Goings On About Town: This Week

The majestic beauty of a harp evokes a visual and sonic mysticism that makes it at once inviting and intimidating. With Brandee Younger at the helm, the instrument gains a bit of soul, as she tends to the legacies of such harpists as Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane while breathing fresh life into its repertoire with her own compositions. Her radiant playing is as cogent on hip-hop and R. & B. albums as it is set against classical and jazz backdrops. On Blue Note’s stage, May 21-22, she’ll manifest her own starry vision of the harp’s potential. DANCE New York City Ballet David H. Koch George Balanchine the modernist faces off with Balanchine the classicist on alternating programs. “Symphony in Three Movements” exemplifies the angular energy and spare lines of the choreographer’s Stravinsky ballets.…

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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 20, 2019

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