Sounds Like Brooklyn: Beirut
February 9, 2009
The Brooklyn Academy of Music‘s Howard Gilman Opera House is a wonderful place to see a show. Even more so, to see the instrumental bliss of New Mexico’s Beirut and their cacophony of accordion, trumpets, ukulele, and glockenspiels. And even more so, to see the amazing band supported by the Vassar College orchestra.
The seated show in the beautifully ornate opera house quickly went “general admission” as the precocious 22-year-old frontman requested we come closer. A testament to my age and height, this kinda was a disappointment. But one’s hips cannot remain stationary in the face of duel-blaring trumpets pointed towards the heavens and expanding accordion bellows!