August 2011
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WatchNew fall/winter schedule of Target Free Thursdays at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Events include an exciting range of jazz, world, vocal, classical, country/bluegrass and rock music, a cartoon musical-theater premiere, a 30-piece circus punk marching band, a celebration of the music of British art-pop icon Kate Bush, and an evening of new poetry. All performances are at 8:30...
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WatchThe latest edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center features the Summer HD Festival, where the Metropolitan Opera highlights its past season of “The Met: Live in HD.”
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WatchWith the closing night canceled due to the shutdown of New York’s mass transportation system, the Mostly Mozart Festival ended on August 26 in front of a packed Avery Fisher Hall. Have a look at some photos from a memorable night with Louis Langrée, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and soloists Julia Lezhneva, Morris Robinson, Joseph Kaiser and Kelley O’Connor!
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CLOSING NIGHT OF MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011 AT 8PM IN AVERY FISHER HALL HAS BEEN CANCELED
The Closing Night of the Mostly Mozart Festival, scheduled for Saturday, August 27 at 8pm in Avery Fisher Hall, has been canceled due to the shutdown of New York City’s mass transportation system, in conjunction with Hurricane Irene. Closing Night, with the Mostly...
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WatchFujisankei TV covers Tan Dun and the Metropolis Ensemble’s performance at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. This multimedia concert featured music inspired by Chinese fils: Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Yimou’s Hero, and Feng Xioagang’s The Banquet.
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Barnyard follies enliven Mark Morris Dance
Barnyard follies: Mark Morris Dance Group premieres “Le Renard”
Saturday, August 20, 2011, 7:40 AM
By Robert Johnson/The Star-Ledger
NEW YORK—The hot ticket at this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival is a pass to see the Mark Morris Dance Group, whose annual appearances at the festival have only whetted the audience’s appetite for more. This year’s program, which opened at the Rose...
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New York Times reviews Mark Morris' "Renard" at...
A Romp Through the Barn
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Published: August 19, 2011
How many layers are there to human thought? Sometimes in art, just as in people’s conversations, we’re aware of only one at a time. On other occasions, though, we realize just how many layers can be in simultaneous action, and we’re given a sense of both revelation and mystery. When a choreographer responds to music — when...
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WatchThe latest edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center features the finale of this year’s spectacular Mostly Mozart Festival. Performers include violinist Jennifer Koh, soprano Julia Lezhneva, tenor Joseph Kaiser and pianists Shai Wosner and Bertrand Chamayou. The festival runs through Saturday.
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WatchThe Huffington Post covers Lincoln Center Out of Doors performance by The Black Earth Boys, “It was a surprisingly cohesive sound, reminding us once again of the debt that our music owes to African culture.” Michal Shapiro
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WatchOn August 25 at 8:30 pm, Ballets with a Twist performs at Target Free Thursdays at the David Rubenstein Atrium.
The New York based company dances “Cocktail Hour,” a collection of dances celebrating cocktail culture with delightful, irreverent pieces titled, “Martini,” “Gimlet,” “Mai Tai,” and more. The New York Times has called it “witty and fantastic.” The original choreography...
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WatchHighlights from the 41st season of Lincoln Center Out of Doors included performances by Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, LaLa Brooks, Lesley Gore, Mavis Staples, Espiritu Gitano, Debo Band with special guest Fendika, Spoek Mathambo, David Dorfman Dance featuring The Family Stone, washboard player, Jimmy Crosthwait of Sid Selvedge & Sons of Mud Boys
All photos by: Kevin Yatarola...
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Lincoln Center Presents: An Evening with Ralph... →
It’s official: Ralph Lauren and Oprah Winfrey are coming to Lincoln Center! On Oct. 24, Lauren and Winfrey will take the stage at Alice Tully Hall for a memorable evening that will jointly benefit The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. This theatrical one night only stage production will also be produced by Darren Bagert, a two-time...
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WatchThe third week of the Mostly Mozart Festival - with performances by the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Emerson String Quartet, among others - is featured on the latest edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center.
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The exquisite torture of playing King Lear →
“Eighty-five performances, and I’m still frightened of it…I still have to take a very deep breath.” Which RSC actor told Associated Press national writer Jocelyn Noveck this about his role in King Lear? Find out by reading the story above!
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WatchThis year’s Mostly Mozart artists-in-resident ICE returns tomorrow night with a ‘lil Mozart and a lot of new music, including two world premieres at A Little Night Music.
