After 13 months, the Philharmonic Orchestra from New York returns to live performances after will cancel the season Due to the pandemic by Covid-19.
In an outdoor section in the Lincoln Center, 120 workers from Health they listened to the members of the orchestra; a quintet of brass instruments and a quartet of horns accompanied by the flutist Mindy Kaufman offered a 90-minute lunchtime concert at Hearst Plaza.
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“It is so beautiful to have the culture back in New York,” said the Mayor Bill de Blasio to the public. “The arts and culture help us find meaning in the times we are living in. If at any time we needed this in our lives, it is now. So the music that they are going to listen to is also part of our healing. It is also part of our hope that we will find a way to move forward, ”he added.
From March 12, 2020 the Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera and the theaters from Broadway they suspended their presentations due to coronavirus.
By the end of August, the Philharmonic He began to offer concerts by moving a truck but had not performed before an audience in the center for more than a year. For this September he hopes to resume his subscription presentations and at the same time the Met plans to reopen, if the opera company can fix expired or expiring employment contracts.
The Philharmonic will relocate to the Alice Tully Hall and the Rose Theater for a work in the room David Geffen expected to end in September 2022.
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On Broadway, the theaters do not yet have a return date but the producers believe that this is also possible in the month of September.
The concert was the first of Restart Stages, a series of 10 recitals and rehearsals that will take place outdoors in the Lincoln Center facilities created by the center.