Episode Synopsis "Episode 8: The Tastemakers: Culture on Campus Leslie Koch, President, Perelman Center for the Performing Arts"

Leslie Koch offers a guided tour of the under-construction performing arts center, which will be the next building to open at the WTC site. She discusses the importance of arts and culture to Lower Manhattan and to a city that is just now beginning to recover from the pandemic. We witness the very first musical performance in the new building with violinist Gregory Harrington and cellist Eleanor Norton.  

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