MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018
8:00 PM

DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$25-$45 advance; $30-$50 door
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lisa-moore-live-the-dimenna-center-in-new-york-city-tickets-49520500149

Splendid New Music piano specialist Lisa Moore plays a program of Philip Glass (whom she plays beautifully) and some new preludes for piano and synthesizer by Brooklyn-Colombian composer Julián de la Chica, whose darktoned but lyrical work you just know would be popular if more people only heard it.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Tavola arises from one of those classic New York restaurant feuds.  Different members of the Manganaro family owned competing hero shops next door to each other on Ninth Avenue; of course they couldn't stand each other.  But each of the places was really good.  One of the competing family factions finally sold their shop (the other is still operating under family control -- but closes too early to be of use in this List), and it was replaced by a new unaffiliated trattoria called Tavola.  Frankly, it's not as good as when it Manganaro's.  But it's still more than worth a visit.  And you can now mention the next-door hero shop in there without fear of reprisals.