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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 28 & 30, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kentucky Maid: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz. lime juice, and 3/4 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filed cocktail shaker, with 8 mint leaves and 2 (thin) cucumber slices. Shake A LOT. Strain into a chilled rocks glass, and garnish with a mint sprig and a cucumber slice (not one of the ones you shook, obvs).
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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Isolated Field Recordings: Shelley Hirsch
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Stream
Free
https://issueprojectroom.org/program/isolated-field-recordings-series
Veteran NYC avant-garde vocalist Shelley Hirsch does her fascinating Shelley Hirsch thing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yeoman Warder (you can guess this is another Phil Ward creation): pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. dry Vermouth, and 1/4 each of Cynar and Maraschino liqueur into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Zero Boy: The COVID Cabaret
PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020
8:00 PM
Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse
YouTube
Free
http://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/virtualplayhouse
Submit a 4-5 word suggestion, and Zero Boy will turn into into . . . improv comedy!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Satan's Whiskers: pour 1/2 oz. each of Gin, dry Vermouth, sweet Vermouth, and orange juice, and 1/4 oz. Grand Marnier, with a dash or three of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Adam Tendler
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020
6:00 PM
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-5
Pianist Adam Tendler is one of the ornaments of the New York music scene, one of those who have turned the New Music ghetto into a playground.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wooden Ship: pour 1 oz. Gin, 1 oz. Genever, and 1/2 oz. each of Grand Marnier and Simple Syrup, with a dash of bitters (Fee's Whiskey Barrel-Aged by preference), into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled rocks glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Nir Felder
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar
Several nights a week, the Jazz Gallery is putting on early evening remote sessions where jazz musicians play and chat with the audience (limited to 15 people per show). I'm recommending them selectively, but check out the website for a full listing. This evening it's guitarist Nir Felder, who rocks.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bourbon Stone Sour: pour 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz. orange juice, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with an orange slice and a cocktail cherry.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Lisa Bielawa: Broadcast from Home
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020 (Weekly)
3:00 PM
Free
https://www.lisabielawa.net/projects-1
The imaginative and empathetic composer Lisa Bielawa — certainly one of those who have their own sound world that you can recognize immediately — has a coronavirus project in which she's soliciting short testimonies from the public reflecting on coronavirus experiences, writing melodies for them, giving them to singers to record, and then composing backing tracks for them. She'll post a new "chapter" each Thursday at 3 PM (and leave them up), toward the eventual end of their all forming a big piece — which the participants can get together to perform live on The Other Side!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Whatever time of day it is, it's always time for a Lily's Cartel: pour 1 oz. Pisco, 3/4 oz. Aperol, 3/4 oz. orange juice (blood orange juice by preference — if you've got blood oranges), 1/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. simple syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a Champagne flute. Top with Champagne. You'll never look at an Aperol Spritz the same way again.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 28 & 30 & MAY 3, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Thursday, April 30, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Metropolis Ensemble: House Music
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 28 & 30, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
10:00 AM
Free
https://metropolisensemble.org/house-music#house-music-home
Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Metropolis Ensemble showcases ace musicians associated with its excellent self, or in any event friends of the ensemble, playing solo contemporary, classical, and newly commissioned pieces from home. I don't think this is live-streamed — I hope they're not making these musicians perform at 10 AM (especially the ones located in time zones west of here!) — but this is such a worthwhile initiative that it would be wrong not to List it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Experimental Sound Studio: The Quarantine Concerts
MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
9:30 PM
Susan Alcorn / MATMOS
Red Room / High Zero
$5 suggested donation
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
This whole night is an online iteration of the High Zero festival run by the invaluable Red Room experimental culture center in Baltimore. You can log in for the whole thing starting at 8:30 PM, but I'm particularly recommending the last two acts: avant-pedal steel player Susan Alcorn (at 9:30 PM), and highly conceptual pop/not electronics from MATMOS (at 10:00 PM).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wicked Kiss: pour 1 oz. each of Rye and Laird's Bonded Apple Brandy, and 1/4 oz. each of Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine, with 1 dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into an ice-filled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Isolated Field Recordings: QUALIATIK
MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Stream
Free
https://issueprojectroom.org/program/isolated-field-recordings-series
QUALIATIK's very vaguely poppy electronic music is so good, and their videos are so striking in their borderline psychotic way, that you can't help but be very excited about this remote show.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Risk Pool: pour 2 oz. Old Tom Gin, 1/4 oz. Crème de Violette (I TOLD you you should get some of this), 3/4 oz. lime juice, 1/2 oz. grapefruit juice, and 3/4 oz. Simple Syrup into a cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled coupe or Martini glass. This will go very well with this show.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Richard Nelson: What Do We Need To Talk About?
THEATER
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
7:30 PM
Public Theater Live Stream
YouTube
Free
https://publictheater.org/news-items/buckets/conversations/what-do-we-need-to-talk-about/
Playwright Richard Nelson is a little conventional for this List, but in the midst of The Quarantine an online world premiere performance of a major new play seems worth at least noting. This is the latest installment in Nelson's long-running Rhinebeck Panorama, and if you're interested in watching bougie Caucasian-Americans revealing themselves in response to political events, this is the place. To prepare, you can watch the preceding plays in this cycle on Channel Thirteen's Theater Close-Up website (where they'll be running till May 5).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We should be drinking Martinis during this, right? Pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. dry Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist or, if you must, an olive.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Beth Wohl: Barcelona
THEATER
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
7:00 PM
Play-PerView
Zoom
$5-$50
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/play-perview-barcelona-by-bess-wohl-livestream-tickets-103070992112
Playwright Beth Wohl had the Off-Broadway smash of 2015 with Small Mouth Sounds. Let's check in with her darkly funny self for her latest.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Since this play appears to begin with an attempt at casual sex, let's have a Between the Sheets: pour 1 oz. each of Brandy, light Rum, and Cointreau or other triple sec, and 1/4 oz. lemon juice, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 28 & 30, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Kentucky Maid: pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz. lime juice, and 3/4 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filed cocktail shaker, with 8 mint leaves and 2 (thin) cucumber slices. Shake A LOT. Strain into a chilled rocks glass, and garnish with a mint sprig and a cucumber slice (not one of the ones you shook, obvs).
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Contagion Cabaret
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2020 (Weekly but the day changes)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
Zoom
Free (donation requested)
http://dixonplace.org/performances/contagion-cabaret-04-28-2020-copy/
They make this sound so dour by describing it as "artists responding to this challenging time of self-isolation and social distancing during COVID-19 lock-down". But maybe some fun will pop up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let's celebrate with an old cocktail revived on the opening menu of the Pegu Club 15 years ago: the Jimmie Roosevelt. Soak a brown sugar cube in Angostura bitters, and place in the bottom of a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Add ice. Pour in 1 oz. of chilled Cognac, then 2 oz. of Champagne, then a float of 1/4 oz. Green Chartreuse. Not only is this cocktail complex and delicious, but it's pretty as hell.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Café La MaMa
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/cafe-live-4/
A weekly salon featuring music, dance, and (uh-oh) storytelling.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The American Trilogy: put a brown sugar cube into an UNchilled rocks glass and saturate with 4 dashes of orange bitters. Add about a teaspoon of club soda and muddle to a paste. Add 1 oz. Rye and 1 oz. Laird's Bonded Apple Brandy (I've TOLD you you need to get some of this) and stir a good deal. Now put in an ice cube, and garnish with an orange twist. You can drink now.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Ka Baird
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2020
6:00 PM
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-5
The Kitchen continues its semi-weekly Tuesday and Thursday series of live streams with the fiercely multivalent electronic (and vocal) (and flute!) music and performance of Ka Baird.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gypsy Eyes: rinse a chilled Martini glass or coupe with Green Chartreuse. Then, pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. each of Aperol, lime juice, and grapefruit juice, and 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into the chilled rinse glass.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 28 & 30 & MAY 3, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Metropolis Ensemble: House Music
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 28 & 30, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
10:00 AM
Free
https://metropolisensemble.org/house-music#house-music-home
Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Metropolis Ensemble showcases ace musicians associated with its excellent self, or in any event friends of the ensemble, playing solo contemporary, classical, and newly commissioned pieces from home. I don't think this is live-streamed — I hope they're not making these musicians perform at 10 AM (especially the ones located in time zones west of here!) — but this is such a worthwhile initiative that it would be wrong not to List it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Monday, April 27, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
PERFORMANCE
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2020 (Weekly)
7:30 PM
YouTube
Facebook
Free (donations requested)
http://dixonplace.org/performances/bindlestiff-04-27-2020/
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents magicians! Jugglers! Aerialists! Performance artists! Rats (sometimes)!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I can't top the Monkey Gland as a pairing for this, so I'm gonna repeat it (still no guaranties about um virility). Do the coat-a-chilled-glass (Martini glass or coupe)-with-Absinthe thing. Then pour 2 oz. Gin, 1 oz. orange juice, and 1/4 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake, and pour into the Absinthe-coated glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Monday, April 27, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Jennifer Koh
MUSIC
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2020
7:30 PM
Music Mondays Web Stream
Free
https://www.musicmondays.org/
Ace violinist Jennifer Koh plays Bach with the same fierce clarity and innate understanding she brings to alt classical and New Music. And I said last week, Bach is one of the composers that I, for one, find myself returning to again and again in The Quarantine (the others being Pauline Oliveros and John Luther Adams). The combination of inexhaustibility of detail, absolute logical rightness, and surface impersonality underlain by a profound undertow of awe and dread: they all seem so right, so needed, right now. Those, and the incontestable evidence Bach's works provide that humans are capable of achievements beyond our wildest imaginings.
