MUSIC
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019
7:30 PM

Kate Soper & Friends
New York Festival of Song Next
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$25-$50
http://nyfos.org/nyfos-next/

Kate Soper is a jewel, a gem, a composer/vocalist we're lucky to be alive at the same time as.  She writes these quirky, wordy, musically and intellectually engaging vocal pieces -- songs, music-theater pieces, operas -- and is her own best interpretor.  Here, she'll do her own stuff, as well as things by such other composers as Kaija Saariaho(!).  Charmaine Lee and Sam Pluta will also contribute some voice/electronics improvisations.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Hudson Yards is turning out to be such a clusterfuck in these early days -- and the development is just so appalling -- that I'm going to keep sending you in the opposite direction, for the jolly, hearty Central Asian food at Farida.