October 2011
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WatchIn Spectral Scriabin — to be performed November 3 through November 5 as part of the White Light Festival — Eteri Andjaparidze and Jennifer Tipton stage a performance of Alexander Scriabin’s work based on the composer’s ideas about the relationship between music and color.
This track is from a previous recording of Andjaparidze playing Scriabin.
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Lincoln Center Announces American Songbook 2012 →
Lincoln Center’s acclaimed series American Songbook returns to the elegant Allen Room in January for its 14th season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 16 nights, the series will explore works ranging from the best of the golden age of musical standards to today’s most dynamic songwriting. The music of Broadway, Latin culture and hip-hop, bluegrass, rock, and pop will be...
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Peter Sellars' "Desdemona" at Berkeley →
“There are many, many layers to this ‘Desdemona,’” wrote Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. “Iago is not just banished but purged. In Sellars’ “Othello” production, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s pudgy Iago was pure bile personified. His sickly green polo shirt alone gave me nightmares. But in Desdemona the women and the Africans rise up. They are now given voices and...
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New York Magazine showcases coolest film offerings...
Reel Time
Seven film events to check out this week.
Show some emotion at The Passion of Joan of Arc. (Photo: Rick Holbrook)
Greenpoint Film Festival Broadway Stages; 10/27-10/30; 222 West St., nr. Eagle St., Greenpoint Four days of screenings kicking off with the world premiere of the documentary My Mars Bar Movie, about the beloved East Village watering hole, with an appearance by filmmaker...
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Rokia Traoré to Give U.S. Premiere of "Desdemona,"... →
Yesterday, Nonesuch featured yet another story on Desdemona, coming to at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.
“Created in response to Sellars’s 2009 direction of Shakespeare’s Othello, the piece, featuring a script by Morrison and music by Traoré, imagines a conversation from beyond the grave between Shakespeare’s Desdemona and Barbary, the woman Shakespeare...
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‘Desdemona’ Talks Back to ‘Othello’ →
Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival (October 20—November 19, 2011), in its second season, will include the New York premiere of Desdemona, a new music-theater production created by Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison and eminent theater and opera director Peter Sellars, in collaboration with Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traoré. Find out more about the performance by reading today’s...
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Portishead’s Adrian Utley Scores Dreyer’s Classic... →
“If you’ve never seen Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s acclaimed 1928 silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc (not the one starring Milla Jovovich, folks), there’s really no better place to do so than at Lincoln Center this weekend (October 29th) where it will be live-scored by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp),” wrote Fader’s Amber Bravo. Check out the...
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WatchAdrian Utley of Portishead has collaborated with Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, to create a new score for the iconic silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. the work will have its U.S premiere at Lincoln Center on October 29 as part of the White Light Festival. It promises to be a thrilling performance, as the ensemble of electric guitars, voice synthesizers, brass, harp and percussion recreate and...
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New celebrity guests added to Lincoln Center's "An... →
On Monday, October 24, Lincoln Center will present an unprecedented evening with Ralph Lauren, one of the world’s most recognized design and global business leaders, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, who will lead a personal and intimate on-stage conversation with him offering a rare look into the life of an intriguing public, yet very private, cultural icon.
This theatrical multi-media one night only...
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“Mr. Davis coaxed the orchestra to play the shimmering harmonies that open the...”
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Lincoln Center Kicks Off White Light Festival
See what critics are saying about this season’s White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, with unforgettable performances by the London Symphony Orchestra, Huelgas Ensemble, Gidon Kremer, Olivier Latry and Ensemble Sarband — just to name a few.
The New York Daily News
The Huffington Post
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A Maestro Reflects on a Life of Batons and... →
“Claiming no particular belief in God, Mr. Davis nonetheless considers himself ‘spiritually interested’ and is immersed in the eternal questions of Beethoven’s ‘Missa Solemnis,’ with which he will consecrate Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival on Friday,” wrote The New York Times’ Michael White. Find out more about the career and life of Sir Colin Davis...
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WatchWatch Paula Zahn’s interview on THIRTEEN’s Sunday Arts with Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director of Lincoln Center and Director of the White Light Festival.
