MUSIC
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 & 15, 2018
VARIOUS TIMES

Provincetown Playhouse
133 Macdougal Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Free
http://www.marilynnonken.com/softly-music-of-morton-feldman.html

If you were to ask me who the two composers are who are closest to my heart -- who resonate with me most in the most highly personal way -- my answer would be Schubert and Morton Feldman.  Feldman has the ability to suspend time and create a still world of immense beauty and luminosity, where the effect of each small event is magnified almost unto a kind of rapture.  And here's a Morton Feldman mini-festival!  Curated, no less, by the great pianist (and Feldman interpreter) Marilyn Nonken!  The pick of the shows, to me at least, is the program of smaller pieces, played and sung by a truly all-star ensemble, on Saturday at 3:00 PM.  But the chance to hear Marilyn Nonken play the Triadic Memories (Friday at 8:00 PM) should not be dismissed.  Nor should the chance to hear her participate in a performance of the violion/piano duo Patterns in a Chromatic Field (Saturday at 8:00 PM) (you just don't get a chance to hear this stuff live that often!).  Although film is outside this List's live performing arts purview, there's also a notable program of short films about Feldman at 5 PM on Saturday.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  You are right up the street from Existing Conditions, for amazingly great cocktails and good food.  You can't not go!  For lunch before the afternoon shows, Chinese street snacks at Junzi.