MAKE NIGHT OF IT: Spring Forward: pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. dry Vermouth into a frozen mixing glass and throw in a trimmed ramp or Spring onion (RAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMPPPPPPSSSS!). Muddle — but just a little (you don't want the allium to get too bitter). Now, fill the shaker with ice and stir. Pour into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with another trimmed ramp or Spring onion (RAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMPPPPPSSSS!).
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Monday, April 27, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Yael Haskel: Union Community Television
THEATER
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2020
7:00 PM
Experiments 20
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/union-community-television/
The story of a town hit by tragedy (no, not this one) as conveyed by public access television. A live play reading.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This cocktail is a Dandy: pour 1 oz. Rye and 1 oz. Dubonnet into an ice-filled cocktail glass with 3 dashes of Cointreau and 1 dash each of Angostura and orange bitters. Stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe (or better still a Nick and Nora glass, if you have one). Garnish with an orange peel and a lemon peel.
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Sunday, April 26, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Out of an Abundance of Caution
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2020 (Weekly)
8:00 PM
The Brick
Twitch
Free (tips encouraged)
https://www.bricktheater.com/event/out-of-an-abundance-of-caution-volume-six/
Some of the leading forces in Brooklyn experimental theater curate a weekly series of stuff from beyond the beyond: enormous fun! These shows, and Nadia Sirota's semi-weekly Living Music: Pirate Radio shows, have been my favorite things during The Quarantine.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Debbie, Don't: pour 1 oz. Tequila Reposado, 1 oz. Amaro (Averno by preference), 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. maple syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Sunday, April 26, 2020, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Constellations Chamber Concerts: Creativity Unleashed
MUSIC
SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2020
4:00 PM
Constellations Virtual Concert
Free (with Registration)
https://www.constellationsmusic.org/event-details/creativity-unleashed
First, the players: the excellent bassist/composer Sam Suggs; New York's own Amanda Gookin, a questing and involved cellist; and flautist Tim Munro, whom you may remember from his time in Eighth Blackbird. Next, and more important, the music: some Suggs, of course; List fave Eve Beglarian; Amy Beth Kirsten; and the composer who has established himself, along with Pauline Oliveros and John Luther Adams, as my own personal Quarantine go-to guy, J.S. Bach.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An Abbey Cocktail just seems nice on a Sunday afternoon: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. Lillet Blanc, and 1 oz. orange juice, with a dash of orange bitters (or Angostura if you prefer) (but really: orange) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a flamed orange peel.
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Sunday, April 26, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 23 & 26, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Sunday, April 26, 2020, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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Saturday, April 25, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Jennifer Koh: Alone Together
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM
ARCO Collaborative
Instragram & Facebook Live Streams; YouTube Video
Free
https://arcocollaborative.net/projects/AloneTogether/index.html
An almost staggeringly well-intentioned initiative (and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible) from the fantastic violinist Jennifer Koh. The idea is this: there are active composers who have stable incomes from salaries or grants and other forms of institutional support; and there are active composers who freelance. Koh approached 21 composers have who stable incomes and asked them each to donate a 30-second micropiece for solo violin; in addition, she asked each of those composers to recommend a freelance composer, each of whom will be paid to compose a 30-second micropiece. Koh (who is donating her own considerable services) will premiere a few of the resulting works every Saturday at 7:00 PM on Instagram and Facebook live streams; if you don't feel comfortable exposing your personal data to the Evil Empire of Surveillance Capitalism, the shows will then reside on YouTube as videos. Just beyond great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Someday we'll be able to go to Newark again (unless you're stuck there now), but for now we can drink the cocktail: pour 2 oz. Laird's Apple Brandy (preferably the Bonded formula), 1 oz. Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. each of Fernet-Branca and Maraschino into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Saturday, April 25, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
TJG Online Lockdown Sessions: Arta Jekabsone / Aaron Parks / Dayna Stephens / Dan Tepfer
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020 (Weekly)
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery Live Stream
Zoom
$20
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/lockdown-session-3
Another Jazz Gallery initiative, this one featuring musical segments recorded by the participating artists during the week preceding the stream, and then live chat with the artists afterward. This week features three particular favorites of mine: pianists Aaron Parks (who infuses his jazz with elements of indie rock) and Dan Tepfer (who infuses his jazz with elements of classical New Music), and saxophonist Dayna Stephens, who makes post-bop sound as fresh as if were just invented. Singer Arta Jekabsone is from Latvia.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another great Last Word variation (so equal parts of everything!), and probably the second greatest cocktail Sam Ross has invented (after the deathless Penicillin): the Paper Plane. Pour 3/4 oz. each of Bourbon, Aperol, Amaro (Nonino Quintessence by preference), and lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and pour into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Saturday, April 25, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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Saturday, April 25, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Metropolitan Opera: At-Home Gala
OPERA
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020
1:00 PM
Free
https://www.metopera.org/season/at-home-gala/
It's no secret that this List sort of wishes the Mainstream Classical World would fall into a big deep hole and stop bothering us and our culture while it helplessly tries to climb out (a pretty good metaphor, actually, for where it is in fact — and I mean pre-Pandemic). But when the Met puts together something like this — an unbelievably starry array of opera singers of a titanic magnitude that only the Met could assemble in bulk — it simply can't be ignored. So forget that more than half the material performed will probably be complete junk, forget that the whole proceeding will probably be drowned in a smug sanctimony that will have you running to the recommended cocktail below — the level of talent here has to be heard to be believed. After the live stream is over, the extravangaza will be available for streaming on demand on the Met's website until 6:30 PM Sunday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Something strong and easy to make: a B.V.D. Pour 3/4 oz. each of white Rum, Gin, and dry Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Friday, April 24, 2020, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Experimental Sound Studio: The Quarantine Concerts
MUSIC
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020
9:30 PM
Thessia Machado
$5 suggested donation
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Multimedia artist and electronic musician Thessia Machado continues her exploration of the outer limits of visual and sonic experience.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bella Luna: pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. each of St-Germain and lemon juice, 1/2 oz. Crème Yvette (another ingredient whose presence in your bar stash will make your Quarantine a lot more enjoyable), and a teaspoon of Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled port glass.
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Friday, April 24, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / DANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020 (Weekly)
8:00 PM
Downtown Variety
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/downtown-variety-6/
Each week La MaMa assembles a bunch of experimentalist dancers, performers, actors, media artists, musicians, and what have you, and sees what happens when they live stream.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another forgotten cocktail, from 1925: Strike's Off. Pour 1 oz. Gin and 1/2 oz. each of Swedish Punsch (procure a bottle of Kronan's Swedish Punsch and I guaranty your quarantine will be much more enjoyable!) and lemon or lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake, and strain into a Martini glass or coupe.
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Friday, April 24, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
David Lang: love fail
MUSIC
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020
7:30 PM
Quince Ensemble Album Release
Free
https://www.quince-ensemble.com/albumrelease
Quince is as good a contemporary vocal ensemble as you could hope to hear: even more fun to listen to than they are to hang with. Tonight, you'll get to both, as they celebrate their new recording of David Lang's superb song cycle love fail (David apparently doesn't know how to use the shift key) with a performance of the piece, an interview with the composer — and extended shenanigans!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A drink as fizzy as the Quinces: the Hayes Fizz. Rinse a chilled tall glass with Absinthe and put it in some ice. Pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. each of lemon juice and Simple Syrup, and 2 oz. club soda into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake a lot, and strain into the Absinthe-rinsed tall glass. Garnish with an orange twist and a cocktail cherry.
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Friday, April 24, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dance Quarantine
DANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
Free (donations requested)
http://dixonplace.org/performances/dance-quarantine-3-04-24-2020/
Dancers and choreographers react to The Quarantine.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let's pretend it's Summer already and have some Gin Rickeys: combine 2 oz. Gin and 3/4 oz. lime juice in an ice-filled highball glass, fill it up with club soda, and garnish with a lime wedge.
