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Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 10:00 PM – Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Early, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. Later, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur. (FUN FACT: I believe Cruz del Sur is next door to the apartment Aaron Copland grew up in.)
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Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tyshawn Sorey
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Village Vanguard
178 7th Avenue South, West Village, Manhattan
$42.95
TICKETS + INFORMATION
How great that one of the greatest current drummers in jazz is also one of the greatest current electronicists in experimental is also one of the greatest current composers in classical. BECAUSE THEY”RE ALL THE SAME MUSIC DUH. Here at the Vanguard, Tyshawn Sorey is leading a rather classy trio with Aaron Diehl on piano and Harish Ragavan on bass.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really interesting — and really delicious — Unapologetic Southern Indian at Semma.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kate Gentile: Find Letter X Triple CD Release
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drummer Kate Gentile must really like her new(ish) jazz/Alt Classical/Prog-Metal band, as she’s written a truly massive book for it. One assumes they’ll only delve into it tonight.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, Caribbean-inflected soul food at The Soul Spot. Streaming at home, have a Gentle Italian: pour 2 oz. Cocchi Americano and 1/2 oz. Aperol into a chilled Champagne flute. Top with Prosecco.
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Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Sankai Juku: KŌSA
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$82
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Butoh: dark. Harrowing. Engrossing. This piece is an assemblage of reimagined excerpts from this great company’s repertoire.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Douchey Japanese at Megu.
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Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 7:15 PM – Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
HEATER
Steve Cossen: Artificial Flavors
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 18)
7:15 PM TUESDAY – THURSDAY & SATURDAY
8:15 PM FRIDAY
2:15 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$27-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Civilians use AI to explore AI.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Alan Braufman feat. James Brandon Lewis, Chad Taylor, Patricia Brennan & Ken Filiano
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alto saxist/flautist Alan Braufman is sort of a behind-the-scenes hero of the local free jazz scene. And that’s one great group of younger players he has with him!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chicago Italian Beef sandwiches at Bobbi’s Italian Beef.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
THE DMG 32nd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE FREE MUSIC SERIES
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2023
6:30 PM
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What better way to spend Halloween than with two out-there guitarists (Marco Cappelli and Chris Cochrane) and one out-there percussionist (James Paul Nadien)?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Modern-Korean-inflected Golden Diner.
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Monday, October 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Craig Taborn
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; $15 students/seniors in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Craig Taborn geniusing around on solo piano.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: in person, eclectic cuisine at As You Are. Streaming at home, have a White Shadow: pour 3/4 oz. each of Rye and Absinthe, and 1 oz. cream, into a cocktail shaker WITHOUT ice. Dry shake. Fill with ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martinni glass or coupe. Garnish with nutmeg.
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Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Monday, October 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Striped Light: In Defense Of Memory / Luke Stewart & David Watson / Sean Meehan
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023
8:00 PM
29th Street (exact address by PM or email), Long Island City, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Experimental music curated by guitarist/bagpiper David Watson, who plays a set with bassist Luke Stewart. In Our Defense is a trio featuring violinist+ Laura Ortman (who’ll be having a busy week this week). Sean Meehan plays what you might call conceptual drums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Too bad the best (only good) place to eat really near there (Adda Indian Canteen) is closed on Mondays. I guess I’ll tell you to take the interesting walk (you’ll see what I meant) into the past at Brooks 1890 (where the ambiance is a lot more interesting than the food).
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Monday, October 30, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Aural Poetics: Cecilia Vicuña & Raven Chacon
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023
8:00 PM
The Poetry Project @ St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$8
TICKETS & INFORMATION
Artist/filmmaker (and that’s just the start of it) Cecilia Vicuña and all-around sonic transmogrifier Raven Chacon perform in celebration of the publication of a new book to which they both contributed about the poetic use of sound .
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Indian street food at Jazba.
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Monday, October 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, October 30, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Suzanne Bocanegra: Farmhouse / Whorehouse
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023
7:30 PM
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$41
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The “artist lectures” created by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra should never work. They’re theatricalized talks, using props and other visual media, given by Bocanegra through the medium of an actor who repeats words fed to them through an earpiece by Bocanegra, sitting on the side of the stage. What’s weird is that they turn out to be fascinating, compelling: a seemingly bad idea gone right. This one is about how Bocanegra’s grandparents lived across the street from the legendary Chicken Ranch in rural Texas. Lili Taylor is the only actor who’s done more than one of these.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Keep it American at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill.
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Monday, October 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Kinan Azmeh & Kyle Sanna
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2023
7:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh (he’s also an excellent composer) and guitarist Kyle Sanna are two of the better players around town — and they make beautiful music together.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better than neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 11:59 AM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
María Valencia, Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano & Matt Moran
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Busy night for María Valencia, who plays winds, keyboards, and percussion with the fabulous Fake Tropical band the Meridian Brothers from Bogotá and joins here with several more stalwarts of the NYC experimental improv scene: trumpet player Nate Wooley, drummer Chris Corsano, and vibraphonist Matt Moran.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongruous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Circuito Cerrado IX: Bookworms / Beyond: Frecuencias Ancestrales / Kosu Nes
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$15.53
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Good electronic stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I will admit to having a somewhat unhealthy obsession with the Venezuelan street food at Cachapas y Mas.
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
International Anthem: Ben Lamar Gay / Tomin’em
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$30.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ben Lamar Gay plays some of the most skewed, even warped, Americana you’ve ever heard: he makes Van Dyke Parks sound totally straight. You kind of wonder if anyone at Nonesuch actually listened to his album before they agreed to co-release it with International Anthem: it certainly goes way beyond that label’s usual comfort level. As for Tomin’em, I don’t actually know much about him. But I sure know some of his bandmembers, like Luke Stewart and Lester St. Louis and Tcheser Holmes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Café Mars: Italian in space.
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Le Poème Harmoniqe: Music for a Young King: Lully & Cavalli
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
4:00 PM
Music Before 1800
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street, Mornigside Heights, Manhattan
$10-$60; $5-$55 seniors; $10 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vincent Dumestre’s excellent band plays and sings music heard in the French Court in the first half of the 17th Century. As always, expect stuff of almost piercing exquisiteness. Of course, Cavalli was Venetian — but the period in focus was 100 years before the Querelle des Bouffons.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eritrean at Massawa.
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 29, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Kamala Sankaram: The Buried Brook App Launch & Walk
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
12:00 PM
Van Cortland Park Outflow, Van Cortlandt Park
240 Van Cortlandt Park South, Riverdale, Bronx
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Kamala Sankaram — a composer/vocalist who as far as This List is concerned can do no wrong — has crafted a sound design via app that guides you along a portion of the former route of Tibbetts Brook, which once flowed to the Harlem River from Yonkers through the Bronx — and may do so again. And to launch the app, Sankaram herself will lead you around!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really really good homestyle Peruvian at Claudy’s Peruvian Kitchen.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Composers in Play V: On the Keyboard of Colors
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2023
8:00 PM
Piano Lunaire
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 arts professionals/seniors; free students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among the composers on this piano (sometimes with voice) recital are two friends, Zosha di Castri and the late Kaija Saariaho. So you KNOW it’s worth going to. The pianist, Adam Sherkin, will also play some of his own music.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: They’ll be giving out beer and wine at the show. But if you want something at least slightly more solid, the broth is particularly rich at E.A.K. Ramen.
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Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Boris Charmatz: SOMNOLE
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 & 29, 2023
7:30 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Dance Reflections
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Boris Charmatz (now the Artistic Director of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal) usually does big group pieces. But this is a solo. It explores somnolence — one hopes his, not the audience’s.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Knickerbocker Bar & Grill. Have a Martini, then have a Caviar Pie, and after that stick with the steak if you know what’s good for you.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
James Austin Smith: Hearing Memory
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$32.12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The splendid oboist James Austin Smith (with Cory Smythe on piano) plays tribute to the 1970s East German avant-garde, reminding us that there’s more to cultural history than our propaganda permits us to know. They also premiere a piece by the great jazz conceptualist (and that’s not the half of it!) Matana Roberts, who as best as I know was not active in the 1970s East Germany.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Georgian at Cheeseboat.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 28, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 28, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 28, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Flux Factory: Flux Saturday: Nothing Island
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2023
12:00 PM
Colonel’s Row Building 404A, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tech/electronic art pieces, many triggered in real time (that’s how they get Listed).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m not sure any of the vendors are still on the Island this late in the year. If you’re going back to Brooklyn, maybe walk from the ferry landing to Cafe Spaghetti for neo-Red Sauce. If to Manhattan, Dead Rabbit for cocktails.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE
Cal Fish: Mespaetches Creek Dynamic Listening
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
12:00 PM
Transmitter Park
Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Part of a series of Superfund Site-adjacent performance/installations in North Brooklyn. Undisclosed performances begin at noon.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The last block of Greenpoint Avenue has become quite the little Restaurant Row. You can almost choose at random; I’ma send you to Lingo for delightful homey post-Bessou Japanese.
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Friday, October 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Sound On
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM FRIDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In an attempt to convey the impression it has a pulse, the plays John Zorn, Ungsuk Chin, and Kinan Azmeh (with Azmeh playing his fabulous clarinet and Layale Chaker playing violin). Brad Lubman is brought in as Token New Music Conductor.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Long-standing neighborhood French at Le Boite en Bois.
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Friday, October 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
David Virelles feat. Eric McPherson and Morgan Guerin: Glitch in the System
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023
8:00 PM
Nublu 151
151 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan
$22.66
TICKETS + INFORMATION
David Virelles’s avant-Cuban jazz piano is always fascinating, and always great listening. Good band, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Kafana. Bring cash cuz they don’t take plastic. Bring a hunger cuz their Serbian food is HEARTY. Bring a thirst because their appre le lettre Natural wine list is extensive.
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Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ted Hearne: Dorothea
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$28-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ted Hearne is a composer with a strong feel for the vernacular (when he lost the Pulitzer to Kendrick Lamar, he said something to the effect that it was the only sound result). For these new settings of Dorothea Lasky — OMG this List loves Dorothea Lasky — Hearne (and a banging band) will be joined on vocals and electronics by Eliza Bagg (another classical artist who more than dabbles in pop music).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Non-stop Cuban party at Guantanamera.
