From NYTimes.com:
Stephen Drury (Friday) The brilliant pianist Stephen Drury, an uncompromising artist with a repertory spanning Bach to Ligeti to John Zorn, has been a particular champion of John Cage. On Friday at the Issue Project Room he plays an all-Cage program, including Book III of the mesmerizing “Études Australes,” in which Cage selected pitches for the pieces from star charts of the Atlas Australis. At 8 p.m., Issue Project Room, 110 Livingston Street, with entrance at 22 Boerum Place, downtown Brooklyn, (718) 330-0313, issueprojectroom.org; $15, or $10 members. (Tommasini)
Kronos Quartet (Tuesday) This ever-inventive San Francisco-based quartet is joined by its original cellist, Jean Jeanrenaud, for a program of premieres that includes the first New York performances of Donnacha Dennehy’s “One Hundred Goodbyes,” Vladimir Martynov’s “Schubert-Quintet (Unfinished)” and Nicole Lizée’s “Death to Komische,” and the world premiere of Michael Hearst’s “Secret Word.” At 7:30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $49 to $62. (Kozinn)
Music by Luigi Nono (Sunday through Tuesday) The Electronic Music Foundation mounts a brief but substantial series devoted to this groundbreaking Italian composer, electronic-music pioneer and advocate for social justice. On Sunday the pianist Stefan Litwin offers an illustrated lecture on Nono’s musical activism. Monday’s program includes works for voice, piano and percussion ensemble, and on Tuesday, Conrad Harris performs “La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura,” a gripping work for a solo violinist moving among eight sound-producing objects. Sunday at 2 p.m., Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, West Village; Monday at 8 p.m., Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West Fourth Street, Greenwich Village; Tuesday at 8 p.m., Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South, Greenwich Village; emfproductions.org. Sunday and Tuesday, $10 suggested contribution; Monday, free with reservations via events@emf.org. (Smith)
Red Light New Music (Monday) This enterprising new-music ensemble fashions an appealing program around two selections from “The Viola in My Life,” a splendid cycle by Morton Feldman, featuring the violist Erin Wight. Surrounding those works are newly commissioned pieces by Scott Wollschleger and Ted Hearne, and “Mercury Songbirds” by the consistently stimulating Keeril Makan. At 8 p.m., Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400, symphonyspace.org; $15, or $12 for members, students, 65+ and children. (Smith)
Tune-In Music Festival (Friday through Sunday) Returning for its second year, this ambitious festival at the Park Avenue Armory salutes the composer Philip Glass for his 75th birthday. On Friday Mr. Glass accompanies the rock singer Patti Smith in an evening of poetry, including selections by Blake and Ginsberg. Saturday evening’s program is devoted to Mr. Glass’s milestone composition “Music in 12 Parts.” A full day on Sunday includes a genre-flouting matinee at 2 p.m., a composers’ conversation at 5 p.m. and a rare performance of “Another Look at Harmony — Part IV,” featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the Collegiate Chorale and the organist Michael Riesman. Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 2, 5 and 7:30 p.m., Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street, (212) 933-5812, armoryonpark.org; Friday and Saturday sold out; Sunday $15 and $35 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., $10 at 5 p.m. (Smith)
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