Normally on a warm summer night, Lincoln Center would be bustling with people coming to enjoy outdoor concerts and dance parties. Right now, it's one or two musicians playing quick shows for individual essential workers and their loved ones.
There haven't been any live public performances at America's biggest arts center since mid-March. But New York's Lincoln Center has been hosting some free mini concerts for healthcare providers, teachers and other essential workers, featuring just one or two volunteer musicians and audiences of five, max., one of Lincoln Center's constituent organizations. One of the performers is Kuan Cheng Lu, a Taiwanese first violinist who joined the orchestra 16 years ago.
"It was nice that it was so intimate that we could enjoy it, just the two of us and safely, of course," she says."Live music is one of our favorite things to do. So it's definitely a piece of us that's been missing during this whole pandemic. This was such a treat." "Lincoln Center is actually my favorite part of the city," she says, glancing towards the complex's empty main plaza."It never ceases to amaze me how much a space can be sacred and feel familiar."
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