From NYTimes.com:
‘Einstein on the Beach’ (Friday through Sunday) Now that the polemical battles between the uptown and downtown contemporary music scenes are long past, “Einstein on the Beach,” the 1976 opera by the composer Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, the director and set and lighting designer, can be appreciated for the pathbreaking, personal and mystical work it is. The current revival, on a nine-stop, three-continent tour, is a re-creation of that original production, with the spellbinding dance sequences created by Lucinda Childs for the 1984 revival and used ever since. “Einstein” has not been in New York in 20 years, so this luminous and surreal production is a major event of the season. The opera lasts four-and-a-half hours with no intermission. But in keeping with the everything-goes ambience of the experience, audience members are invited to bop out of the theater for breaks. Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100, bam.org; limited ticket availability. (Anthony Tommasini)
Ear Heart Music (Wednesday) Ear Heart Music, a feisty contemporary-classical concert series organized by the flutist Amelia Lukas, opens its new season in a new home. While based in Manhattan, Ms. Lukas piloted impressive events on a shoestring budget. Roulette offers greater resources, and Ms. Lukas is taking advantage in a season filled with premieres and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Wednesday’s program includes Build, a rootsy post-Minimalist ensemble; On Structure, a performance-art duo; and a pairing of Andie Springer and James Moore, two model new-music citizens. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, at Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; (917) 267-0363, roulette.org; $15, or $10 for students and 65+. (Smith)
Efterklang With the Wordless Music Orchestra (Saturday) If you seek signs of change in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s venerable Concerts and Lectures series, look no farther than this offbeat opening-night offering: Efterklang, an appealingly moody Danish art-rock trio, collaborates with the Wordless Music Orchestra in material from an ambitious new LP, “Piramida.” Missy Mazzoli, Karsten Fundal and Daniel Bjarnason provide the arrangements; Budgie, the drummer of the veteran goth-pop band Siouxsie and the Banshees, offers propulsion. At 7 p.m., Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (212) 570-3949, metmuseum.org/tickets; $25. (Smith)
Momenta Quartet (Saturday) This searching ensemble brings to the Rubin Museum a program of contemporary music inspired by Buddhism, from Kee Yong Chong’s “Clouds Surging” (2011), inspired by an ink painting, and Ushio Torikai’s “Four Teen” (2003), which incorporates Japanese Buddhist chant. In honor of the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, the performance will close with his “Quartet in Four Parts” (1951), accompanied by a video piece by the Canadian artist John Gurrin. At 4 p.m., Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, Manhattan, (212) 620-5000, rmanyc.org; $12. (Woolfe)
Talea Ensemble (Friday) This accomplished group specializes in toothy works by important modernist composers, making its performances stick through refinement and utter conviction. Those qualities should serve the players well as they venture into a characteristically challenging bill, including the United States premiere of pieces by James Dillon, Pierluigi Billone and Ondrej Adamek. At 8 p.m., Czech Center New York, Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, Manhattan, (646) 422-3399, czechcenter.com; free. (Smith)
Twelve in 12 (Thursday) Concerts at One, Trinity Wall Street’s long-running and popular series of free, hourlong programs at 1 p.m., has been offering this special mini-festival — a series of works by the last 12 composer to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music, with Julian Wachner conducting the NOVUS NY ensemble. Thursday’s program offers pieces by John Adams, Henry Brant, Steve Reich and Ornette Coleman. At 1 p.m., Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, (212) 602-0800, trinitywallstreet.org; free. (Tommasini)
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