Students in Richard Barone's Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s class at The New School’s School of Jazz & Contemporary Music will take the historic Bitter End stage to perform songs from the songwriters they have studied — legends who shook the world with their words and music and created one of the most important musical movements in the history of American popular music. The Bitter End played a major role in this musical revolution.

In the 1960s, a new wave of songwriters and performers, inspired by the folk music revival, jazz, and Beat poetry, created socially aware and deeply personal music that spoke to a generation like never before. These artists—Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, and Phil Ochs to name a few—gathered in New York’s Greenwich Village and wrote from their own personal experiences as well as from the nation’s headlines. Before long, the Velvet Underground combined rock and roll with the avant-garde, and Jimi Hendrix turned things psychedelic as the music evolved through the decade.

The students will perform their own interpretations and unique arrangements of these monumental songs, breathing new life into them and demonstrating their timeless relevance.