NEW YORK
Thursday, April 3 - FREE - at 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm
Target Free Thursdays
Presented in collaboration with the Unsound Festival
7.30pm Pietnastka
"Pietnastka" is one of the recording monikers of Piotr Kurek, a Warsaw-based musician and composer. Since 2006 he has collaborated with a long list of contemporary dance and theater companies, record labels, and artists.
Kurek creates densely-woven tapestries of sound. His layered melodic patterns are constructed from, and influenced by, sounds ranging from contemporary abstractions to the ululations of primeval chants, using amplified organs, electric accordions, and many other unusual instruments.
8.30pm Neotantrik & Suzanne Ciani
As one half of musical research duo Neotrantrik (with Demdike Stare's Sean Canty) Polish musician Andy Votel will collaborate with legendary American electronic music innovator Suzanne Cianni for a first-time performance of a special project in the David Rubenstein Atrium. Cianni, recently hailed as a "Synthesizer Queen" by the Los Angeles Times, has played a pivotal role in the development of electronic music in the US. Her recent rediscovery by today's electronic music fans has come about in part due the compilation Lixiviation, 1969-1985 and reissues released on Votel's record label.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit atrium.lincolncenter.org
Thursday, April 3 at 8 pm
American Songbook in the Penthouse
Hurray for the Riff Raff
The creation of front woman and Bronx native Alynda Lee Segarra, this band marries rock and pop with honky tonk, swamp pop, and blues for a wholly unique sound unified by Segarra's fresh vocals and beautifully crafted songs.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor)
Tickets, starting at $30, are available online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.
Friday, April 4 at 8pm
American Songbook in the Penthouse
Rebecca Naomi Jones
The dynamic pop-rock powerhouse Rebecca Naomi Jones has appeared in some of the best new rock musicals, including Murder Ballad, Passing Strange, and Green Day's American Idiot. The charismatic rising star makes her highly anticipated American Songbook debut with a solo evening of her favorite songs, including her own material, pieces by contemporary composers, and songs written by her musician father.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor)
Tickets, starting at $30, are available online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.
Saturday, April 5 - FREE - at 11am
Meet the Artist Saturdays
Horseplay: April Foolishness
Horseplay is an improvisational ensemble that performs interactive theater. Each work is created on the spot, with audiences having a hand in developing the piece by engaging with the performers through musical comedy games, singing, dancing, and laughter.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rdSt.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit atrium.lincolncenter.org
Saturday, April 5 at 8 pm
American Songbook in the Penthouse
Unsung Carolyn Leigh
with Donna Bullock, Rachel de Benedet, Drew Gehling, Autumn Hurlburt, Adam Kantor, Jerry Kushnier, Ali Mauzey, Jenny Powers, Max von Essen, and Teal Wicks
Celebrate the lyrics of Tony- and Grammy-nominated songwriter Carolyn Leigh in a jazz-filled evening featuring numbers from some of her unproduced Broadway musicals. Lyricist of such all-time classic hits as "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come" as well as the Broadway shows Little Me with Sid Caesar and Peter Pan with Mary Martin, Leigh collaborated with the likes of Cy Coleman and Elmer Bernstein. The Penthouse performance will include numbers from Smile, a project she was working on with Marvin Hamlisch at the time of her death. Hamlisch noted, "She was one of the few people who had genuine wit in her lyrics."
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse (165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor)
Tickets, starting at $30, are available online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.
Monday, April 7 at 7:30 pm
Great Performers
What Makes It Great? Over the Rainbow: The Songs of Harold Arlen
Rob Kapilow, commentator and piano
Sally Wilfert, soprano
Michael Winther, tenor
For the last What Makes It Great? program this season, Kapilow takes a seat at the keyboard—joined by Broadway and cabaret veterans Sally Wilfert and Michael Winther—to illuminate the genius behind one of the most celebrated contributors to the Great American Songbook. Best known as the composer of the score to The Wizard of Oz, Arlen has more than 400 songs to his credit, including such enduring hits as "Stormy Weather," "I've Got the World on a String," and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th St.)
