{"id":88206,"date":"2020-10-13T18:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/with-concert-halls-shut-ny-philharmonic-takes-to-sidewalk\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T18:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:15:23","slug":"with-concert-halls-shut-ny-philharmonic-takes-to-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-concert-halls-shut-ny-philharmonic-takes-to-sidewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"#With concert halls shut, NY Philharmonic takes to sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#With concert halls shut, NY Philharmonic takes to sidewalk<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n NEW YORK \u2014 With performance halls shut because of the coronavirus pandemic, the best concert venue a violinist could hope for one recent October Friday was a sidewalk in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Fiona Simon tuned her instrument as she prepared for one of her only public performances with the New York Philharmonic in months.<\/p>\n

The setting was a far cry from the orchestra\u2019s usual home at Manhattan\u2019s Lincoln Center. Traffic hummed and sirens wailed as a crew laid cables and unloaded speakers from the back of a double-parked pickup truck.<\/p>\n

But Simon said the pop-up concert \u2014 one of several the Philharmonic has been playing around the city this fall \u2014 filled a need she\u2019s had since indoor performances stopped in March, depriving musicians of not just a paycheck, but a sense of purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not a complete musician if you\u2019re just playing for yourself,\u201d Simon said.<\/p>\n

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Members of the NY Phil Bandwagon, from left, violinist Fiona Simon, countertenor and producer Anthony Roth Costanzo, violinist Curtis Stewart and viola player Robert Rinehart perform in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simon, a native of England who joined the New York Philharmonic in 1985, says she has struggled to cope with not having an audience, sometimes performing for friends virtually over the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a fundamental human need,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Philharmonic came up with the idea for a series<\/a> of outdoor, pop-up performances over the summer, even as it was forced to lay off or furlough nearly half its staff as it faced a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.<\/p>\n

On that Friday, Simon and a few colleagues played three corners of the city as part of the series they\u2019re calling the NY Phil Bandwagon. The first show of the day was outside a Bronx school, the second outside a public library in Queens and the final one in a Brooklyn park.<\/p>\n

The bandwagon itself \u2014 a red Ford pickup truck \u2014 rolls up to the curb carrying a sound system, music stands, lights and orange traffic cones to keep the audience social<\/a>ly distant. The musicians follow in a van.<\/p>\n

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Lawrence Rock, left, New York Philharmonic audio director, works inside the NY Phil Bandwagon truck.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Philharmonic plans to hold its final Bandwagon concert of the year this weekend and then resume the program in the spring.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s street life has always been vibrant, but these days, the city\u2019s outdoor spaces are more important than ever as many residents are stuck in small apartments working from home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s this whole myth that New York is dying, but it\u2019s only dying in the places that were built for people not from New York \u2014 the people in New York are thriving,\u201d said Curtis Stewart, a Grammy-nominated violinist who joined for a guest performance with the Bandwagon.<\/p>\n

As the group began its final performance of the day, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo kicked off the show from the bed of the truck.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to play you a little concert,\u201d he said as people began to linger in the warm glow of an early autumn sunset.<\/p>\n

\"Simon,
Simon, right, and Rinehart perform outside the Casita Maria Center For Arts & Education in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx borough of New York.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The set lasted 20 minutes. A trio of violins preformed well-known tunes from George Gershwin and Charlie Parker, as well as Henry Purcell\u2019s \u201cDido\u2019s Lament\u201d \u2014 a sorrowful piece that Costanzo said \u201cresponds to the moment in a more emotional way.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the audience swelled to dozens \u2014 couples, families, dogs and their owners \u2014 it became clear that the concert is as much an emotional outlet for the crowd as it is for the musicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as we\u2019re closeted up in our homes dealing with the storm that is current events we need an outlet. We need a place to put our feelings, we need a place to feel safe,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve got until it\u2019s gone.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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