Music: Yo La Tengo, Alvin Lucier, Ecstatic Music Festival 2/17/16

At the Merkin Concert Hall:

Pioneering indie rock band Yo La Tengo present an evening centered around their relationship with the work of seminal composer Alvin Lucier. - See more at: http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-festival-yo-la-tengo-alvin-lucier/#sthash.nRtlt8GM.dpuf

Theater: Sense and Sensibility by Bedlam Theater, Judson Garage 2/20/16

SENSE & SENSIBILITY

by Jane Austen, adapted for the stage by Kate Hamill

directed by Eric Tucker

CAST:

Laura Baranik, Kate Hamill,

Nigel Gore, Jason O'Connell,

Andrus Nichols, John Russell,

Vaishnavi Sharma,

Samantha Steinmetz,

Eric Tucker, Stephan Wolfert

Theater: A View from the Bridge

From left, Mark Strong, Russell Tovey, Phoebe Fox and Michael Gould in "A View From the Bridge” at the Lyceum Theater. CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times

From the NYT's review By BEN BRANTLEYNOV. 12, 2015: 
"This must be what Greek tragedy once felt like, when people went to the theater in search of catharsis."

From wikipedia:
The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love of, and almost obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolfo.

Theater: Nice Fish at St. Anne's Warehouse 2/18/16

“When you are in town, wearing some kind of uniform is helpful, policeman, priest, etc.,” 

Nice Fish is the performance of a collection of poems by the Minnesota poet Louis Jenkins, beautifully intertwined to suggest the passage of time - from the long time one waits for a fish to bite, to the passage of time under the influence of first loves, time that compares the boundlessness of youthful hopes to the emotional rigidities settling in with age, and finally the passage of a lifetime.  -- dp

Music: Jasper String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2/19/16

Jasper String Quartet

J Freivogel, Violin

Sae Chonabayashi, Violin

Sam Quintal, Viola

Rachel Henderson Freivogel, Cello

Program
HAYDN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1
AARON JAY KERNIS String Quartet No. 3, "River" (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
DEBUSSY String Quartet in G Minor

A video recording of River is at this link.