Music
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STRAUSS’S HOUSE
Leonard Slatkin conducts the New York Philharmonic in a program that includes Richard Strauss’s “Symphonia Domestica,” which includes references to a baby’s bath time, a lullaby, the parents’ conjugal romance, and a family squabble.The program also features Jefferson Friedman’s “The Throne of the Third Heaven … ” and Ernst Bloch’s “Schelomo.” Lynn Harrell is the solo cellist. Friday, 2 p.m., Saturday, 8 p.m., Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway and West 65th Street, 212-875-5656, $25-$90.
SWEET SOUNDS
Singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) joins musician and producer Stuart Matthewman (aka Cottonbelly) for a “SoundCheck” event at the Whitney. The duo will use electronic techniques to deconstruct and remix songs from Mr. Thompson’s repertory. Friday, 7-9 p.m., Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street, 800-944-8639, free with pay-whatyou-wish museum admission.
BROOKLYN BLUEGRASS
The traditional bluegrass band James Reams and the Barnstormers perform tunes from their latest album, “Troubled Times.” Friday, 7:30 p.m. doors open, 8 p.m. show, Good Coffeehouse Music Parlor at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West at 2nd Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-768-2972, $10 general, $6 children.
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