Benjamin Bagby: Beowulf

MUSIC
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020
8:00 PM

92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$25
https://www.92y.org/event/benjamin-bagby

Benjamin Bagby's performances of Beowulf – singing and reciting (in Anglo-Saxon) (with titles:  don't worry) and accompanying himself on harp — are enthralling and transporting, making you think that the past isn't just another country, but another planet (albeit one that's a lot of fun to visit).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Maybe Café d'Alsace (where a very young very French waiter once responded to my suggestion that the reason most of the food there has what he had apologetically characterized as "funny names" is that Alsace was once part of Germany by exclaiming, "That's impossible!  Alsace was never German!"  Bismark would be surprised to hear that).