MUSIC

Innovators in Exile

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, APRIL 20 & 21, 2023 (also on APRIL 24)
6:30 PM THURSDAY
7:00 PM FRIDAY

THURSDAY: Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan
FRIDAY: OPERA America’s National Opera Center
330 Seventh Avenue, Garment District, Manhattan

Free
THURSDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION

The reason to listen to Entartete Musik — music that came to be suppressed by the Nazis — isn’t because you sympathize with Jews, Roma, Gays, Blacks, or other suppressed groups. It’s because the ‘20s were a great time for music in Europe, and the stuff the Nazis tamped down tends to be a blast. Jazzy Neo-Classical: the Nazis hated that stuff. But we sure don’t! Three different programs over three nights.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Thursday, probably a good idea to go to Raines Law Room for a good stiff drink or five. Friday, every time you to the National Opera Center and don’t also stop in for the delicious West African buffet at B&B Restaurant Corp., an angel dies.