MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018
7:30 PM

Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on East 25th Street), Rose Hill, Manhattan

$36
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In the July 1923, the Parisian Dadaists staged a performance event mingling film by such artists/filmmakers as Hans Richter and Man Ray, theater, and music by such Dadaist fellow travelers as Satie, Milhaud, and Antheil.  It was one of those early 20th Century arts events in Paris that devolved into a legendary riot (indeed, a riot arising from the esthetic split that engendered the new Surrealist movement -- far inferior to dada, IMO) (but we're going way off topic here).  Pianist Guy Livingston, who specializes in this repertoire, attempts a recreation of/tribute to that event, with some of those original films, Dadaist costumes, the works (although presumably not the riot).  I can only speak for myself:  this is some of my personal favorite music -- and a representation of an art movement that is central to my own personal esthetic (BFD).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Let me let you in on a secret.  Everybody is at least beginning to know that the Modern Korean tasting-menu place Atomix is one of the very best -- top two, if you ask me -- restaurants in New York City.  But what people don't know is that, aside from its coveted dining counter, Atomix has an upstairs bar where you can get excellent Korean-inflected cocktails and Korean bar snacks from the same kitchen that produces their fabulous prix fixetasting-menu dinners.  Which you can just walk into instead of having to work hard to get a reservation, which will not take you hours to enjoy, and which will not cost you hundreds and hundreds of dollars.  Don't tell anybody.