"While recognizing the incredible destruction COVID-19 has caused, the pandemic ... has shown us why we need music, why we need live performance, how the arts connect us to each other and to ourselves. The absence of 'normal' creates space to ask if normal was working, and for whom; and if it wasn’t working, how can we maintain the artistic integrity and emotional authenticity at the center of great performances, while bringing it to new places and including more people in the conversation?"