MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15
8:00 PM

Alarm Will Sound
Time Spans Festival
Mary Flager Cary Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$20; $10 students/seniors; $50 five-concert Festival Pass
http://timespans.org/concert/2018-concert-ii/

Tonight's Time Spans Festival concert is all-American (well, one composer is Canadian resident in New York), featuring ace ensemble Alarm Will Sound and a bunch of world or local premieres.  Most striking from the polemic standpoint of this List is a collaboration between Christopher Stark,* whose modern classical music is not remotely hip-hop influenced, and King Britt, an alt-hip-hop/electronic music artist whose work can't help but skirt the boundary with contemporary classical.  Hard not to be extremely curious about that one.  Also, Alex Mincek,* whose music typically has an almost electrifying pulse (you'd think he'd be collaborating with King Britt).  Zosha Di Castri (she's the Canadian ringer) is also concerned with rhythmic propulsion -- although not in as direct a way as Mincek -- with huge splashes of instrumental color, creating music of constant interest.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  After the scenester melee of Legacy Records, Danny Meyer's Southern-infected bar and grill Porchlight will seem relaxing.