Dance, Music, and Song

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Who isn’t dazzled by a late night serenade under the stars, a picnic abundant with champagne and song floating through the summer air, Japanese cherry blossoms opening to the sound of the koto or the romantic yearning of a Spanish guitar covered in mother of pearl? From sensual Persian poems set to music to the miniature instruments made of bamboo in Borneo, the elegant fete gallants of 18th century France to the raucous country dances of Flanders, and the Venetian carnival balls, we traverse the Met to catch ourselves in the midst of revelry, romance, and that universal language: music. We listen as much as we look and I might know a jig or two.