Cabaret thoughts
After an incredible “groyse kontsert” last night (Theo Bikel is still amazing, and I don’t even like that kind of music) we retired to the Cabaret to check out the Crown Royal and music.
I was far too sleepy to stay long, but while I was there, the quality was uniformly astounding (except for the Crown Royal—I’m going back to the Oban I brought with). The variety was equally astounding. A duo did a klezmer tune featuring saxaphone and amazing scat/voices, with the voices going from scat to didjideroo. Not your usual klezmer. A very, very young girl with a very, very mature voice did a broadway song. Itzik Gottesman, my favorite פֿאָרװערטס reporter did some wonderful Yiddish folk songs which I hadn’t heard (except for one that his mother wrote). He was preceded by a klezmer boogie band called “The Lithuanian Empire” (sp?) that I expect to review over on the KlezmerShack sometime soon. Very good. Some more Yiddish song and I called it a night.
For people like me whose favorite music is whatever wasn’t playing the song before, the Cabaret is perfect.