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Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caitlin George: Helen.
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 & 27 – 29, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$30; students/seniors $10-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’ve probably seen the story of Helen of Troy enacted before in some form or other. But maybe not this fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
chameckilerner: Aging Prelude
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 & 27 – 28, 2023
7:30 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$23.13
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In their first live performance since 2007, Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner explore their experiences of their aging bodies and their self-perceptions as they age in a culture that celebrates youthfulness. Hell, I don’t have to get on a subway to do that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: John Brown BBQ for, well, you know.
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Friday, October 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Rachid Ouramdane & Chaillot-Théâtre National de la Danse: Corps Extrême
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27–29, 2023
7:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44.50-$84.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Aerial dance. Only the French could make an aerial dance piece about precipices and think it’s deep.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Exciting pizza at Oma Grassa.
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Friday, October 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 27, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sopa y Sonido
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023
6:00 PM
Soup & Sound @ Starr Bar
214 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Colombian musicians from Colombia and Colombian musicians from New York. And among the ones from Colombia is María Valencia, who plays winds, keyboards, and percussion with the fabulous Meridian Brothers from Bogotá, but has more than Fake Tropical up her sleeve. And among the ones from New York is pianist Ricardo Gallo, who plays sharp Modern Jazz when he isn’t going all loquísimo with electronic post-Cumbia or something.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cross the border for some tricked-up Venezuelan hot dogs at Santa Salsa.
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Friday, October 27, 2023, 5:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE / PERFORMANCE
PRELUDE 2023
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023
5:00 & 7:00 PM
721 Decatur Community Garden
721 Decatur Street, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
$25.75
5:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
7:00 PM TICKETS + INFORMATION
At 5, a dance piece by Petra Zanki inspired by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (but thank God incorporating Ambient and Hip-Hop) and concerned with healing (I nearly fell asleep typing that sentence, much less watching the piece). At 7, a ritual recounting Uruguay’s extermination/expulsion of its indigenous population — and their recent return.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Carribbean-inflected pizza slices at Cuts & Slices are something to see — and taste.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Leo Chang & Kwami Winfield / Kirin McElwain / Che Buford
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$19.33
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Leo Chang and Kwami Winfield both play electronics (Chang actually plays a lot of instruments with electronics), but he’s more rigorous (which is NOT to say straight-laced) and she’s more free-wheeling. When they play together, the combination is piquant. Beyond that, it’s Not Your Parents’ string music. Che Buford — a composer/instrumentalist to watch — plays “out” violin. And Kirin McElwain plays way out cello.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Evil Twin Brewing Ridgewood Taproom, for the obvious reason.
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Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Wendy Osserman Dance Company: Laminaria
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Stone Circle Theater
59-14 70th Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$28.77
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A dance piece that’s ultimately about life and death — although everything you see will appear to be happening underwater. Set to Neo-Folk music by Concetta Abate.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Appealing Cuban at Benny’s Cuban Café.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
GADADU / BenBen
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Art Pop skewed in different ways, GADADU leaning more toward Chamber Pop and BenBen toward Psych. This List just loves this stuff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice neighborhood Roman trattoria Camillo.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sparks Quartet: CD Release Celebration
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A (kind of) new quartet featuring bassist William Parker, a titan of NYC Free Jazz, dedicated to spontaneously composing a “new folk music” arising out of the extremely varied backgrounds of its members. You’ve got to at least think of going.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, good cocktails and even good food at Grand Army Bar. Streaming at home, have a Queen’s Park Swizzle: muddle 8 mint leaves at the base of a Collins glass. Extra credit: see if you can use a bar spoon to coat the inside of the glass with fragments of the mint leaves. Pour in 2 oz. gold Rum, 3/4 oz. lime juice, and 1/2 oz. Simple Syrup (extra credit if its Demerara), with 2 dashes Angostura bitters. Fill glass with cracked ice. Swizzle with a swizzle stick. Garnish with a lime wedge and some mint sprigs.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Knights feat. Chris Thiele
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$44-$54
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I personally find Chris Thiele and his Amerikanischer mandolin pretty hard to take. But for some Caroline Shaw, and Curtis Stewart taking off from Dvorák, I’ll think about it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Cuban food and a guaranteed good time at Victor’s Café.
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Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dorothée Munyaneza: Mailles
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 & 27, 2023
7:30 PM
Dance Reflections
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$29-$44; $24-$28 students/seniors; $10 student rush
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Black culture through dance, from Africa to the Diaspora.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burmese at the Manhattan branch of Rangoon.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Quince Ensemble feat. Paul Pinto & Annika K. Socolofsky
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$34
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What’s better than the fabulous all-treble Quince Ensemble? The fabulous Quince Ensemble with the fabulous composer/vocalists Paul Pinto and Annika K. Sokolofsky. Each of their pieces tonight appears to make sensitive (if antic) borrowings of pop/vernacular elements (oh fucking yeah!). The inimitable Pinto will also do a solo set (oh fucking yeah!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you may recall, the revivified Old John’s Luncheonette is right across the street.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
False Harmonics #18: Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton / Hieroglyphic Being / Mesa Ritual / MV Carbon
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$31.71 advance; $35.83 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Undoubtedly The List Event Of The Week. The beyond-category Anthony Braxton — a giant of contemporary American music — plays with noise duo Wolf Eyes(!). Hieroglyphic Being, one of those endlessly prolific Chicago electronic musicians, rooted in House but tending experimental, who somehow, for all they release, are always on point. Mesa Ritual, combining William Fowler Collins’s electronic Western noise with Raven Chacon’s Pulitzer-winning music-as-sound, making music that is almost Brucknerian in its punctuation of long stretches of quiet nature sound with bursts of overwhelming noise. And MV Carbon, taking the cello (along with other things) places you never thought it would go.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tacos at San Pedro Inn.
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Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Friend of a Friend: Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 28, 2023
7:30 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$62
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m not sure I want to contemplate what acoustic Hyperpop Folk would sound like — but here’s an opera of it. It’s about death, sex, God, gender, utopia and the end of the world: something for everybody.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Brooklyn Red Sauce at Bamonte’s.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Opera Lafayette: Couperin le Grand
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
7:00 PM
The Kosciuszko Foundation
15 East 65th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$36-$101
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Superstar French harpsichordist Christophe Rousset leads a vocal/chamber recital centering on a newly-discovered cantata(!) by the great François Couperin. French Baroque music is exquisite to the point where it almost feels like you’re being tickled to death; nothing is approached directly, everything is abstracted, everything has a level of prettiness raised so high you can hardly comprehend how pretty it is. This music is pure pleasure.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Daniel is on the next block. It’s expensive and no longer great (and no longer of any relevance whatsoever to NYC dining culture). You can eat at the bar.
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Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:58 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
5:00 & 8:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’d been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Manhattan Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Collectio Musicorum: Music from the First Folio
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, Collectio Musicorum performs settings of songs from Shakespeare’s plays. (Have I ever told you that “Full Fathom Five” is one of my very favorite song lyrics?) (TBH, the best setting I’ve ever heard of “Sigh No More, Ladies” was as a bossa nova — not likely to be performed this afternoon.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Serpent’s Tooth: pour 3/4 oz. Irish Whiskey, 1 oz. each sweet Vermouth, 1/4 oz. Kümmel, and 1/2 oz. lemon juice, with 2 dashes Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Erik Friedlander
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 28, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A week should just be enough to take in polystylistic cellist Erik Friedlander.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nosaj Thing: Continua
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
8:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$43.45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nosaj Thing starts as Nu R&B/Alt Hip-Hop, but he doesn’t end there. Ambient, electronica — and really good, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent French bistro at Le Crocodile.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
CT::SWaM: Velak Collective
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
8:00 PM
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Pay What You Will $15+
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another appearance by Velak, the mysterious Austrian electroacoustic collective..
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Somewhat overrated but still good Thai at Thai Diner.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Carter-Novoa-Hernández-Swanson-Togami Quintet
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
8:00 PM
IBeam
168 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A quintet led by led by local Free Jazz legend Daniel Carter on saxophone and other things you blow into.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hawaiian at Sweet Talk.
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Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 8:00 PM – Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 & 26, 2023
8:00 PM
Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
$27.50-$139.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The big news is that, on this tour, the founder of this chamber orchestra and magnificent choir, John Eliot Gardiner, is being replaced by someone who doesn’t hit musicians. Speaking of magnificent, on Wednesday they do Bach’s Mass in B Minor. On Thursday, they do Handel’s less magnificent (but more fun) L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Be there. Aloha.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I don’t know about Bach, but I’ll bet Handel would have loved Gallagher’s — the best Old Skool steakhouse in New York City.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
chameckilerner: Aging Prelude
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 & 27 – 28, 2023
7:30 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$23.13
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In their first live performance since 2007, Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner explore their experiences of their aging bodies and their self-perceptions as they age in a culture that celebrates youthfulness. Hell, I don’t have to get on a subway to do that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: John Brown BBQ for, well, you know.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cirkus Moxie
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Circus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great wine and actually good food at Four Horsemen.
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Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Ballet National de Marseille: An Evening with (LA)HORDE
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 & 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Dance Reflections Festival
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$36-$46
TICKETS + INFORMATION
French dance collective (LA)HORDE is all the rage these days. Tonight they present a collection of pieces by themselves, Lucinda Childs, and Lasseindra Ninja.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: English meat dishes at Lord’s.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caitlin George: Helen.
WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 & 27 – 29, 2023
7:00 PM MONDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$30; students/seniors $10-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’ve probably seen the story of Helen of Troy enacted before in some form or other. But maybe not this fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Wed, Oct 25, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Becca Blackwell & Amanda Duarte: Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 29, 2023 (continuing through DECEMBER 3)
7:30 PM
Soho Rep.
46 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan
$37.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
There are two kinds of people: people who are unexcited by the thought of a talk show hosted by a 6-foot-high vagina and a giant taint, and people who read this List.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Frenchette!
