The Velvet Note: A Piano Night in New York 1926

New York, the Prohibition era. On the streets — police raids, in the newspapers — sensational arrests, and behind the closed doors of speakeasies contraband whiskey flows and music intertwines passion, irony and freedom. The piano becomes a confessional for both musicians and guests: Armstrong, Ellington, Fats Waller — every note feels like a breath of air in a city suffocating under prohibition.

From the first steps of ragtime and the daring Charleston to the orchestral sophistication of Harlem in the early 1930s the audience will live through a decade of musical revolution. The evening brings together live piano, theatrical storytelling, 1920s newsreels, dance and silent cinema. Legendary clubs will come to life before your eyes, along with old newspaper clippings, the silhouettes of flappers, the laughter of underground parties and even the myth of how music once saved someone in a courtroom.

This is not just a concert and not just a play. It is a full immersion into the atmosphere of the Roaring Twenties — a time when music was synonymous with freedom and every performance could become a legend. In the finale the lights will fade, leaving the audience only with the echo of the piano — the memory of a night that “never happened”.