This Week in New York

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BROKEN SILENCE | MUSIC FOR CONTEMPLATION
Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Dan Joseph, Dev Ray and Alex Lahoski (ebow steel string acoustic guitars), and Craig Shepard (speaker) present music supporting listeners to engage with text drawn from court testimony connected with the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church.
Monday, January 6 to Wednesday, January 8 at 8:25 PM
Free
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Benzaquen Hall, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: CIRANDA
Metropolis Ensemble gathers a super-group of internationally recognized soloists and composer/performers from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and the United States to showcase folk-inspired Nuevo Latino music as it intermixes with New York’s contemporary classical scene. Newly commissioned and arranged music from musical artists Clarice Assad (voice/piano), JP Jofre (bandoneon), João Rezende (guitar), and Samuel Torres (percussion) will be performed in collaboration with two recent Avery Fisher Career Grant winners, violinist Francisco Fullana and harpist Bridget Kibbey, clarinet Louis Arques, and accompanied by Metropolis Ensemble strings and percussion.
Tuesday, January 7 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $10-$35
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY

THE PROCESSING SERIES PART II: A BARELY ARCHING BRIDGE | FERUS FESTIVAL
The concert is the second installment in The Processing Series. This concert confronts sexual violence squarely and unapologetically, and explores how one can transform one’s abuse into a tool of healing. Eve Beglarian’s She Gets to Decide, which combines personal history, the painting Thérèse Dreaming by Balthus, and the words of Judge Rosemarie Aquilina during the trial of Larry Nassar — “Leave your pain here, and go out and do your magnificent things” — is the centerpiece of a program which also features works by Amadeus Regucera, Philippe Leroux, Georges Aperghis, Chaya Czernowin, Peter Kramer, Guillaume de Machaut, and Francis Poulenc.
Saturday, January 11 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY

NEW YEAR CELEBRATION | NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE
The North/South Chamber Orchestra performs recently completed compositions by Edmund Cionek, Leandro Espinosa, Ethan Resnik, William Schimmel, and Davide Tammaro.
Sunday, January 12 at 3:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY

COME ‘ROUND RIGHT | FERUS FESTIVAL
Taking its name from one of the most famous Shaker hymns, Come ‘Round Right is an opera with no characters — taking place after everyone has left — and explores the persistence of a disappearing community by examining what remains. Blurring the lines between music, visual art, and theater, it concerns itself with labor, identity, survival, love, and the passage of time. Come ‘Round Right pairs sculptural set pieces by Mara Baldwin, inspired by Shaker furniture and crafts, with music by Sarah Hennies based on Shaker hymns. Hennies reinterprets this monodic music by replacing horizontal time (melody) with vertical time (harmony), each section of the piece consisting of a block of immersive and hypnotic sound.
Sunday, January 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY