?A Tribute to Wardell Quezergue - The celebrated New Orleans arranger is honored in an event featuring a roster of noted musical artists from the Crescent City's annual Ponderosa Stomp music festival. Scheduled to appear are Mac Rebenack (aka Dr. John), Michael Hurtt, Jean Knight, Tammy Lynn, Dorothy Moore, Zigaboo Modeliste, and Wardell Querzergue. This event is part of a 3-night series, Ponderosa Stomp @ Lincoln Center, produced in collaboration with Midsummer Night Swing, which runs concurrent with the Lincoln Center Festival. The concert will take place at Alice Tully Hall on July 19.
?Afro-Blues for the 21st Century -- a double-bill featuring British guitarist Justin Adams and Gambian griot Juldeh Camara, and Malian instrumentalist Issa Bagayogo create a fusion of varied styles with roots in American blues, retro-rock and electronic, performed with infectious energy (July 21 at Alice Tully Hall).
Lincoln Center Festival 09 is sponsored by American Express.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT SWING, JULY 7 - 25
For its 21st outdoor season, Midsummer Night Swing presents three weeks of dancing to fantastic live music under the stars on a specially-constructed dance floor with bandstand in Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park (62nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue). Music runs the gamut from big band swing and jump blues to classic mambo, from tango to African music, to two nights of soul/r&b and rockabilly in collaboration with the Ponderosa Stomp festival and Lincoln Center Festival. Announcements of bands and special guest soloists are forthcoming. Dance lessons taught by New York's top instructors will take place each evening at 6:30 p.m., free with the price of admission; live music begins at 7:30 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
Midsummer Night Swing 2009 is made possible in part by a grant from Daisy and Paul Soros and the Charina Endowment Fund
MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL, JULY 28 - AUGUST 23
The 43rd season of the very first indoor summer music festival in the United States includes the U.S. debut of conductor Robin Ticciati, the New York debut of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performances of works by Mozart, Haydn, and Mendelssohn, as well as premieres by the Mark Morris Dance Group in collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax and this summer's Artist-in-Residence, John Adams. Louis Langrée, the Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director, returns for his 7th Mostly Mozart season, which includes orchestral and chamber concerts, opera, dance, films, recitals, pre-concert lectures, and discussions.
Highlights include:
?Artist-in-Residence John Adams - A Flowering Tree, Adams' fourth opera, premiered in 2006 at Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna. With a libretto by Adams and Sellars (who also directs), the opera will have its New York premiere with three performances at the Rose Theater on August 13, 14, and 16 with Adams conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's, a cast of American singers, and the original production's Schola Cantorum de Venezuela choir, set against a rich tapestry of Indonesian dancers and costumes. John Adams will also conduct an all-Adams program of Shaker Loops, Son of Chamber Symphony, and Gnarly Buttons for clarinet and chamber orchestra, with soloist Michael Collins, who premiered the work in 1996.
?Louis Langrée, the Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director, conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in ten performances of five separate programs, including works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Haydn's The Creation, one of the Maestro's favorite works, on closing night.
?New York premiere by Mark Morris Dance Group - The Festival presents the New York premiere of a Lincoln Center commission for two dance works, Empire Garden and Visitation, by the Mark Morris Dance Group, August 19-22 at the Rose Theater. Featuring performances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax, the works are set to Ives' Trio for violin, cello, and piano, and Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 102, No. 1; the program will also include V, choreographed to Schumann's Quintet in E-flat major for piano and strings, first presented at Mostly Mozart in 2003.
?Films @ Mostly Mozart - Mostly Mozart will present the U.S. premiere of French director Bruno Monsaingeon's documentary about Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski, Unquiet Traveller, on August 1 at the Walter Reade Theater. Indonesian director Garin Nugroho's Opera Jawa, which brought together artists from a country of 14,000 islands and 100 different languages, will be screened on August 15, also at the Walter Reade. Opera Jawa is a highly stylized film, using gamelan, Javanese song (tembang), dance, costume, visual art, and special installations designed to showcase Indonesian multi-culturalism-particularly Javanese aesthetics-through the selection of a diverse group of actors and crew members.
?"A Little Night Music" - Six candle-lit late-night concerts include performances by pianists Piotr Anderszewski (July 29), Claire-Marie Le Guay (August 1), Nicholas Angelich (August 7), Stefan Vladar (August 8), Simone Dinnerstein (August 15), and the Borromeo String Quartet with clarinetist Michael Collins (August 18) all in the intimate Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.
?Visiting Chamber Orchestras - Mostly Mozart will present four renowned chamber orchestras to perform classical and contemporary works. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) will be led by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who will serve as both conductor and soloist in two Alice Tully Hall programs on August 9 and 10. The first concert will feature works by Haydn, Mozart (a piano concerto with Aimard as soloist), and Ligeti. On August 10, Aimard will lead the Orchestra in works by Haydn, Mozart (he will be soloist in another concerto), and Stockhausen. Period instrument specialists the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) return to Mostly Mozart to present an all-Mozart program in Alice Tully Hall on August 16 under the baton of rising British conductor Robin Ticciati in his U.S. debut. Currently Ensemble-in-Residence at New York University, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returns to Mostly Mozart for a program led by John Adams at Alice Tully Hall on August 17, featuring works by Adams, including Gnarly Buttons for solo clarinet and chamber orchestra, with soloist Michael Collins, who premiered the work in 1996.
LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS 2009, AUGUST 5 - 23
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 09 will offer three weeks of FREE performances, by dozens of exciting international, U.S. and local artists, in Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park and South Plaza (Amsterdam Avenue & 62nd Street). This 39th annual edition of the festival that has become a summer institution presents a schedule of varied music and dance events, World, U.S. and New York premieres, family performances, and this year, specially-commissioned works to celebrate Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary.
Concerts will range from classic jazz to world music, urban fusion to blues/rock and Brazilian mangue-beat to Iraqi maqam, and dance programs from three noted New York contemporary dance ensembles as well as new-generation hip-hop, Afro-Latin dance and more. Returning, are annual audience favorites: La Casita (August 9) featuring poets and performers representing Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Native America celebrating community and culture; "Family Day" on August 15, highlighted by a brand-new giant puppet pageant; "Heritage Sunday" (August 16) spotlighting traditional music and dance from around the world; and "Roots of American Music," (August 22-23), now in its 26th year, showcasing both headliners and un-sung masters of blues, folk, jazz, soul, rock, gospel, New Orleans R&B , and more.
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2009 is sponsored by Bloomberg and PepsiCo, Inc.
Lincoln Center - Visual Arts - SUMMER 2009
An exhibition of selected works from Lincoln Center's renowned List Art Print and Poster Collection will be on view at the Time Warner Center Columbus Circle, 50th St. and Broadway from June 21 through July 12.
Sponsored by Altria.
In celebration of Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary, noted artists Vija Celmins, Jim Dine, HeLen Frankenthaler, Jill Moser, Malcolm Morley, Richard Serra, and Terry Winters have been commissioned to create posters and prints which will be released over the year of activities.
The New York Philharmonic will present a 50th Anniversary exhibit from its extensive archives from July 1 until the end of August at Avery Fisher Hall.
The Juilliard School is planning a 50th Anniversary exhibit.
The Lincoln Center Information Line for all programs: 212-LINCOLN or visit LincolnCenter.org. For tickets, call CenterCharge, 212-721-6500.
