Harlem Chamber Players: Season Opening Concert

MUSIC
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 & 24, 2021
7:00 PM

Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 West 114th Street, Harlem, Manhattan

$20; $15 student/senior (in advance)
https://www.harlemchamberplayers.org/event/season-opening-concert

The estimable Harlem Chamber Players start their season with a bang. Three pieces are by actual living composers: Nkeiru Okoye writes well in a conservative idiom; Chen Yi writes very well in an idiom all her own; and Adolphus Hailstorck — still active in his '80s, thanks be — wrote gut-punchingly in the Late 20th Century and still does today. Poulenc's Trio might seem trivial in this company, but (don't tell anybody) it's my personal secret fave chamber piece (shhhhhhhhhhh).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Superb Pan-Chinese (maybe an emphasis on Sichuan) at Atlas Kitchen.