A year after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered New York, the city is taking steps to reopen -- and, with that, returning to live music.
on June 3-5, where attendees will walk around the Brooklyn cemetery to hear stories of those buried there and a collection of music, dance and poetry.
The event will feature a mix of music, from selections by early 20th-century American classical composer Florence Price to modern American composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, and from Paul Simon to Leonard Bernstein, with a"West Side Story Suite" performed by his gravesite.
She also noted that"musicians — those who primarily earn income from live performances — have been hit particularly hard" financially by the pandemic, so while the return to performances is a celebration of arts, it's also, she hopes, a start to New York City restoring"the financially devastated artist community.
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