GREAT PERFORMERS:
ANDRÁS SCHIFF AND THE BACH PROJECT; MUSIC ON FILM; SOPRANO NINA STEMME WITH THE SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, AND MORE
PLUS MEET THE ARTIST SATURDAYS, TARGET ® FREE THURSDAYS, AND
JUSTFILMS AT ATRIUMFLIX – ALL FREE AT THE DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM
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-
