Rzewski Festival: Hamm, DeMare, Noble

MUSIC
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2018
5:30 PM

Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$20 suggested donation each show; $40 festival pass
http://www.spectrumnyc.com/site/calendar.php

The first evening of a festival, continuing through next THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 (with an outlying show on NOVEMBER 29), exploring and celebrating the work of vieil homme terrible Frederic Rzewski.  Rzewski composes engaged, engaging music with direct appeal -- some of the most accessible "avant-garde" music there is.  This show, featuring three formidablepianists (Rzewski being a mightily formidable pianist himself), includes Rzewski's greatest hit, the titanic The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, a set of piano variations worthy to stand with the Goldbergs and the Diabellis.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  If it's Sunday I must be sending you to a cozy New American place.  Indeed, perhaps the coziest one of all:  Vinegar Hill House.