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April 23, 2021
Ronald Blum
NEW YORK (AP) Esa-Pekka Salonen walked on stage to join the New York Philharmonic, which had not gathered before an audience for exactly 400 days.
“On behalf of all us on stage, welcome back,” the conductor told the crowd on Wednesday night. “We have been dreaming of this moment for a long time.”
The philharmonic gave its first public performance after a historic hiatus of more than 13 months caused by the coronavirus pandemic, playing at the Shed in Brookfield Place, about two miles from its under-renovation Geffen Hall at Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts.
“I’m kind of on a euphoric high right now, because I missed it more than I realised,” concert master Frank Huang said afterwards. ....

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