Silkroad Ensemble: 1:1 Concerts

MUSIC
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MAY 8 & 9, 2021 (also on MAY 15 & 16)
Various Times

Brooklyn Academic of Music Presentation
Building 77, Brooklyn Navy Yard
141 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn

Free
https://www.bam.org/1-1-concerts

One-on-one recitals (you can't call it a concert if there's only one performer) by Silkroad Ensemble-associated musicians at various outdoor sites in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. These one-on-one performances that have proliferated during the Quarantine always bring to mind Sir Thomas Beecham's brilliant solution to the eternal problem, what do you do when you find yourself chatting with a performer after a lackluster performance? Beecham would put his arm around the performer's shoulders (you can't do that now — but you can bump elbows) and shout lustily, "Superb is not the word!"

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Out of all the great solid-food places in the Navy Yard, the only one that's open over the weekend is Russ & Daughters — so you'll have to console yourself with the best appetizing in the world. Beer at Transmitter.