This Friday evening, March 1, the Brooklyn Art Song Society will present “February House”, a collection of songs by artists who lived at or were associated with the house at 7 Middagh Street, later demolished to make way for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, which got its name from the fact that several of its inhabitants had […]
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Brooklyn Art Song Society Presents “February House” at First Unitarian Friday Evening
By Claude Scales on February 25, 2024 10:34 pm in 11201, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Distinguished Residents, Literature, Music, Poetry
Brooklyn Heights: Home of the (Literary) Stars
By Claude Scales on August 13, 2019 11:25 pm in 11201, Arts and Entertainment, Brooklyn Heights, Literature
It’s pretty well known that Brooklyn Heights has had more than its share of great writers as residents, but in response to a question from Heights resident “Lauren” the Eagle has interviewed another Heights resident, former Borough Historian John Manbeck, about the neighborhood’s literary history. We all (or most of us, I presume) know about […]
February House Musical Gets Mixed Reviews in New Haven; Comes to NYC May 8
Composer Gabriel Kahane and playwright Seth Bockley have collaborated on a musical play, February House, evidently inspired by Sherill Tippins’ book by the same title, about the house at 7 Middagh Street (demolished to make way for the BQE) that, in the early 1940s, sheltered a brilliant and bizarre collection of poets, novelists, composers, and […]
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