows on my calendar today, so it's time for some Steve Reich with the kitties

This afternoon the Experiential Orchestra explores the acoustics of St John the Divine's crypt

Tonight is Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And Lang Lang is here, too.

And now, The Knights, with another of their deightful eclectic programs

Starting the evening with some pleasant Schubert

Unfortunately a combo of bronchitis and pollen meant they had to skip the Floyd tonight, but it was still a very satisfying program.

I'll be hearing Nelsons/BSO on Friday at Carnegie.

Tonight is a fun assortment of American music with Yarn/Wire and Golda Schultz (and the NYPhil)

I am hoping that tonight's performance of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time will not prove prescient

And now the Philadelphia Orchestra under Marin Alsop

This afternoon is another recital by young artists in the Met's Lindemann Development Program, with a nice mix of familiar and unfamiliar repertoire.

Today is a Wild Party at Encores

And tonight is all sorts of chamber music for winds and percussion with the Queer Big Apple Corps

This afternoon is the talented students of Juilliard Dance, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra with their spring dances

Tonight is choral music from Byrd to Muhly with the Choir of New College Oxford

Tonight is some New York Etudes with Jeff Beal down in the spooky but acoustically fantastic crypt of the Church of the Intercession

Tonight is an entertaining celebration of Commedia dell'Arte at Mannes, with a program rangong from Mozart and Donizetti to Bohemian Rhapsody

Tonight is an exciting set of choral premieres with The Crossing

Finishing up the weekend with some nice piano trios with the Trio Chimera

Today is Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Tru in the beautiful library of the House of the Redeemer

Tonight is Trash at PACNYC

Heading back to the 80's for some Cold War Choir Practice

The orchestral writing was pretty typical for Lang, but the vocal parts added quite a bit of variety across the 18 sections. I thoroughly enjoyed it, at any rate.