February 19, 2008
Upcoming: the Movado Hour
I suppose I’ll start:
Coming up tonight: Cuarteto Casals at the Movado Hour, in Baryshnikov Arts Center, playing Kurtag and Beethoven.
The Movado Hour has been going on for about a year and a half to two years now, a free salon-style music series initiated by Baryshnikov himself, I assume with the intention to remove classical music from its prohibitively expensive prices and atmosphere (a la hush hush! how dare you shift in your seat at Carnegie Hall? Don’t you know that sound reverberates here?). One can reserve up to two spots by calling the reservation line one week in advance and leaving a voicemail. In the beginning, spots used to be open until the day of the concert, I guess because not that many people knew about the Movado Hour. But this time around, it filled up within one day! One day! I sort of despise how competitive everything gets in New York, but I suppose I shouldn’t begrudge the Movado Hour its success. It deserves it, after all.
More on the concert to come.
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