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Friday, April 24, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Virtual Community Salon #2
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020
7:30 PM
Contemporaneous
Zoom
Free (with registration)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-community-salon-volume-3-tickets-102802533144
A virtual salon. Artists and performers can share pieces in whatever stage of completion. Everyone else can comment and converse.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tommy's Margarita, a Margarita without Triple-Sec: pour 2 oz. Reposado Tequila and 1 oz. each lime juice and Agave Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and pour (DO NOT strain) into a chilled rocks glass.
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Friday, April 24, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
BAC Salon: Joseph Keckler
MUSIC
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020
7:30 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center Instagram
Free
https://www.instagram.com/baryshnikovartscenter/
If you don't know art-cabaret artiste Joseph Keckler, you should. And here's a good chance!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A Sasha Petraske favorite, the Gin & It: essentially a Martini with sweet instead of dry Vermouth (or, looked at another way, an Americano with different proportions and without club soda). Pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. sweet Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, strain into a Martini glass or coupe, and garnish with a lemon twist.
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Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 6:00 PM – Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 7:00 PM
thingNY: SUBTRACTTTTTTTTT
OPERA
FRIDAY — SUNDAY, APRIL 24-26, 2020
6:00 PM
MATA Continued
Free
http://www.thingny.com/
Readers have complained that there is no statement of the aesthetic presuppositions underlying the idiosyncratic-seeming recommendations on this List. To that end, I direct your attention to thingNY, which could be the poster child for what this List is about: all the interest in formal and technical exploration of a New Music ensemble, with all the commitment to fun and immediacy of a pop band. They had been looking forward to 10th anniversary performances of their 2010 opera ADDDDDDDDD this month. Those obviously got scuttled, so they came up with this new piece they call SUBTRACTTTTTTTTT, which will toy with the vagaries of bandwidth broadcast with which we've all become too familiar over the last month.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: What cocktail already Listed this week does the Glandula del Mono riff on? Pour 2 oz. blanco Tequila, 1/2 oz. each of lemon juice, orange juice, and Grenadine, and 2 dashes of Absinthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. This show deserves a few of these.
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Friday, April 24, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 1:00 PM – Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 4:00 PM
Rob Handel, Kristen Marting & Kamala Sankaram: All Decisions Will Be Made By Consensus
OPERA
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, APRIL 24-26, 2020
1:00 PM FRIDAY
7:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
#stillHERE
HERE Live Stream
Free ("tips" requested)
https://www.facebook.com/events/695839284558301/
Every Friday, HERE is presenting a live stream of a theater artist sharing a work in some stage of completion. This week's — continuing on Saturday and Sunday — is particularly ambitious and exciting: a "Zoom opera" by Rob Handel (there's already a history of good operas by people named Handel), HERE honcho Kristen Marting, and one of the best opera composers out there, Kamala Sankaram. (Pop Quiz: what does Kamala Sankaram have in common with Ellen Degeneres? Both their names contain only one single vowel, repeated several times.) This one is so excited it will be repeated Saturday and Sunday!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A cocktail that's nice at 1, 3 and 7 PM: the Seaplane. Pour 1 oz. Gin and 1/2 oz. each of lemon juice and Simple Syrup, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Champagne flute. Top with Champagne.
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Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 11:30 PM – Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 12:30 AM
Experimental Sound Studio: The Quarantine Concerts
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
11:30 PM
Ulla Strauss
$5 suggested donation
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Your Compiler could listen to the Minimalist electronic music of Ulla Strauss all night — and tonight maybe we'll get the chance!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Bruichladdich 15 Yr Single Malt Whisky.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 21 & 23, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/videos/219256575859690/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine and Dandy (apparently unrelated to the Dandy cocktail Listed above): pour 1-1/4 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. each of Cointreau (or other orange liqueur) and lemon juice, with a dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
C4
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
8:30 PM
YouTube
Free
http://www.c4ensemble.org/
This enterprising collective of singers, composers, and conductors presents an exploration of remote choral performance, featuring a new piece by Karen Siegel written to be performed by physically separated singers connected by a computer network, and a existing piece by Arvo Pärt adapted to be performed that way. (After you watch this, be sure to see thingNY's new opera this weekend, taking off on the let's call them uncertainties of these technologies at this stage.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An Orange Bloom: pour 1 oz. Gin and 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Cointreau into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Isolated Field Recordings: Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Stream
Free
https://issueprojectroom.org/program/isolated-field-recordings-series
Interdisciplinary artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste's combinations of music and installation are almost always fascinating. Let's see what happens tonight.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A welcome fixture of the M. Wells cocktail list, La Louisiane: pour 2 oz. Rye, 1/2 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. Benedictine, with 3 dashes of Peychaud's bitters and 2 dashes of Absinthe, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Experiment Zoom
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
5:00 PM
Zoom
Free
https://www.facebook.com/events/230689944814437/
Socially distanced improvised sound.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let's go as crazy as the musicians here will, and make a cocktail that you stir rather than shake even though it has fruit juice in it. Crazy! Light and Day: pour 2 oz. Gin and 1/4 oz. each of Yellow Chartreuse, Maraschino liqueur, and orange juice, with 4 dashes of Peychaud's bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stirred not shaken. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Somara Pinderhughes
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/happy-hour-samora-pinderhughes
I still can't decide whether I find Samora Pinderhughes's melding of jazz and various pop musics with theatrical presentation absorbing and thought-provoking or lame and pretentious. See what YOU think.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Joy Division: pour 2 oz. Gin, 1 oz. dry Vermouth, 1/2 oz. Cointreau, and 3 dashes Absinthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sandglass Theater: Fritzi's Flea Circus
PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
4:00 PM
La MaMa Kids Online
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/flea-circus/
Kids schmids. If you can resist a puppet flea circus, you're made of sterner stuff than I am.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An afternoon Chrysanthemum: pour 2 oz. white Vermouth and 1 oz. Benedictine, with 3 dashes of Absinthe, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a Martini glass or coupe. Flame an orange peel into it, and garnish with the flamed peel.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Lisa Bielawa: Broadcast from Home
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020 (Weekly)
3:00 PM
Free
https://www.lisabielawa.net/projects-1
The imaginative and empathetic composer Lisa Bielawa — certainly one of those who have their own sound world that you can recognize immediately — has a coronavirus project in which she's soliciting short testimonies from the public reflecting on coronavirus experiences, writing melodies for them, giving them to singers to record, and then composing backing tracks for them. She'll post a new "chapter" each Thursday at 3 PM (and leave them up), toward the eventual end of their all forming a big piece — which the participants can get together to perform live on The Other Side!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Whatever time of day it is, it's always time for a Lily's Cartel: pour 1 oz. Pisco, 3/4 oz. Aperol, 3/4 oz. orange juice (blood orange juice by preference — if you've got blood oranges), 1/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. simple syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a Champagne flute. Top with Champagne. You'll never look at an Aperol Spritz the same way again.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 23 & 26, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Thursday, April 23, 2020, 10:00 AM – 10:59 AM
Metropolis Ensemble: House Music
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 21 & 23, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
10:00 AM
Free
https://metropolisensemble.org/house-music#house-music-home
Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Metropolis Ensemble showcases ace musicians associated with its excellent self, or in any event friends of the ensemble, playing solo contemporary, classical, and newly commissioned pieces from home. I don't think this is live-streamed — I hope they're not making these musicians perform at 10 AM (especially the ones located in time zones west of here!) — but this is such a worthwhile initiative that it would be wrong not to List it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Contagion Cabaret
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2020
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
Zoom
Free (donation requested)
http://dixonplace.org/performances/contagion-cabaret-04-22-2020/
They make this sound so dour by describing it as "artists responding to this challenging time of self-isolation and social distancing during COVID-19 lock-down". When so clearly it's gonna be FUN!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I just found a stash of Crème de Cocao in a remote hidden corner of my bar (who knows where these things come from?). So it's 20th Centuries for everyone! Pour 1.5 oz Gin, 3/4 oz. each of Crème de Cocao, Lillet Blanc, and lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 21 & 23, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/videos/219256575859690/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine and Dandy (apparently unrelated to the Dandy cocktail Listed above): pour 1-1/4 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. each of Cointreau (or other orange liqueur) and lemon juice, with a dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Annelise Hagen: Fable, A Nutty Tail
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
Zoom
Free (donation requested)
http://dixonplace.org/performances/fable-a-nutty-tale-04-21-2020/
The last woman (or so she thinks) not just in Greenpoint, but in the world, must forage, scavenge, and befriend urban wildlife to survive. Movement, dance — and puppets!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it too hard to make Pisco Sours? I mean, I generally find separating eggs to be an unmitigated pain/bore — but if there's one thing we all have now, it's time. SO: pour 2 oz. Pisco, 3/4 oz. each of lime juice and simple syrup, and 1 egg white into a cocktail shaker. First, dry shake them (meaning without ice) (you need to do this to get the egg white to blend in), then put in some ice and shake some more. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. And then, for that perfect touch, shake in several drops of Angostura bitters and swirl them with a straw to make a pretty pattern.
