At last! The wait for the reopening of the newly renovated Frick Collection is over—and along with its expanded and upgraded galleries, the Gilded Age tycoon Henry Clay Frick’s mansion now houses the Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium, an intimate, brand-new concert-and-lecture space likely to prove one of Manhattan’s hottest tickets. Music lovers have long prized the Frick’s prescient recital programs, regretting only that the old music room was so cramped and the performances there so few in number. Many evenings of the Spring Music Festival—studded with such blue-chip talent as Anthony Roth Costanzo (countertenor), the Takács Quartet, Sarah Rothenberg (piano), Alexi Kenney (violin), and Ruckus (period ensemble)—are guaranteed to attract sellout crowdlets of a happy few. —Matthew Gurewitsch