MUSIC
FRIDAY, JUNE 1
7:00 PM

Gabriel Zucker:  Friday at the Spectrum
Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

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This is the last of the Friday night programs composer/pianist Gabriel Zucker is curating at Spectrum this season -- and, maybe it's sentimentality, but it looks like a particularly good one.  There are two intriguing vocal sets:  one where Zucker backs the active (for good reason) NYC New Music vocalist Stephanie Lamprea on songs by Cage, Fueting, Webern (his songs are like diamonds!), and Saariaho (about whom I overenthuse elsewhere today); and one where the jazz singer Gaya Feldheim Shorr sings songs of Connie Converse, a charming and unique sort-of-faux-naif singer-songwriter from the 1950s who (literally) vanished from sight.  Instrumental offerings are an improvisatory bass duo anddrums-and-electronics.  Looks really good.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I think I'm sending you to the popular pasta place La Rina tonight.