MUSIC
SUNDAY, JUNE 3
7:30 PM

New Music for Strings
LPR X:  NEXT Festival of Emerging Artists
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$15-$20 advance; $20-$25 door
http://lpr.com/lpr_events/next-festival-emerging-artists-june-3rd-2018/

It's appropriate that many of the composers at an "emerging artists" would be unfamiliar.  But the one "emerging" composer on the bill that I know -- Liisa Hirsch, who combines improvisatory elements into her timbrally fascinating works -- is good enough to give you confidence about the whole thing.  And isn't it fun to hear pieces by people previously unknown to you?  There's something of a ringer here in Brett Dean, who has a world premiere on the program but who emerged a long time ago (and is always well worth listening to).  Dean's piece features Tony Arnold, an aristocrat of the New York New Music scene, on vocals -- the very opposite of an untried emerging talent!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I am so in love with everything about Bessou -- from the homey Northern Japanese food to the appealingly comfortable room to the warm friendly service -- that I'm going to keep sending you there.