MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2019
8:00 PM

Talea Ensemble // Yarn / Wire
TIME:SPANS Festival
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$20; $10 students/seniors; $70 festival pass
https://timespans.org/concert/nikel-peter-tscherkassky-films/

Canadian conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt returns with the Talea Ensemble, tonight joined by the exciting piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire. The all-Canadian program includes pieces by, among many others, Your Compiler's personal favorite current Canadian composer, Linda Catlin Smith, as well as his all-time personal favorite Canadian composer (and a close collaborator with Vaillancourt during his lifetime), Claude Vivier. (All they'd have to do is add some Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell and I'd be jumping up and down waving a maple-leaf flag.) Vivier and Smith are not played often enough in these parts that one can lightly skip a chance to hear their work.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Excellent cocktails, serviceable bites at Dear Irving Hudson.