MUSIC
MONDAY, AUGUST 27
7:00 PM

(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$20-$25 advance; $25-$30 door
https://lpr.com/lpr_events/lpr-x-taka-kigawa-august-27th-2018/

Expert and inspired New Music piano specialist Taka Kigawa presents a typically compelling program of contemporary and modern piano music.  Among the composers are the great pre-Postmodernist Luciano Berio, the excellent Austrian contemporary Modernist Beat Furrer, and the somewhat overrated opera savant Matthew Aucion (wonder what his instrumental music is like?).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Before the show:  the Brooklyn Modern Peruvian restaurant Llama Inn has opened a sandwich shop in the Village called Llamita (why oh why couldn't they have stuck with their original name "Deli Llama"?)!  The menu looks great!  I am REALLY excited about this.  Before or after the show:  Existing Conditions is a new avant-cocktail bar from avant-cocktail king Dave Arnold, cocktail publisher/entrepreneur Greg Boehm, and cocktailian secret weapon (until now!) Don Lee.  The cocktails are stunning, superb, great (right now I'm pretty hot for the Canary -- but don't rule out the Helicopter).  I haven't tried Chef Josh Eden's food yet, but it looks really good as well.