Music
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FISK VOICES The a cappella ensemble the Fisk Jubilee Singers performs at the Riverside Church this weekend. Sunday, 3 p.m., Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive at 120th Street, 212-870-6722, $40 general, $15 seniors and students.
SHOSTAKOVICH’S STRINGS The Manhattan String Quartet performs Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, and String Quartet No. 15 in Eflat minor. The performance is the last in a series of concerts of Shostakovich’s 15 quartets. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue at 51st Street, 212-378-0248, $20 general, $15 seniors and students.
BEST OF BRITTEN Tenor Ian Bostridge is the soloist in a concert of works by Benjamin Britten. The program includes a series of canticles that treat texts from a wide variety of sources, including the Elizabethan writer Francis Quarles, a 14th-century Chester Mystery Play, and poets Edith Sitwell and T.S. Eliot. The concert also includes “Winter Words,” based on the pastoral poetry of Thomas Hardy. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 Seventh Ave. at 57th Street, 212-247-7800, $40-$48.
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