MUSIC
THURSDAY JUNE 7
8:00 PM

C4:  Water Music
THURSDAY:  Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th Street), Kips Bay, Manhattan

$21; $6 children 11-17; free children 10 and under
http://www.c4ensemble.org/june-2018-concerts.html

The choral composer-conductor collective C4 reliably ferrets out good and thought-provoking new choral music.  So the fact that I have never heard of a single composer on this bill -- which features, among many others, three winners of a C4 composer competition -- gives no pause whatsoever.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   For the Baruch show, Miami transplant Broken Shaker, the new bar on the rooftop of the Freehand Hotel, looks awesome.  The cocktails may look a bit over-elaborate, but their burger -- while perhaps also over-elaborate -- looks really awesome.  For the St. Luke's show, tricked-up Chinese Red Farm is another widely loved restaurant that I don't really get.  But don't listen to me; everybody else loves it.  I feel constrained to remind you in addition that the Church's gardens are quite possibly the most restful spot in Lower Manhattan.  Go early and bring a book.