This Saturday at 5pm, cellists from the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet and Chamber Music Society come together to perform a rare concert at Lincoln Center’s Rose Studio. The concert-with music of Tavener, Gabrieli, Carter, Part, Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos-may be sold out, but there’s a still a way in to see this unique event: live webcast.
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(Photo: Matthew Murphy)
Get ready! Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel is coming to Live From Lincoln Center next Friday (April 26; check local listings) on PBS.
Did you know that a ballet scene takes place in the middle of the musical? Learn more about this new beautifully choreographed scene, “Heaven’s Ballet,” featuring New York City Ballet principal dancers (and newly engaged couple!) Robert Fairchild and Tyler Peck.
Stay tuned for more videos throughout the week, and tune in next Friday to see the whole musical. It’s sure to be a real nice clam bake!
This month, the iconic children’s television series Sesame Street—broadcast in more than 150 countries and seen by over 120 million international viewers—will visit another icon, Lincoln Center, the world’s largest performing arts center, on its popular “People in Your Neighborhood” segment. Inspired by the classic Sesame Street song “The People in Your Neighborhood,” Murray Monster goes on location to interview real people about their jobs. The Lincoln Center segments will showcase the New York City Ballet, The Juilliard School, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera.
The first segment features Murray Monster and Ovejita as they visit Lincoln Center to join four New York City Ballet dancers in the studio to learn about ballerinas. Dancers Kristen Segin, Alina Dronova, Callie Bachman, and Sara Adams explain how dancers use their bodies to tell a story and explain terms like “barre” and “plié.”
Stay tuned for more segments later this month.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Live From Lincoln Center presents the New York Philharmonic’s production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic American musical Carousel, featuring a star-studded cast including Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley, Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, John Cullum and New York City Ballet dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck. “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel” is hosted by Audra McDonald and will air on PBS stations on Friday, April 26, 2013 at 9 p.m. (ET) (check local listings).
Now a beloved classic, Carousel—with music by Richard Rodgers and book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II—was hailed by Time Magazine as “the best musical of the 20th Century.” Based on Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár’s 1909 play, Liliom, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel transfers the story from Europe to the Maine coastline and revolves around the tragic romance between carousel barker Billy Bigelow and mill worker Julie Jordan. The musical includes such highlights as “If I Loved You,” “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
This Live From Lincoln Center program was taped at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in March 2013, and marks the orchestra’s 75th appearance on the series
(Photos: Chris Lee/New York Philharmonic)
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There are so many wonderful holiday performances for families to enjoy in New York. Here are two taking place this weekend right here in our neighborhood. George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ is at Lincoln Center for its annual run, danced by the incomparable New York City Ballet. Performances this Saturday at 2 pm and 8 pm and Sunday at 1 pm and 5 pm are at the David H. Koch Theater. Up the block on West 67th Street, the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center’s Poppy Seed Players present their original family musical, Judy and the Maccabees, a re-imagining of the story of Hanukkah. The performance takes place Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall.
Pictured: (l) Actors from The Poppyseed Players as Judy and Judas Maccabeus in rehearsal for Judy and the Maccabees; (r) Cover of DVD of New York City Ballet’s performance of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™
LINCOLN CENTER LAUNCHES MULTI-CHANNEL BRANDING CAMPAIGN
Redesigned LincolnCenter.org Debuts, Unifying Events from All 11 Resident Organizations, including the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet, in Easily Searchable, Patron-Focused Website
New channel on Broadcastr App “From the Green Room” features personal, site-specific stories about Lincoln Center by Alan Cumming, Elaine Paige, Wendy Whelan, Alan Gilbert, Alice Tully and others
Lincoln Center. Seen It?
The flexible and playful branding campaign is a direct outgrowth and extension of the critically-acclaimed physical revitalization of Lincoln Center to make its public spaces and performance halls more open and welcoming. With all that there is to see, as well as hear, try, taste or experience at the transformed campus, the new line and its accompanying graphic ‘pin’ element designed by The Brand Union, Lincoln Center. Seen It?, invites visitors to take a look, or another look, at the new Lincoln Center. This identity system may be seen in digital and physical signage, on stairways, in publications, on the website, on Lincoln Center’s Facebook and Tumblr pages, on the media screen in the David Rubenstein Atrium, on WABC-TV and other information channels. #SeenIt
Broadcastr
In a creative partnership with Broadcastr, Lincoln Center will launch a dedicated channel on the iPhone and Android mobile app today called “From the Green Room.” Broadcastr turns smartphones into a participatory audio map for the entire Lincoln Center campus. Featuring interviews with Alan Cumming, Elaine Paige, Wendy Whelan, Alan Gilbert, a cast member from War Horse, and from the Lincoln Center archives, Alice Tully herself, discussing their favorite Lincoln Center memories in the spaces where they happened, Broadcastr invites audiences and visitors to record their own stories on www.broadcastr.com.
LincolnCenter.org.
Another key component to engaging visitors and patrons is the redesign of the LincolnCenter.org website. Bringing together the world-class performances and events of all 11 of the resident organizations in one user-friendly interface, Lincolncenter.org is designed to answer two questions: what events are happening at Lincoln Center and how do you buy a ticket? Visitors to the intuitively-searchable lincolncenter.org. website can find programming information from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and School of American Ballet, as well as an improved way to purchasing tickets.
The redesigned website is part of Lincoln Center’s innovative 19-channel information system (Infoscape), which is setting the standard in information aggregation and self-publishing. Each resident organization inputs its own performance details into a centralized ‘brain’, and that information is then published on all the Lincoln Center channels including the website, the video signs (InfoBlades) along West 65th Street, the media wall in the David Rubenstein Atrium, The Grand Stair in front of Lincoln Center’s iconic Revson Fountain, among many other channels.
In addition, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, one of the 11 resident organizations will have a new web site, AboutLincolnCenter.org, which will provide more detailed information on the organization, as well as feature an expanded multimedia press room.
This week’s edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center features the New York City Ballet’s all-Balanchine program in celebration of the choreographer’s birthday.
LAST NIGHT AT LINCOLN CENTER: We celebrated the holidays with our first ever live broadcast of New York City Ballet’s beloved Nutcracker to over 600 movie theaters across the country. We were at the sold-out Union Square location where audiences of all ages delighted in the wonder & magic of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™.
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