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gerald Cohen: they burn, the fires of the night: lamentations from the ashes
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
7:00 PM
The Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, Hebrew Union College
1 West 4th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is absolutely not the time for Shoah-mongering. Sorry. You’d think a people that had fairly recently been subject to an attempted genocide would know better.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Urban Italian at Il Buco Alimentari & Vino.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sally Gates-Trevor Dunn-Greg Fox: Deleriant Modifier Album Release / Amba-Corsano Duo / Antinomie
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
7:00 PM (bet it’s really 8:00 PM)
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$18.07 advance; $23.41 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
That’s a mighty fine trio guitarist Sally Gates has gotten herself into. Wonder whether it’s a power trio or something more outre? Zoh Amba has ridden her spiritual Free Jazz sax to the crest of the NYC scene, and drummer Chris Corsano is a perfect musical partner for her. Antinomie is electronic music from Göttingen that recalls the glory days of Cologne.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid, more than cachapas at Cachapas y Mas.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caña Dulce y Caña Brava
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You have definitely heard Son Jarocho from Veracruz, a vivacious coastal music that combines elements of the Spanish Baroque, Mexican Indigenous, and — to me this is surprising, as Veracruz is on the Gulf coast rather than the Atlantic, but what do I know — West African music brought in by kidnapped slaves. It’s that lively harp-driven Mexican music: you totally know it (if nothing else, certainly you’ve heard “La Bomba”). And if it doesn’t make you smile (you can’t dance in the formal rooms of the Americas Society), I don’t know what’s up.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There used to be a Veracruzan seafood restaurant within walking distance of the Americas Society — but that was then. Wonder if Maya is still good?
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Caroline Davis: Alula: Captivity Album Release
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The problem with protest music is that it’s often pious, reductive, obvious, and inartful. On the other hand, sometimes it’s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite. Let’s see how the excellent saxophonist Caroline Davis does.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, nice enough bistro at Bacchus. Streaming at home, have a Civil War: pour 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon and 1/2 oz. each of sweet Vermouth and Cynar, with 2 dashes of Fee’s Old Fashioned bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Open Stage Variety Show
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
7:30 PM
Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology In Person & Live Stream
165 Jay Street, Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
$17.85 in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus throws open the stage to whatever variety acts dare to appear. I can’t tell you how much fun these shows can be.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, um distinctive beer at Evil Twin Brewing DUMBO Taproom. Streaming at home, have a Circus Circus: pour 2/3 oz. each of Rye and Montenegro amaro, 1 oz. dry Vermouth, and 1/2 oz. white Crème de Menthe into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Hanzhi Wang: Goldberg Variations, The Accordion Version
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
7:30 & 9:00 PM
The Crypt Sessions
The Crypt, Church of the Intercession
550 West 155th Street, Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’ve heard the Goldberg Variations. But maybe not on an accordion.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: There’s a wine-and-cheese reception starting an hour before each show — but I never tire of complaining that, for the high price charged for these concerts, the abominable quality of the wine and the cheese is deplorable. In any event, good burgers at At The Wallace — but most exciting of all, I’ve heard it reported on good authority that the fried cheese curds are as good as in Wisconsin.
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Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Sankai Juku: KŌSA
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 29, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 5)
7:30 PM TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$82
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Butoh: dark. Harrowing. Engrossing. This piece is an assemblage of reimagined excerpts from this great company’s repertoire.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Douchey Japanese at Megu.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brooklyn Maqam Hang: Innov Gnawa
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
7:30 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I was staying once in the Medina of Marakkesh, hanging out on the rooftop of my hotel. Some Gnawi were visiting another guest, and they played their sintars late into the night, inviting me to join their party. I didn’t know anything about Northwestern African desert music back then; and I was entranced by that percussive droning music that sounded Blusey (and that, as it turned out, was also developed in slavery). I ended up staying up all night. Now you can be entranced, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 7:15 PM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Steve Cossen: Artificial Flavors
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24–29, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 18)
7:15 PM TUESDAY–THURSDAY & SATURDAY
8:15 PM FRIDAY
2:15 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$27-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Civilians use AI to explore AI.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog: Connection Album Release Show
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$30.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitarmaster Marc Ribot’s power trio is so good! (And if you can think of something more different than this crunching Hard Rock from bassist Shahzad Ismaily’s last project, the meditative Love in Exile, well . . . Ismaily will probably do that next.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chicago Italian Beef sandwiches at Bobbi’s Italian Beef.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 29, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Early, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. Later, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur. (FUN FACT: I believe Cruz del Sur is next door to the apartment Aaron Copland grew up in.)
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Monday, October 23, 2023, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM
MUSIC
Les Frères Méduses feat. Jennifer Choi: The Unknown
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The guitar duo Les Fréres Méduses have composed — and play along with violinist Jennifer Choi — a soundtrack for an old Tod Browning silent horror movie starring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford (which will be screened).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, a new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig. Streaming at home, have an Apparent Cocktail: pour 1-1/2 oz. each of Gin and Dubonnet, and 1/8 tsp. Absinthe, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Nick and Nora glass.
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Monday, October 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Assembly #10: Amba-White-Ismaily-Gunn / Lukas Koenig / Candra Rini-Ismaily-Sudarta-McGraw / Nate Wooley: Mutual Aid Music
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Busy night for Shahzad Ismaily. That quartet with him (bass, synthesizers), Free Jazz sax Zoh Amba, guitarist Steve Gunn, and drummer Jim White ought to be something. But the ensemble in which he plays behind modern Indonesian explorer Peni Candra Rini should also be a thing to hear. Lukas Koenig doing things with percussion. And it wouldn’t be an Assembly without trumpeter Nate Wooley combining notated and unnotated music in his amazing ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Monday, October 23, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Ensemble Decipher: Cat’s Cradle
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$20 advance in person; $25 door in person; $15 students/seniors in person; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ensemble Decipher specializes in playing tech-assisted music, using electronics and vintage technology. Tonight there’s a world premiere of a piece by Bora Yoon employing a giant electronic version of the cat’s cradle string game. There are also pieces by Erin Rogers and Lynn Goeringer, including one they wrote jointly to be set as a dance by the Iranian choreographer Hiva Sedaghat, who will perform it. Good thing Niloufar Nourbakhsh will be in the house as part of the ensemble.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Eclectic cuisine at As You Are.
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Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Gisèl Vienne: L’Ètang
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023
7:30 PM
Dance Reflections
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$18.50-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One the one hand, a narrative dance piece telling a family story by Robert Walser. On the other hand, an abstracted exploration of narrativity and language and their effect on perception.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Drinks and small plates at the Lobby Bar at The Hotel Chelsea.
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Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
nicHi douglas: (pray)
MONDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23 – 28, 2023
7:00 PM
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$18-$110
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Go for nicHi douglas’s surreal Afrofuturist take on a Sunday Baptist Church service. But stay for the music by the dream team of Starr Busby and JJJJerome Ellis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tuscan at the relocated I Sodi — if you can get in to get it.
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Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
ChamberQUEER: BaroQUEER
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023
7:00 PM
ShapeShifter Lab In Person & Live Stream
837 Union Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$25; $10 students/arts workers
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Of course Baroque music was embued with the spirit and forms of the dance. But, ChamberQUEER reminds us, it didn’t stop there in musical history — which has made for a lot of fabulousness. So tonight we’ll get not only Charpentier and Corelli, but also Eastman, Piazzolla, and Rufus Wainwright.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Who’d have thought one of the better and more distinctive Thai restaurants in New York City would be in Park Slope? Bangkok Degree.
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Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ned Rothenberg / CLAK/ Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson / orchiddBB
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023
7:00 PM (if the music starts before 8, I’ll eat my hat)
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$18.07
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another great night at Sundown: each act is different, each act is something to get excited about. Ned Rothenberg is a thoughtful reedsplayer who ranges widely without being in the slightest bit eclectic. CLAK is the Post-Rock band of experimental percussionist Aaron Edgcomb. Vibraphonist Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson is, quite simply, This List’s new hero. OrchiddBB do glitchy electronics. Just great.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid, Nepalese-New York fusion (cuz why not?) at While in Kathmandu.
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Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 – 29, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 – 29, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 8:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Free Advice: LA Timpa/Chuquimamani-Condori
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
8:00 PM
Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 Second Avenue, East Village, Manhattan
$39.47 advance; $44.82 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I really like LA Timpa! He’s one of those musicians who are notionally Pop but really it’s experimental music that uses elements that sound like they could be Pop. Chuquimamani-Condori makes electronic music inflected by his Andean roots.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I mean, you’re in (the backroom of) the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, right?
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Maria Valencia, Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano & Matt Moran
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Now here’s something unexpected. Maria Valencia, who plays winds, keyboards, and percussion with the fabulous Fake Tropical band the Meridian Brothers from Bogota, joins with several stalwarts of the NYC experimental improv scene: trumpet player Nate Wooley, drummer Chris Corsano, and vibraphonist Matt Moran. What ever will this sound like?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongrouous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Harish Raghavan feat. Jonathan Finlayson, Ben Wendel, Simon Moullier, Miki Yamanaka & Kayvon Gordon
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
8:00 PM
Nublu 151
151 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan
$22.66
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Harish Raghavan is one of those bass players with a mind so distinctive you can always tell its them when they’re playing. He’s assembled a good sextet: pay especial attention to the trumpet.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burgers that have no meat — and other things that don’t, either — at Superiority Burger.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Thomas Piercy: Rorem at 100
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
6:00 PM
Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune Street, West Village, Manhattan
$19.23
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vocal and chamber music by Ned Rorem: as close as music can come to being French while still being American. Also, short pieces in tribute to Rorem by such of his students as Jennifer Higdon and Russell Platt.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Negronis at Dante West Village.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
María Valencia & Friends
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
María Valencia, who plays winds, keyboards, and percussion with the fabulous Meridian Brothers from Bogotá, clearly has more than Fake Tropical up her sleeve. Here she joins with several stalwarts of the NYC experimental improv scene, tonight saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, drummer Ryan Sawyer, and vibraphonist Matt Moran.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Colombia in Park Slope DUH.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Kathak Plus: Then, Now, Next
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
6:00 PM
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Streeet, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$55
TICKETS +INFORMATION
Mod Kathak.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m ethnically hardwired to have Cantonese on Sunday, so Potluck Club for neo-Cantonese-American tonight.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tape Activation Ritual
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
6:00 PM
Intima
16-15 Weirfield Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$12.71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Among other things, Julia Santoli’s theatrical/conceptual vocal explorations and Kwami Winfield, who does electronic noise and (Hyper)Pop and all the stuff we love here at The List.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sunday night at Rolo’s!
