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Violins, Corpses, and Candles: PubicQuartet and Death of Classical

Violins, Corpses, and Candles: PubicQuartet and Death of Classical

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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/
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