MUSIC
THURSDAY - SATURDAY, APRIL 11 - 13, 2019
8:00 PM

MATA: 21st Festival of New Music
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

$25 per show
https://thekitchen.org/event/mata-21st-festival-of-new-music

The MATA Festival, started more than 21 years ago (they skipped a few years along the way) by no less a personage than Philip Glass, is one of the major events on each year's New Music calendar.  The programming, featuring new pieces selected from all over the world, is reliably surprising and satisfying.  Go to all three shows.  But if I had to pick just one, it would Saturday's, featuring vocalist/composer Paul Pinto -- possibly this List's single favorite live performer -- wrapped in aluminum foil.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Hard to believe, but it looks like Rocco DiSpirito's return to serious cooking at the Standard Grill is for real.  Time to get (moderately) excited.