MUSIC
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 & 5, 2019
8:00 PM

Rhys Chatam: The Sun Too Close to Earth/Jonathan Kane & Zeena Parkins: On, Suzanne
Crossing the Line Festival
ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place, Downtown, Brooklyn

$25
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/rhys-chatham-sun-too-close-earth-jonathan-kane-zeena-parkins-suzanne

We all argued, back in the day, that New York Punk was an outgrowth of Minimalism. But it was the No Wave classical composers Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca (being played later this weekend) who made that manifest. Here's a new piece by Chatham, played by an ensemble that amazingly includes, among others, Jonathan Kane, Anthony Coleman, original Modern Lover Ernie Brooks, and Jaimie Branch. While drummer Kane is around, he'll play a new piece with Downtown harp goddess Zeena Parkins, setting poetry by Holly Anderson, who was married to Kane until she died recently of post-9/11 cancer.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Is La Vara the best Spanish restaurant in New York? Certainly with it's historical Spanish/Sephardic/Moorish mash-up, it's the most distinctive. (Frankly, I'd say it's the best.)