Tickets, priced at $45, 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, or at the Walter Reade Theater the evening of the performance.
Monday, April 7– FREE – at 7:30 pm
Leonard Bernstein Emerges:
Defying Boundaries and Challenging Racial Politics During World War II
Part of the New York Philharmonic's Insights Series
Carol Oja, the New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence for the 2013-14 season, explores Bernstein's stunning debut as a conductor with the ballet Fancy Free and the Broadway musical On the Town. Bernstein's lifelong commitment to racial justice took off during this period, as he became an activist for the desegregation of performance.
Presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage
(Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit atrium.lincolncenter.org
Thursday, April 10 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Target Free Thursdays
Poet-Linc Final Competition
This event marks the exciting final poetry slam competition for metro area students aged 13-19 from New York's five boroughs. Students will perform original poetry and compete for the chance to be published in Lincoln Center's Poet-Linc anthology alongside professional poets and mentors. Creativity shines, as the young people describe their hopes, dreams, loves, and lives in high-impact verse.
Presented in collaboration with Lincoln Center Education and the NYC Youth Poet Laureate
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage
(Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit atrium.lincolncenter.org
Sunday, April 13 at 5pm
Great Performers
Stephen Hough, piano
Schoenberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 ("Six Little Piano Pieces")
Strauss: Träumerei, from Stimmungsbilder, Op. 9
Wagner: In das Album der Fürstin M in C major, WWV 94 ("Albumblatt")
Bruckner: Erinnerung in A-flat major, WAB 117
Brahms: Fantasien, Op. 116
Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S.178
Great Performers' 2013/14 Virtuoso Recitals series continues its focus on the piano with one of today's most exceptional keyboard artists. Of a recording catalogue with nearly 50 discs highlighted by several international prize winners, the International Record Review wrote that "Hough's traversal of familiar works is played with such insight and sage musical understanding that we almost feel as if we are hearing them for the first time."
Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)
Tickets, starting at $45, 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 17 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Target Free Thursdays
Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine
Percussionist Swiss Chris, guitarist Martin Luther, singing turntablist Jahi Sundance, and bassist Mark Hines get together for an evening of performance art combining theater, sculpture, painting, and music. The brainchild of visual artist and keyboard player Sanford Biggers, the group will offer an evening of carefully curated covers and original compositions.
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for Target Free Thursdays
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit atrium.lincolncenter.org
Tuesday, April 22 – FREE – at 6:00pm
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center
April 23, 1964 was the first performance of New York City Ballet in the State Theater (now the David H. Koch Theater) at Lincoln Center. To mark this occasion, Lincoln Center President Jed Bernstein will moderate a talk with select members of the current company.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd Sts.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, including program updates, visit atrium.lincolncenter.org
Wednesday, April 23 at 7:30pm
Great Performers
Emerson String Quartet
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138
Britten: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142
The acclaimed Quartet, with new cellist Paul Watkins, performs the second of three concerts in its 2014 Great Performers series surveying the late quartets of Shostakovich alongside those by Mendelssohn, Britten, and Schubert.
Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at W. 65th St.)
Tickets, starting at $45, 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 24 – FREE – at 7:30pm
Target Free Thursdays
This free concert will preview summer 2014's Mostly Mozart Festival, now in its 48th season. Artist(s) will be announced at a later date.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit atrium.lincolncenter.org.
Sunday, April 27 at 10:30am
Great Performers Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
All-Schubert program
Ländler No. 12, D.366
Three Klavierstücke, D.946
Allegretto in C minor, D.915
Fantasy in C major, D.760 ("Wandererfantasie")
Called "…a remarkable musician…a force to be reckoned with," by The Guardian at his 2011 Wigmore Hall recital debut, French pianist Bertrand Chamayou made his U.S. debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival and won a Diapason d'Or award for his CD of the complete Liszt Années de pèlerinage the same year. The audience is invited to join the artist for refreshments after the concert.
Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th St.)
Tickets, priced at $22, 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, or at the Walter Reade box office the morning of the performance.
