MUSIC/DANCE
FRIDAY, JUNE 8*
8:00 PM

Esa-Pekka Salonen:  Foreign Bodies
New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$35-55
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1718/foreign-bodies?clicklocation=hp_ue_2

What is this?  The New York Philharmonic doing an evening of contemporary music from Scandinavia with multi-media presentations?  Major Esa-Pekka Salonen pieces choreographed by Wayne McGregor and danced by theBoston Ballet?  A brand new Salonen piece accompanied by videos by Tal Rosner?  (The composer conducts the whole program -- which is a good thing since he's one of the best conductors in the world as well as one of the best composers.)  A violin concerto by one of the best of the new Icelanders, Daníel Bjarnason?  Where did this come from?  (A guess:  it's leftover from the New Music Biennial that the Phil was supposed to present this year but didn't.)  It's almost . . . cool.  Don't think too much:  just go.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  I'm sticking with Tom Valenti's New American comfort food spot, Oxbow Tavern.