Starts at $41.

Café 1930s: Jazz, Tango, and Cabaret
Featuring Chee-Yun, Brian McWhorter, and Mark Gould

A Strings Music Festival ensemble traces the vibrant, jazz-infused soundscape of interwar cafés and cabarets around the world. From American jazz clubs and vaudeville stages to the cabarets of Berlin, the tango cafés of Buenos Aires, and London’s avant-garde salons, the program captures a moment when classical, popular, and theatrical traditions collided.

Works by Paul Schoenfield and Zez Confrey evoke the wit and sparkle of American café culture, while Kurt Weill’s iconic “Mack the Knife” and Astor Piazzolla’s sultry Café 1930 reflect the era’s international spirit and artistic daring. The evening culminates in William Walton’s theatrical Façade, conducted by Mark Gould and featuring narration by Brian McWhorter, bringing to life the humor, edge, and cosmopolitan flair of a world in motion.

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