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Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 7:30 PM – Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:30 PM
Marni Kotak: Love Masks
PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY & WENDESDAY, APRIL 21 & 22, 2020
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery Live Stream
Free
https://microscopegallery.com/events/
Marni Kotak famously held a durational performance several years ago that culminated in the live birth of her son in the Microscope Gallery. So don't expect small things from this. (A reader has pointed out that babies are small things — but birth, birth is as big as things get.) This one started on Monday, but continues at 7:30 PM on Tuesday and Wednesday.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Just in case you have a bunch of different obscure bitter apéritifs laying around, here's a way to make good use of them: Le Bateleur. Pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. Punt e Mes, 1/2 oz. Strega, and 1/4 oz. Cynar, with a dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Café La MaMa
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/cafe-live-3/
A weekly salon featuring music, dance, and (uh-oh) storytelling. This week: PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A forgotten old cocktail, the Davis: pour 1 oz. each of light Rum and Dubonnet and the juice of 1 lime, with 2 dashes of Grenadine, into an ice-filed cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Ben Vida
PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020
6:00 PM
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-4
The Kitchen continues its semi-weekly Tuesday and Thursday series of live streams with Ben Vida, who formed the highly enjoyable minimalist/Americana band Town and Country in the '90s and has been plugging along interestingly and enjoyably since.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cooper's Cocktail: Pour 2 oz. Rye, 3/4 oz. St-Germain, and 1/4 oz. Fernet-Branca into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 23 & 26, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Metropolis Ensemble: House Music
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 21 & 23, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
10:00 AM
Free
https://metropolisensemble.org/house-music#house-music-home
Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Metropolis Ensemble showcases ace musicians associated with its excellent self, or in any event friends of the ensemble, playing solo contemporary, classical, and newly commissioned pieces from home. I don't think this is live-streamed — I hope they're not making these musicians perform at 10 AM (especially the ones located in time zones west of here!) — but this is such a worthwhile initiative that it would be wrong not to List it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Monday, April 20, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Marni Kotak: Love Masks
PERFORMANCE
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery Live Stream
$7
https://microscopegallery.com/events/
Marni Kotak famously held a durational performance several years ago that culminated in the live birth of her son in the Microscope Gallery. So don't expect small things from this.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Just in case you have a bunch of different obscure bitter apéritifs laying around, here's a way to make good use of them: Le Bateleur. Pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. Punt e Mes, 1/2 oz. Strega, and 1/4 oz. Cynar, with a dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Monday, April 20, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show
PERFORMANCE
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020 (Weekly)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
YouTube
Facebook
Free (donations requested)
http://dixonplace.org/performances/bindlestiff-04-20-2020/
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents magicians! Jugglers! Aerialists! Performance artists! Rats (sometimes)!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I can't top the Monkey Gland as a pairing for this, so I'm gonna repeat it (still no guaranties about um virility). Do the coat-a-chilled-glass (Martini glass or coupe)-with-Absinthe thing. Then pour 2 oz. Gin, 1 oz. orange juice, and 1/4 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake, and pour into the Absinthe-coated glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Monday, April 20, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Yael Haskel: Union Community Television
THEATER
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020
7:00 PM
Experiments 20
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/union-community-television/
The story of a town hit by tragedy (no, not this one) as conveyed by public access television. A live play reading.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This cocktail is a Dandy: pour 1 oz. Rye and 1 oz. Dubonnet into an ice-filled cocktail glass with 3 dashes of Cointreau and 1 dash each of Angostura and orange bitters. Stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe (or better still a Nick and Nora glass, if you have one). Garnish with an orange peel and a lemon peel.
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Monday, April 20, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Dan Weiss
MUSIC
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/happy-hour-dan-weiss
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (sometimes Thursday, as this week), the Jazz Gallery is putting on early evening remote sessions where jazz musicians play and chat with the audience (limited to 10 people per show). This evening it's drummer Dan Weiss, who hit big with his jazz/metal fusion band Starebaby. Let's see what he does by himself.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: B.A.F. stands for Bitter As Fuck — and you'd better believe it. Pour 1 oz. Scotch, 1 oz. Oloroso Sherry, and 1/2 oz. each of Aperol and Amaro (Gran Classico Bitter by preference) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into a double rocks glass. Squeeze a lemon peel into it, then discard (do NOT use as a garnish).
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Sunday, April 19, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Out of an Abundance of Caution
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020 (Weekly)
8:00 PM
The Brick
Twitch
Free (tips encouraged)
https://www.bricktheater.com/event/out-of-an-abundance-of-caution-volume-five/
Some of the leading forces in Brooklyn experimental theater curate a weekly series of stuff from beyond the beyond. Speaking for myself, I just love these.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm going to admit to you all that I like Comsopolitans. A little sweet, sure: but sometimes you want that. Just because something once was trendy doesn't mean it wasn't (and isn't) good. Time for a revival? Pour 1-1/2 oz. citron Vodka (you have some left over from the '90s, right?), 1/2 oz. Cointreau, 1 oz. cranberry juice, and 1/4 lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Flame an orange peel into it and used the flamed peel as a garnish.
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Sunday, April 19, 2020, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Quarantined Duos: Michael Pisaro-Lui & Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Pisaro-Lui
MUSIC
SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020
4:00 PM
Experimental Sound Studio: The Quarantine Concerts
$5 suggested donation
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Out of a promising afternoon of live streamed duo performances by artists quarantined together, I'm giving the nod to Wandelweiserer Michael Pisaro-Lui and visual artist Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Pisaro-Lui. Subtle, glacial, too-acute-to-be-ambient Wandelweiser music should be just the thing to transport you out of the confines of your quarantined quarters.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Too Soon?: a perfect late-afternoon/early evening cocktail. Pour 1 oz. Gin, 1 oz. Cynar, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, along with 2 thin orange slices (that's right: they go into the shaker, rather than serving as garnishes). Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Sunday, April 19, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 16 & 19, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Saturday, April 18, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Stephen Kaliski: GLUTEN!
THEATER
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020
7:30 PM
Adjusted Realists
YouTube
Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeAH51m3g60&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1dSrtZp9PCqk5NxCcNXcn2nVlvlU6eh19VMHCannBLkxkGNQyr2q-tEU8
Funny how everything The Times complained about regarding this play about a future in which people are afraid of a toxic environment makes it now seem right on point. A reading by the original cast. (This List really likes the sophisticatedly goofy Adjusted Realists company.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This play, which even its presenters tout as "jubilantly foul", seems like a good occasion for a Myra Breckinridge: pour 2 oz. Laphroaig (or other peaty) Scotch (we know from Thursday's Living Music: Pirate Radio show that at least Brad Balliett has some laying around), 3/4 oz. lime juice, and 1/4 oz. simple syrup, with 2 dashes of Absinthe, into a cocktail shaker with no ice (we call this dry-shaking), shake, and pour into a Pilsner glass or a tall glass filled with ice (preferably crushed). Now, if you used regular ice, stir (a LOT); if you used crushed ice, swizzle — which means, take a swizzle stick (now you know what they're for!), hold it between the palms of your two hands (which of course you've meticulously washed — and will wash again after you're done with this), and rotate the stick back and forth for a while until the ice has softened but not yet turned into a slush.
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Saturday, April 18, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sara LeMesh: Living Room Concert
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020
7:00 PM
Zoom
Free
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-vciUxBKt5/
Soprano Sara LeMesh sings opera/lieder/melodies, pop, and jazz in her living room.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gin Daisy: pour 2 oz. Gin, 1 teaspoon Grand Marnier (or other orange liqueur), 1 teaspoon simple syrup, and 1/2 oz. lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe, top with soda water, and garnish with a lemon twist.
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Saturday, April 18, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Jennifer Koh: Alone Together
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM
ARCO Collaborative
Instragram & Facebook Live Streams; YouTube Video
Free
https://arcocollaborative.net/projects/AloneTogether/index.html
An almost staggeringly well-intentioned initiative (and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible) from the fantastic violinist Jennifer Koh. The idea is this: there are active composers who have stable incomes from salaries or grants and other forms of institutional support; and there are active composers who freelance. Koh approached 21 composers have who stable incomes and asked them each to donate a 30-second micropiece for solo violin; in addition, she asked each of those composers to recommend a freelance composer, each of whom will be paid to compose a 30-second micropiece. Koh (who is donating her own considerable services) will premiere a few of the resulting works every Saturday at 7:00 PM on Instagram and Facebook live streams; if you don't feel comfortable exposing your personal data to the Evil Empire of Surveillance Capitalism, the shows will then reside on YouTube as videos. Just beyond great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1889! Let's set the Wayback Machine to a time before there were Martinis, and have a Martinez: pour 1-1/2 oz. Old Tom Gin (you can use Dry Gin if you must), 1-1/2 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. Maraschino liqueur into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, add 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé.
