Music review: Yumi Kurosawa and the Lark Quartet at the Freer and Sackler Galleries

There?s a 20th-century tradition of composers finding audiences in museums and galleries. Washington?s museums present concerts in more conventional spaces than the art galleries where Steve Reich and Philip Glass found listeners in the 1960s, but they?re doing a lot to support new music in a city not always attuned to it. The Phillips Collection spotlights living European composers; the estimable Verge Ensemble and the 21st Century Consort are based at the Corcoran and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, respectively; the National Gallery of Art has a resident new music ensemble.

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