Tertulia is a new NYC chamber-music series combining the pleasures of sound and food. Opening night, Sept. 29, is at Harding's, with excellent young players from Decoda…. Composer-percussionist Andy Akiho is the winner of the 2014 Underwood Emerging Composers Commission, his sharply playful Tarnished Mirrors having won over many ears at last spring's NY Phil Biennial…. The Phil's very welcome Carl Nielsen Project comes to a close Oct. 1-3, with the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. Before that, we'll have the American première of Unsuk Chin's Clarinet Concerto, with Kari Kriikku as soloist. A recording of Nielsen's First and Fourth is out now on Dacapo…. Chaya Czernowin appears in Miller Theatre's Composer Portrait series on Oct. 23…. The site-specific opera collective The Industry is preparing its next project, a car-bound work called HOPSCOTCH…. The Carlsbad Music Festival runs this weekend, with David Lang occupying the lead spot and Dawn of Midi supplying high-end pop flavour…. Mark Swed has an early report on Esa-Pekka Salonen's latest creation, Karawane, a choral-orchestral setting of a canonical Dada text by Hugo Ball. For the moment, you can see and hear the première here…. The international new-music collective Wandelweiser, about which Steve Smith and Tim Rutherford-Johnson know a great deal more than I do, is gaining visibility on these shores, with the S.E.M. Ensemble presenting a Dante Boon recital this Sunday; a Chicago Wandelweiser Festival running this weekend; and various Wandelweiser composers featured in St. Paul Sept. 27-28. Irritable Hedgehog, whose Eva-Maria Houben disc was one of my favorites of last year, is releasing a new Jürg Frey album, again with R. Andrew Lee…. Open letter to Yale University Press: Let Kyle Gann's Ives book be published as he wishes it!