Like many smaller classical music ensembles, the celebrated PubliQuartet found ways to keep going during the shutdown – largely by performing outdoors in some very unorthodox settings. One of these was the catacombs of The Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the venues where Death of Classical has been presenting eclectic performances since early 2020. What’s it like to perform during a pandemic in a space where you’re literally surrounded by the dead? Remarkably transcendent, it turns out.
Featured in this Episode
- PubliQuartet
- (https://www.publiquartet.com/) (@publiq4tet)
- Curtis Stewart (@curtis.stewart_violin)
- Jannina Kara Norpoth (@janninan)
- Nick Revel (@revelnick)
- Hamilton Berry (@cellisthb)
- Death of Classical https://www.deathofclassical.com/ (@deathofclassical)
- Andrew Ousley (@andrewousley)
- The Green-Wood Cemetery https://www.green-wood.com/ (@historicgreenwood)
Resources/More Info:
- https://www.wnyc.org/story/night-opera-green-wood-cemetery/
- https://abc7ny.com/greenwood-cemetery-worker-gravedigger-brooklyn/6138904/https://seenandheard-international.com/2021/04/new-york-philharmonic-to-open-death-of-classicals-third-season-of-the-angels-share-at-brooklyns-historic-green-wood-cemetery/
Host and Producer: Tania Mohammad
Producer, Post-production, Original Music, Sound Design: Garrett Tiedemann
Executive Producer, Theme Music: David Hoffman
Production Manager: Gabriela Montequin
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