On Tuesday night, as part of Performa 09, Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer split a bill at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

“Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary having its premiere on Thursday, uses interviews, videos and intercepted calls to untangle the attacks in that Indian city last November.

The Afiara String Quartet clearly has something going for it, but at its concert at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday, it was not entirely clear what that something was.

The audacity of Ralph Shapey’s music came through vividly with the a Shapey program’s first chamber work, performed by the New York Woodwind Quintet.

Last week the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 6 to 3 to give landmark protection to the 100-year-old B. F. Goodrich tire company building on Broadway just north of 57th Street, but not to a connected building around the corner designed by the same architect at the same time. Some commission members on both sides of that unusual divided vote cried foul, complaining that politics played an inappropriate role.