MUSIC
SATURDAY - SUNDAY, APRIL 6 - 7, 2019 (continuing through JUNE 2, 2019)
1:00, 2:30, 5:00 & 6:30 PM SATURDAY
11:15 AM & 12:30, 3:00 & 4:30 PM SUNDAY

Reich Richter Pärt
The Shed
545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, New York

$52
https://theshed.org/program/2-reich-richter-part

The Shed finally opens:  the only truly architecturally significant building in the new Hudson Yards development; a sop to the community for the billions of dollars of public money spent on this huge multi-block enclave for the super-rich; yet another glitzy outpost of the International Avant-Garde in New York.  We're going to ignore The Shed's apparent attempt to paper over its inclusion in a blatantly exclusionary and anti-urban real estate development by presenting an admittedly sophisticated and attractive series of concerts devoted to African-American music.  Instead, let's leap to this planting of the Big-League International Avant-Garde flag.  Each show encompasses separate collaborations between two Minimalist composers, the incisive Steve Reichand the spiritual Arvo Pärt, and the German visual artist Gerhard Richter, Post-Expressionist except when he's Post-Pop (or Post-Something Else).  The music on Saturday will be sung by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street; on Sunday by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.  The problem is, of course, that you really can't miss this.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  If you go to one of the early shows, you can avail yourself of Kāwi, the most forthrightly Korean (which is not to say it's straight Korean) of the Momofukus -- or the adjacent sandwich/snack bar.  Later on, meat (on sandwiches, on plates, not on a stick) at Belcampo.