My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 27, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 22-28. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.)

Scott Johnson with Contemporaneous
Roulette, Brooklyn; Jan. 23 at 8

Guitarist and composer Johnson, innovator of a signature speech-based style, presents a major recent work and a brand-new companion piece.

Object Collection
La MaMa E.T.C.; Jan. 23-25 at 8, Jan. 26 at 5; through Feb. 2

A musical performance-art troupe with Robert Ashley and Richard Foreman running through its veins introduces its newest opera, You Are Under Our Space Control.

FOCUS 2020
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre and Alice Tully Hall; Jan. 24-31 at 7:30

Jointly curated by Joel Sachs and Odaline de la Martinez to mark the centenary of women's suffrage, this year's free Juilliard festival offers music by 32 women representing 15 countries.

Protestival
Spectrum, Brooklyn; Jan. 24 at 7 and 8:30; Jan. 25 at 7 and 8; Jan. 26 at 3 and 5

Music inspired by, or meant to inspire, social and political activism is the focus of this series, which ranges from a new-music trumpet recital and an Eisenstein screening with free-jazz accompaniment to a set by singer-songwriter Tom Chapin.

Kronos Quartet
Zankel Hall; Jan. 25 at 9

Kronos, equipped with a substitute cellist, presents minimalist canon, a Bryce Dessner premiere, and more. And then on Jan. 28, the International Contemporary Ensemble teams up with clarinetist-composer Jörg Widmann.

Bang on a Can
Merkin Hall; Jan. 28 at 7:30

This year's People's Commissioning Fund concert, presented under the Ecstatic Music banner, includes new music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Amanda Berlind, Alvin Curran, and Qasim Naqvi

"Voices and Piano"
Austrian Cultural Forum; Jan. 28 at 7

Composer Peter Ablinger and composer-pianist Eric Wubbels present selections from this growing body of inventively chatty piano works, including a new piece inspired by Diamanda Galás.