Amir ElSaffar’s Live Living Room Concert: Expanding the boundaries of performance in an age of social distancing
By Elizabeth Garrison | April 27, 2020Last Thursday, jazz trumpeter Amir ElSaffar and four members of his Rivers of Sound orchestra performed together live from multiple locations for the Hopkins Center for the Arts’s first online concert through its new program, Hop@Home. ElSaffar and the entire 17-member orchestra were originally scheduled to perform at the Hop this spring. The in-person concert has been rescheduled for 2021.