John Luther Adams: Ten Thousand Birds

MUSIC
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020
4:00 PM

Alarm Will Sound
PS 21 "Open Air" Pavillion Theater
2980 New York 66, Chatham, New York

$80-$90 for two tickets (two-ticket minimum)
https://ps21chatham.simpletix.com/e/55921

Another show you can Go Out to — WAY out.  Chatham seems far away to this isolated hermit, and the two-ticket minimum seems oppressive to this solitary misanthrope (although you can obviously understand why they're imposing such a minimum in light of social distancing requirements — another example of how live performances might not be fully viable until there's a vaccine).  But John Luther Adams's time-erasing nature-based music has been manna from heaven during The Quarantine, and Alarm Will Sound's music video of an excerpt from this piece is priceless, one of the great artifacts of The Quarantine (AND you can see my living room and dining room windows in it!).  So if you happen to be near Chatham . . . .

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Mediterranean-inflected New American available for pick-up at Blue Plate.