Kelsey Lu on the Power of an Audience | THE SHED

On the eve of their first live performance in more than a year since the pandemic lockdown, Kelsey Lu reflects on what a live audience brings to a performance.

Images, additional video clips, and music courtesy Kelsey Lu.
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The five-performance series An Audience with… celebrates the irreplaceable, communal experience of a New York audience with live music and comedy. After a year spent without indoor performances following the Covid-19 shutdown in 2020, the series features singer and cellist Kelsey Lu in THIS IS A TEST on April 2; conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the musicians of the New York Philharmonic performing Caroline Shaw’s Entr'acte, Sibelius’s Rakastava (The Lover), and Strauss’s Metamorphosen on April 14 and 15; soprano Renée Fleming, Bill Frisell, Christian McBride, and Dan Tepfer on April 21; and comedian Michelle Wolf on April 22.
Planned in close coordination with New York State health officials to revitalize live performance in New York City, the concerts take place in The McCourt, The Shed’s flexible 18,000-square-foot space with a state-of-the-art MERV ventilation system, 115-foot-high ceilings, and distanced seating for 150 people.

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The Shed commissions original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. We bring together established and emerging artists in fields ranging from hip hop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance. Our home, The Bloomberg Building—designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect—is an unprecedented movable structure that adapts to support ambition and invention in all creative fields.

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