The Junction Trio Brings a Little Unruliness Back to Carnegie Hall

The most vibrant music so often takes place at the point where cultures meet, eras overlap, sensibilities intersect, and traditions fork. That in-between space is also the habitat of the aptly named Junction Trio, three stupendous musicians who glory in artistic instability, the sense that styles are not pure or settled practices and never were. John Zorn’s Philosophical Investigations, Charles Ives’s Piano Trio, and Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio were composed near the...