Artiste: Jennifer Frautschi

The midday concert was held a barn designed by the same team who engineered London's Wigmore Hall, and acoustics are as warm and carefully attuned as its modest, appealing interior.

The loosely-affiliated Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, now in its ninth season at the museum, illustrates all that is good about music-making among friends – and even family members. Two sets of siblings and numerous old friends were on stage for a concert of music inspired by the completion of the museum’s new wing of American art.