MUSIC
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
8:00 PM

Composer Portrait:  David T. Little
Miller Theater at Columbia University
2960 Broadway, Morningside Heights, Manhattan

$20-$30
https://www.millertheatre.com/events/david-t.-little

David T. Little is one terrific composer.  He wrote one of the very best operas of the last several years (which as far as I'm concerned have been a small Golden Age of opera composition), Dog Days.  His band, Newspeak, has been one of the best post-classical (or whatever you want to call it) ensembles.  His works are political, but in a smart, artful, non-didactic way that roots them rather than encumbers them.  And he rocks.  This show features two works conceived as companion pieces but played together tonight for the first time ever:  one for string quartet (the excellent American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and electronics; the other for percussion quartet (the estimable Third Coast Percussion) and electronics.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Northwestern Chinese food, verging on Central Asian and featuring dumplings, noodles, and lotsa beef and lamb, at Dunhuang Noodles Upper West Side.