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Saturday, April 18, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
TJG Online Lockdown Sessions: Melissa Aldana / Nir Felder / Becca Stevens / Miguel Zenon
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery Live Stream
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/lockdown-session-2
Another Jazz Gallery initiative, this one featuring musical segments recorded by the participating artists during the week preceding the stream, and then live chat with the artists afterward. Saxophonists Melissa Aldana and Miguel Zenón, and guitarist Nir Felder, are all interesting, vital musicians. Your Compiler has little use for the folk-jazz-pop stylings of Becca Stevens — but your mileage may vary.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Another great Negroni variation: the Rosita. Pour 2 oz. Reposado Tequila and 1/2 oz. each of sweet and dry Vermouth and Campari, along with a dash of Angostura Bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a either an Old Fashioned glass over ice or a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Then, take your position in the controversy over whether this drink is best garnished with an orange or a lemon twist.
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Saturday, April 18, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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Saturday, April 18, 2020, 3:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Resolute Stays Home
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020
3:00 – 11:00 PM
Facebook
Free
https://www.facebook.com/events/1577738529055880/
A marathon of good electronic dance music with dedicated visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Home on the Range: Pour 3 dashes of Angostura bitters, 1/4 oz. sweet Vermouth, 1/4 oz. Cointreau (or other orange liqueur), and 2 oz. Bourbon into a rocks glass. Add ice and stir lightly. Garnish with an orange and a lemon twist.
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Saturday, April 18, 2020, 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Experimental Sound Studio: The Quarantine Concerts
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020
2:00 – 5:30 PM
Sequesterfest
$5 suggested donation
https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
An afternoon of experimental music of various ilks, featuring such performers as onetime Sonic Youth Thurston Moore, Downtown Harp Goddess Zeena Parkins, and Brazilian experimental pop prince Moreno Veloso (yes, he's his son).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The drink that engendered both the Negroni and the Americano: the Milano Torino. Pour 2 oz. each of Campari and Punt e Mes (or other sweet Vermouth) into a rocks glass over ice. Stir. Garnish with an orange wedge.
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Friday, April 17, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Charmaine Lee
MUSIC
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020
8:00 PM
Experimental Sound Studio: The Quarantine Concerts
$5 suggested donationhttps://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
The Experimental Sound Studio Quarantine Concerts are a tremendous initiative, bringing the experimental music that is one of the primary focuses of this List from quarantined performers around the world. I'll be cherry-picking recommendations, but I urge you to peruse their website for the full schedule: tons of great stuff every day. Today I'm picking out New York's own Charmaine Lee, an absolutely fearless vocal improviser.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Flor de Jalisco: pour 2 oz. blanco Tequila, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/4 oz. agave syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, dump in 1 teaspoon of orange marmalade, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Friday, April 17, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Jonathan Caren: Four Woke Babes
THEATER
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020
8:00 PM
Play-PerView Live Stream
Zoom
$5-$50
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/play-perview-four-woke-baes-feat-malcolm-barrett-danny-pudi-livestream-tickets-102043330348
This live play reading is a little mainstream for this List, but what the hell. Jonathan Caren has written a lot for the Downtown theater scene; he's also had some success on TV. This play about inter- and intrasexual relations originated in the Edinburgh Fringe.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A personal fave, the Champs-Élysées: pour 2 oz. Brandy, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, 1/2 oz. Green Chartreuse, and 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Friday, April 17, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / DANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020 (Weekly)
8:00 PM
Downtown Variety
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/downtown-variety-5/
Each week La MaMa assembles a bunch of experimentalist dancers, performers, actors, media artists, musicians, and what have you, and sees what happens when they live stream.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We're gonna move to the other side of town for a Gansevoort Fizz: pour 2 oz. dark Rum and 1 oz. each of Drambuie (this may be easier to find if you're staying at your parents' house) and lemon juice, with 2 dashes of Peychaud's bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a highball glass. Top with soda water.
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Friday, April 17, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Pedja Muzijevic
MUSIC
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y Live Stream
Free
https://www.92y.org/archives/pedja-muzijevic-piano
Pedal Muzijevic may be the most elegant pianist in New York. Tonight, from his no doubt elegant apartment, he plays a searching program including everybody's new obsession, C.P.E. Bach, as well as Anthiel, Cage, Satie, and Philip Glass. I don't know about you, but this is exactly what I like.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An elegant cocktail for an elegant musician: a Valencia. Pour 2-1/2 oz. Gin and 1/2 oz. Fino Sherry into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Flame an orange peel into it and use the flamed peel as a garnish.
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Friday, April 17, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dance Quarantine
DANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
Free (donations requested)
http://dixonplace.org/category/dptv/
Dancers and choreographers react to The Quarantine.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Here's a drink that no one's ever heard of, but when you drink it you can't understand why: the Rum Ramsey. Pour 1-1/2 oz. white Rum, 1 teaspoon Bourbon, 1/4 oz. lime juice, and 1/2 teaspoon superfine sugar, with a dash of Peychaud's bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Friday, April 17, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
BAC Salon: Joseph Keckler
MUSIC
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020 (also on APRIL 24)
7:30 PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center Instagram
Freehttps://www.instagram.com/baryshnikovartscenter/
If you don't know art-cabaret artiste Joseph Keckler, you should. And here's a good chance!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gin & It: another Sasha Petraske favorite — essentially a Martini with sweet instead of dry Vermouth (or, looked at another way, an Americano with different proportions and without club soda). Pour 2 oz. Gin and 1 oz. sweet Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, strain into a Martini glass or coupe, and garnish with a lemon twist.
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Friday, April 17, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
#stillHERE: Alexandra Beller
THEATER
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020
1:00 PM
HERE Live Stream
Free
https://here.org/programs/online-programming/
Every Friday, HERE is presenting a live stream of a theater artist sharing a work in some stage of completion. I don't usually List works in progress (I've been burned too many times with semi-coherent semi-realized works in progress that then turned out to be great when completed) — but these are desperate times. And of course the artists on HERE's roster are fabulous. Like, for instance, this week's Alexandra Beller, a choreographer is afraid of neither the vernacular nor the amusing.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I used to be ashamed of loving Cuba Libres, but come on. They're great! It's all in the lime: squeeze a lime into a highball glass, throw in half the spent shell and muddle, add 2 oz. dark Rum, fill with ice, top with Coke. Yum.
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Thursday, April 16, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 14 & 16, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/videos/219256575859690/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine and Dandy: pour 1-1/4 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. each of Cointreau (or other orange liqueur) and lemon juice, with a dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Thursday, April 16, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Isolated Field Recordings: Lary 7
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2020
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room Stream
Free
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/isolated-field-recording-series-lary-7
Lary 7 uses vintage synthesizers and electronics and household items and appliances to create "droney-tones", here accompanied by vintage lighting equipment.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vintage equipment gets a vintage cocktail: a Fitzgerald. Pour 2 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1 oz. simple syrup, with a dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a double rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
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Thursday, April 16, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Matt Evans
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2020
6:00 PM
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-3
This evening The Kitchen live streams Matt Evans, a provocative percussionist/soundscaper who is a member of not one, not two, but three killer bands: Tigue, Bearthoven, and Private Elevators.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Texas Fizz: Pour 1-1/2 Gin, 3/4 oz. orange juice, 1/4 oz.. lemon juice, and a tablespoon or so of Grenadine (I always put in more) into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a flute. Top with brut Champagne (or other sparkling wine). Bottoms up!
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Thursday, April 16, 2020, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Lisa Bielawa: Broadcast from Home
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2020 (Weekly)
3:00 PM
Free
https://www.lisabielawa.net/projects-1
The imaginative and empathetic composer Lisa Bielawa — certainly one of those who have their own sound world that you can recognize immediately — has a coronavirus project in which she's soliciting short testimonies from the public reflecting on coronavirus experiences, writing melodies for them, giving them to singers to record, and then composing backing tracks for them. She'll post a new "chapter" each Thursday at 3 PM (and leave them up), toward the eventual end of their all forming a big piece — which the participants can get together to perform live on The Other Side!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Whatever time of day it is, it's always time for a Lily's Cartel: pour 1 oz. Pisco, 3/4 oz. Aperol, 3/4 oz. orange juice (blood orange juice by preference — if you've got blood oranges), 1/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/2 oz. simple syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a Champagne flute. Top with Champagne. You'll never look at an Aperol Spritz the same way again.