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 4:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Drumstitch
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
4:30 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drums. And plenty of them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 4:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson: We Are Greater Than (The Sum [From 1 To Selendis's {=?=} Choice] Of 4n): The Show Series
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
4:00 PM
Studio du Québec à New York
Address available from Instagram @lemwell7, Soho, Manhattan
Donation
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lotta cello here, with (among many other things that don’t involve cellos) a duo of bedroom singer-songwriter Clara Joy and cellist Aliya Ultan, and cellest Remy Belanger de Beauport dueting with series organizer Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson, a very young vibes player who has already established herself as a crucial member of the NYC musical community.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Raoul’s luncheonette, Revelie.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Abigail Levine: Words Begin as Sound
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
4:00 & 7:00 PM
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Abigail Levine typically makes dances that refer to some other matter. This piece is the result of her ruminating about sound and its functions and importance, with what seems to be found sounds providing the score.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Snacky somewhat fusiony Indonesian beach food at Ma·Dé.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ursel Schlicht & Hans Tammen: Statements @ 30
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
3:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Less than 30 years ago (can’t fool ME!), pianist Ursel Schlicht and guitarist Hans Tammen released an album called Statements, with music for piano and prepared piano and guitar and prepared guitar that sometimes bent time and sometimes stopped it. It was an achievement, to be sure — and now they revisit it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Venezuelan at Casa Ora.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Handel: Rodelinda
FRIDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 22, 2023
7:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Hudson Hall
327 Warren Street, Hudson, Hudson Valley
$27-$117
TICKETS + INFORMATION
R.B. Schlather is a local opera director who’s made a big splash in Yurp with his stark, suggestive productions. But since American mainstream opera culture is so braindead — Schlather tends to do repertoire rather than new works — you don’t get to see his stuff much here. So this production of what many would say is Handel’s best opera is kind of a big deal. (I saw some Handel he did on the LES years ago, and it’s stayed with me.) It’ll certainly provide an interesting contrast with the Met’s elephantine snoozefest. Instrumental accompaniment by Ruckus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Oaxacan at El Sabor de Oaxaca. You might want to stop at BackBar for drinks on the way.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 2:15 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Steve Cossen: Artificial Flavors
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023 (continuing through NOVEMBER 18)
2:15 PM
59E59 Theaters
59 East 59th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$27-$44
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Civilians use AI to explore AI.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You could do a lot worse in this neighborhood than the Sicilian food at Piccola Cucina Uptown.
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Sunday, October 22, 2023, 1:00 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: Flatbed Follies
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
1:00 & 5:00 PM
1:00 PM: Newkirk Avenue btw. Westminster Road & Argyle Road, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: Vanderbilt Avenue Open Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes it to the street!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In Ditmas Park, excellent Pakistani — you don’t see Beef Nihari everywhere, but after you have this places’s you’ll wish you did — at Lahori Chilli. In Prospect Heights, fulsome Midwestern food at Patti Ann’s.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nick Millevoi / Kid Millions & Jim Sauter
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It’s hard to know what’s better about Nick Millevoi: his disinclination to stay in one style for more than a couple of minutes (or even at a time), or his ability to get great people to play with him. (Tonight he’s playing solo, though.) Drummer Kid Millions and saxophone player Jim Sauter are Alt legends by now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza!
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Rasa Project
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$26.14
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multimedia response to the climate crisis maybe sounds a little earnest. But when you hear the music supporting the AI-generated projections is by John Cage, inti figgis-vizueta, and Reena Esmail, you get interested.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Georgian at Cheeseboat.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Vox Luminis: The Early Cantatas
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
145 West 46th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$33.50-$49; $25.50-$38 students & under 25; $28.50-$42 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Bach’s and Buxtehude’s, that is. And while you probably know Bach’s, you’re in for a treat if you’ve never spent time with Buxtehude’s. Especially when sung and played by the resplendent Belgian Vox Luminis ensemble. (FUN FACT: there was a period when this List was written as I plowed through a set of Buxtehude’s complete works.) (FUN FACT: I spared you the story of Bach’s having walked hundreds of miles to hear Buxtehude play the organ.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wonderful Jamaican at Jasmine’s Caribbean Cuisine.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Gisèl Vienne: L’Ètang
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 & 22, 2023 (continuing on OCTOBER 23)
7:30 PM SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
Dance Reflections
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
$18.50-$60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One the one hand, a narrative dance piece telling a family story by Robert Walser. On the other hand, an abstracted exploration of narrativity and language and their effect on perception.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Drinks and small plates at the Lobby Bar at The Hotel Chelsea.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BIG FAX!: Suzi Analogue / Rocky Snyda / Scraaatche / Saye
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Suzi Analogue has some of the best beats anywhere.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chicago Italian Beef sandwiches at Bobbi’s Italian Beef.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
TENET Vocal Artists: Angels & Queens
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
7:00 PM
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street, West Village, Manhattan
$16.80-$63.20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Music by Henry Purcell and John Blow, student and teacher (although the teacher way outlived the tragically short-lived student) in Restoration England who both had the knack of writing stick-to-your-ribs English tunes. There’ll be both vocal and instrumental music, the vocal music mainly devoted to either saints or Queen Mary II.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Japanese cocktails and snacks at Katana Kitten.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dot Dash presents: Lewsberg / Weak Signal / Famous Logs in History
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
4:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Free (tip the bands)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Another chance to hear Rotterdam VU wannabes Lewsberg. I mean, you’re not gonna get to hear the actual VU these days.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER / MUSIC/ PERFORMANCE
Performa 2023
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
Various Times
Various locations, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Prelude is putting on enough stuff in enough different places today that all I can do is throw up my hands and tell you to peruse the schedule. But keep your eye on Fecund Error at The Tank at 4:30 PM and Faust (The Broken Show) at Collapsible Hole at 7:00 PM.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: For The Tank, Thai noodles at Zoob Zib Thai. For the Collapsible Hole, Austrian at Wallse.
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 21, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Flux Factory: Ornaphonism
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
12:00 PM
Colonel’s Row Building 404A, Governors Island, Manhattan
Free-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Electronics. (Wait, Governors Island is still OPEN?)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’m not sure any of the vendors are still on the Island this late in the year. If you’re going back to Brooklyn, maybe walk from the ferry landing to Cafe Spaghetti for neo-Red Sauce. If to Manhattan, Dead Rabbit for cocktails.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Zemog el Gallo Bueno
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This Art-Roots post-Salsa with all kinds of psych and even experimental influences is exactly what Barbès is good for.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Jamaican with a chance of Trinidadian at Stella’s.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Cage: Ryoanji
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 22, 2023
8:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
John Cage’s Japan
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, Turtle Bay, Manhattan
$42; $34 persons with disability
TICKETS + INFORMATION
John Cage’s Ryoanji was inspired by a Kyoto zen rock garden Cage had visited. As conceived by composer/musician/vocalist Tomomi Adachi, this production is performed simultaneously by the International Contemporary Ensemble playing Western instruments in New York City and musicians in Kanazawa City, Japan singing and playing an ancient Japanese instrument, united by the low-latency technology that’s one of the nice offshoots of The Lockdown. Meanwhile, there’ll be 3D depictions of the sand in the garden.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Barbecue at Gyu-Kaku.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dan Weiss-Matt Mitchell-Trevor Dunn
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
8:00 PM
Nublu 151
151 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan
$22.66
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Drawing out a subset of his great jazz-Metal band Starebaby, the stylistically curious drummer Dan Weiss leads an interesting drums-keyboards-bass trio — and what keyboards and bass they are.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Go to Kafana. Bring cash cuz they don’t take plastic. Bring a hunger cuz their Serbian food is HEARTY. Bring a thirst because their appre le lettre Natural wine list is extensive.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER / PERFORMANCE
Tristan Allen: Tin Iso and the Dawn
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tristan Allen revives his affecting puppet theater piece about the birth of a world — but suffused with loss.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best birria in New York City (I’m convinced) at Nene’s Taqueria.
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sarah Hennies: Passing / Duo with Tristan Kasten-Krause
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 21, 2023
8:00 & 9:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Downtown, Brooklyn
$21
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Continuing the celebration of ISSUE Project Room’s renovated space, this program features the first showings to a live audience of a short film Sarah Hennies streamed during Lockdown concerning anti-Trans violence. Then, an actual live performance by a duo of Hennies on percussion and Tristan Kasten-Krause. Hennies’s music plays with pulse — poly-pulses, actually — in a way that’s fairly unique (it may not be a coincidence that Hennies started out as a rock-band drummer).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ve been waiting for ISSUE to reopen so I could send you to the American classic Gage & Tollner and/or the Sunken Harbor Club tiki bar upstairs afterwards.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:58 PM
MUSIC
Jay Campbell & Conor Hannick
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
7:30 PM
92nd Street Y In Person & Live Stream
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$38-$63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Conor Hanick — two of the best musicians in that field in New York — present an appealing program. Two really great French 20th Century cellos sonatas — the Debussy one of the jewels of the repertoire, and the Poulenc vintage: a send-up that works beautifully as what it’s sending up — and two pieces by the sound-loving Marcos Balter (one of them a world premiere).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Fun South African food and wine at Kaia Wine Bar.
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
chameckilerner: Aging Prelude
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 21, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 28)
7:30 PM
Chocolate Factory
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City, Queens
$23.13
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In their first live performance since 2007, Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner explore their experiences of their aging bodies and their self-perceptions as they age in a culture that celebrates youthfulness. Hell, I don’t have to get on a subway to do that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: John Brown BBQ for, well, you know.
