MUSIC
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019
7:30 PM

Sound ON: Telling Tales
New York Philharmonic
Appel Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$45
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1920/sound-on-telling-tales?clicklocation=hp_ue_1

A rather boring edition of this New York Phil New Music initiative. Maybe it seems like that cuz it leads off with a piece by the late Old Skool Modernist Jacob Druckman, who for all his quite evident excellence is not where classical music is heading right now. Nor is Thea Musgrave, for all her music's appeal. Which leaves us with the very on-point John Luther Adams and the piece from Ellen Reid's prize-winning opera that seems to be establishing itself as a freestanding hit.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Uptown Momofuku Noodle Bar: it seems like a soulless template for expansion — but it's still a lot better than most of what you can eat around Columbus Circle.