MUSIC
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
7:30 PM

New York Philharmonic
David Geffen Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$59-$155

New Music Director Jaap van Zweden and the Philharmonic management team seem intent on proving that this appointment isn't the reactionary throw-back that many fear (and, to be fair, many welcome), by peppering Jaap's opening concerts with significant new pieces.  This, part of the run of Jaap's very first shows, opens with a new commission by someone who must be the most talked-about young composer in New York right now, sonic explorerAshley Fure.  What's more, the Fure will involve the participation of such stalwarts of the local alternative music scene as Rebekah Heller of ICE, Nate Wooley of avant-garde jazz, and Brandon Lopez of the lunatic improvisational fringe.  All that and a choreographed moving choir!  Also on the program is Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which should at least play to van Zweden's rather brash style.  (If only they'd let Becky Heller play the bassoon solo!)  Oh, yeah, and some piano player named Daniil Trifonov, will play Beethoven's mighty Emperor Concerto.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Tom Valenti's Oxbow Tavern strikes the perfect note:  it's the kind of basic-but-interesting-enough-but-not-scary restaurant that the Upper West Side will accept and the rest of New York can still appreciate.