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ANDRÁS SCHIFF AND THE BACH PROJECT; MUSIC ON FILM; SOPRANO NINA STEMME WITH THE SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, AND MORE
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Chronological Listing of Lincoln Center’s Programs and Events for April 2013
Thursday, April 4 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Target ® Free Thursdays
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
Presented in association with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, celebrating its 30th anniversary and led by co-founder and artistic director Carlota Santana, brings La Pasión Flamenca to the Atrium. A fierce and eclectic evening of Spanish dance and music that features lamenting solos, sizzling duets, and festive company dances, La Pasión Flamenca journeys back to the cultural crossroads of Andalusia, the birthplace of flamenco, and moves through the vibrant influences from Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East that have infused today’s flamenco. Visit 100 Years of Flamenco in New York, an exhibition on display from March 13-August 3 at the Vincent Astor Gallery, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, nypl.org/locations/lpa
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium
Friday, April 5 at 8 pm
American Songbook in the Penthouse
Cristin Milioti
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building (165 W. 65th St., 10th floor)
The latest chapter in Lincoln Center’s Songbook series, American Songbook in the Penthouse, continues with Cristin Milioti, the Tony Award-nominated actress of Once. Broadway’s newest leading lady, she makes her solo concert debut with this appearance.
Tickets, from $50 to $65 (limited availability) are online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall box offices.
Saturday, April 6 - FREE - at 11 am
Meet the Artist Saturdays
VLADA TOMOVA: GREEN SONGS
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
Songstress Vlada Tomova shares songs both ancient and new from the villages of her native Bulgaria and other lands, near and far. Figs, giant sunflowers, rosemary, peaches, and asparagus, and more grow in Vlada's community garden in her current village of residence, Brooklyn. In this one-hour family program, blending stories, pictures and song, Vlada shares her love for the bounties of the soil and teaches kids and their parents how to plant peppers, spot the first leaves of spinach, and grow strawberries indoors. The program is interactive and features a Q&A session. Tomova has performed at Symphony Space, Joe’s Pub, The Public Theatre, Irving Plaza, BAM Café, Satalla, S.O.B.s and Galapagos Art Space and has toured extensively.
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium
Saturday, April 6 at 8 pm
American Songbook in the Penthouse
Green Sneakers, for baritone, string quartet, empty chair and piano
A Song Cycle by Ricky Ian Gordon
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building (165 W. 65th St., 10th floor)
The acclaimed composer of musical theater, opera, and song returns to the Songbook series with Green Sneakers, a work that was dubbed a “masterpiece” by Opera Today. The theatrical song cycle is based on poems that Gordon wrote after the death from AIDS of his long-time partner, and features baritone Jesse Blumberg and the Voxare String Quartet.
Tickets, from $25 to $65 are available online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall box offices.
Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 pm
Great Performers
András Schiff: The Bach Project
András Schiff, piano
Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)
All-Bach program
French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812
French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813
French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814
French Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815
French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV 817
Overture in the French style in B minor, BWV 831
The performance of the complete French Suites marks the first of two evenings in April devoted to András Schiff’s Bach Project, a series of concerts across the U.S. and Canada which began last season, in which Schiff performs most of Bach’s keyboard works.
Tickets, from $45 to $77 are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices, Broadway and 65th Street.
Wednesday, April 10
Great Performers
Music on Film: great pianists of the 20th century
Alfred Brendel at 6:30 pm
Arthur Rubinstein at 8:45 pm
Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)
This four-part film series at the Walter Reade Theater celebrates the artistry of five legendary 20th century pianists with screenings that include rare archival performance footage, filmed interviews, and documentaries. The opening presentation features performance and commentary by Alfred Brendel, who recently retired from the concert hall. In these excerpts he plays Schubert’s last sonatas and Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage: Italie, masterworks by composers who were his specialty. The second installment features virtuoso Arthur Rubenstein performing Chopin at the Moscow Conservatory in 1964, and in a 1968 London performance with the Israeli Philharmonic.
Tickets are $15 and are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-
6500, or at the Avery Fisher or Alice Tully Hall box offices, Broadway and 65th Street.
Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 pm
Great Performers
András Schiff: The Bach Project
András Schiff, piano
Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)
Post-performance discussion with András Schiff
All-Bach program
English Suite No. 1 in A major, BWV 806
English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808
English Suite No. 4 in F major, BWV 809
English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810
English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811
Schiff performs the complete English Suites in this second Great Performers concert of András Schiff’s Bach Project.
