MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
9:00 PM

George Hurd
Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

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Broken record time:  San Francisco composer George Hurd writes music that makes you wonder, why isn't this stuff popular?  Why don't as many people listen to it as, I dunno, Midori Takada?   Hurd writes acoustic chamber music with electronic elements; but the main thing is that his music is positivelytuneful (not in the banal sense, but in the good-to-listen-to sense).  Classical music fans need to stop avoiding stuff because it wasn't written in the 1860s and doesn't get played in the Isaac Stern Auditorium; pop fans need to stop avoiding stuff because it's labeled "classical" instead of "electronic".

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   Looks like Argentine fire restaurant METTĀ tonight.