Music Venues Scramble To Survive Amid COVID-19 Shutdown

By
John Schaefer
WNYC News | May 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the arts in New York, and the live music scene has been particularly hard hit. The prospect of multi-million dollar deficits at major organizations like the New York Philharmonic or the Metropolitan Opera is bad enough, but the situation is even more precarious for the smaller venues that have always been essential to the city’s artistic ferment.   

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