Odes New York Performances

Horace’s *Odes* is a four‑book cycle of Latin lyric poems that set a template for later European song and verse, first issued in the late Roman Republic and completed a decade later. Its subjects move between public life and private feeling, balancing civic ceremony with intimacy and wit. At Roulette, New York vocalist and bandleader Yvonne Rogers frames *Odes* in a classical context while drawing on her jazz-honed sense of phrasing from local stages. The result underscores how a fixed form can stay alive through interpretation, not novelty.