This rehearsal footage from their all-Stravinsky program, which was reviewed by Steve Smith at The New York Times, is excerpted below:
“The two concerts that the ensemble presented on Monday evening showed...
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Mostly Mozart Minutes, 2011 →
Get your fill of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center by watching videos on the International Contemporary Ensemble, Iván Fischer and Louis Langrée, among many others, as part of the 2011 Mostly Mozart Minutes.
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An Exuberant Conductor and a Starry Violinist
“A consistently excellent and broadly appealing violinist” and a “baby-faced, ebullient conductor” - read here who Steve Smith is talking about in his rave review of the concert which took place in Avery Fisher Hall on August 5.
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WatchGet excited for the International Contemporary Ensemble’s upcoming performances on August 11 at 7:30 and 10:30, as part of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, by checking out this interesting interview with Claire Chase, the director of ICE.
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WatchDetails from the final week of Lincoln Center Out of Doors is featured on the latest edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center.
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Crowds Gasp as Crashing Shelves Send 1,000 Books... →
“The audience gasps when two towering bookcases shudder and collide, sending 1,000 volumes tumbling precipitously to the stage below,” began Jeremy Gerard’s review of The Winter’s Tale for Bloomberg that was posted this morning. Learn more about the actual pages of the crashing books, as well as how this collapse is made possible by the play’s technician, in the...
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“word may also be spreading that Mr. Pohjonen is an exceptional pianist. I was...”
– Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
Secretly awesome is the best kind of awesome. Come be surprised by Juho Pohnonen’s amazingness in his Mostly Mozart festival debut, August 16-17 in Mozart’s Piano Concerto K.488.
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What If Mozart Had A Mac?
Ever wondered if Mozart would have been able to compose more music if he had had the help of modern technology? This short three minute feature pits man against the machine in a race to copy out Mozart’s Linz Symphony - watch who wins here.
Iván Fischer conducts and directs a fast, fresh ‘Don Giovanni’ at Mostly Mozart Festival
The first review of Don Giovanni is in! Mike Silverman for The Associated Press describes how ”the taut, fast-paced production that Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra brought to the Rose Theater on Thursday was like a bracing draft of crisp, cool air on a warm summer...
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Dirty Dancing ‘Tale,’ Violent ‘Caesar’ Wrap... →
Bloomberg’s Jeremy Gerard and Philip Boroff contrast the final two plays of the Royal Shakespeare Company residency at Lincoln Center Festival, The Winter’s Tale and Julius Caesar, in their review above. “The final two of the five Royal Shakespeare Company productions at the Park Avenue Armory offer a remarkable contrast in styles,” they wrote. Read the rest!
Opening Night on PBS
Miss Live From Lincoln Center’s broadcast of opening night of the Mostly Mozart Festival? Watch it online here for a whole week!
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Stratford-upon-Hudson: The Royal Shakespeare... →
“Just when we thought New York’s summer cultural offerings were as rich as they could be— what with Central Park SummerStage, Mostly Mozart, the Metropolitan Opera concerts in parks in all five boroughs, etc.— the city welcomes one of the world’s most important arts institutions from abroad,” a Classical TV News editor wrote a couple of weeks back about the Royal Shakespeare...
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WatchMostly Mozart has finally made its grand entrance on the Lincoln Center campus this summer, and the festival is also featured on the latest edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center to kick off the excitement.
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“ICE performed the first full program of the festival in Tully Hall, and if the...”
– Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
That’s from a review of the last time the International Contemporary Ensemble performed at Lincoln Center, as a part of this winter’s Tully Scope festival. They’ll be back for two concerts as a part of this year’s Mostly Mozart festival.
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WatchThis past Saturday, July 30, Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Mostly Mozart Festival hosted a full day of free events, including the Double Dutch Divas performing jump rope, an all-star line-up from the girl group era of the 60s, Eiko & Koma performing dance in the Milstein Pool and the free preview concert for the Mostly Mozart Festival
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“Spend enough time with Jeremy Denk—or browsing his menagerie of a blog, Think...”
– Olivia Giovetti, Time Out New York
While it’s been awhile since Think Denk was updated, we can’t help finding Jeremy Denk completely delightful. He’ll be performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat Major in an all-Beethoven concert conducted by Mostly Mozart...
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“The roots of country music were being ignored and disregarded, and it was...”
– Marty Stuart, in an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligiencer.
Stuart will play it at Lincoln Center Out of Doors on August 13 as a part of the Roots of American Music Festival.
