Lincoln Center Reopens Alice Tully Hall, Inaugural Show 2/22
By: Gabrielle Sierra Feb. 20, 2009
On Thursday Lincoln Center unveiled the newly refurbished Alice Tully Hall. The inaugural performance at the hall will be this Sunday.
The venue will be the first to reopen to the public since the multi-year renovation plan for the entire campus. Alice Tully Hall has been closed for nearly two years during this construction.
Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm
First Look - Opening Night Program
Legendary and emerging artists come together for a collaborative concert presented by three of the resident organizations that have most frequently used Alice Tully Hall as a venue over the years: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
In a program that ranges from 15th-century Sephardic music to works by Bach and Golijov, this performance features the celebrated viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, soprano Montserrat Figueras, pianist Leon Fleisher, the Emerson String Quartet, members of The Chamber Music Society, and conductor David Robertson leading the Juilliard Orchestra.
Lincoln Center is the world's leading performing arts center, uniting on one campus 12 of the finest performing arts and educational organizations located anywhere. After more than four decades of artistic excellence and service to its community, the nation, and to the world, Lincoln Center is embarking upon a major transformation initiative to fully modernize its concert halls and public spaces, renew its 16-acre urban campus, and reinforce its vitality for decades to come.
Much of Lincoln Center's infrastructure and many of its notable performance and educational facilities require renovation, and in some cases, considerable expansion. Changes in the needs and interests of the public also inspire a thorough reconsideration of the campus' original design in the context of current and future programming priorities. These factors became the framework for a campus-wide planning initiative, with the West 65th Street and Promenade Projects-scheduled to be substantially completed for Lincoln Center's 50th anniversary celebration in 2009-2010.
A related project will be the transformation of the Harmony Atrium, a privately-owned public space between Broadway and Columbus Avenues and West 62nd and 63rd Streets, into a vibrant public community and cultural visitor center offering performances, information, and ticket services.
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