MUSIC
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
7:00 PM

Hotel Elefant: 2019 Opening Night
Areté Venue & Gallery
67 West Street #103, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Pay what you want
https://www.hotelelefant.org/s8-opening-night

The elegant classical ensemble Hotel Elefant opens its season with pieces by soundsculptor Alexandra Gardner (whose music I love love love but never get to hear); greatest living composer Kaija Saariaho (who like Gardner — but in a totally different way — creates the most compelling textures); Totalist-back-when-that-meant-something Lois V Vierk; another interesting texturalist, Patrick Castillo; and two younger guys I've never heard of.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: We still need to see how the new chef at the marvelous Brit-inflected meatery Cherry Point is doing.