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On a grey, drizzly Sunday afternoon, I arrived at an industrial building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I was there for something called a One-to-One Concert, but I genuinely had no idea what to expect â what kind of music I d hear, or even where I d hear it. After a temperature check, a masked woman approached me. Her name was Stacy, an usher employed by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the event s presenter.
As we walked through a noisy corridor, Stacy gave me one very strict instruction for the performance I was about to see: no applause.
Originally published on May 14, 2021 3:07 pm
On a grey, drizzly Sunday afternoon, I arrived at an industrial building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I was there for something called a One-to-One Concert, but I genuinely had no idea what to expect – what kind of music I d hear, or even where I d hear it. After a temperature check, a masked woman approached me. Her name was Stacy, an usher employed by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the event s presenter.
As we walked through a noisy corridor, Stacy gave me one very strict instruction for the performance I was about to see:
no applause.
Inside The Most Intimate Musical Performances, Now Taking Place At The Brooklyn Navy Yard View all 19
As New Yorkers start to imagine what live events might look like in a post-pandemic world, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is offering one vision of how socially-distanced music can still bring people together. The 1:1 CONCERTS, which took place this past weekend and will happen again next weekend, offer one person at a time the chance to experience an intimate 10-minute program performed by a single musician, across a number of wholly unique spaces in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Between the isolation and the cavernous surroundings, it s a surreal and somewhat overwhelming experience. At dress rehearsals last Friday, my guide Sarah navigated me through two very large warehouses and two very scenic rooftops to peer in on four concerts. Being led through the mostly empty industrial landscape made it all feel like some top secret experimental program.