Tickets, from $45 to $77 are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.
Thursday, April 11 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Target ® Free Thursdays
ARN CHORN-POND, MASTER MEK, & THE WATEREK ENSEMBLE
Presented in association with Season of Cambodia
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
The son of respected artists, traditional flute player Arn Chorn-Pond founded Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) in Phnom Penh in 1998 to resurrect the traditional arts, and their practitioners, that had been virtually wiped out under the Khmer Rouge. He survived the horrors of a work camp by playing for the authorities and while interred met, and studied with, Master Mek. Chorn-Pond’s moving story was recounted in the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Flute Player and in Patricia McCormick’s 2012 book Never Fall Down. A discussion with the artists will follow the performance. The evening is part of this spring’s CLA organized Season of Cambodia, a citywide celebration of Cambodian arts, culture and humanities (April 6-May 31) that involves more than 30 New York arts and education institutions, presenting some 125 artists. For more information visit: www.seasonofcambodia.org
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium
Saturday, April 13
Great Performers
Music on Film: great pianists of the 20th century
Michelangeli and Gilels at 1 pm
Richter, the Enigma at 2:30 pm
Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)
The Music on Film series continues with rare footage of Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli playing Ravel’s G major Concerto with conductor Sergiu Celibidache; and a performance of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata by Emil Gilels, filmed at the 1971 Carinthian Summer Music Festival, alongside a 1959 performance of Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 3. At 2:30 pm, Bruno Monsaingeon’s documentary exploring the great Soviet pianist, poet, and mystic Sviatoslav Richter, will be screened.
Tickets are $15 and are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices, Broadway and 65th Street.
Tuesday, April 16 – FREE – at 7 pm
JustFilms at AtriumFlix
MISSISSIPPI MASALA: Mira Nair
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, (Broadway between 62nd & 63rd St.)
The April 16 screening in this new Atrium film series is Indian-born director Mira Nair’s 1992 feature Mississippi Masala. The film, about an Indian family expelled from Uganda and their new struggles with identity and racism in the American South, stars a very young Denzel Washington. Ms. Nair, whose other films include Salaam Bombay, Monsoon Wedding, and The Namesake will discuss the film in a talk with noted movie critic Elvis Mitchell. JustFilms at AtriumFlix, six free evenings of documentaries and feature films and filmmaker talks, is presented in association with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms project.
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium
Thursday, April 18 – FREE – at 8:30 pm
Target ® Free Thursdays
Raul Midón with special guest Master Kong Nay
Presented in association with Season of Cambodia
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
“A three-way fusion of Stevie Wonder, Bobby McFerrin and Jose Feliciano,” is how The New York Times described the singer/songwriter Raul Midón. New Mexican born New Yorker, blind since birth, Midón combines a vibrant sound steeped in old-school soul, with Latin and jazz influences to create timeless, classic pop songs. Preceding Midón’s performance, Kong Nay, a virtuoso of the chapei dong veng a two-stringed, long-necked guitar, who is often referred to as “the Ray Charles of Cambodia,” will give a sneak preview of his April 20 performance at Asia Society. The charismatic blind musician is renowned throughout his homeland and is one of only a small number of master artists who survived the genocide under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The concert is part of Season of Cambodia, the citywide New York festival (April 6-May 31) celebrating Cambodian arts, culture and humanities. For information, visit www.seasonofcambodia.org.
Master Kong Nay’s appearance is presented in association with Asia Society.
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium
Friday, April 19 at 8 pm
American Songbook in the Penthouse
Kerrigan & Lowdermilk
Featuring Michael Arden, Nikki M. James, & Josh Young
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building (165 W. 65th St., 10th floor)
The writing team of playwright and musical theater lyricist Kait Kerrigan and musical theater composer/lyricist Brian Lowdermilk has created such celebrated musicals as Henry and Mudge and The Woman Upstairs. They come together for an evening of pop music and musical theater that includes Tony Award-winning Nikki M. James of The Book of Mormon and Josh Young, who won a Theater World Award for his 2012 work in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Tickets, from $50 to $65 (limited availability) are online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall box offices.
Saturday, April 20 at 8 pm
American Songbook in the Penthouse
Ben Sollee
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building (165 W. 65th St., 10th floor)
Cellist, composer, and singer/songwriter Ben Sollee’s smooth vocals bring a unique blend of folk, bluegrass, jazz, and R&B to an uncommon evening of intricate arrangements and storytelling.
