MUSIC

Brooklyn Art Song Society: The World at War: Recovered Voices

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2022
7:30 PM

First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn
119 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

$35
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A recital of songs by composers murdered (or at the very least stifled) by the Nazis. That’s not the reason to go, though: it’s just backstory — and if backstory were enough we’d be enjoying rather than enduring all the Florence Price now being foisted upon us. No, the reason to go is that in the ‘20s, when these people were active, Berlin and Prague were centers for the amalgamation of classical music with the lively and fecund vernacular music of the time (not the mention the stylishly ironic recasting of past classical music called Neoclassicism). In other words, exactly the kind of thing this List is about.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: SO by far the best restaurant in Brooklyn Heights, Inga’s Bar.