MUSIC
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2019
8:00 PM

Composer Portrait: Vijay Iyer
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

$20-$40; $17-$36 seniors; $12-$24 students & under age 25
https://www.millertheatre.com/events/vijay-iyer-composer-portrait

You're tempted to say that the best thing about pianist/composer Vijay Iyer is his range: he can be abstract, he can be exploratory, he can be uptempo; he can write music that sounds in jazz, he can write music that sounds in classical (I know, I know: and the difference is, what?). Whatever he does, he does with great rigor. But all the range and rigor in the world wouldn't matter if his ideas weren't so good. Here we have a world premiere and other pieces played by Brooklyn's favorite chamber orchestra, The Knights. One of them is a violin concerto featuring no less a player than the ab fab Jennifer Koh (a word to the wise, BTW: get her new album!). And Iyer himself will chime in on piano.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Serious cocktails with bar snacks at Sugar Monk.