Lincoln Center Announces November Schedule; from DESH to Era la Notte & More

Lincoln Center has unveiled a Chronological Listing of Lincoln Center's Programs and Events for November 2013:

Friday & Saturday, November 1-2, 2013 at 7:30 pm*

White Light Festival

The Manganiyar Seduction

Roysten Abel, concept and director

Daevo Khan, conductor

with Manganiyar musicians

Roysten Abel's dazzling music-theater work returns to the Festival after a 2010 premiere that received a "tumultuous, instantaneous ovation" (The New York Times) at the end of the show. The repertoire is a mix of folk and classical Indian music. The Manganiyars are a Northern Indian caste of Sufi Muslim musicians who originally performed for Hindu royalty and have incorporated Hindu deities into their devotional songs.

Rose Theater (Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St.)

Post-performance discussion November 1 with Roysten Abel and John Schaefer

White Light Lounges follow each performance

Tickets, starting at $35, are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

*first of three concerts takes place on Thursday, October 31

Saturday, November 2, 2013 - FREE - at 11 am

Meet the Artist Saturdays

Surati

Surati, a traditional Indian dance troupe, will offer a performance of vibrant dance in celebration of Diwali-the Hindu five day festival of light-in this family-friendly, interactive program. Surati is committed to promoting Indian arts and culture through dance, music, theater, arts, and crafts.

Presented in collaboration with the Indo-American Arts Council.

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 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, November 3, 2013 at 5:00 pm

White Light Festival

The Cycles of Life: A Musical Exploration of the Balkans (New York premiere)

Jordi Savall, vielle, rebec, and music director

Hespèrion XXI

The Balkan Peninsula is home to three major religions and many more languages. This new program by early-music aficionado Jordi Savall uses Sephardic lullabies, Greek dances, Hebrew songs, Christian Orthodox chant, and Sufi devotional songs to explore the stages of life, from birth and youth through love, maturity, and death.

Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)

Post-performance discussion with Jordi Savall and Ara Guzelimian

White Light Lounge follows the performance

Tickets, starting at $45, are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Monday, November 4, 2013 at 8 pm

Great Performers/White Light Festival

The Cleveland Orchestra: The Divine Presence

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Joela Jones, piano

Cynthia Millar, ondes martenot

Luba Orgonášová, soprano

Kelley O'Connor, mezzo-soprano

Herbert Lippert, tenor

Ruben Drole, bass-baritone

Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

Robert Porco, director

Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B-flat major for string orchestra, Op. 133

Beethoven: Mass in C major, Op. 86

Maestro Franz Welser-Möst leads the "phenomenal" (The New York Times) Cleveland Orchestra in a program of musical revelation, including Beethoven's pursuit of the divine through the introspective questioning of his Mass in C major, and Messiaen's choral meditation on the divine presence within and around us.

The Cleveland Orchestra performance is sponsored by Bank of China

Avery Fisher Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)

Tickets, starting at $35, are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices, Broadway and 65th Street.

Wednesday & Thursday, November 6-7 at 7:30 pm

White Light Festival

DESH (U.S. premiere)

Akram Khan, director, choreographer, and performer

Tim Yip, visual design

Jocelyn Pook, composer

Michael Hulls, lighting design

Akram Khan's award-winning solo work, DESH, is at once a deeply personal and universal search for self. Bengali for "homeland," DESH features choreography and striking animation that explore his father's birthplace, collective frailty in the face of natural forces, and the dreams and stories that shape our identities.

DESH is sponsored by COLAS. Co-produced by MC2: Grenoble, Curve Leicester, Sadler's Wells, London, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, and Concertgebouw Brugge.

Rose Theater (Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St.)

