Rzewski Festival

MUSIC
MONDAY - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 - 8, 2018 (also on NOVEMBER 29)*
7:00 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 continuation of a festival exploring and celebrating the work of vieil homme terrible Frederic Rzewski in his 80th birthday year.  Rzewski composes engaged, engaging music with direct appeal -- some of the most accessible "avant-garde" music there is.  Highlights this week include a rare performance on Monday of Les Moutons de Panurge for indeterminate mixed ensemble -- a really great piece that somehow contrives to be extremely catchy while incorporating chance cacophony; an appearance on Tuesday by Rzewski's great interpreter Ursula Oppens (playing four hands with Jerome Lowenthal!); and a performance on Thursday of Rzewski's riveting Attica piece Coming Together by Festival curator Gabriel Zucker and his excellent band, The Delegation.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Gentleman Farmer for hearty Franco-American food, the kind that shines in the Fall.