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RECOMMENDED THIS WEEK
MUSIC
Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids: 50th Anniversary Celebration
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$30.90
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Conscious Free Jazz with African elements and hints of Psych and Funk. Does this List love it? Do the Hogons venerate Lebe?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Chicago Italian beef as good as in Chicago at Bobbi’s Italian Beef.
MUSIC
Anirudh Varma Collective
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Art Cafe & Bar
884 Pacific Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Anirudh Varma Collective’s music is like Call of the Valley plugged in and fusing with now instead of 1967. If you’re into Indian classical, you’ll know that’s high praise indeed.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: I mean, Christ, you’re right around the corner from Cruz del Sur. Go, have a Torta Ahogada, and have your life changed.
MUSIC
Plantasia
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th Street, Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
$48.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The New Age resuscitation continues apace. This show reimagines material from Plantasia, an album Mort Garson designed to be played to plants (hence the venue). (Garson came to New Age out of Easy Listening: just sayin.) But when the players include DAOUI — a duo of Angel Bat Dawid and Oui Ennui(!!!) — attention must be paid.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is it idiotic to declare Tacos El Bronco the best taco truck in New York City? It is the best taco truck, though.
MUSIC
The Village Trip GuitarFest I – “Bowery Haunt” In Memory of Scott Johnson
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
The Village Trip
Loft 393
393 Broadway, Tribeca, Manhattan
$30; $25 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Lotsa guitar music played by lotsa guitarists. But the highlight is a memorial performance of Bowery Haunt by Scott Johnson, the recently deceased composer whose work anticipated so much of what’s vital about Alt Classical.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Snacky Argentinian/Uruguayan at Mostrador.
MUSIC
Cría Cuervos
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:00 PM
Academy Records Brooklyn Annex
242 Banker Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two cutting-edge (another phrase we have to replace) jazz ensembles, one led by saxophonist Michaël Attias (and featuring series organizer Kenneth Jiménez on bass); the other lead by bassist Brandon Lopez.
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.
MUSIC
Ortiz the Musician
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Church of the Advent Hope In Person & Live Stream
111 East 87th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
As I’ve said before, Latin American Baroque is some of the most vivaciously enjoyable music around — until you think about the sociohistorical implications. This piece, interspersing composed sections among improvisations, and experimental passages among passages evoking the Baroque, addresses those issues head on, using an obscure minor musician/conquistador as a handle. To give you a sense of the quality of the project, the composers (who will also be playing) include Vicente Hansen Atria (as far as I’m concerned the new composer of last season) and the wild experimental Mexican trumpet player Wilfrido Terrazas. In addition to them and several others, the players include violinist Miranda Cuckson (always a signifier of quality) and Contemporary/Baroque cellist Coleman Itzkoff.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, the opposite of Latin American food at the Heidelberg Restaurant. Streaming at home, have a Paloma: wet the rim of a Collins glass with lime and then rim with salt. Add ice. Pour in 2 oz. Blanco or Reposado Tequila and 1/4-1/2 oz. lime juice. Top with grapefruit soda.
MUSIC
Andy Akiho: Seven Pillars
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
7:30 PM
Tishman Auditorium, New School
63 Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sandbox Percussion must be pinching themselves that Andy Akiho wrote such a rigorously structured but fun piece for them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Strip House certainly has its fans.
MUSIC
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily: Love In Exile
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
The Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$42.20-$74.40
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three endlessly fascinating soundsculptors get together to sculpt sounds. Their new album is beyond excellent.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Very good tacos at Los Tacos No. 1.
MUSIC
Zorn@70: Four World Premieres
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
$35 advance; $40 door; $30 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Four brand new pieces by John Zorn, hewing to his chamber music side. Of course, since he’s Zorn, he’s gotten fabulous people to play them.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A new bar around the corner from Roulette! The Little Pig.
MUSIC
In Real Time/FIDOqrtet
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
8:00 PM
IBeam
168 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
FIDOqrtet ingriguingly combines voice, trumpet/flugelhorn, piano/electronics, and drums/percussion.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Hawaiian at Sweet Talk.
MUSIC
Tim Berne
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
8:00 & 9:30 PM
Lowlands
543 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
TBD
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tonight the tough in-and-out alto saxophonist Tim Berne’s combo is joined by Matt Povolka on trombone.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Cool Mexican at Alma Negra.
DANCE
Tatiana Desardouin & Nubian Néné: Les 5 Sens X The Intermission
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
10:00 PM
Crossing the Line Festival
Boom, The Standard, High Line
442 West 13th Street, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Tatiana Desardouin brings Les 5 Sens, a traveling show she’s been doing providing an immersive experience involving all five senses: there’s live music, dance, food and drinks, and I guess you smell your fellow audience members. Nubian Néné’s intermissions are Waack.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Remember when Meatpacking seemed like a promising dining neighborhood? If so, you’re Old. The newish iteration of Pastis is far from bad, though.