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Josephine Simple: This Show Is My Funeral
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 21, 2023
7:30 PM
Brick Aux
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When Josephine Simple transitioned, some people started referring to their old “male” self as if it were a separate person who was dead. Simple found that kind of funny, and now will make you find this “funeral” for that “male” self funny, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Free pizza at the Alligator Lounge! (And it isn’t bad!)
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Dessa / Arthur Moon
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
7:30 PM
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$26.78-$63.35 advance; $25 (plus unspecified fees) day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dessa’s hyperliterate Hip-Hop, plus Arthur Moon’s Queered Art Pop.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Georgian (as you might guess) at Old Tbilisi Garden.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
7:30 PM
Juilliard415
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$32.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato doesn’t quite come out of Handel’s top drawer. But Handel’s middle drawer is full of a lot of delightful stuff as well. And there is no better conductor of Baroque choral music working today than Masaaki Suzuki.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Longstanding neighborhood French at La Boite en Bois.
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Rone & (La)Horde: Room with a View
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 21, 2023
7:30 PM
Dance Reflections Festival
Skirball Center, NYU
566 Laguardia Place, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$66-$71
TICKETS + INFORMATION
French dance collective (La)Horde is all the rage these days. Set to music by Rone, this piece evokes a rave at the end of the world (in other words, the day after tomorrow). ((La)Horde will be back for more next week.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: English meat dishes at Lord’s.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rafael Piccolotto: Forró Sem Palavras
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
7:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$26.14
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Forró is a lively, raunchy, bluesy form. How it’ll respond to instrumental chamber treatment is anybody’s guess.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cheffed-up Thai at Kru.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Nina Night: CoH / African-American Sound Recordings / Brandon Nickell
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2023
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$24.21
TICKETS + INFORMATION
CoH calls his electronic music Post-Pop. But believe me, it isn’t Non-Pop.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Stylish Peruvian at Llama Inn.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Handel: Rodelinda
FRIDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 & 22, 2023
7:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
Hudson Hall
327 Warren Street, Hudson, Hudson Valley
$27-$117
TICKETS + INFORMATION
R.B. Schlather is a local opera director who’s made a big splash in Yurp with his stark, suggestive productions. But since American mainstream opera culture is so braindead — Schlather tends to do repertoire rather than new works — you don’t get to see his stuff much here. So this production of what many would say is Handel’s best opera is kind of a big deal. (I saw some Handel he did on the LES years ago, and it’s stayed with me.) It’ll certainly provide an interesting contrast with the Met’s elephantine snoozefest. Instrumental accompaniment by Ruckus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent Oaxacan at El Sabor de Oaxaca. You might want to stop at BackBar for drinks on the way.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Glass Ghost / Strugglin’ / Qasim Naqvi
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Qasim Naqvi with his sharp electronic explorations. Strugglin’ with their beaty electronic soundscapes. And Glass Ghost, who I am surprised to see are still together, with what has always struck me as rather inane Pop-Rock.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Café Mars: Italian in space.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
A Matta Prayer
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 & 28, 2023
7:00 PM
The Great Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
Amidst an installation by Jacolby Satterwhite (who’s pretty great himself) multidisciplinary musical performances will occur. Friday is Hairbone, which you could call Art Cabaret except you’d be wrong (and also they’re a lot louder than that would suggest). Saturday, you could call the duo of Patrick Belaga and Jazmin Romero Central European Freak Folk (with visual elements) except you’d also be wrong (and that’s only like a tenth of what they do anyway). You can call Ahya Simone a multimedia bard of Black Detroit, and there you’d be right. What I want to know is, how come the Met Museum can honor diversity while still programing high-quality performances that are true to its mission while Lincoln Center — which unlike the Met Museum is an actual performing arts center — has apparently decided that the way to address such concerns is to pretend it’s a BID street fair?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly good bistro at Quatorze.
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Friday, October 20, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 10:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Dana Reitz: current
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Dana Reitz starts with simple materials — cells, you might call them — and expands them into engrossing, increasingly complex structures. She makes astonishing use of light (she only works with the best light designers). This piece is a solo. You can’t take your eyes off her.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Plausible neighborhood French at French Louie.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Zorn at 70: New Masada / Simulacrum
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$23.25-$33.50; students & Under 25 $18.25-$25.50; seniors $20.25-$28.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Avant-workoholic John Zorn continues his Birthday onslaught, this time on the jazz side. The rather wonderful New Masada Quartet melds Klezmer/Ashkenazic heads with Post-Hard Bop playingness. Simulacrum answers the musical question, what would the Tony Williams Lifetime have been like if it were masterminded by John Zorn?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A fast-casual Global Rice chain might not sound like the most enticing idea. But J.J. Johnson is some kind of culinary genius, and the new branch of Fieldtrip brightens this neighborhood.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Gillian Walsh: Wilderness
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023
6:00 PM
Danspace Project
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gillian Walsh makes dances of great — and greatly magnetic — stillness and concentration, where things happen so sparcely that every little thing assumes huge significance. This one seems kind of um Christian.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Foxface Natural is the best restaurant in New York City right now.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Fire Over Heaven
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
8:00 PM
Outpost Artists Resources
1665 Norman Street, Ridgewood, Queens
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Fire Over Heaven resumes after a lengthy finances-induced hiatus, and I’m so happy I’m Listing it even though the bill features two acts I’ve never heard of: vocal-centered improv quartet Time Trout and electronics and double bass duo Jonah Rosenberg & Sean Ali (OK I’ve heard of Jonah Rosenberg and Sean Ali seperately).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cozy Corner has been there forever — but it can’t be for the food.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Craig Harris: TONGUES OF FIRE (in a harlem state of mind)
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 & 20, 2023
7:30 PM
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan
$25-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multigenerational multidisciplinary piece from trombonist Craig Harris exploring five decades of the Harlem community through music, poetry, and dance..
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ramen, oysters, kitchen snacks, and cocktails at ROKC.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Peter Mills Weiss & Julia Mounsey: Readings by Peter and Julia
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
7:30 PM
Mercury Store
131 8th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The List doesn’t usually List readings. The List is fairly militant about that. But Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey make such a point of subverting whatever form they pretend to be working in that one can only suspect that these readings won’t really be mere readings.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Colombian snacks at Maya & Camila Café.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Elliot Sharp: Aggregat Trio
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM
The Jazz Gallery In Person & Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$33.50-$44.50 in person; $22 live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An acoustic jazz trio in which noise guitarist Elliot Sharp plays saxophones? Don’t tell anyone, but Michael Wimberley is one of This List’s favorite drummers.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andrés Mediterranean at Zaytinya. Streaming at home, have a Salty Dog: rim a rocks glass with salt. Pour 2 oz. Gin and 4 oz. grapefruit juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into the rimmed rocks glass. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge and a time sprig.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Lucinda Childs: Dance
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
3:00 PM SATURDAY
Lyon Opera Ballet
Dance Reflections
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$45-$145
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lucinda Childs’s 1979 piece Dance (to music by Philip Glass) changed the course of Downtown dance history. Starting in the early ‘60s, the Post-Modern Judson School had emphasized the modest and the quotidian, the unenfranchised bohemian. Dance was the first of the Big Post-Modern Dance Productions, the kind of thing that filled the stage at BAM throughout the ‘80s. Up until this stunner, nobody thought Post-Modern dance could be this Big. Visual design was important to these productions, and there was always a Major Visual Artist involved: here, the dance is in counterpoint to projections designed by Sol LeWitt. The projections were filmed at rehearsals of the piece; so the dancers seem to be dancing with themselves. This presents an interesting question for revivals: do you use LeWitt’s original footage from 1979, or do you recreate the projections with the current dancers. (The last revival of this piece I saw used the original footage — and it was hard not to focus on how much sleeker, and more expensively shod, the current dancers are than their comparatively dumpy 1970s NYC counterparts.) Eventually, the Big Post-Modern Dance Production genre suffered the same fate as Marvel Movies: audiences stopped being thrilled with all the Bigness but became fatigued by it. And of course, if you’re me, you can’t help but tie the turn by formerly counter-cultural Downtown figures to these slick expensive productions, which required corporate sponsorship (this show is part of a series sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels), to the concurrent ascendance of Neo-Liberalism. And get real pissed off.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You gotta say two things about Quality Bistro: it’ll still be open after the show, and it’s right across the street.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
New York Philharmonic: Bronfman, Brahms, and Ligeti
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$45-$147
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is Listed for two Ligeti pieces. Rhythmically incisive, sonically expansive, Ligeti’s is some of the very best (I’m tempted to omit the “some of”) Western classical music of the second half of the 20th Century. There’s also a new piano concerto by Elena Firsova in the Post-Romantic lyrical Modernist idiom that I, for one, just don’t like; nevertheless, it’s just the kind of thing that soloist Yefim Bronfman plays splendily (as it should be: it was written for him). Let’ not leave out Brahms’s Romantic-that-thinks-it’s-Classical Serenade No. 1, which I, for one, like just fine. Or conductor David Robertson: ditto.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Martini, Oysters, Cadillac burger at P.J. Clarke’s.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Antonio Ramos & The Gangbangers: CEREMONIA
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023
7:30 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$31
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A dance-theater mixtape of Latin-American cultural appropriation and reappropriation.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Basque knockout Ernesto's.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
OPERA
Friend of a Friend: Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 28)
7:30 PM
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$62
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’m not sure I want to contemplate what acoustic Hyperpop Folk would sound like — but here’s an opera of it. It’s about death, sex, God, gender, utopia and the end of the world: something for everybody.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Brooklyn Red Sauce at Bamonte’s.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cría Cuervos
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
7:00 PM
Academy Records Brooklyn Annex
242 Banker Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A set by sinonó, the rather irresistible collaboration between vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo, cellist Lester St. Louis, and bassist Henry Fraser, with songforms by Crespo interspersed among free improvisations. And one by Abacoa, a trio featuring the organizer of this series, bassist Kenneth Jimenez, with Dave Liebman rather excitingly sitting in on soprano sax.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best tacos ever offered in New York City, as far as I’m concerned, at the Mexico City-styled Taqueria Ramirez.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Palissimo Company: HEBEL
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 22, 2023
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors; $10 first 10 tickets to each performance
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Palissimo choreographer Pavel Zuštiak thinks his works are narrative, but you won’t think so. They’re more like dreams; indeed you could legitimately call them surreal (a word that is misused even more than “ironic”). The Palissimo Company is also very heavy on stagecraft and design, applied holistically (in that it’s a good follow-up to last weeks Dmitry Krimov). “Hebel” is a recurring phrase in Ecclesiastes: it’s the “vanity” in “all is vanity” — and that’s what we’ll see here. This show will be rather special.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Yeah I’m suspicious of vegan Mexican, too. But Bar Verde is definitely OK.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Linked Dance Theatre: The Incomplete Collection