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Past Crosses Over - Wall Street Journal, "Culture...
Monday, October 17, 2011
by Pia Catton
Thomas Dorn
Bassekou Kouyate with the ngoni, a musical instrument from Mali.
Innovation has been the subject of much talk lately, especially after the death of Steve Jobs. And the arts are an important part of that discussion: A culture moves forward not only with modern technology, but with new modes of thinking that expand the range of human...
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SPOTTED AT LINCOLN CENTER
A real ‘Scream’
By SEAN DALY
Last Updated: 7:29 AM, October 17, 2011
Posted: 9:35 PM, October 16, 2011
Thousands of “Harry Potter” fans — many dressed in full costume and makeup — waited outside Lincoln Center for up to three hours Friday night to bid a screaming farewell to the popular movie franchise.
The tribute and special post-midnight appearance by star Daniel...
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Necessary Weather Review
In this 1994 New York Times review, Anna Kisselgoff describes how the dancers of Necessary Weather ”glow like incadescent beacons”, and that they radiate light so that the “viewer’s perception is that light and movement are perfectly fused, that one cannot be considered without the other”. Read the rest of the review here.
Necessary Weather, a silent study in...
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Nikolaj Znaider: On the Fiddle →
Opening Great Performers is the return of Sir Colin Davis with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The maestro will lead two concerts in Avery Fisher Hall, one of which is an all-Sibelius program on Oct 19 with Symphony No. 2, and the Violin Concerto featuring Israeli-Danish artist Nikolaj Znaider. Check out Znaider’s brilliant London Symphony Orchestra video podcast above.
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When did Vilde Frang make her orchestral debut? Where did Vilde study? Where is she performing next? Discover the answers to these questions, and so much more, on Vilde’s homepage.
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It seems the critics agree on Michail Lifits. He’s been described by the New York Times as a “distinctive performer” who plays with a “cleanly articulated touch and beautiful phrasing.” Rorianne Schrade of New York Concert Review is similarly full of praise when she describes how Michail has “strong musical imagination, highly personal phrasing and dynamics, and...
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ClassicalTV.com's exclusive interview with... →
Find out why Maestro Noseda was so eager to lead the London Symphony Orchestra in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, Oct. 23.
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Lincoln Ristorante recognized in Esquire →
Lincoln Ristorante has just been selected by Esquire magazine as one of “Best New Restaurants of the Year 2011.”
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"Duality of Light" art installation generates...
Lynette Wallworth’s free, interactive Duality of Light art installation is being featured in Alice Tully Hall’s Morgan Stanley Lobby as part of this year’s White Light Festival at Lincoln Center from Oct. 31 through Nov. 13. Read below to see what critics are saying about it!
Art Monthly
The Australian
Sydney Morning Herald
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By the Numbers: Big Apple Circus
Nearly 150 people
Around 80 animals
105,665 sq ft
138 ft diameter circus tent
36 recreational vehicles that serve as living quarters
1 schoolhouse trailer, with blackboards, study cubicles, and a library
5-10 students, taught by New York State accredited teachers
100 meals a day served in a cookhouse that seats 20
1 amazing show!
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WatchA clip from Vilde Frang’s first ever appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the Classic Brit Awards 2011, where she took home the award for Best Newcomer. Watch here as she speaks to Jamie Crick on the Red Carpet. In another first for Vilde, she’ll have her U.S recital debut at Lincoln Center on Sunday, October 16 in one of the Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts.
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The White Light Festival on Brooklyn Vegan →
Earlier today, Brooklyn Vegan posted a feature on Lincoln Center’s 2011 White Light Festival schedule, which includes a live movie score by Adrian Utley and Will Gregory for The Passion of Joan of Arc on Oct. 29.
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Tom and Jerry Conduct... →
Check out the 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon that features the characters at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House during a performance of Carmen.
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Wednesday Weekly Strip - Julius Knipl, Real Estate...
This week’s strip, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer looks at differing reactions on election day. Ben Katchor, along with Mark Mulcahy, will be performing the musical theater piece Up From The Stacks tomorrow at 8.30pm at David Rubenstein Atrium. Hope to see you there!
