MUSIC
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2019
7:30 PM

Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet: Fanm d'Ayiti
Ecstatic Music
Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$25; $20 per concert for 2+ Ecstatic Music shows
https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-nathalie-joachim-spektral-quartet-fanm-dayiti/

Composer/flautist/singer Nathalie Joachim (she does popish stuff! she co-leads Eighth Blackbird!) uses music to explore her Haitian background in ways that are sonically fetching and intellectually interesting. Here, she and Chicago's commanding Spektral Quartet perform a long-form piece for flute, voice, and string quartet about women in Haiti, incorporating tapes of the composer's grandmother and a local Haitian girl's choir (you'll wish the choir stuff would never end) and arrangements of Haitian popular song.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Just noticed French wine spot Le Pif on Broadway. It looks nice enough. Wonder if it's any good?