Lincoln Center Announces April 2013 Concerts, Films, and Events

Lincoln Center announces its concerts, films and events for April 2013, including American Songbook in the Penthouse, Great Performers, Meet the Artist Saturdays, Target Free Thursdays and JustFilms at AtriumFlix. Details below!

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

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