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 22, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 29)
7:00 PM
Culture Lab LIC @ The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
$40-$90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What seems to be an art gallery exhibition turns out to be a “highly interactive” experience in which was is on display are not artworks but ideas (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems silly not to cross the street to the Rockaway Brewing Company Long Island City Tap Room. If you want something more solid, take a walk and celebrate that the wonderful Serbian-on-the-Water funspot Anable Basin Sailing Bar & Grill avoided corporate/civic displacement.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
BRIC Jazz Fest
THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023
7:00 PM
BRIC House
647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$58.96 per night; $143.36 three nights
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three nights of jazz in many styles. Maybe it seems last starry than last year’s cuz some of last year’s up-and-comers have had a year to become stars. Cisco Swank on Friday!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Rockwell Place is an excellent, though relatively unheralded, cocktail bar.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Theresa Buchheister: VISA — Mon Amour
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
7:00 PM
Prelude 2023
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
From Theresa Buchheister, a “panel performance” in which Artist will apply for a visa and Panel will explain how very difficult it is.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very nice Shanghainese at Little Alley.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tōth feat. Nebulous Quartet / Holland Andrews
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20.60
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Alex Tōth plays jazz and he plays Punk. But as Tōth he plays Pop — and it’s nice. Holland Andrews is more rad — and none the worse for it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Oaxacan at Claro.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:00 PM – Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Nightfall: Danse Macabre
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 & 20, 2023
7:00 PM
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$75-$100
THURSDAY TICKETS & INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS & INFORMATION
How great is to be let loose to wander the Cemetery (with candles guiding you along the appropriate paths) for three and a half hours, coming upon musical performances, films projected on trees and structures, storytellers, and circus performers? With a (purchased) beer or wine in your hand? (It would be better with a cocktail — but I guess one of the messages of cemeteries is that you never get everything you want.) Films by Rooftop Films, storytelling by The Moth, circus by the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, who knows what by the Morbid Academy.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Forget about eating nearby after this shuts down. For further drinking, go to Sea Witch (their kitchen will be closed). You can grab dinner there before.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 5:00 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 22, 2023 (continuing through JANUARY 7, 2024)
5:00 & 8:00 PM THURSDAY
7:00 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SUNDAY
The Gym at Judson
243 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$110-$265
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’d been sleeping on this magic show (probably its massive mainstream success shielded it from my view). But contrary to how things might appear, just because people like something doesn’t mean it can’t get Listed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Classic Red Sauce at Monte’s Trattoria.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 1:15 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Walton Waites: L’Arte di Suonare
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
1:15 PM
Gotham Early Music Festival Midtown Concerts
St. Malachy’s Church In Person & Live Stream
239 West 49th Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The very birth of the Baroque with the Stylus Fantasticus. Listen to the music played by this winds-harpsichord trio and you’ll see what they meant.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, I’m not gonna even tell you what El Mil Sabores puts on their Torta Loca sandwich. You have to see it for yourself. Streaming at home, have a Baroque: pour 1-1/2 oz. Jamaican Rum, 3/4 oz. each of Gin and lime juice, 1/4 tsp. Simple Syrup, and 1/8 tsp. Maraschino liqueur into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 8:30 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Stone Residencies: Patricia Brennan
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 21, 2023
8:30 PM
The Stone
Glass Box Theater, The New School
55 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It is just amazing how good vibraphonist Patricia Brennan is. What seems simple on the surface is seething with complexity and interest when you pay attention. Another Stone residency where every show has something — and something different — to offer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: No one better to take over the old Café Loup space than NYC Front of House vet Michael Cechhi-Azzolina with his American Bistro Cecchi’s.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Somnabula feat. Juilliard415
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
8:00 PM
Paul Hall, Juilliard School
155 W. 65th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Baroque music, presumably written by women. Whatever, it will be expertly played.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can spend the money you saved on the free ticket on excellent Italian at The Leopard at des Artistes.
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Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – Fri, Oct 20, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Ayano Elson: Shadows Later
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 20, 2023
8:00 PM
Pageant
70 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cerebral, sociopolitically engaged dance from Ayano Elson.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican snacks and mad desserts at Maya’s Snack Bar.
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Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caitlin George: Helen.
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 & 18 – 22, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 29)
7:00 PM MONDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$30; students/seniors $10-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’ve probably seen the story of Helen of Troy enacted before in some form or other. But maybe not this fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bergamot Quartet feat. Eli Greenhoe
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$17.85 advance; $18 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The questing Bergamot Quartet is always worth hearing. So if they’re collaborating with composer/singer-songwriter Eli Greenhoe, I’m ready to try it.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Cirkus Moxie
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 25)
7:30 PM
Brooklyn Art Haus
24 Marcy Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$29.89
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Circus!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great great wine and actually good food at Four Horsemen.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Daniel Villarreal
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$25.75
TICKETS + INFORMATION
From out of the Chicago Scene comes drummer Daniel Villarreal, leading his band in Psychedelic Folkloric Funkified Latin Jazz that is so sheerly enjoyable you’ll smile till it hurts.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good, fresh Korean at Insa.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Gold Dime / Mizu / Anno
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$18.54
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gold Dime celebrates the release of a new album of their (great) noisy Art Rock, while loopy cellist Issei Herr gets an exciting new name.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sashay over to Beco for some nice Brazilian.
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Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Hideaway Circus: REFLEX
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 22, 2023
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY
4:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY
2:00 & 5:00 PM SUNDAY
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan
$46.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Juggler/visual artist Jay Gilligan juggles his way through space exploration.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Vegetarian South Indian at Saravanaa Bhavan.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Slowspin & Grey Mcmurray
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
6:30 PM
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Pay What You Will $10+
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Zeerak Ahmed (a/k/a Slowspin), whose Pakistani folktronica is great, joins Grey Mcmurray, whose guitar is spacey enough to go along.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Somewhat overrated but still good Thai at Thai Diner.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Luther Adams: Lines Made by Walking (String Quartet No. 5)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2022
6:00 PM
Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Seems like a good time to lose yourself in some John Luther Adams — especially as played by JACK.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pretentious pseudo-clubby pizza at Mel’s.
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Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
New Red Order: World’s UnFair
WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 22, 2023
2:00 – 9:00 PM
24-17 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive multimedia carnivalesque bunch of stuff imagining a Post-Colonial future.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Time stands still at the Court Square Diner.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
M Lamar / Ben Pagano / Ramona Gomes
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
Sundownstairs, Sundown Bar
68-38 Forest Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
$14.85 advance; $18.07 day of
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Countertenor/performance artist/metalhead/force of nature M Lamar is as charismatic a performer as you could hope to see. (Kudos to Sundownstairs for FINALLY giving the showtime in addition to the doors time!)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re in a bar with a pretty good cocktail program. For something more solid, Nepalese-New York fusion (cuz why not?) at While in Kathmandu.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Laurie Anderson feat. Sexmob: Let X = X
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM
BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
$44.50-$89.50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
It isn’t hard to believe it’s 40 years since I saw Laurie Anderson do her entire magnum opus United States over two nights in this very hall; in fact, it’s all too easy. So it’s fitting for Anderson to come back to do a career retrospective (named after one of the songs from that extended piece). Sexmob should really do a number on “Example #22” (which they’d better include in the program), which I believe I got up and danced to in 1984 (or at least danced to as it played in my head as I walked home).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Exciting pizza at Oma Grassa.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: String Sonorities
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2023
7:30 PM
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan
$37-$73
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I guess a chamber orchestra kind of counts as chamber music. This mostly isn’t List music — George Walker’s gorgeous, moving Lyric for Strings just makes it — but since I in my personal capacity love the sound of string orchestras, and since every piece on this program is something of a personal favorite, I’ma List it anyway. Who can stop me?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Longstanding neighborhood French at La Boite en Bois.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cuarteto de Solistas de la Orquesta del Teatro Real
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2023
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
While the Orchestra is in town, four strings from the Teatro Real step out to play some extremely enjoyable Spanish quartets, from Arriaga (early Classical) to Turina (Post-Romantic Impressionist) to Toldrá (Neo-Classical). I can almost promise you’ll love every piece.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pan-regional Spanich at Pil Pil.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 5:30 PM – 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Fritz Donnelly: FRITZ: Play Time
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2023
5:30 PM
Prelude 2023
Anita’s Way
137 West 42nd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Fritz Donnelly has made movies. But not he feels people spend too much time looking at screens and not enough time interacting with other people. So he made this participatory performance.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: At Burger & Lobster you have two choices.
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Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 10:00 AM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell & Joseph White: Meander
TUESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 22, 2023 (ongoing)
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
150 Eastern Parkway, across the street from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$18; $12 students/seniors; free children under 12
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Having created a wonderful sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, the dream team of Gelsey Bell and Joe White do the same for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (one of my favorite places on earth, if you want to know). The soundtrack is available on the BBG website.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Early, the best pancakes in town (and other great stuff) at Tom’s Restaurant. Later, meet the Guadalajaran Torta Ahogada — sure to become your new obsession — at Cruz del Sur. (FUN FACT: I believe Cruz del Sur is next door to the apartment Aaron Copland grew up in.)
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Monday, October 16, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Jeesun Choi: To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2023
7:30 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two women of indeterminate relationship meet and suggest/embody experiences of the Korean diaspora.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outrageously good pub grub at Meckelberg’s.
