Word: cabarete
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...Sweet Charity and City of Angels; of heart failure; in New York City. His jazzy songs, from Hey, Look Me Over to Big Spender, became hits for singers like Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee and epitomized Broadway songwriting at its most likably brash. A fluent pianist, he performed a cabaret act in New York City as recently as last month...
...Gershwin album with his trio plus four horn players. And he has just finished a CD for Angel Records on which he forms a duo with, yes, his mother. (It's a family affair, since it includes two songs composed by his father.) Charlap, who plays occasional cabaret gigs with his mother, credits her as a major musical influence, particularly on his phrasing: "I find myself hearing her voice in my head. After all, I've been listening to her ever since I can remember...
...when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a caf?-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed to the word...
...Over the years the Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair. The building was occupied by a succession of nightclubs, bars and squatters until 2002, when the city parliament, spurred by local artists, earmarked $993,000 to renovate the landmark and reopen it as an informal Dadaist venue...
...newly refurbished Cabaret Voltaire, which opened at the end of September, features an archive of notes, documents and testimonials by Ball and other early Dadaists that chronicles the birth and growth of the movement, as well as works of modern followers such as the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. Expectant parents take note: to mark the Dada revival, the Cabaret has launched the Gugusdada contest; it will award $8,300 to the first parents who dare name their newborn "Dada." To be eligible for the prize the baby must be born next February, the month the movement was founded. Cabaret Voltaire...