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Lincoln Center Presents Kicks Off November 2012 Programming

The third season of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival continues in November with "The Spirit of the Body," a work by dancer/choreographer Malavika Sarukkai showcasing her exquisite interpretations of South India's classical dance, Bharatanatyam. Accompanied by four musicians from Madras, India, the performances are presented in the intimate setting of the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Thursday, November 1
Friday, November 2
Saturday, November 3

The Spirit of the Body

Yatra-Seeking: Malavika Sarukkai, choreographer and dancer

Chitrambari Krishnakumar, vocals

Srilatha Shamshuddin, nattuvangam

Balaji Azhwar, mridangam

Sai Shravanam Ramani, tabla

Srilakshmi Venkataramani, violin

Venkatesh Krishnan, lighting and sound

Co-presented with Baryshnikov Arts Center

Baryshnikov Arts Center at 8:30 (450 W. 37th St.)

White Light Lounges at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

This presentation of The Spirit of the Body is made possible in part by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.

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The first Target® Free Thursday in November presents all-round entertainer, pianist, rapper, and Guinness World Record-holder (for the longest concert by a solo artist), Chilly Gonzales playing the U.S. premiere of his Piano Concert No. 1, a new musical work for a 10-piece orchestra, commissioned by Lincoln Center. Two FREE performances.

Thursday, November 1

Target Free Thursdays

Chilly Gonzales: Piano Concerto No. 1 (U.S. premiere)

David Rubenstein Atrium at 7:30 & 9:30 PM (61 W. 62nd St.)

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Children and adults will enjoy this FREE Meet the Artist Saturday, where the Russian-American pianist, singer, and songwriter Sasha Papernik will perform a bilingual program of Russian and American folk music that represents her bicultural world as a first generation child of foreign parents in America.

Saturday, November 3

Meet the Artist Saturdays

Sasha Papernik, I Speak Music: Songs of a First Generation Russian-American

David Rubenstein Atrium at 11 AM (61 W. 62nd St.)

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.

Endowment support is provided by The Walt Disney Company.

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Conductor Matthias Pintscher will lead pianist Emanuel Ax, musicians from the New York Philharmonic, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, and tenor Russell Thomas in a chamber orchestra arrangement of Mahler's wrenching Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), a musical setting of poems about the transience of life. Although he completed the score in 1908, the composer did not live to hear it performed.

Sunday, November 4

Emanuel Ax, piano

Song of the Earth

Matthias Pintscher, conductor

Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano

Russell Thomas, tenor

Musicians of the New York Philharmonic

Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in E-flat minor BWV853, from the Well-tempered Clavier, Book I

Schoenberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (chamber orchestra version)

Co-presented by Lincoln Center's White Light Festival and the New York Philharmonic

Emanuel Ax is the New York Philharmonic's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence.

Rose Theater at 5 PM (Broadway at 60th St.)

White Light Lounge at the David Rubenstein Atrium (61 W. 62nd St.)

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Lincoln Center Dialogue, the breakfast series that provides an opportunity to hear key leaders discuss significant issues facing American society today, will round out its second season in the David Rubenstein Atrium with a conversation focusing on the issues facing public policy leadership. Moderated by Lincoln Center President Reynold Levy, the session will be aired by WNET, WLIW, and NJ Network.

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