Exquisite “Hymn to The City” at Greenwood Cemetery With More Live Performances to Come!
New York Philharmonic filled the air with grace at Green-wood cemetery recently. One of the finer moments emerging from the pandemic is to hear live music again, albeit with small recitals of 3–6 players per performance including musicians, singers, and a dancer; nonetheless moving than the celebrated bounty of a multitude of notes played by the full orchestra, which no doubt will return eventually.
Just to behold Green-wood’s impressive gates and walk through the stunning Victorian entrance with its fantastical pointed towers adorned in necklaces of thick green parrot nests is enough to five sense the WOW of its historic beauty.
We were reminded by signs welcoming people to write the names of loved ones they may have lost on sheets of paper posted on the fence outside. This makes the concert series Hymn to the City an inaugural return to arts and culture for Green-wood and a memorial for the 52,000 New Yorkers we have lost to it, as well as a tribute to our first line workers. Thoughtfully mitigating the audience numbers in groups rather than in crowds, the curators took careful consideration as they created this event. A collaboration between prolific Death of Classical (never, ever dull) the New York Philharmonic and Green-wood Cemetery events. Apropos for all New…