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Thursday, April 16, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 16 & 19, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Thursday, April 16, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Metropolis Ensemble: House Music
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 14 & 16, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
10:00 AM
Free
https://metropolisensemble.org/house-music#house-music-home
Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Metropolis Ensemble showcases ace musicians associated with its excellent self, or in any event friends of the ensemble, playing solo contemporary, classical, and newly commissioned pieces from home. I don't think this is live-streamed — I hope they're not making these musicians perform at 10 AM (especially the ones located in time zones west of here!) — but this is such a worthwhile initiative that it would be wrong not to List it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Frank J. Avella: Orville Station
THEATER
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020
7:00 PM
Theater for the New City TNC "On the Air"
Facebook
Free
https://theaterforthenewcity.net/?vh_show=tnc-live-on-air-orville-station
Wow. A story of suburban disintegration set in some hypothetical time when people can actually come into the City from the suburbs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: And when they get there, maybe they'd like a New York Sour. Pour 2 oz. Rye, 1 oz. lemon juice, and 1 oz. simple syrup into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a rocks glass over ice. Top with 1/2 oz. of Bordeaux or another red wine (Bordeaux's what I first had in this, but many prefer something fruitier). (Some people also like to mix in an egg white at the cocktail shaker stage, making it more of a classic sour.)
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 14 & 16, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/videos/219256575859690/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fine and Dandy: pour 1-1/4 oz. Gin, 3/4 oz. each of Cointreau (or other orange liqueur) and lemon juice, with a dash of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sarah Sanders: In My Name
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2020
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
Zoom
Free
http://dixonplace.org/category/dptv/
email sarahepsanders@gmail.com for Zoom link and password
A ritual-seeking queer anti-Zionist Jewish lady deals, through theater and music (and emails to her namesake), with sharing a name with an apologist for white supremacism.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This is the time and place for a Jewish Absinthe: pour 2 oz. Bourbon and 1/2 oz. Anisette into an iced cocktail shaker, add 8-10 mint leaves, and shake it REALLY hard. Strain into whatever kind of glass you'd drink Absinthe from.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Café La MaMa
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/cafe-live-2/
A weekly salon featuring music, dance, and (uh-oh) storytelling. This week: PUPPETS!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We're going to the Bronx: pour 2 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. each of dry and sweet Vermouth, and 1 oz. orange juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish — you guessed it! — with an orange twist.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Kira Nova
PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2020
6:00 PM
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-3
The Kitchen continues its semi-weekly Tuesday and Thursday series of live streams with multidisciplinary theater artist (and unrecovered clown) Kira Nova.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The late lamented Sasha Petrarske's enticing Daiquiri No. 4: pour 2 oz. white Rum and 3/4 oz. each of Maraschino liqueur and lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry or healthier equivalent, if you have any.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 16 & 19, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute-each-of-two-parts piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Metropolis Ensemble: House Music
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 14 & 16, 2020 (Semi-Weekly)
10:00 AM
Free
https://metropolisensemble.org/house-music#house-music-home
Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Metropolis Ensemble showcases ace musicians associated with its excellent self, or in any event friends of the ensemble, playing solo contemporary, classical, and newly commissioned pieces from home. I don't think this is live-streamed — I hope they're not making these musicians perform at 10 AM (especially the ones located in time zones west of here!) — but this is such a worthwhile initiative that it would be wrong not to List it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Monday, April 13, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Marco Scozzaro: Italian Tendenza
PERFORMANCE
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020
7:30 PM
Microscope Gallery Live Stream
Free
https://microscopegallery.com/marco-scozzaro-italian-tendenza/
Multidisciplinary artist Marco Scozzaro recites a passage of the Inferno he was required to memorize in high school while also portraying another person editing, processing, and mixing the video thereof, surreptitiously mocking Italian cultural clichés (or is that American conceptions of Italian cultural clichés?). This looks (a) intriguingly multi-layered and (b) very funny.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gotta drink Americanos while watching this. Pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Gin and Campari into an ice-filled glass, top with club soda, garnish with an orange slice.
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Monday, April 13, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show
PERFORMANCE
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020 (Weekly)
7:30 PM
Dixon Place DP TV
Facebook
YouTube
Free (donations requested)
https://www.facebook.com/events/266488081039949/
https://www.youtube.com/bindlestiffcirkus?
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents magicians! Jugglers! Aerialists! Performance artists! Rats (sometimes)!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let's face it, the pleasantly-named Monkey Gland (no guaranties about um virility) would be perfect. Do the coat-a-chilled-glass (Martini glass or coupe)-with-Absinthe thing. Then pour 2 oz. Gin, 1 oz. orange juice, and 1/4 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake, and pour into the Absinthe-coated glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Monday, April 13, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Peter Evans
MUSIC
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/happy-hour-peter-evans
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the Jazz Gallery is putting on early evening remote sessions where jazz musicians play and chat with the audience (limited to 10 people per show). This evening it's the questing trumpet player Peter Evans, always trying to expand the bounds of improvised music — and always worth a listen. Look at the Jazz Gallery's calendar for the future shows (I'll be Listing them selectively).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: An East India Negroni would be nice: pour 2 oz. dark Rum, 3/4 oz. each of sweetened Oloroso Sherry (the drink is named after Lustau East India Solera), and Campari into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled rocks glass with ice. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Monday, April 13, 2020, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Sunday, April 12, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Out of an Abundance of Caution
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2020 (Weekly)
8:00 PM
The Brick
Twitch
Free (tips encouraged)
https://www.bricktheater.com/event/out-of-an-abundance-of-caution-volume-four/
Some of the leading forces in Brooklyn experimental theater curate a weekly series of stuff from beyond the beyond. Speaking for myself, I just love these.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Most committed cocktalians (what a horrible word) will agree that the Corpse Reviver No. 2 is one of the most purely delicious cocktails around — and all the principal ingredients are in equal measures, so you don't have to think too hard when making it: pour 1 oz. each of Gin, Lillet Blanc (or you can do what I do and sub in Cocchi Americano), and lemon juice, with a dash of Absinthe, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé.
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Sunday, April 12, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 9 & 12, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Saturday, April 11, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Jennifer Koh: Alone Together
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM
ARCO Collaborative
Instragram & Facebook Live Streams; YouTube Video
Free
https://arcocollaborative.net/projects/AloneTogether/index.html
An almost staggeringly well-intentioned initiative (and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible) from the fantastic violinist Jennifer Koh. The idea is this: there are active composers who have stable incomes from salaries or grants and other forms of institutional support; and there are active composers who freelance. Koh approached 21 composers have who stable incomes and asked them each to donate a 30-second micropiece for solo violin; in addition, she asked each of those composers to recommend a freelance composer, each of whom will be paid to compose a 30-second micropiece. Koh (who is donating her own considerable services) will premiere a few of the resulting works every Saturday at 7:00 PM on Instagram and Facebook live streams; if you don't feel comfortable exposing your personal data to the Evil Empire of Surveillance Capitalism, the shows will then reside on YouTube as videos. Just beyond great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1889! Let's set the Wayback Machine to a time before there were Martinis, and have a Martinez: pour 1-1/2 oz. Old Tom Gin (you can use Dry Gin if you must), 1-1/2 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/4 oz. Maraschino liqueur into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, add 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé.
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Saturday, April 11, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Nether Meant
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2020
6:00 PM
Elsewither
Minecraft or Elsewither Web Site
Free (but V.I.P. passes to be made available in support of a COVID-19 relief charity)https://elsewither.club/)
Elsewhere temporarily reconstitutes itself . . . on Minecraft! (You don't have to join Minecraft to watch this, thank God: it'll be live streamed on the Elsewither web site.) Fittingly for a Minecraft-associated show, the long long program includes Chiptune faves Anamanaguchi, as well (among many many others) the fine electronic musician Baths and American Football, a pretty good rock band in a time when there aren't many.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tonight we're Naked and Famous (and the more you drink, the more naked and famous you get): pour 3/4 oz. each (another Last Word–derived equal measures cocktail!) of Mezcal, Yellow Chartreuse, Aperol, and lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake, then strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé.
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Saturday, April 11, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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Friday, April 10, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Downtown Variety: Take 4
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / DANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2020 (Weekly)
8:00 PM
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/downtown-variety-4/
Each week La MaMa assembles a bunch of experimentalist dancers, performers, actors, media artists, musicians, and what have you, and sees what happens when they live stream.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let's imbibe the signal drink of the Great Cocktail Revival of the '90s: the Aviation. Pour into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, and shake, 2 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. Maraschino liqueur, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, and 1/4 oz. Simple Syrup (which we all made together a couple of weeks ago). Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry or some healthier version of one, if you have any.
