MUSIC
TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2019
6:00 PM

Marilyn Nonken: Spectral Salon
Pop-Up Concerts
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

Free
https://www.millertheatre.com/events/marilyn-nonken-2018

You can't say that Spectral music -- that endlessly fascinating late-20th-Century French form of Modern classical, emphasizing timbre above all in a manner that is both starkly new and solidly French -- emerged directly fromMessiaen; you can say that it's hard to imagine its existing without Messiaen as a forerunner.  And, indeed, master Spectralist Tristan Murail studied with the great man.  Pianist Marilyn Nonken knows a thing or two about Spectralism (she is a frequent collaborator with Murail) -- and a thing or two about Messiaen as well.  So this program featuring the work of the two composers is self-recommending.  As at all these free Pop-Up Concerts, you sit up on stage with the performer and quaff some free beer or wine.  Bang For The Buck with a bullet.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  The other great thing about the Miller Theater Pop-Up Concerts is that they let out early enough to allow you to get over to Manna's Soul Food for their wonderful steam-table treats.  The Frederick Douglass Boulevard branch is the closest.