A few days before Higher Word’s first concert in October 2024, co-founder Spencer McIntosh went to mass at St. Anthony of Padua in Soho where the performance would be held.
The newly formed orchestra, which plays classical music through a Catholic lens, had sold about 80 tickets for their inaugural performance. And during mass, McIntosh counted attendees to get a sense of the space —about 150 people.
“It was so sparse,” said the 39-year-old. He was “distraught. I was like, ‘this is the biggest mistake I ever made in my entire life’.”
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