From NYTimes.com:
Bargemusic (Friday through Sunday, Wednesday) Three programs will be offered this week at Brooklyn’s buoyant concert hall. On Friday, the pianist Donald Berman plays Berio’s “Luftklavier” and “Wasserklavier,” as well as works by Fauré, Charles Ives and Scott Wheeler. On Saturday and Sunday, the hall’s director, Mark Peskanov, is joined by Jerome Lowenthal and Jakub Jerzy Omsky Trawkowski for piano trios by Fauré, Beethoven and Schubert. And on Wednesday, the mandolinist Carlo Aonzo and the guitarist René Izquierdo play transcriptions of Bach. Friday, Saturday and Wednesday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 4 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, 800-838-3006, bargemusic.org. (David Allen)
International Contemporary Ensemble (Sunday) This first-rate contemporary-music group celebrates the centenary of the Henry Street Settlement with a concert conducted by the West Coast percussion wizard Steven Schick and Varèse’s seminal “Intégrales” alongside Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and George Lewis’s “A Will to Adorn.” At 7 p.m., Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, at Pitt Street, Lower East Side, 212-352-3101, abronsartscenter.org. (Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim)
Glenn Kotche (Friday) The composer and percussionist Glenn Kotche joins the ensemble Third Coast Percussion for a program inspired by the 1880 rock harmonicon — an instrument (also known as a stone xylophone) used by a band in Victorian-era England and featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of musical instruments. The program also includes 20th-century percussion classics, including Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood.” Friday at 7 p.m., Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org/tickets. (Schweitzer)
John Zorn (Saturday and Wednesday) With his a cappella vocal work “The Holy Visions” the maverick composer John Zorn pays loving tribute to the medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen. The gorgeous Fuentidueña Chapel at the Cloisters should prove a perfect setting for this work as well as a new composition, “The Remedy of Fortune,” written for the fearless JACK Quartet, and the New York premiere of “Pandora’s Box.” On Wednesday the Miller Theater invites audience members onto the stage for an informal and free pop-up concert featuring the pianist Vicky Chow, the violinist Jennifer Choi and the cellist Michael Nicholas in Mr. Zorn’s “Amour Fou,” Hexentarot” and “The Aristos.” Saturday at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., the Cloisters, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, 212-923-3700, metmuseum.org. Wednesday at 6 p.m., Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights, 212-854-7799, millertheatre.com. (da Fonseca-Wollheim)
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