There is a logjam of interesting events in New York and environs this week. Boulez's Répons will resound in the Park Avenue Armory. Ashley Fure's The Force of Things will have a run at Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ. BAM is presenting Matthew Aucoin's chamber opera Crossing, a Walt Whitman meditation. Yarn/Wire is playing Enno Poppe at the Kitchen. The Barnes Ensemble, a new resident group at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, will cap a week of workshops, master classes, and chamber concerts with a public performance on Oct. 8, featuring works of György Ligeti, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Zosha di Castri, Clara Iannotta, Eric Wubbels, and Chaya Czernowin — the last two serving as composers-in-residence. The reunited Art Ensemble of Chicago will make an appearance at Miller Theatre on Oct. 6 and then proceed to the October Revolution festival in Philadelphia, which is also featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra, Anthony Braxton, Claire Chase, Zeena Parkins, and So Percussion. And the Momenta Quartet will host the third edition of its Momenta Festival, with a two-day dance tribute to Ursula Mamlok following.
