Artiste: Nicholas Cords

Brooklyn Rider is a first-rate advertisement for the string quartet in NYC. A quiet approach to their artistry, stylish playing, and a gorgeous sound brings midsummer joy to Wigmore Hall.

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.