I don’t try to make it more than it is, but it doesn’t need to be made more than it is, because it’s extraordinary.” “But then, when we sit down and listen to the music, that to me is a communion. This season, attendees can catch big names in classical and opera like Augusta McKay Lodge, Adam Tendler, Jenny Lin and Daniela Mack down in the catacombs. Whiskey sponsorship for The Angel’s Share is fitting, since the series takes its name from the portion of whiskey lost to evaporation during the barrel ageing process.īut mingling and sipping aside, the main event at an Angels Share show is the top-tier music and the chance to hear it in an intimate, bone chilling venue. Distillers including Widow Jane, New York Distilling Co., and Five & 20 will be onsite to lift attendee’s spirits. The festival will feature a burger cookoff between Harlem Public and Madcap, with votes tracked in real time by digital leaderboard on Ousley’s Burger Club app, with points for qualities such as “texture” and “harmoniousness.” The victor will be awarded a spray-painted golden spatula. To keep the atmosphere from skewing toward the morbid, Ousley incorporates a little silliness into every Death of Classical event. When it’s paired with a beautiful performance, it enhances our appreciation for the shared experiences of life.” “These are extraordinarily beautiful spaces, but they’re also spaces where you confront your mortality. “I don’t put them in these spaces to make people feel weird or creeped out,” he said. These concert venues may sound a little on the macabre side, but according to Ousley, the mood at one of his shows is more transcendent than spooky. Music marketing guru Andrew Ousley is the brainchild behind Death of Classical, which puts on both The Angel’s Share and The Crypt Sessions, a Harlem-based concert series held in the crypt of The Church of the Intercession.
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