June 8, 2012

Meeting of the Spirits

★ Bargemusic (Saturday and Sunday) There’s plenty of interesting performances this weekend at the Barge, the delightful floating concert hall. On Saturday, as part of the Here and Now series, the cellist Jay Andrew Campbell and the pianist Meral Guneyman offer works by Morton Feldman, Ravel, Fred Hersch, Matthias Pintscher and Justin Dello Joio, as well as Christopher O’Riley’s imaginative arrangements of music by Radiohead. On Sunday, the dynamic cellist Matt Haimovitz and Uccello (his cello ensemble) play arrangements of pieces by Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus and George Gershwin. At 8 p.m. on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; $35, $30 for 65+, $15 for students. (Schweitzer)

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