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Mise-En Music Festival


MUSIC
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY, JUNE 27 - 30
VARIOUS TIMES

Various Locations
Brooklyn & Manhattan


Some free; some $15/$10 students
https://festival.mise-en.org/2018/schedule.html#schedule8

A trans-borough New Music festival, put on by this Bushwick New Music ensemble.  The pieces were mostly selected from submissions, so you may be forgiven if you haven't heard of the composers.  But there's also a retrospective concert devoted to a late composer you also probably haven't heard of, but unforgivably:  Klaus Huber, a composer whose is almost as important and influential as his contemporaries Boulez and Stockhausen, but perhaps because of his personal diffidence is much less known.  He started out doing High Modern updates of Medieval music, and went on to incorporate all sorts of things into his work (which nevertheless remained utterly distinctive and characteristic).  He even inserted tonal passages! 

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  These shows are all over the place.  But I'll note, with respect to the ones at the ensemble's home base, Mise-En_Place in Bushwick, that it's a couple of blocks from the delightful mother-daughter French spot Le Garage.

Later Event: June 27
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith