MUSIC
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
7:30 PM

Areté Venue & Gallery
67 West Street #103, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

$15; $10 students
https://www.aretevenue.com/events/

A new flute/cello/piano trio presents an immersive mixed-media concert focusing on mankind's increasingly parlous place in nature (or do I mean nature's increasingly parlous place under man?).  What sets the seal on this show is that one of the pieces on the program is George Crumb's great great Vox Balaenae ("voice of the whale") -- the score calls for it to be performed in masks! -- which sounds as fresh today as it did in 1971.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Time to go back to Chez Ma Tante, whose sorta English food I continue to find enchanting.  May I very strongly recommend the pig's head terrine?  And, at the other end of the meal, the apple sorbet with Polish vodka?