Music
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GIVING BACK Cutting Edge Concerts starts off its 2006 season with Giving Back, a series of concerts featuring new works by living composers. The next program features Allen Cohen, Matthew Greenbaum, Patricia Morehead, and Allen Shaw (tonight). Newband will play the music of Harr y Partch and Dean Drummond at the final concert (April 27). Thursdays, April 20 and 27, 8 p.m., the Renee Weiler Concert Hall of Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St., between Bedford Street and Seventh Avenue South, 212-242-4770, $15 general, $10 students and seniors.
BARTOK IN VIENNA At its third and final concert at Carnegie Hall this season, the Takacs Quartet juxtaposes a quartet by Bela Bartok with Viennese classical works by Mozart and Schubert. The performance celebrates two major anniversaries – Mozart’s 250th and Bartok’s 125th birthday. The quartet consists of violinists Edward Dusinberre and Karoly Schranz, violist Geraldine Walther, and cellist Andras Feje. Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 Seventh Ave. at 57th Street, 212-247-7800, $44-$52.
MOVIE MUSIC Composer and conductor John Williams will lead the New York Philharmonic in a program of great Hollywood film scores, including music selections from “Citizen Kane,” “North by Northwest,” and “E.T.” Hosted by directors Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, the evening will include a tribute to film composer Bernard Hermann and a celebration of the ongoing Spielberg-Williams collaboration. Monday and Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Columbus Avenue between 62nd and 65th streets, 212-875-5656, $49-$119.
