MUSIC

Numinous

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
8:00 PM

Roulette In Person & Live Stream
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

$25 advance; $30 door; $20 students/seniors advance; free live stream
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Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a terrific composer; and his Numinous is a terrific ensemble. Phillips puts all the music he loves into his own music — and since that includes Philip Glass and Steve Reich, Kendrik Lamar, Samuel Barber, Björk, Mahler, and Curtis Mayfield, it’s a potent brew. Tonight he’ll lead Numinous in excerpts from the first opera in cycle he’s composing based on The Times’s 1619 Project and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations” — sung by ace Phillips interpreter Rebecca L. Hargrove and New Music hearttrhob Ariadne Greif. And also in a bunch of stuff by other composers, including List bud Steven Swartz.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, superb Palestinian at AlBadawi. Streaming at home, have a Metropolitan: pour 2 oz. Cognac, 1 oz. sweet Vermouth, and 1/2 tsp. Simple Syrup, with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Stir. Strain into a Martini glass or coupe.