MUSIC

Here and Now: Nadia Shpachenko & Lewis Spratlan: INVASION

FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2022
7:00 PM

Bargemusic
1 Water Street, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn

$35
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Lewis Spratlan writes what you might call High Modern With A Human Face. You know how, in Charles Wuorinen’s last years, everybody said Wuorinen was opening his gnarly music up, allowing for humor and even (gasp) listener enjoyment? Well, Lewis Spratlan really writes his gnarly music like that — and always has. This show previews an album of Spratlan’s music to be released later this year by the Ukrainian pianist Nadia Shpachenko. They’ll play an audiotape (OK, in 2022 it’s not really a “tape”) of INVASION, a chamber piece Spratlan just wrote for Shpachenko about guess what. And the Shpachenko will play, live, the solo piano pieces that round the upcoming album out.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Now that it’s so nice out, formal New American treat The River Café — the tourist trap that isn’t one — becomes almost irresistible.