2012 White Light Festival to Run 10/18-11/18

Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director, today announced the programming for Lincoln Center's third international multi-disciplinary White Light Festival, October 18 through November 18, 2012.Tickets are now on sale.

The festival's focus is music's unmatched capacity to illuminate the many dimensions of our interior lives. Spanning musical traditions, genres and disciplines the festival will feature 27 performances and events and will take place in nine venues, on and off the Lincoln Center campus. Returning also are the popular post-performance White Light Lounges, where performers and audience members can meet and talk.

Said Ms. Moss, "In a time-constricted and stress-filled urban life, we have plannEd White Light Festival as an artistic sanctuary that is a reminder of the many dimensions that make up an individual's life. We hope both new audiences and White Light enthusiasts will discover fresh inspiration in the Festival offerings from around the world."

White Light Festival opens on October 18 with ghazal and Punjabi folk songs performed by Kiran Ahluwalia, noted for the depth of character of her pliable, expressive voice, in a free concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium. The Festival closes on November 18 with Gustav Mahler's deeply personal contemplation of death, his Ninth Symphony, as interpreted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

For additional information, visit: http://www.whitelightfestival.org/