MUSIC
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018
8:00 PM

Jose Menor
Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$15; $10 students/seniors

Messiaen is a composer you either like or you don't.  If you do, his long piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (no, the title does not translate as Give My Regards to Baby Jesus) stands as one of the peaks of 20th Century instrumental music.  As with all the best Messiaen, the structures are idiosyncratic but discernible, the harmonies are colorful and unlike anything else you've ever heard, and the music isn't afraid to be blatant, so the mystical exultance is palpable (and infectious).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  We're going to Karasu tonight:  the izakaya hidden in the back of Walter's.