Music
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MULLIGAN STEW Jazz Band Classic, a 16-piece swing band led by trombonist Ryan Keberle, features baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan in a tribute to jazz great Gerry Mulligan. “Mulligan Stew” includes arrangements for the bands of Gene Krupa, Elliott Lawrence, and Stan Kenton, along with Mulligan’s own Concert Jazz Band.The concert is presented by the New York Youth Symphony. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, $20.
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. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 Seventh Ave. at 57th Street, 212-247-7800, $40-$48.
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