MUSIC
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
10:00 PM
Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$20
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Their name nods to Soukous and Dada; their various backgrounds harken to classical, jazz, and experimental improvisation; and their sound invokes Free Jazz, Post-Punk, High Life, brass band, symphonic music, and Krautrock. Sound good to you?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Better-than-Neighborhood Mexican at Fonda.
DANCE
Jade Manns: Things in the World
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2023
8:00 PM
Pageant
70 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10-$30
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Jade Manns is very much a leave-it-to-the-viewer-to-make-what-they-will artist, with ambiguity at the center of form. Just what we like around here.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Mexican snacks and mad desserts at Maya’s Snack Bar.
DANCE
Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy: Filling Station
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2023 (also SEPTEMBER 23 at Dia Beacon)
5:30 PM
The Kitchen @ Horatio Street Gas Station
51-67 8th Avenue, Meatpacking District, Manhattan
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
American-in-Paris multidisciplinary artist Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy is the moving force behind this regeneration of the 1930s progenitor of dance Americana, with choreography by Niall Jones and Raymond Pinto replacing that by Lew Christensen, and music by James Ferraro replacing that by Virgil Thomson (I’d have kept the Thomson — but I’m Old). This new iteration will foreground Queer themes that dared not speak their name in the ‘30s. There’s a related exhibition by Lutz-Kinnoy on view at The Kitchen @ Westbeth (163 Bank Street, West Village, Manhattan) through November 3.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: People think the burgers at Corner Bistro are really good. I never could understand why.
PERFORMANCE
Julia Vanderveen: My Grandmother’s Eyepatch
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Frigid New York
Kraine Theater In Person & SATURDAY Livestream
85 East 4th Street, East Village, Manhattan
$27
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The way to address grief is through clowning.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: And then eat some insects at The Black Ant.
PERFORMANCE
Asi Wind: Inner Circle
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 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’ve 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.
PERFORMANCE
New Red Order: World’s Unfair
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 15)
6:00 PM THURSDAY
12:00 – 8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
10:00 – 6:00 PM SUNDAY
Creative Time
24-17 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
Free
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An immersive multimedia carnavalesque bunch of stuff imagining a Post-Colonial future. (There’ll be nighttime performances on September 22 and October 14; you might want to wait for them.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Time stands still at the Court Square Diner.
PERFORMANCE
Caborca: Zoetrope
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023 (continuing through OCTOBER 8)
7:00 PM THURSDAY – SUNDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$24.28 THURSDAY – SATURDAY; $35.83 SUNDAY; $18.50 students
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A multimedia multigenre fantasia flipping between Puerto Rico and Spanish Harlem.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You can now get into Corner Bar. At least sometimes.
THEATER
Tjaša Ferme: BIOADAPTED
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 24)
7:30 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
3:00 & 7:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Culture Lab LIC @ The Plaxall Gallery
5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens
$33.85; $26.38 students/seniors/artists
TICKETS + INFORMATION
An interactive multi-media exploration of the implications of AI, using reenactments of real interviews, fictional vignettes, and GPT-3-generated material.
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.
PERFORMANCE
David Perez: Looming Dogs
THURSDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 17, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY & SATURDAY
9:00 PM FRIDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY
The Brick
579 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$22; $37 for ticket to this show and Penguin in Your Ear
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A solo comedy piece (running in rep with another solo comedy piece, Eliza Bent’s Penguin in Your Ear) asking the question, “is grief funny”?
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ground-zero birria (poor choice of words this week) at the Birria-Landia truck.
MUSIC
Sarah Davachi
THURSDAY – FRIDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 15 & 17, 2023
8:00 PM THURSDAY & FRIDAY
1:00 PM SUNDAY
The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan
$15 THURSDAY & FRIDAY; $5 students/seniors THURSDAY & FRIDAY; free with museum admission SUNDAY
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SUNDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
The Minimalist electronic composer Sarah Davachi presents a different recent electroacoustic chamber piece at each show. Prepare to be mesmerized.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ordinary bistro/brasserie French in a splendid setting in La Grande Boucherie.
MUSIC
NYC Anarchist Book Fair Music Festival: CA/DE/NA/Eugene Chadbourne & Jim McHugh/Daniel Carter-Andrew Barker-Kyle Motl Trio/Ras Moshe/Samara Lubelski
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
5:00 PM
P.I.T.
411 South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$10
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Various kinds of music — all of it at least towards the edge.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza!