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Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER / MUSIC / DANCE
nicHi douglas: (pray)
MONDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 21, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 28)
7:00 PM
Ars Nova @ Greenwich House
27 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$18-$110
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Go for nicHi douglas’s surreal Afrofuturist take on a Sunday Baptist Church service. But stay for the music by the dream team of Starr Busby and JJJJerome Ellis.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Tuscan at the relocated I Sodi — if you can get in to get it.
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Monday, October 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Jasper String Quartet: Insects and Machines
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2023
7:00 PM
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Jasper String Quartet showcases the music of Vivian Fung. I remember the first I ever heard of Fung was when she was still a student (of David Diamond), and Anthony Tommasini praised one of her student works in The Times for staying true to the traditions of Stravinsky and Bartók but making something fresh of them. Fung has certainly developed since then: she now sounds like noone but herself. Her music is so textural it almost feels like you’re feeling it rather than hearing it. The Jaspers also find time for some Schnittke and, yes, some Bartók.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The restaurants in this part of the Upper East Side make want to puke even more than those in Upper East Midtown.
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Monday, October 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caitlin George: Helen.
MONDAY & WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 & 18 – 22, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 29)
7:00 PM MONDAY
8:00 PM WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$30; students/seniors $10-$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’ve probably seen the story of Helen of Troy enacted before in some form or other. But maybe not this fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Monday, October 16, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Bouquets (Duets with the BQE)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2023
7:00 PM
Mama Tried
787 Third Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
Free (tip the bands)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
THEY say: “A rotating cast of avant noisemakers play along with a mic’d up elevated highway”. I say: if you’ve ever been to Mama Tried you’ll be surprised they think they need to mic up the BQE over there. Tonight’s avant-noisemakers include such new and old List Faves as Ala Muerte and Melody Loveless.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The food at the venue, Mama Tried, is totally edible. The drinks are fine (they make their own vermouth!).
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Monday, October 16, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Brazilian Salon
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2023
6:30 PM
Private Residence
Address provided upon ticketing, Upper East Side, Manhattan
$77.70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You get to hear the Trio Catarina play lively Forro. Then you get fed Brazilian food and drinks.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If you’re still hungry, you could go to Brasserie Cognac for French food that’s not only not all that good, but also not all that French.
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Monday, October 16, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 8:00 AM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Gelsey Bell feat. Joseph White: Cairns
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 22, 2023 (ongoing)
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
#stillHERE IRL
Green-Wood Cemetery, Sunset Park Entrance
35th Street at 4th Avenue, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$7 or more for soundtrack
TICKETS + INFORMATION
One of the first shows that you could actually Go Out! to back in the days of The Lockdown (although it's not quite "live"). Gelsey Bell, that vocal star of NYC Alt Classical, has conceived of a piece that walks you around Green-Wood Cemetery (starting at the Sunset Park Entrance). You download the soundtrack on your phone beforehand (the Times complains about how hard it is to download from Bandcamp to an iPhone — trust me: if I can figure out how to do it, anyone can). Bell wrote the text and narrates, with a co-composing assist from the inimitable Joe White (whose terrific new album you really ought to hear). The Cemetery itself will do the performing. (You can also listen to the soundtrack at home and pretend you're walking around the Cemetery.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The Sunset Park entrance is only a short walk from Hometown BBQ Industry City (if you go over the weekend, you can get the fabulous pastrami).
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Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 6:00 AM – Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
Ellen Reid: New York, New York
MONDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 22, 2023 (ongoing)
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM
New York Philharmonic
Central Park, Manhattan
Free
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What do you know? The New York Phil has gone and renamed Ellen Reid’s SOUNDWALK. Reid, one of the more soundscapey (and certainly one of the best) of today's many excellent young composers, put together a highly allusive soundtrack, played by members of the Philharmonic and a bunch of Alt Classical players about town. This walk isn't guided: you download an app that triggers sounds sent to your earphones from various cells around the Park as you wander. So you can do it over many times. (Speaking of wandering around Central Park, here's something that I, for one, never knew.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Delicious pan-African at Teranga.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Titans to Tachyons / Sana Nagano: Atomic Pigeons
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Nublu 151
151 Avenue C, East Village, Manhattan
$22.66
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Titans to Tachyons is jazz(+) guitarist Sally Gates’s metal band. Atomic Pigeons is jazz(+) violinist Sana Nagano’s Prog band. You can go as whatever you want.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serbian MEAT at Kafana. (NB: cash only.)
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Da Capo Chamber Players: Carter, Karchin, Davis
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
$34.12; $18.07 students/seniors
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The DeCapo Chamber Players play a rather stodgy Old Skool Modernist program of three generations (young/old/dead) of American composers. Even the youngster still writes like there’s an Uptown/Downtown split (and he’s on the Northside). And the dead one’s the most youthful-sounding. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Really good burgers (and lots to drink) at The Happiest Hour.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Chuck Roth, James McKain, Whit Dickey & Rob Brown
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
MUSIC
Chuck Roth, James McKain, Whit Dickey & Rob Brown
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tuff jazz from some tuff players: tenor, alto, guitar, and drums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Persian tapas at Masquerade.
Tuff jazz from some tuff players: tenor, alto, guitar, and drums.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Persian tapas at Masquerade.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC / DANCE / PERFORMANCE
Gary Lucas & Alison Clancy: Written on the Body: A Series of Short Films about the Body by 3 Radical Women Filmmakers
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Guitar genius Gary Lucas plays soundtrack music (composed and improvised) for short films about the female body by three women filmmakers. And not just any three: Shirley Clarke, Maya Deren, and Barbara Rubin! Alison Clancy dances to and around the films.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Manhattan Skyscraper: rim an ice-filled Highball glass with an orange peel. Pour in 1-1/2 oz. Bourbon and 1/2 oz. sweet Vermouth. Stir. Top with ginger ale. Garnish with an orange twist and a cocktail cherry on a skewer.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Peretsky: Pianovoz Electroacústica Tape Release Show / KING VISION ULTRA / Yatta
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Sisters
900 Fulton Street, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$15
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Peretsky goes all mellow electroacoustic on his new piano w/vocals album, but it isn’t just noodling. My only complaint is that it sounds more like a Summer record than a Fall one. KING VISION ULTRA, coming from Hip-Hop and Metal and making music that sounds like nothing but himself, is one of the crucial musicians in New York. Yatta you will just love: Sierra Leone-rooted jazz-inflected Nu R&B sung with a gorgeous alto voice.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can eat and drink perfectly well at Sisters.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 6:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Unheard-of//Ensemble: What Remains
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
6:30 PM
Gowanus Bunker Boathouse
2 19th Street, Sunset Heights, Brooklyn
Free on shore or from your own boat; $17.85 in supplied canoe
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Can’t get enough of these concerts at Superfund Sites. Unheard-of//Ensemble plays a multimedia piece by Christoper Stark (visuals by Zlatko Ćosić) that takes the audience — who can watch on land or on water (if that’s what you call the liquid in the Gowanus Canal) — from alien landscapes to the alien-seeming Gowanus itself. Opening set by Phong Tran!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Peruvian at Surfish Bistro.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sunday Salon: Laura Conroy
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
4:00 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
OK, I’ll admit that I’m unfamiliar with pianist Laura Conroy. But if she’s playing Takemistu, Knussen, György Kurtág, and Enescu, I’m down.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great drinks, good food at Fort Defiance.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
DANCE
Josie Bettman: open dance figure
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
3:00 PM
Prelude Festival
Plank Road Public Shoreline
4801 58th Road, Maspeth, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lots going at Plank Road this afternoon. Josie Bettman usually dances (or at least designs dances) in a small room. Here, she dances out in the open — next to a Superfund site.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Since I can only assume that once you’re out there you’re going to stick around for Mespaetches Creek Dynamic Listening afterward, I’ll send you to same place for a nightcap: Mansions for Natural wine and music.
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 3:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Sunday, October 15, 2023, 2:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Council of Venusian Libras x PLEASE Y.S. SHOW
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
Address disclosed upon tickeing, Chinatown, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Some people whose music This List doesn’t like very much. And then Luke Stewart, Lester St. Louis, Isabel Crespo Pardo, and Drew Wesely, whose groundedly experimental music This List couldn’t like more.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Braised meats and preserved vegetables make beautiful music together at Hakka Cuisine.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Chico Freeman Quintet
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$30 advance; $35 door; $25 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The soulful In-and-Out sax player Chico Freeman pays tribute to his family: his father, one of the great sax players; and his uncles, a great guitarist and a really good drummer.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent cocktails, surprisingly good food at Grand Army Bar.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$38.45
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Pharoah Sanders’s 1976 “Harvest Time” (for sax, harmonium, guitar, bass, and percussion) is just some of the best Western music there is. People at the time complained that the theretofore volcanic Sanders was drifting into New Age — but now it sounds like he was getting an early start on his trip to heaven. This music is meditative, but while you’d never call it tense, it certainly isn’t lax. Chicago Scenester Joshua Abrams has been leading different ensembles of different compositions to explore the work; tonight’s includes among others Jeff Parker, the Neo-Pop-to-New-Music guitarist who is one of this List’s Chicago favorites.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Georgian at Cheeseboat.
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Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ragas Live Festival 2023
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$74.26
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Twenty-four hours of Ragas and music by people who listen to Ragas. I’d have to say this may be this festival’s best line-up yet, with trios of Amirtha Kidambi, Qasim Naqvi, and Rafiq Bhatia, and of Vicky Chow, Mark Stewart, and David Cossin, adding some some color. (I recently found this radio station in India that plays the best Indian classical, BTW. Give it a listen!)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: During the day, great sandwiches at Court Street Grocers. At night, tacos at San Pedro Inn.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Kate Soper: The Hunt
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 & 14, 2023
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$39-$69.75; $33.50-$59.75 seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
I’ve never seen a Kate Soper hyper-intellectual hyper-verbal hyper-funny opera that I didn’t love. I’d be surprised if that stops now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Inventive Chinese at Atlas Kitchen.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Still/Moving: Zekkereya & 1Alkebylan
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
This is a little confusing — but it looks really good. Zekkereya is a multidisciplinary artist who does animation, graphic scores, what have you. 1Alkebylan is a transplanted Ethiopian Alt R&B singer formerly known as the less Alt Alem Worldwide. Together they will do . . . something. The always-welcome Rena Anakwe will be making sounds in the interstices.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: To be perfectly honest, there’s something a little weird about the reopened Una Pizza Neapolitana.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Ehiorobo & omniboi / Isa Reyes / Alcantara
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$23.69
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nu R&B. With an emphasis on the “Nu”.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The best birria in New York City (I’m convinced) at Nene’s Taqueria.
