Lincoln Center Announces January 2013 Concerts and Events

*This concert was originally scheduled for Thursday, November 1 and was postponed because of Hurricane Sandy

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM (Broadway between 62nd & 63rd St.)

FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium

Thursday, January 17 – FREE –Andrew Cyrille’s 21st Century Big Band Unlimited
Target ® Free Thursdays
Brooklyn native Andrew Cyrille is one of the leading free jazz percussionists of the past three decades. Organized by Mark Masters, President of the American Institute, this newly-formed 12-piece ensemble—three trumpets, two trombones, French horn, four saxophones, bass, and percussion—showcases Cyrille’s talents as a composer and percussionist. After studying under MiLes Davis Quintet drummer Philly Joe Jones, Cyrille trained in traditional marching band percussion at Juilliard and the Hartnett School of Music. His compositions established his own style drawing predominantly from Bebop and Avant-garde jazz. His introduction to the radical free-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in the mid-1960s brought him new acclaim and established him in the vanguard of jazz drumming, leading to collaborations with artists such as Mary Lou Williams, Oliver Lake, Jimmy Giuffre, Coleman Hawkins, Freddie Hubbard, and Rashaan Roland Kirk.
Presented in collaboration with the American Jazz Institute
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 7:30 PM (Broadway between 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium

Sunday, January 20 – Budapest Festival Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor
Janine Jansen, violin
The Budapest Festival Orchestra returns to Lincoln Center’s Great Performers with founder Iván Fischer, who recently took over as music director of the Konzerthaus Berlin. He’ll be joined at this concert by the brilliant young Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, who was described by The Guardian (London) as “a tour de force not only of technical prowess, but of a fiery imagination.” Jansen will perform Bernstein’s Serenade in a program that also includes works by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff.

Shostakovich: Suite for Jazz Orchestra in eight parts

Bernstein: Serenade

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Avery Fisher Hall at 3 PM (Broadway at 65th St.)

Tickets, from $35 to $100 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 St.

Thursday, January 24 – FREE – Attacca Quartet
Target ® Free Thursdays
Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet, Attacca Quartet was formed in 2003 by violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming and cellist Andrew Yee. The quartet made its professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. The internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premier young performing ensembles. The ensemble gave the Alice Tully Hall premiere of John Adams’ recently composed String Quartet and subsequently recorded the complete string quartet works of John Adams for Azica Records, which will be released March 24, 2013 at (Le) Poisson Rouge. 2010 marked the beginning of The 68, an ambitious project in which Attacca Quartet will perform all sixty-eight Haydn string quartets on a special series they created in New York. At the Atrium, the quartet will perform John Adams’ Fellow Traveler, Selections from John's Book of Alleged Dances and the 2nd Movement from his String Quartet, and a Haydn quartet
Presented in collaboration with The Juilliard School.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 7:30 PM (Broadway between 62nd & 63rd St.)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis For more information, including program updates, visit LincolnCenter.org/Atrium

Sunday, January 27 – Vertavo String Quartet
Vertavo String Quartet

The all-female members of the Vertavo String Quartet serve as Artistic Directors of Norway’s Elverum Summer Festival. The ensemble has also been honored with Norway’s highest musical honor, the Grieg Prize, and its prize-winning discography includes a Diapason d’Or. Take the opportunity to mix and mingle with the artists after this hour-long Sunday Morning Coffee Concert.

Haydn: String Quartet No. 68 in D minor, Op. 103

Janá?ek (arr. Burghauser): Selections from On the Overgrown Path

Smetana: String Quartet in E minor “Z mého života” (“From My Life”)

Walter Reade Theater at 11 AM (165 W. 65th St.)

Tickets are $22 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 St. Programs, artists, schedules, and tickets prices are subject to change.

Wednesday, January 30 – Lea Salonga
American Songbook in The Allen Room
The 15th season of Lincoln Center’s acclaimed American Songbook series begins in The Allen Room with Broadway star Lea Salonga, who burst onto the theater scene as a teenager in Miss Saigon in 1971, capturing the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Theater World awards in her first Broadway outing. Salonga followed her Miss Saigon triumph with roles in Les Misérables, Flower Drum Song, and as the shimmering soprano voice of Disney princesses Jasmine and Fa Mulan in the movies Aladdin and Mulan. The American Songbook in The Allen Room series will continue for 15 nights through March 2. A new Songbook chapter will begin with American Songbook in the Penthouse, a series of weekend-only performances March 29 – April 20 in the intimate, cabaret-style setting of the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.
The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall at 8:30 PM (Broadway at 60th St.)

Tickets, from $50 to $275 are available online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, at the Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, or at the Frederick P. Rose Hall Box Office

Thursday, January 31 – Valerie Simpson
American Songbook in The Allen Room
“Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand),” “I’m Every Woman,” “Solid (As a Rock)” and other era-defining tunes were written by Valerie Simpson and her husband, the late Nickolas Ashford, in a songwriting career that began in 1964 when they wrote Ray Charles’ classic “Let’s Go Get Stoned.” A flurry of hits written for Motown stars Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell as well as Diana Ross & The Supremes followed, then a switch to the Warner Brothers label led to writing for Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Quincy Jones, Luther Vandross, and Whitney Houston among many others. Simultaneously with their songwriting, in the early 1970s, Simpson and her husband launched a performing career, letting their passion as a couple ignite their stage shows. With Ashford’s passing in 2011, Simpson continues her solo career, releasing her most recent CD in June 2012.
Sponsored by TopPatch, Inc.
The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall at 8:30 PM (Broadway at 60th St.)

Tickets, from $35 to $250 are available online at AmericanSongbook.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, at the Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, or at the Frederick P. Rose Hall Box Office'

Thursday, January 31 – FREE – Lunar New Year Celebration
Target ® Free Thursdays
Celebrate the Year of the Snake with an evening of Chinese performing arts directed by Alan Chow co-presented by the Chinese American Arts Council.
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center at 7:30 PM (Broadway between 62nd & 63rd St.)
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.

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