Truth be told, there wasn't a lot happening on Monday or Tuesday night, thanks to the convergence of Holy Week and Tax Day. Still, late is late, and late is frustrating – I'm still trying to get the hang of a schedule in serious flux, and there are new developments afoot as well. So much for all that free time I was supposed to have when I ended my Time Out stint! I've got two official gigs for The New York Times this week, and they're both choice occasions.
Official business
Wednesday, April 16: MATA Festival
The Kitchen; 8pm; $20, students $15
Produced by composers for composers, this always intriguing festival gets underway with the American debut of Finnish new-music group Uusinta. The program includes one instantly appealing prospect, Hikari Kiyama's Jōruri Death Metal, "influenced by the unlikely bedfellows of metal, Brian Ferneyhough, and Japanese folk music," plus further works by Aaron Helgeson, Alexander Khubeev, Joan Arnau Pàmies, Ilari Kaila and Sampo Haapamäki. The festival continues through Monday, April 21, and there's something worth hearing every day.
Saturday, April 19: Trillium J (The Non-Unconfessionables)
Roulette; 3 and 8pm; $35, advance $30; seniors and students $30, advance $25
Opens Thursday, April 17 (Acts I & II) and Friday, April 18 (Acts III & IV) at 8pm
Anthony Braxton's latest four-act opera receives its premiere in a semi-staged multimedia concert setting with vocal and instrumental soloists and orchestra. "I believe that the medium of opera is directly relevant to cultural alignment and evolution," says Braxton: a properly utopian viewpoint for this quixotic, vital venture. If a full day is too much Trillium, you can catch the four acts spread across two evenings on Thursday and Friday. Me, I'm in for the long haul, and hope to bring Annina to the matinee at the Tri-Centric Foundation's express invitation.
Elsewhere and -when
Wednesday, April 16:
Jocelyn Ho & Chris Pidcock play Kaija Saariaho, Anna Clyne, Olga Neuwirth, Arvo Pärt, Mauricio Kagel, Giacinto Scelsi, Nikolai Kapustin and Jocelyn Ho at Spectrum; 9:30pm (more)
The Manhattan String Quartet plays Eric Moe, Craig Walsh, Henri Dutilleux, Anton Webern and Igor Stravinsky at Tenri Cultural Center; 8:30pm (more)
JG Thirlwell & Sarah Lipstate at the Stone; 10pm (more)
Tigue Voices Up: New Poems Set to Music at Fordham University–Lincon Center 12th floor lounge; 7:30pm (more) FREE
Thursday, April 17:
Robert Ashley and Alex Waterman Vidas Perfectas at the Whitney Museum of American Art; 1:30 and 4:30pm (more)
Also Friday, April 18 at 1:30 and 6:30pm; Saturday, April 19 and Sunday, April 20 at noon and 4:30pm; various segments at each performance
Axiom plays Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez at Alice Tully Hall; 8pm (more) FREE
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center plays Ezequiel Viñao, Detlev Glanert, Sebastian Currier, Osvaldo Golijov and Fred Lerdahl at the Kaplan Penthouse; 7:30pm, live stream on CMS website (more)
Curtis 20/21 plays Joan Tower and Johann Sebastian Bach at Miller Theatre; 8pm (more)
Mary Jane Leach at the Old Stone House of Brooklyn; 8pm (more)
Nate Wooley with Giacomo Merega at Prospect Range; 8:30pm (more)
Friday, April 18:
Lucian Ban with Mat Maneri and Tony Malaby at Greenwich House Music School; 7:30pm (more)
Brooklyn New Music Collective plays Glen Roven, Herschel Garfein, Thomas Millioto, Michael Rose, Ben Morss, Lowell Liebermann, Steven Gerber, Jen Baker, Adam Tendler and Julia Wolfe; 7:30pm (more)
Jason Lescalleet Trophy Tape at Anthology Film Archives; 7:30pm (more)
Karen Mantler Trio at Barbès; 8pm (more)
Gilles Vonsattel plays Frederic Rzewski, George Benjamin, Heinz Holliger, Olivier Messiaen, Franz Liszt and Leoš Janáček at Bargemusic; 7pm (more)
Saturday, April 19:
Composers Concordance All About Japan at Goddard Riverside—Bernie Wohl Center; 8pm (more) FREE
Luke Gullickson To Evening Lands and Marcel with Eliot Cole and Majel Connery at Spectrum; 8:45pm (more)
Nadav Lev plays Fausto Romitelli and more at Spectrum; 7:30pm (more)
Evan Calder Williams Violent X with Taku Unami at Issue Project Room; 8pm (more)
Sunday, April 20:
Architeuthis Walks on Land (Katherine Young and Amy Cimini) at Spectrum; 8:30pm (more)
Ramin Arjomand, Andrew Niess & Sarah Segner play Morton Feldman at Spectrum; 3pm (more)
Koen Holtcamp, Mind Over Mirrors and Mike Wexler at Union Pool; 8pm (more)
David Virelles Continuum at Greenwich House Music School; 7:30pm (more)
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