MUSIC
MONDAY, MAY 14
6:00 PM

Ensemble Signal:  Plays Helmut Lachenmann*
Pop-Up Concerts
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2690 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

Free
http://www.millertheatre.com/events/ensemble-signal-plays-lachenmann

Helmut Lachenmann is a truly important contemporary composer in the late Modernist tradition.  His work is kind of hard core; this is for committed New Music followers rather than people who want to dip their toes in.  Lachenmann specializes in extended playing techniques:  his instruments are almost never made to sound the way they normally do.  So expect to hear combinations of sounds you've never heard before.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  The great thing about Miller Theater's Pop-Up Concerts -- other than that they're beautifully programed and free -- is that (if you can get that far Uptown that early at all) they let you out early enough to beat the closing time at Manna's Soul Food (nearest branch:  Frederick Douglass Blvd. & W. 127th St.).  Wonderful soul food laid out on the steam table for you to choose and eat.  No one has ever left hungry.