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Friday, April 10, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
#stillHERE: Aaron Landsman
THEATER
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2020
1:00 PM
HERE Live Stream
Free
https://here.org/programs/online-programming/
Every Friday, HERE is presenting a live stream of a theater artist sharing a work in some stage of completion. I don't usually List works in progress (I've been burned too many times with semi-coherent semi-realized works in progress that then turned out to be great when completed) — but these are desperate times. And of course the artists on HERE's roster are fabulous. Like, for instance, this week's Aaron Landsman: a sharply analytic playwright whose work is also strangely moving (he wrote that Open House piece a decade or so ago, performed in various apartments throughout New York) (no, I couldn't get a ticket, either).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: That cocktail of cocktails, the Sidecar (another one that requires a little bit of work — but is SO worth it). Let's get the work out of the way first: spread some of the finest, most powdery sugar you have on a plate. Rub a lemon wedge around half of the rim of a chilled Martini glass or coupé and then dip the moistened side of the glass in the sugar, creating a half sugar rim. Now pour 1-1/2 oz. Brandy, 1 oz. Cointreau (or other orange liqueur), and 1/2 oz. lemon juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into the glass. You're done.
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 7 & 9, 2020 (Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/videos/219256575859690/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I just discovered the San Martín — and man, do I LOVE it! Pour 2 oz. Gin, 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1 teaspoon Yellow Chartreuse into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé. Garnish with a lemon peel.
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Virtual Community Salon #2
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020
7:30 PM
Contemporaneous
Zoom
Free (with registration)
https://www.contemporaneous.org/upcoming-events/2020/4/9/virtual-community-salon-vol-2
A virtual salon. Artists and performers can share pieces in whatever stage of completion. Everyone else can comment and converse.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Valencia: Pour 2-1/2 oz. Gin and 1/2 oz. Fino Sherry into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé. Now for the fun part: flame an orange peel into it! (We learned how to do that a couple of weeks ago, remember?)
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
PERFORMANCE
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020
6:00 PM
Azikiwe Mohammed
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-2
This evening The Kitchen live streams Azikiwe Mohammed — a visual artist who sometimes does performance, so who knows what this will be?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Everyone loves a Dark and Stormy: in a highball glass, pour 1-1/2 oz. dark Rum, then fill with Ginger Beer and squeeze in a piece of lime.
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Camila Meza
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery Live Stream
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/happy-hour-camila-meza
OK, the third Jazz Gallery Hang of the week is supposed to be on Friday, but we're not going to hassle them Easter/Passover week, are we? Especially not for guitarist Camila Meza, whose last album, Ámbar, was one of the more pleasant surprises of 2019: as much chamber pop as jazz — and not just chamber pop, but good chamber pop. Let's see what her solo set is like.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A cocktail that sort of tastes the way Ámbar sounds: the Sea B3. Pour 2 oz. dark Rum (Gosling's Black Seal by preference), 1/2 oz. lemon juice, 1/2 oz. orange juice, and 1/2 oz. Grenadine into an ice-filed cocktail shaker. Shake, and strain into a double rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lemon slice and a cherry, if you have one.
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 9 & 12, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Thursday, April 9, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Orrin Evans
MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/orrin-evans-happy-hour
Orrin Evans is as good and interesting a jazz pianist as you could hope to find. He leads an excellent big band, he's in The Bad Plus — and he's great solo.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now we'll all get into Harvard: pour 1-1/2 oz each Brandy and sweet Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, add a few dashes of Angostura Bitters, and stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé. Top with club soda or soda water. Garnish with a lemon peel.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Living Music with Nadia Sirota: Pirate Radio Edition
MUSIC
TUESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 7 & 9, 2020 (Weekly)
9:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donation requested)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingMusicwithNadiaSirota/videos/219256575859690/
Twice a week, hostess with the mostess Nadia Sirota brings you exactly the kind of musicians this List focuses on.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I just discovered the San Martín — and man, do I LOVE it! Pour 2 oz. Gin, 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1 teaspoon Yellow Chartreuse into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, stir, and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé. Garnish with a lemon peel.
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Tue, Apr 7, 2020, 8:00 PM – Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 3:00 PM
Oliveros: Full Pink Moon
OPERA
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020
9:00 PM (till 3:00 AM WEDNESDAY)
8:00 PM PRE-OPERA DISCUSSION
Opera Povera
Free (donations requested)
https://www.seangriffin.org/full-pink-moon
An epic-length piece in the form of an opera by the late deep-listening guru Pauline Oliveros, performed by artists throughout the world and presented as a fundraiser for musicians' relief. Oliveros's work requires great concentration — and rewards it in spades: the sheer transporting beauty of slow-moving sound becomes overwhelming if you give in to it; you are taken to another, calmer place. I listened to some Oliveros last night, and I have to tell you that it was probably the most therapeutic thing I've done since The Quarantine set in (and trust me, I'm as opposed to the idea of music-as-therapy as anyone could be).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mushrooms would be best. But barring that, Brandy. But really, you want to concentrate.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Café La MaMa
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020 (Weekly)
7:00 PM
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)http://lamama.org/cafe-live-1/
A weekly salon featuring music, dance, and (uh-oh) storytelling, presented in an atmosphere supposed to invoke the '60s Downtown café scene. I daresay this seems a bit staider than La MaMa's Downtown Variety Show live streams.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It's getting to the end of that period of the year when you'd favor a Manhattan, so let's have just one (or several) more. Pour 2 oz. Rye and 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, with 2 dashes of Angostura Bitters (and an additional dash of Orange bitters if you feel like it), into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir, and strain into a Martini glass or coupé. If you have a Maraschino cherry to plop in, go for it.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Maria Chavez
MUSIC
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020
6:00 PM
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-2
The Kitchen continues its semi-weekly Tuesday and Thursday series of live streams with turntablist/sound artist Maria Chavez, who can temporarily emerge from a medically induced break for a remote performance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm sorry: Maria Chavez is from Lima and I can't help myself. I have never ever been able to have fewer than three Chilcanos at one sitting: 4 oz. Ginger Ale, 2 oz. Pisco, 1/2 lime stirred in an ice-filled highball glass.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 9 & 12, 2020 (continuing "as long as interest lasts")
10-minute intervals from 1:00 – 3:00 PM TUESDAY
10-minute intervals from 2:00 – 4:00 PM THURSDAY & SUNDAY
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
The Skyped performances of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended, are continuing indefinitely. When this 10-minute piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
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Monday, April 6, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Harish Raghavan
MUSIC
MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/harish-raghavan-happy-hour
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (Thursday this week) the Jazz Gallery is putting on early evening remote sessions where jazz musicians play and chat with the audience (limited to 10 people per show). Harish Raghavan is a really good, forward-thinking bass player who's clearly going places. It'll be very interesting to see what comes up with in a solo set. Look at the Jazz Gallery's calendar for the future shows (I'll be Listing them selectively).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We're going to Carroll Gardens: Pour into an ice-filled cocktail shaker 2 oz. Rye, 1/2 oz. Punt e Mes, 1/2 oz. Amaro (whatever you have), and 1 teaspoon Maraschino liqueur. Stir and strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé. Squeeze a lemon rind over the drink.
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Sunday, April 5, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Hotel Elefant: COVID-19 Artist Relief Virtual Concert
MUSIC
SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2020
8:00 PM
Facebook
Free (donations requested: https://www.paypal.me/hotelelefant)
https://www.facebook.com/hotelelefant.music
Contemporary classical collective Hotel Elefant puts on a live stream for the benefit of artists from this scene hit hard by the work stoppage imposed by the virus. The excellence of the players is a given; among the composers are HE's wonderful founder Mary Kouyoumdjian and List fave Caleb Burhans (a fantastic violinist whose contemporary classical-meets-folk-meets-choir compositions are insanely underrecognized).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We're having Old Fashions yo! Mix a lump or teaspoon of sugar in a rocks glass. Put in a big ice cube or a few small ones (leave some room, for a reason that will soon become apparent). Fill the glass with Rye. Stir. Garnish with an orange slice.
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Sunday, April 5, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Out of an Abundance of Caution
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2020
8:00 PM
The Brick
Twitch
Free (tips encouraged)
https://www.bricktheater.com/event/out-of-an-abundance-of-caution-volume-three/
Some of the leading forces in Brooklyn experimental theater curate a weekly series of stuff from beyond the beyond. Not that the competition's been fierce, but last week's show was the most fun I've had since the stay-home order.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A variation on the celestial Last Word by ace mixologist Phil Ward — called, appropriately enough, the Final Ward (and, as with the original, all ingredients in equal parts!): pour one part each of Rye, Green Chartreuse, Maraschino liqueur, and lemon juice into an iced cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a chilled coupé or Martini glass.
