Nona Hendryx & The Disciples of Sun Ra: In the Temple

MUSIC
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020
7:00 PM

Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$85; $1 accompanying children
https://rsecure.metmuseum.org/event/ticket/577854

This is the kind of things that High Culture Snobs view as The Death Of Western Culture, and I view with unmitigated glee.  Forty or fifty years ago, who'd have thought that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would put on (this isn't a rental, but a Met co-production with Harlem Stage) a tribute to interplanetary jazz weirdo (said with respect:  he was a genius) Sun Ra, starring punk-sould diva Nona Hendryx?  The Temple of Dendur is just awesome (and Egyptian) enough to encompass the awesomeness of Ra's musical/mythical conception.  Music direction by no less than former Ra trombonist Craig Harris; spoken word invocations by Carl Hancock Rux.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Papaya King?