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One-To-One Concerts Bring Listeners Back To Live Music, One At A Time

A live-music series founded in Europe, which connects one musician with one listener at a time, comes to Brooklyn for two weekends of concerts by Silkroad Ensemble artists.
Mario Gotoh performs for a single listener in a One-To-One Concert hosted by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

On a grey, drizzly Sunday afternoon, I arrived at an industrial building in the . I was there for something called a , 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

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