Oliveros: The Nubian Word for Flowers: Pocket Edition

OPERA
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2020
8:00 PM

International Contemporary Ensemble
Astor Gallery, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
111 Amsterdam Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free
https://www.iceorg.org/events/2020/02/22/the-nubian-word-for-flowers-pocket-edition

Pauline Oliveros's last work — left unfinished at her death three years ago and completed by admirers and loved ones — is an opera that surprised in how operatic it was:  notably less afectless than Oliveros's usual hypnotic soundscapes.  It was also enormously rewarding.  So a chance to hear a scaled-down "pocket" version (let alone to hear it for free) is welcome.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Old standby Cafe Luxembourg.  Because in this neighborhood you could do worse.