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

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/