MUSIC

Innovators in Exile

MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2023
6:30 PM

Austrian Cultural Forum
11 East 52nd Street, Midtown, Manhattan

Free
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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! (Austrian Cultural Forum. Hmmmmm. My Mother’s family was from Austria. Wonder why I don’t have any cousins there, the way my Italian friends in grade school all had cousins in Italy? OH RIGHT.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The problem with The Grill is that, as much as you don’t want to think so, it’s really very good.