The music, Mr. Phillinganes said, will be unmistakably live. Mr. McQueen intends the staging to focus on musicians at work. To program the Shed, Mr. Poots cast a wide net of ideas — to, among others, Mr. McQueen, with whom he had curated projects in England. One day Mr. McQueen “phoned me out of the blue,” Mr. Poots recalled at an interview in the Shed’s temporary New York City offices. “He said: ‘Imagine hearing the history of African-American music.

Source: New York Times March 28, 2019 07:52 UTC