Despite the pandemic, this neighborhood is coming together in new ways.
At times, 20 or more people gather to listen to them play classical music. But Kim and Wongtrakool insist that their audience is always physically separated.
Beong-Soo Kim performs classical music on his cello on his porch in Pasadena, California during the COVID-19 shutdown.“We've had people drop off cards -- people we don’t know -- people have dropped off jam,” Kim said, calling the gestures unnecessary but kind. “Someone gave us some Swiss chard ... some people gave us some oranges. You know, it's certainly not why we're doing it, but it’s nice that it’s meant something to some people.
“Even though it’s obviously a great neighborhood, Madison Heights, there’s still a lot of people who don’t know each other here,” Laura Fleming, Wongtrakool and Kim’s neighbor, told ABC News.Fleming attributes this broken-up community to the fact that many Pasadena kids go to different elementary and high schools, so families tend to build a community based on campus rather than neighborhood. Having grown up in the mid-West, Fleming thinks this phenomenon is quite unique to Pasadena.
“I think that through this period, something like this has given us the opportunity to know way more of our neighbors, and to get to know our community,” Fleming said. “And it’s bringing our community ever closer together.” Beong-Soo Kim, his wife Bonnie Wongtrakool and guest performers at their house often had an audience of people listen to their porch performances from outside of their house.Fleming says it's developed into a progressive neighborhood porch concert series. Just a few blocks over, another couple has started playing from their porch, leaving just enough time between concerts to allow neighbors to relocate.When asked if the porch concerts will continue when the pandemic is over, Kim was blunt.
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