At 7 30 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $42 to $56. (Kozinn) Ecstatic Music Festival (Saturday) This festival has brought together like-minded musicians for collaborations that require some boundaries to be kicked over.
ZACHARY WOOLFE Ecstatic Music Festival Merkin Concert Hall As part of the Kaufman Cen- ter's Ecstatic Music Festival, the vibrant new-music orchestra Alarm Will Sound joined forces on Sunday afternoon with Face the Music, an ensemble of teenagers studying at the center's Special Music School.
Part of the Ecstatic Music Festival.
They perform with the German visual artist and composer Arnold Dreyblatt as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival.
ALLAN KOZINN The Ecstatic Music Festival is at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, Manhattan, starting on Jan . 17 kaufman-center.org.org
Sorrow made the transition from obsession to reality at the prompting of Judd Greenstein, curator of New York's Ecstatic music festival.
Merkin Concert Hall's Ecstatic Music Festival provides a window into this movement, beginning with a free, seven-hour marathon featuring music by Timothy Andres, Missy Mazzoli, and Gabriel Kahane, among others.
In its first two seasons, the Ecstatic Music Festival has helped transform Merkin Concert Hall from a relatively staid chamber music hall in the shadow of Lincoln Center into a lively home for the experimental, genre-crossing music of the indie classical world.
The composer Judd Greenstein's music, beautifully wrought and consistently appealing, has not always seemed as audacious as his barnstorming initiatives with NOW Ensemble, the New Amsterdam record label and the Ecstatic Music Festival, all of which he helped to found.
The musical world has changed surprisingly quickly since New Amsterdam, a vital composer-led record label and live-event presenter, teamed up with the Kaufman Center to produce the first Ecstatic Music Festival in 2011.
