Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Sunday, May 31.
Kissin, Bell, and Isserlis at Carnegie is a stacked classical lineup that earns its prestige instead of leaning on it.
CPR is exactly the right Brooklyn room for a contemporary performance that sounds built for conversation afterward.
Total Bummer Festival at Knockdown gives the list one proper outdoor-scale noise-pop option without flattening into generic festival filler.
Yebba gives the bigger-room lane an actual voice and enough emotional range to stand out from the usual Sunday concert clutter.
Dan Weiss with Jacob Sacks and Thomas Morgan at Close Up feels like one of those small-room bills people hear about after it sells the night for them.
Ambrose Akinmusire at the Vanguard is the cleanest serious-jazz anchor on a Sunday with a lot of noise around it.
A Terrace Martin residency night still promises more live chemistry than a standard club booking because the whole point is what happens in the room.
Come and See at Metrograph is the sort of repertory gut-punch that still justifies a film slot even on a live-heavy day.
La MaMa plus a title this specific is enough to make this the sharper theater choice over safer institutional defaults.
Greater New York is one of the rare all-day art exceptions because it actually gives you a live read on where younger New York work is landing right now.