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“I love the mash-up of different genres and of feeding off the crowd’s energy, whether it’s 50 people wearing tuxedos in a small chamber concert or 50,000 people wearing Commanders jerseys. That symbiosis between a live ensemble and the crowd, there’s nothing like that, and I can’t wait to bring that to the fans here.”

At a small chamber concert held in an ornate hall where Mozart himself had played, the conductor invited young Paul up to play the triangle during a Strauss polka.

“Destroying the Frick’s music room — a chamber concert venue beloved for generations — is an erasure of New York City’s cultural and civic memory.”

A 38-year-old native New Yorker — from Staten Island, which is, alas, the only borough to get an indoor chamber concert, on June 17, rather than the full park treatment — Mr. Gaffigan is one of the rising stars of his generation.

But they also had subscriptions to the Philadelphia Orchestra and its Sunday chamber concert series, as well as season tickets to the Phillies.