Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone

Merkin Hall (Kaufman Center) 129 W. 67th St., New York, United States

The new collaborative project Sélébéyone takes the conversation between jazz and hip hop to “feverish new heights” (The WIRE), drawing from Senegalese Rap, French Spectral Music, Modern Jazz, Underground Hip-Hop, Interactive Electronic and beyond. Composer and saxophonist Steve Lehman leads the international ensemble, which features HPrizm (vocals, English), Gaston Bandimic (vocals, Wolof), Maciek Lasserre (sax/electronics), …

$25

Nicole Mitchell: Maroon Cloud

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show  Nicole Mitchell: Maroon Cloud with Aruan Ortiz (piano), Fay Victor (vocals), Tomeka Reid (cello), Nicole Mitchell (flutes, composition, electronics) “That warm dark realness was a doorway between worlds and she visited often. This is where all sound, dreams, and ideas lived. A cloudy dark purple space where forms emerged from formlessness, some …

$25

Women’s Raga Massive Round Robin

Art Cafe 884 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Trina Basu (violin) Anjna Swaminathan (violin) Camila Celin (guitar, sarod) Tali Rubinstein (recorder) Amali Premawardhana (cello) Roshni Samlal (tabla) Lauren Crump (percussion) Morley (voice) Roopa Mahadevan (voice) Priya Darshini (voice) Pyeng Threadgill (voice) Haleh Gafori (voice) Featured Women’s Organization: Ms. Foundation Women's Raga Massive presents a Round Robin, bringing together 12 women who will perform …

$15

Lukas Ligeti Presents: Four Oceans

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show  Four Oceans explores ritualistic forms of interplay in an improvised context. A new group, it combines the talents of Old Time Relijun frontman Arrington De Dionyso, Rupert Huber of the famous Viennese trip-hop duo Tosca, and globetrotting drummer/composer Lukas Ligeti. De Dionyso, who is also a painter, performs on bass clarinet and …

$29

Minimalism: John Adams (Shaker Loops) and Terry Riley (In C)

Carnegie Hall 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Three Generations: John Adams and Terry Riley Zankel Hall Seating Chart (PDF) Part of the Steve Reich–curated Three Generations exploration of the changing direction of concert music, this evening focuses on the pioneering first generation of composers. In his revolutionary In C, Terry Riley took 53 phrases, or modules, and gave players the freedom to …

$12.50

John Adams: “The Gospel According to the Other Mary”

Carnegie Hall 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

St. Louis Symphony John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage John Adams’s critically acclaimed and mesmerizing new take on the Passion story, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, tells the story of Christ’s last days from the perspective of three people closely attached to him: Mary Magdalene, …

$12.50

PSAD Synthetic Desert III

Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Please note the installation will be closed April 6–12. This installation requires a timed ticket. MORE For PSAD Synthetic Desert III (1971), Doug Wheeler has altered the structure and configuration of a museum gallery in order to control optical and acoustic experience. He has transformed the room into a hermetic realm, a “semi-anechoic chamber” designed to …

$18

Percussion Festival

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

About the Show  The second annual NS Percussion Festival takes over the venue on April 1, curated by contemporary percussion gurus Ian Rosenbaum and Andy Akiho. The afternoon marathon features a startlingly diverse range of percussive styles with back-to-back performances by Payton MacDonald, Sandbox Percussion, Max ZT and Andrew Nemr, Ayano Kataoka, Kenneth Salters & …

$15

FREE: ETHEL + Friends

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, United States

Program TBA

FREE

John Adams: Attacca String Quartet

National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

“Recently Added” is a 3 concert arc. It is an exploration of the complete works of living composers who have made significant additions to the string quartet repertoire. This is a follow-up to our project called “the 68” where we played the complete string quartets of Haydn. This installment will feature the works of John Adams. …

$29