New York
In the coronavirus pandemic, classical music fans in New York can have a concert all to themselves. All 16 string quartets by the Bonn-born composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) will be performed one after the other on seven days in a building on Fifth Avenue.
In addition to four musicians, due to the restrictions in the coronavirus pandemic, only one listener – or a couple or people living together in a household – is allowed. The rush for the ten-minute concert experiences, for which those interested had to register in advance on the Internet, was great.
The building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan across from the Metropolitan Museum has belonged to the Federal Republic of Germany since the 1950s. For a long time it served as the headquarters of the Goethe Institute in New York and is currently operated under the name “1014” as a “Place for Ideas”.
There have been similar intimate concert experiences in other places since the beginning of the pandemic. At Stuttgart Airport, for example, musicians from the Stuttgart State Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the University of Music and Performing Arts played so-called “1: 1 Concerts” for ten minutes each for one listener.
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