Met Orchestra brings classical music to Brooklyn veterans
Musicians perform free concert at VA hospital
The joyful strains of Mozart’s “Exultate Jubilate” filled the air at the Veterans Affairs NY Harbor Healthcare System’s Brooklyn Campus on Monday morning as the MET Orchestra performed in a special concert in tribute to those who have served in the military.
The orchestra, which normally accompanies sopranos, tenors and other stars of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, played a variety of classical pieces for an appreciative audience in the atrium of the veteran’s hospital at 800 Poly Place in Bay Ridge.
The concert, offered in partnership with the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 American Federation of Musicians, marked the latest in the MET Orchestra Musicians Community Performance Series in which the music makers visit neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs to perform. The concert series is funded by a grant from the Achelis and Bodman Foundation.