Britt Stigler
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May 26, 2020

The Art Of Recovery: How Artists Are Grappling With The Covid-19 Pandemic

Britt Stigler
|
May 26, 2020

The Art Of Recovery: How Artists Are Grappling With The Covid-19 Pandemic

Britt Stigler
|
May 26, 2020

The Art Of Recovery: How Artists Are Grappling With The Covid-19 Pandemic

When concerts, performances, shows and events ground to a halt this spring, the dust that arose enveloped the art world in uncertainty.

“In general, as composers, we create from the ether; music extrapolated from thoughts, fragments, and eventually the abstract becomes composing,” Paola Prestini, composer, co-founder and artistic director of National Sawdust, told ALL ARTS recently. “I’ve always believed ‘we must build as if the sand were stone’ (Borges) but this is another level of instability.”

At the time the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the composer was faced with the loss of income and the cancellation of two operas. Like many artists, she also met the issue of “trying to create in this moment of great uncertainty.”