Miscellany: Varèse fireworks, etc.

 

In advance of the Lincoln Center Festival's Varèse
event (July 19 and 20), the International Contemporary Ensemble
presents tonight a preview concert, including the New York premiere of
the eight-hand piano version of Amériques. There will be a
webcast on the increasingly invaluable Q2.... After forty-one years, Robert Christgau appears to have written his last Consumer Guide. Not many music critics can claimed to have changed the art; Christgau is certainly one of them.... A...