MUSIC
TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 21, 23 & 24, 2019
7:00 PM TUESDAY
7:30 PM THURSDAY & SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Verdi: Requiem
Teodor Currentzis / musicAeterna & Jonas Mekas
The Shed
545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, Manhattan

$45-$99
https://theshed.org/program/series/18-requiem

The great nonnarrative fillmmaker Jonas Mekas's last work before he died this year was this filmed accompaniment to the highly controversial Teodor Currentzis's performance of Verdi's Requiem (a work that sounds a lot more like an opera than a church service). Currentzis likes to clarify things as if you were looking at them through a lens, and then charge them up. These live performances (with Mekas's accompanying film) are undoubtedly among the musical events of the season. No surprise they're sold out.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Am I going to send you to the nosebleedingly expensive, retrograde TAK Room? I'm afraid I am: I like that retrograde food.