MUSIC/DANCE
Alicia Hall Moran: COLDBLOODED
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 & 9:30 PM
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$44.48-$49.48
EARLY SHOW TICKETS + INFORMATION
LATE SHOW TICKETS + INFORMATION
Accompanied by The Hands Free(!) with percussionist Jacqueline Acevedo, the soprano Alicia Hall Moran presides over . . . an ice dancing show!
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Celebrate Hatch Chili season at Santa Fe BK.
MUSIC
Patricia Brennan Septet
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Vibist Patricia Brennan is a really special player, with a cooly expressive, sharply rhythmic style that lends her distinction as both a composer and an improviser. You can be on the debut album of her septet, which features such other great players as Adam O’Farrill, Jon Irabagon, Mark Shim, and Marcus Gilmore.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Nice Venezuelan at Casa Ora.
MUSIC
Pedro Giraudo Tango Trio feat. The Terra String Quartet
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:00 PM
Joe’s Pub, Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, NoHo, Manhattan
$32.50 advance; $30 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Nuevo Tango.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Incendiary Hunanese at Chef Tan.
MUSIC
sinonó/Althea Kilombo
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:30 PM
Ki Smith Gallery
170 Forsyth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
$25.63
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Sinonó is a rather irresistible collaboration between vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo, cellist Lester St. Louis, and bassist Henry Fraser, with songforms by Crespo interspersed among free improvisations. Althea Quilombo is ace drummer Tcheser Holmes’s longform piece concerning slavery.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: To be perfectly honest, there’s something a little weird about the reopened Una Pizza Neapolitana.
MUSIC
Ellen Arkbro: Sculptures
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
7:30 PM
Blank Forms @ Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$25
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Ellen Arkbro takes her droney organ to church.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Pizza and (if you’re lucky) burgers at Emily.
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
BINT: Solve et Coagula → عيب, Stage II: تبييض (The Whitening)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room @ Center for Performance Research (CPR)
361 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Free ($20 requested donation)
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Mutlidisciplinary artist BINT, who mines and messes with her Arab/South Asian heritages, stages the second of three Sufi-derived pieces mirroring the primary stages of Arabic alchemical transmutation. But the transmutation most of interest to the audience will be BINT’s use of technology to alter sound and visuals.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: You’re just down the street from neo-Cantonese-American hotspot Bonnie’s. If only you could get in.
MUSIC
chiquitamagic/Zack Phillips/Anaïs Maviel
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
The Owl Music Parlor
497 Rogers Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
$15 advance; $20 door
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Three very different examples of stuff this List just adores. Chiquitamagic does incredibly winning Latinx alt synth-pop. Zach Phillips does skewed Of Montrealish pop that can get too busy — but that’s a risk of the genre, right? Anaïs Maviel’s ritualistic avant-Haitian is, quite simply, riveting.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Ham and wine at & Sons. Winning neighborhood Roman at Camillo.
MUSIC
Talea Ensemble: Shades of Words
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
JACK
20 Putnam Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$23.18; $12.51 students/seniors
TICKETS + INFORMATION
The expert Talea Ensemble presents a program including some solid List faves, like George Lewis (who hardly needs any accolades from this List), Jessie Cox, Hannah Kendall, and Jeffrey Mumford (dodecaphony with a heart!).
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The excellent Bati Ethiopian Kitchen has moved from Fort Greene to . . . right around here!
MUSIC
Gaye Su Akyol
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
8:00 PM
DROM
85 Avenue A, East Village, Manhattan
$70
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Gaye Su Akyol isn’t the second coming of Psychedelic Rock; she’s the second coming of Turkish Psychedelic Rock, which was its own thing. As such, she could never be as impactful here as at home. But I’ll bet she puts on a great show. (And to think you could’ve seen her for free at Bryant Park last week.)
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Wine and pasta from Roberta’s at Foul Witch.
PERFORMANCE
Ana Knežević: Circles of Resonance
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 & 16, 2023
6:00 – 9:00 PM FRIDAY
1:00 – 5:00 PM SATURDAY
CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street, NoHo, Manhattan
Free-$50
TICKETS + INFORMATION
Two VR pieces, immersing viewers in intense saturated colors, geometric shapes, and sound that is activated by the viewers’ own motions. It all takes about 15 minutes.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Might as well go to Atla for Mezcal/Tequila and Mexican café food.
DANCE
Heart of Brick
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 – 17, 2023 (continuing through SEPTEMBER 22)
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY
2:00 PM SUNDAY
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan
$10-$82
TICKETS + INFORMATION
A celebration of the multi-generational spirit of the Black Queer community. But with dance by Rajah Feather Kelly, visuals by Wu Tsang, and music (performed live) by serpentwithfeet, it won’t be as simple and straightforward as all that.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Burmese at Rangoon.