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Sunday, April 5, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 2 & 5, 2020
10-minute intervals from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
More Skyped performances have been added of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended. When this 10-minute piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. I'll keep you posted as to any additional dates that are added. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Saturday, April 4, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
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Saturday, April 4, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
The Knights
MUSIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2020
10:00 AM
BRIC Instagram
Free
https://www.instagram.com/bricbrooklyn/
BRIC presents a supposedly live-streamed concert by Brooklyn's favorite chamber orchestra. Not sure if this is really live (as opposed to recorded in the past but broadcast this morning) — the logistics of assembling an ensemble under current conditions (much less at 10 in the morning) seem, um, daunting — but I'm Listing it just in case.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Friday, April 3, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Downtown Variety: Take 3
THEATER / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / DANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020
8:00 PM
La MaMa Live Stream
Free (donation requested)
http://lamama.org/downtown-variety-3/
Each week La MaMa assembles a bunch of experimentalist dancers, performers, actors, media artists, musicians, and what have you, and sees what happens when they live stream.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: My baby does the Hanky-Panky: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Gin and sweet Vermouth into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, and add a couple of dashes (or more if you're feeling adventurous) of Fernet-Branca. Stir. Strain into a Martini glass or coupé. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Friday, April 3, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
#stillHERE
THEATER
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020
1:00 PM
HERE Live Stream
Freehttps://here.org/programs/online-programming/
Every Friday, HERE is presenting a live stream of a theater artist sharing a work in some stage of completion. I don't usually List works in progress (I've been burned too many times with semi-coherent semi-realized works in progress that then turned out to be great when completed) — but these are desperate times. And of course the artists on HERE's roster are fabulous. Don't know who this week's is yet; I'll let you know when I do.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you don't want to work (or drink) too hard. So, that old brunch standby, the Mimosa: pour two parts orange juice into a Champagne flute and top with four parts Champagne. Add some Cointreau or Grand Marnier or Triple Sec if you're feeling fancy.
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Friday, April 3, 2020, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
#stillHERE: Raja Feather Kelly
DANCE
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020
1:00 PM
HERE Live Stream
Free
https://here.org/programs/online-programming/
Every Friday, HERE is presenting a live stream of a theater artist sharing a work in some stage of completion. I don't usually List works in progress (I've been burned too many times with semi-coherent semi-realized works in progress that then turned out to be great when completed) — but these are desperate times. And of course the artists on HERE's roster are fabulous. This week it's Raja Feather Kelly, the ab fab choreographer whose work (in addition to his immensely enjoyable queer-pop dance pieces) has enlivened such great theater pieces as Fairview.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you don't want to work (or drink) too hard. So, that old brunch standby, the Mimosa: pour two parts orange juice into a Champagne flute and top with four parts Champagne. Add some Cointreau or Grand Marnier or Triple Sec if you're feeling fancy.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Locate S, 1
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020
8:00 PM
BABY.tv
$5-$50
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/locate-s-1-tickets-101550006804
Williamsburg music club Baby's All Right initiates a new live-streaming initiative (you're emailed an access link 30 minutes before the show). (Since the sound in the club is so dreadful, this might be the one case where live streaming is actually preferable.) Locate S, 1 is a huge personal fave — so much to my exact personal taste, in fact, that I'm almost wary of recommending her to others. Bouncy catchy pop-rock laced with allusive intelligence and irony — but mainly, boy is it bouncy and catchy!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A pink drink seems right. Like say a Scofflaw: pour 1-1/2 oz. Gin, 1/2 oz. each sweet and dry Vermouth, and 1/2 oz. each lemon juice and Grenadine into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake, and strain into a Martini glass or coupé.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Greg Fox
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020
6:00 PM
Kitchen Broadcast
Free
https://thekitchen.org/event/broadcast-week-1
This evening The Kitchen live streams Greg Fox. Fox started out as a drummer — and he's a great one — but he's evolved into a full interdisciplinary multi-instrumentalist, a stalwart of NYC's musical avant-garde music scene (have I ever told you how much I hate the term "avant-garde", BTW?). Who knows what he'll do this evening?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I'm feeling a Diamondback. Stir 2 parts Gin, 1/2 part each Laird's Bonded Apple Brandy (if you don't have any of this, GET SOME — your life will be better!) and Yellow Chartreuse in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Strain into a Martini glass or coupé. A little Autumnal for early April, maybe — but I really love this drink.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Louna Dekker-Vargas
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020
4:00 PM
YouTube
Free
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1WJErh7T1wOmC0KhA9nfw
Fabulous flautist, List cover girl, and part-time Witch Louna Dekker-Vargas is making her live-streamed flute recitals a weekly event. No word on this week's repertoire yet, but really: what else do you have to be doing?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A good move-into-Spring cocktail, although one with a Wintry name: an Alaska. Here the big divisive issue is whether you use standard London Dry Gin as a base liquor or what the original recipe calls for, an old English style called Old Tom Gin (a slightly malted gin that's a bit more rounded and sweet than London Dry — part of the way between London Dry and Dutch Genever). Having drunk innumerable iterations of both versions — see what I do for you? — I can tell you that the original's still the greatest. (And it's that extra roundness and sweetness that makes this such a good transition-into-Spring cocktail.) So, into the ice-filled cocktail shaker go
2-1/4 oz. Old Tom Gin
3/4 oz. yellow Chartreuse
A dash of orange bitters
Stir, and strain into a Martini glass or coupé. Garnish with a lemon twist.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Edward Einhorn: Performance for One
THEATER
THURSDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 2 & 5, 2020
10-minute intervals from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Untitled Theater Company #61
Skype
Free
http://www.untitledtheater.com/previous-productions/performance-for-one.html
More Skyped performances have been added of this one-on-one theater piece, which has probably gotten more positive List subscriber feedback than anything I've ever recommended. When this 10-minute piece, with one actor performing in an enclosed space for one audience member, involving close interaction between actor and audience member exploring memory and the performer-audience relationship, played live around the City last year, it threatened to be a bit precious and potentially more than a bit intrusive . But as a one-on-one Skype experience, it seems perfect — just what all we people ensconced alone in our apartments need right now. Most of the successive 10-minute slots are reserved in advance by email, but a few are left open for virtual walk-ins. I'll keep you posted as to any additional dates that are added. Bravo to Edward Einhorn and Untitled Theater Company #61 for a truly timely and extremely well-thought-out enterprise.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This early in the day, you'd want a Pimm's Cup: 2 oz. Pimm's No. 1 Cup (you have some, right?) and 3 oz. lemon soda, lemon/lime soda, or ginger ale (I have to say that I prefer lemon soda) in a tall glass over ice, garnished with two or more of a cucumber slice, a strawberry, a celery or rhubarb stalk, an orange or lemon wheel, or whatever you have on hand, really.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Metropolis Ensemble: House Music
MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020
10:00 AM
Freehttps://metropolisensemble.org/house-music#house-music-home
Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Metropolis Ensemble will showcase ace musicians associated with its excellent self, or in any event friends of the ensemble, playing solo contemporary, classical, and newly commissioned pieces from home. I don't think this is live-streamed — I hope they're not making these musicians perform at 10 AM — but this is such a worthwhile initiative (everybody's getting paid) that it would wrong not to List it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Coffee.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 10:30 PM – 10:30 PM
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Pedrito Martinez
MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2020
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y Live Stream
Freehttps://www.92y.org/archives/pedrito-martinez
The Y is being coy as to whether this is a live performance or a canned stream of a show Pedrito Martinez did there last year. If it's the latter, as seems likely (it's hard to imagine assembling as large an ensemble as is to be featured here under current conditions in New York), it's technically not Listable. But Martinez is such a great musician — more than an amazing percussionist, he's a life force, someone whose music makes you feel better in a profound way — that I'm Listing this just in case. Deep Afro-Cuban excitement and joy.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I hope you have access to mint leaves, cuz with this Cuban-to-the-core music, we're drinking Mojitos: in a highball glass, stir one (heaping) teaspoon of sugar into 1 oz. of lime juice, until the sugar has dissolved. Then, fill a quarter of the glass with ice. Rub mint leaves — take the amount you think you need, and then triple or quadruple it — around the rim of the glass, and then tear them in half and drop the pieces into the glass. Stir for as long as you now wash your hands. Then pour in 2 oz. of white Rum, almost but not quite fill the glass the glass with more ice, and pour in 1 oz. of club soda. Stir just a little, garnish with still more mint leaves (whole sprigs this time), and PARTY!
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Happy Hour Hang: Kris Davis
MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2020
5:00 PM
Jazz Gallery
Zoom
$15
https://www.jazzgallery.org/calendar/kris-davis-happy-hour
Kris Davis has now risen to the very top level of jazz pianist/composers. You could call her angular asymmetrical style neo-Monkian — except that she doesn't really sound like Monk (or anyone else other than herself, for that matter). One thing she shares with Monk, though: no matter how outré her melodic and rhythmic conceptions might be, she's just about never not fun to listen to. It's no surprise this show is already sold out (and under these circumstances, cancellations seem unlikely). Look at the Jazz Gallery's calendar for the future shows in their Happy Hour Hang series (I'll be Listing them selectively).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Let's honor Davis's (and my) borough of residence with a Brooklyn: stir 1-1/2 oz. Rye, 1/2 oz. dry Vermouth, 1/4 oz. Maraschino liqueur, and A LOT (go crazy!) of orange bitters in an ice-filled cocktail shaker, strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupé, garnish with an orange or lemon peel.
