March 2011
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By the Numbers: Kuhn Organ in Alice Tully Hall
1974: the organ was built
2006: organ removed to storage during the renovation of Alice Tully Hall
2010: Juilliard Organ Department Chair Paul Jacobs re-inaugurates the organ with a performance of Bach’s Clavier-Ubung III
4,192 pipes
85 ranks, with 61 speaking stops
2 digital pedal stops
19 tons total weight
18.3 feet for longest pipe
1/10 inch for shortest pipe
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INTERVIEW: Matthew Polenzani in Time Out New York →
Miller time
Polenzani and Drake take on Schubert’s lovesick stalker.
DROWNING IN SORROW Matthew Polenzani channels Schubert’s heartbroken hero. Photograph: Dario Acosta
Alice Tully Hall; Sun 3
Schubert’s 1823 song cycle Die schöne Müllerin (“The Beautiful Mill-Girl”) is one of Romanticism’s musical pillars. The piece is also achingly small-r romantic, its poetic voice as vulnerable as that...
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Free stuff! →
Thanks Time Out - we love FREE!
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Lots of it, in fact—our annual free issue is out now, and features suggestions for hundreds of gratis things to do around NYC. Drinks? Music? Bar snacks? We have you covered.
We’re also giving away a bunch of cool items, including a Schwinn bicycle, plane tickets, a Karmaloop gift certificate and more. Go forth and enter to win stuff.
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“The city’s first female cab driver remembered her first day on the job...”
– Fabulous story in today’s Daily News:
Meet Gertrude Haldey Jeannette, New York City’s 1st female cab driver
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Lincoln Center Fun Facts: Art Preservation
Once every two years, the outdoor sculptures on Lincoln Center’s campus are cleaned by professional art conservationists. In the early 1980s, art conservationists Christine and Marc Roussel were hired to provide a maintenance program for the sculptures on the Lincoln Center plazas, including Henry Moore’s “Reclining Figure” and Alexander Calder’s “Le Guichet.”
The “Reclining Figure” is a six-ton...
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BREAKING NEWS
Hope our Met family makes it to Japan…
Metropolitan Opera Evaluating Planned Japan Trip
By ROBIN POGREBIN
With the Metropolitan Opera’s Japan tour approaching this June, Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, told the company on Wednesday that the safety of the trip was being evaluated and that a decision on whether to proceed would be made “before the advance team is scheduled to depart...
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FREE food from a truck from Tom Colicchio in front... →
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Druid Theatre presents The Silver Tassie →
Check out this great promo page for The Druid Theatre’s production of The Silver Tassie by Sean O’Casey for production photos, video, and more. They’ll join us at Lincoln Center Festival July 24-31.
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WatchThe Segal Awards were held yesterday in Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Check out these photos of the awards.
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Casting for this summer's Shakespeare in the Park... →
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BREAKING NEWS: Metropolitan Museum Names Limor... →
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WatchOn this week’s edition of This Week at Lincoln Center, WNET looks at the New York City Opera’s production of The Elixir of Love.
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BREAKING NEWS
LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES 25th ANNIVERSARY MARTIN E. SEGAL AWARD RECIPIENTS
Dancer Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara and Documentary Filmmaker Laura Poitras Recognized for Outstanding Achievement
The 25th anniversary of the prestigious 2011 Martin E. Segal Awards was celebrated at a luncheon at Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse on Monday, March 28. This year’s winners were chosen by the School of...
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Introducing Bard Madness →
In celebration of the RSC’s residency this summer at Lincoln Center Festival 2011 in Park Avenue Armory, we’re announcing Bard Madness. Not unlike the brackets familiar to sports fans, Shakespeare fans can fill out a grid to determine Shakespeare’s greatest play – with prizes going to those players whose choices most closely line up with the winning brackets.
From today until...
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The RSC has the coolest luggage ever.
When the RSC rolls into the Park Avenue Armory to prepare for their Lincoln Center Festival residency, they’re coming with:
44 actors
23 musicians
10 stage management
four assistant directors plus creative teams
approximately 425 costumes and 350 pairs of boots and shoes for five productions; four-hour laundry call and three hours of general costume maintenance before each performance
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WatchLast night, the Young Patrons of Lincoln Center met in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse for a lesson in Chamber Music 101, led by the Tessera Quartet and pianist June Wu. For more information on YPLC, click here.
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By the Numbers: Revson Fountain on Josie Robertson...
42 feet four inches in diameter by 25 inches high
353 Nozzles
272 PicoLights
16,500 gallons of water per minute
½ mile of piping, ranging in diameter from 6” to 18”
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“The event I went to — the final concert, featuring new music, two big...”
– Greg Sandow on Tully Scope, new music audiences, festivals, and the “culturally aware non-attender.”
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“The place is for everybody now, and that’s how it should be. It’s a public...”
– George Grella at Classical TV has some very nice things to say about our redesign. We’re blushing.
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Our brilliant colleagues at Summerstage are... →
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Theater community rallies around Japanese director... →
His The Temple of the Golden Pavilion will make its U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center Festival this July.
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NYTimes asks Twitter to plug paywall loophole →
The Times has asked Twitter to shut down a feed that tweeted links to every single story on the website, and the newspaper says it plans similar action against other paywall-dodging spots, Forbes reports.
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This week's Pipedreams features Paul Jacobs in... →
Paul Jacobs performs Bach for the reinauguration of the Alice Tully Hall organ. You can listen to it on WQXR this Sunday at 10, or for free online here. There are also some great interviews and videos at the source.
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Portraits in Dramatic Time →
While David Michalek’s Portraits of Dramatic Time doesn’t premiere until its Festival screening starting July 5 in the Josie Robertson Plaza, he has some great production photos and a summary on his website. Can’t wait to wander by and check it out!
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“For decades, New York has been a composers’ playground—or is it battleground?...”
– Justin Davidson from New York Magazine in a fascinating article on the new New York School of composition. The whole thing is well worth a read.
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Brook Still Finding his Moments on Stage →
Check out this fascinating article about Peter Brook and his thoughts on Beckett. He’s in Boston right now, but he’ll be at Lincoln Center this summer with A Magic Flute, a reinterpretation of Mozart’s opera.
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WQXR has a new opera blog, WQX-Aria →
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WatchOn this week’s edition of This Week at Lincoln Center, WNET looks at the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Le Comte Ory.
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“Stein’s matter-of-fact observations on the difficulty of obtaining certain...”
– Check out Anthony Tommasini’s review of our Tully Scope finale, Heiner Goebbel’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen. As a bonus, there’s performance footage at the source.
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Lincoln Center Fun Facts: "The Leo"
Once upon a time, there was a piano in Avery Fisher Hall. It had two sticks to hold up its lid, one big and one small. One day in the distant past (the 1990s), the piano was to be recorded as part of a Jazz at Lincoln Center concert. When they put in the big stick, there was a problem: “This stick is too big!,” the piano cried. “It makes me too loud!”
The smaller stick wasn’t any better. ...
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BREAKING NEWS
Kasper Bech Holten, 37, has just been named the new Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House.
He completes a twelve-year tenure as Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Opera and Orchestra in New York this summer at the Lincoln Center Festival with three New York performances:
Selma Ježková (U.S. Premiere) Opera based on Lars von Trier’s film Dancer in the Dark Composed by Poul Ruders Libretto...
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The Cleveland Orchestra Invites 'Criticism' in... →
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