My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 15-21. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.)

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center; Jan. 16 at 7:30

Karlheinz Stockhausen's visionary Kontakte anchors a fine program for pianos, percussion, and electronics.

The Furies + ~Nois
Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn; Jan. 16 at 8

Violin duo The Furies and saxophone quartet ~Nois share a double bill stacked with new and recent pieces.

ACME
Tenri Cultural Center; Jan. 17 at 8

The American Contemporary Music Ensemble returns to where it all began for a three-concert 15th-anniversary season, starting with two major pieces by Gavin Bryars.

Hub New Music
1 Rivington St.; Jan. 17 at 6, Jan. 18 at 7:30

Flutist Michael Avitabile and his busy Boston group come to Metropolis Ensemble HQ for a pair of concerts, the first a new collaboration with Brooklyn cabal Oracle Hysterical.

Hotel Elefant + Bearthoven
Areté Venue & Gallery; Jan. 18 at 7

Two excellent young New York new-music groups go head-to-head in pieces by Fjóla Evans and Leaha Maria Villareal. And then on Jan. 19, Ensemble in Progress… presents pianists Brian Marks, Isabelle O'Connell, and Kathleen Supové in works inspired by migration.

New Jersey Symphony
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark; Jan. 19 at 3
(Also: Richardson Auditorium, Princeton; Jan. 17 at 8; State Theatre New Jersey, New Brunswick; Jan. 18 at 8)

Xian Zhang conducts "The Ring Without Words," a 70-minute chronological condensation of orchestral music from Wagner's Ring cycle of operas created by her former mentor and colleague, Lorin Maazel, and Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Simon Trpčeski at the keyboard.