Tickets, from $25 to $65 are available online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall box offices, (Broadway at 65th St.)
Sunday, April 21 at 11 am
Great Performers Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts
Calmus
Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)
Works by Schütz, Purcell, Schumann, Britten, and Harald Banter
This a cappella quintet from Leipzig, Germany has the unique configuration of a female soprano, and male countertenor, tenor, baritone and bass. First prize winners of the Concert Arts Guild International Competition, Calmus performs a wide repertoire from Bach and lieder to contemporary choral work. Its latest CD, Hausmusik, is a collection of songs by Robert and Clara Schumann. Join the artists for coffee and conversation after the concert.
Tickets, from $45 to $77 are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices, Broadway and 65th Street.
Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 pm
Great Performers
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Nina Stemme, soprano
Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)
In a rare New York appearance, acclaimed soprano Nina Stemme joins conductor Thomas Dausgaard and the 38-member Swedish Chamber Orchestra for an unusual first-half program that interweaves song and orchestral selections into a continuous musical stream focused on the theme of “Love, Hope and Destiny.” Opera News hailed the singer’s “irresistible magnetism,” naming her “woman of the year” in 2012. The second half of the program features Brahms Symphony No. 1.
Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62
Grieg: Jeg elsker dig! (“I Love You”)
Sibelius: Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (“The girl returned from meeting her lover”), from Five Songs, Op. 37
Sibelius: Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1
Weill: The Saga of Jenny, from Lady in the Dark
Elgar: Nimrod, from Variations on an Original Theme (“Enigma”), Op. 36
Wagner: Stehe still!, from Wesendonck-Lieder
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Berlioz: Le spectre de la rose, from Les nuits d’été, Op. 7
Schubert (orch. Brett Dean): Der Tod und das Mädchen, D.531
Brahms: Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen, from Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52, No. 11
Strauss: Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4
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Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Tickets, from $45 to $77 are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.
This presentation of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra is made possible by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, in honor of Nina Stemme.
Thursday, April 25 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Target ® Free Thursdays
ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON ALUMNI ALL STARS
Presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
An all-star ensemble of Essentially Ellington alumni plays the music of Duke Ellington and celebrates the 18th anniversary of the annual Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) education event that invites select high school jazz bands from across North America to spend three days immersed in workshops, rehearsals, jam sessions, and performances at JALC. Alumni of the Essentially Ellington (High School Jazz Band Program) include Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra bassist Carlos Henriquez, saxophonist Erika von Kleist, and bassist David Wong. Join us for this special performance that leads up to the final concert of the annual competition and festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall on May 12, 2013. Find out more: www.jalc.org/ee
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium
Programs, artists, schedules, and tickets prices are subject to change.
MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center
Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center
United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center
WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Lincoln Center
William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Lincoln Center
American Songbook
Major support for American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher, and Amy & Joseph Perella.
Bank of America is proud to support American Songbook.
Additional corporate support provided by PVH Corp.
Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, TopPatch, Inc., Jill and Irwin Cohen, Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council and Friends of Lincoln Center.
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Artist catering provided by Zabar’s.
Great Performers
BNY Mellon is a Proud Sponsor of Great Performers
Support is provided by Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Audrey Love Charitable Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council and Friends of Lincoln Center.
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts
Endowment support for Symphonic Masters is provided by the Leon Levy Fund
Endowment support is also provided by UBS
David Rubenstein Atrium
Support for the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center has been generously provided by Ford Foundation, Cushman & Wakefield, and Algin Management Co., LLC.
Generous endowment support provided by Alice and David Rubenstein, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and Oak Foundation
Target® is proud to sponsor Target® Free Thursdays at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Meet the Artist Saturdays, sponsored by Neuberger Berman
Major support for Meet the Artist Saturdays is provided by Betty and John Levin. Additional support facilitated by The Honorable City Council Member, Gale Brewer
AtriumFlix: JustFilms major funding provided by the Ford Foundation
Endowment support is provided by The Walt Disney Company
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presenter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educational activities annually, LCPA’s series include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, Mostly Mozart Festival, White Light Festival, and the Emmy Award-winning Live From Lincoln Center. As manager of the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Center complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a series of major capital projects, now complete, on behalf of the resident organizations across the campus.
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