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Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne: Bat Channel
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
6:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne leads the good quartet he’s been playing around town with.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Exo-Tech
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
4:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$27.81
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sophia Brous and Kimbra lead a floating bunch of instrumentalists in a bounce between songform and free improv. And tonight’s bunch is particularly full of List regulars.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Oaxacan at Claro.
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Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 4:00 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
Cal Fish: Mespaetches Creek Dynamic Listening
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 & 15, 2023
4:00 PM
SATURDAY: McGolrick Park
Russell Street & Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
SUNDAY: Plank Road Public Shoreline
4801 58th Road, Maspeth, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Part of a series of Superfund Site-adjacent performance/installations in North Brooklyn. In addition to sound sculpture and installation-experiencing, there will be dance performances
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Friday in Greenpoint, homey Polish at Restaurant Relax. Sunday in Maspeth, Natural wine and music at Mansions.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 4:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Michael Hearst: The Unusual, Extraordinary, Curious, and Unconventional Songbook
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
4:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$16.64
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Michael Hearst bills himself as writing children’s music. But what he really writes is semi-classical chamber pop of enormous charm and appeal.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This show gives you a clear shot at bein at Reyes Deli & Grocery before their phenomenal weekend barbacoa and goat stew run out!
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Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 2:00 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
John Hastings: Forest Song
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 & 15, 2023
2:00 & 4:00 PM SATURDAY
1:00 & 3:00 PM SUNDAY
Inwood Hill Park, Inwood, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
In the last patch of natural forest left in Manhattan, TILT Brass — a bunch of fabulous players — present a piece by John Hastings reflecting the various uses of this area made by various peoples at various times. And the implications thereof.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Galicia Tapas. You’ll thank me.
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Saturday, October 14, 2023, 12:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
InGardens InDoors
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2023
12:00 PM
Kabayitos Theater, The Clemente
114 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Free
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Indoors “the rain cannot stop the music”, they proclaim defensively. And a really good Free Jazz lineup they have in there, too. Just to cherry-pick a few, to give you an idea: gayageum wiz DoYeon playing with the (happily) ubiquitous trumpeter Chris Williams; Fay Victor’s voices-forward The Spaces We Live; revered elder and Sun Ra veteran Ahmed Abdullah on trumpet; and eddy kwon being edy kwon.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good Haitian and (usually) great music at Rebel.
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Friday, October 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Cal Massey: Black Liberation Movement Suite
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Cal Massey is one of the great lost composer/arrangers in jazz. He came out of the same Philadelphia scene as Coltrane (although he spent his last years in Brooklyn). His commercial career was stymied by his political radicalism. So perhaphs it’s appropriate that his chef d’ouevre was written for the Panthers. Massey hasn’t been with us for a while, and I have no information as to who will be playing this crucial piece.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Unexpected but not really incongrouous Japanese-Ashkenazi mash-up at Shalom Japan.
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Laurie Spiegel & Seth Cluett: A Harmonic Algorithm 2020
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2023
8:00 & 9:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ First Unitarian Congregational Society
116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
$21
TICKETS + INFORMATION
ISSUE Project Room’s renovated space (re)opens! They celebrate with a piece that was supposed to be shown to a wide audience (I mean, not that ISSUE Project Room’s then-current auditorium was so big) in March 2020 — but we all know what happened then. Instead, ISSUE staged the work later in 2020 as an installation for a limited audience, and also turned it into a video that they streamed. Now we’re back to the original presentation, at last, with Laurie Spiegel’s algorithmically generated electronic sounds as spacialized by Seth Cluett and accompanied by his visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I’ve been waiting for ISSUE to reopen so I could send you to the American classic Gage & Tollner and/or the Sunken Harbor Club tiki bar upstairs afterwards.
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Friday, October 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 8:00 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Caitlin George: Helen.
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 15, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 29)
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
4:00 PM SUNDAY
La MaMa
66 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$10-$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
You’ve probably seen the story of Helen of Troy enacted before in some form or other. But maybe not this fast.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Great Burmese at Little Myanmar.
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
THEATER
Jeesun Choi: To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 15, 2023 (continues OCTOBER 16)
7:30 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two women of indeterminate relationship meet and suggest/embody experiences of the Korean diaspora.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outrageously good pub grub at Meckelberg’s.
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Friday, October 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Experimental & Improvised Music: velak / Zucker-Bowen / Uesaka-Golub-Edgcomb
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2023
7:30 PM
Spectrum
481 Van Brunt Street, Door 7A, Red Hook, Brooklyn
$15; $10 students/seniors
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Ho hum, another great night at Spectrum. Velak, the mysterious Austrian electroacoustic collective. The superb pianist-composer Gabriel Zucker in a duo with drummer Robby Bowen. And three nonpareil improvisers (and composers for that matter) on the New York scene: sax player Uma Euesaka, pianist Phillip Golub, and percussionist Aaron Edgcomb.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: As you might guess, Hometown Bar-B-Que serves a New York style of barbecue.
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Josephine Simple: This Show Is My Funeral
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 21)
7:30 PM
Brick Aux
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22-$52
TICKETS + INFORMATION
When Josephine Simple transitioned, some people started referring to their old “male” self as if it were a separate person who was dead. Simple found that kind of funny, and now will make you find this “funeral” for that “male” self funny, too.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Free pizza at the Alligator Lounge! (And it isn’t bad!)
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 11:59 PM
DANCE
E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown / Evidence
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan
$25-$40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ronald K. Browne's African-American-vernacular-inflected contemporary dance is getting pretty mainstream for this List. But it isn't getting any less enjoyable.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ramen, oysters, kitchen snacks, and cocktails at ROKC.
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:30 PM – Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Aaron Parks
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2023
7:30 & 9:30 PM FRIDAY
5:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY
The Jazz Gallery In Person & FRIDAY Live Stream
1158 Broadway (entrance on West 27th Street), NoMad, Manhattan
$33-$44 in person; $22 live stream
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
On Friday, the smart pianist Aaron Parks, who’s always found a way to credibly integrate his Indie Rock tastes into plausible jazz, leads a knockout sextet. On Saturday, Parks and a bunch of surprise friends celebrate his 40th birthday (presumably the showtimes have been pushed up early to give Parks a chance to really celebrate afterward).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, José Andés cocktails and bar snacks at the sky-high Nubeluz. Streaming at home, let’s think about the thing Aaron Parks doesn’t want to upon entering middle age, by paying tribute to Parks’s fellow Seattlean, the recently deceased mixology legend Murray Stenson, with the forgotten cocktail Stenson memorably put back on the map, the Last Word: pour 3/4 oz. each of Gin, green Chartreuse, Maraschino liqueur, and lime juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Sirius Quartet: Progressive Chamber Music Festival
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 & 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, West Village, Manhattan
$28.77 each night; $44.82 both nights
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Sirius Quartet curates a two-night festival of “progressive chamber music”, three acts a night. You can peruse the bill yourself, but let me note: Matthew Shipp on Saturday!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This is a good time of year for the hearty basic Americana at The Commerce Inn.
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE
Linked Dance Theatre: The Incomplete Collection
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 15, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 29)
7:00 PM
Culture Lab LIC @ The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
$40-$90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
What seems to be an art gallery exhibition turns out to be a “highly interactive” experience in which was is on display are not artworks but ideas (whatever that means).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Seems silly not to cross the street to the Rockaway Brewing Company Long Island City Tap Room. If you want something more solid, take a walk and celebrate that the wonderful Serbian-on-the-Water funspot Anable Basin Sailing Bar & Grill avoided corporate/civic displacement.
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Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Analog Sacrifice
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 – 15, 2023
7:00 PM
FRIDAY: Trans-Pecos
915 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Purgatory
675 Central Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn
$19.33 FRIDAY; $22.66 SATURDAY & SUNDAY; $33.99 SATURDAY-SUNDAY TWO-DAY PASS
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Musicians, performance artists, poets, and visual artists collaborate in randomly chosen aggregations.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In Ridgewood, pizza and Natural wine at Decades Pizza. In Bushwick (which, let’s face it, is across the street from Ridgewood), a good slice shop: Crust Pizza.
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Friday, October 13, 2023, 6:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Rolf Schulte
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2023
6:00 PM
Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
$35
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Rolfe Schulte is one terrific violinist, of course. And look who he’s playing: Bach, Stravinsky, Carter, and Kurtág. Like, wow.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You didn’t know you needed Dominican barbecue, but you do: Bark Barbecue.
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Thursday, October 12, 2023, 9:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, October 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Susana Fatima / Di Ivories
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2023
8:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Vaguely psychedelic Pop-Rock from South America (although Di Ivories now lives in Brooklyn). Raising once again the question: why do they do it so much better than we do?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza!
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Thursday, October 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
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Thursday, October 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
MUSIC
Tim Berne
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2023
8:00 & 9:30 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tonight the excellent trumpet Ralph Alessi joins in the tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne ‘s fun.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
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Thursday, October 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Kate Soper: The Hunt
THURSDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 & 14, 2023
8:00 PM
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan
$39-$69.75; $33.50-$59.75 seniors
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I’ve never seen a Kate Soper hyper-intellectual hyper-verbal hyper-funny opera that I didn’t love. I’d be surprised if that stops now.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Inventive Chinese at Atlas Kitchen.
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Thursday, October 12, 2023, 8:00 PM – 11:59 PM
OPERA
Darius Jones: Samesoul Maker
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors; free live stream
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Wearing his composer’s hat, Darius Jones follows up his nearly 10-year-old (10 YEARS? WTF????) opera The Oversoul Manual, about alien birthing rituals (which was a trip), with another opera about alien birthing rituals (which should be another trip). An augmented-demented version of This List’s Favorite Band performs.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice enough bistro at Bacchus.
