Mix it up! Eclecticism rules as the Perelman Performing Arts Center—Manhattan’s new state-of-the-art performance venue, built on the site of the lost Twin Towers—opens its doors. The first classical program marks the New York debut of Mahani Teave, an internationally trained keyboard virtuoso as remarkable for power as for poetry. She hails, improbably, from perhaps the most celebrated rock in the Polynesian Triangle, and her story is the stuff of the inspiring documentary Song of Rapa Nui. Her debut album Rapa Nui Odyssey (Rubicom, 2021), with music ranging from Handel to Liszt (and cover art featuring one of the archaic moai statues silhouetted against the sky), won the hearts of cognoscenti around the world. Don’t miss this chance to hear her on the international concert circuit. —Matthew Gurewitsch