Post-performance discussion November 6 with Akram Khan and Stanford Makishi

White Light Lounge follows the November 7 performance

Tickets, starting at $25, are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Thursday, November 7 - FREE - at 7:30 pm

Target Free Thursdays

yMusic

The six edgy virtuosi of yMusic have been hailed by NPR as "one of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music." The ensemble's unique mix of instruments-string trio, flute, clarinet, and trumpet-has inspired rock luminaries Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and St. Vincent to write instrumental works especially for it. The group's debut album, Beautiful Mechanical, was named a Time Out New York #1 Classical Record of 2011. A surprise guest will join yMusic for this performance.

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)

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

Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 4:30 pm

White Light Festival

Conversation: It's a Matter of Time

John Schaefer, moderator

Sylvia Boorstein

Georg Friedrich Haas

Alan Lightman

What does science teach us about time, and how do we experience it ourselves? WNYC host John Schaefer moderates this free discussion with Buddhist psychotherapist Sylvia Boorstein, composer Georg

Friedrich Haas, physicist Alan Lightman, and others exploring one of the themes of this year's White Light Festival.

Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 W. 65th St.)

FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 6:30 pm

White Light on Film

The End of Time (New York premiere)

Peter Mettler, director

2012. 109 minutes.

"I think it's the most difficult film I've made...and also my most personal," said Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler of his latest work, The End of Time. Exploring time as an abstract concept, a metaphysical construct, and a physical reality, the film uses sequences that range from a slow-moving wall of lava to a skydiver hurtling to earth from a height of 102,000 feet.

Presented in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center

Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)

Post-screening discussion with Peter Mettler and Kent Jones

White Light Lounge follows in the Furman Gallery

Tickets, priced at $15, are available by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 1:30 pm

White Light on Film

Into Great Silence

Philip Gröning, director

2005. 160 minutes.

Gröning's documentary Into Great Silence is drawn from the six months he spent filming a group of Carthusian monks in the French Alps-one of the Catholic Church's strictest orders-and their daily rituals of prayer, chores, and rare outdoor excursions. The viewer is totally immersed in the silence and asceticism of monastic life, with no voiceover and no score. Like the Peter Mettler work in this series, Gröning's film is also about the passage of time. "In a film about silence, this experience of time is swept up to the surface," he says. "Nothing detracts from it."

Presented in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center

Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)

Post-screening discussion with Philip Gröning and Kent Jones

White Light Lounge follows in the Furman Gallery

For ticket availability call CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or visit the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 10:30 am

Great Performers

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts

Caroline Goulding, violin

Michael Brown, piano

Bach: Sonata No. 3 in E major, BWV 1016

Bartók: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, BB 84

Two young musicians join forces in a program of sonatas by Bach and Bartók for this hour-long Sunday morning performance. Pianist/composer Michael Brown is a First Prize Winner of the 2009 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, and violinist Caroline Goulding is the recipient of the 2011 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Take advantage of this opportunity to join the artists for coffee and conversation after the concert.

Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)

Tickets, starting at $22, are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 5 pm

Great Performers/White Light Festival

World Make Flesh

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Neeme Järvi, conductor

Pre-concert lecture by Andrew Shenton at 3:45 in Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, (Rose Building, 165 W. 65th St, 10th Fl)

Tormis: Overture No. 2

Pärt: In principio (New York premiere)

Pärt: Da pacem Domine

Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K.618

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82

Estonia's oldest professional orchestra, with roots dating back to 1926, comes to Avery Fisher Hall with the country's Philharmonic Chamber Choir under the baton of principal conductor and artistic director Neeme Järvi. The evening features the New York premiere of Arvo Pärt's 2003 composition In principio, based on text from the Gospel of St. John.

Avery Fisher Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)

Tickets, starting at $35, are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Monday, November 11, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Great Performers

What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow: Mozart

Rob Kapilow, commentator and conductor

Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550

The What Makes It Great? season opens with an evening of energetic commentary, lively discussion, and performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40, one of only two symphonies the composer wrote in a minor key. Offering his usual keen insights, Kapilow will show how, more than any other work, the symphony reflects the emotional turmoil of Mozart's last years.

Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St.)

For ticket availability call CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or visit the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 7:30 pm

White Light Festival

Gloria

St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig

Georg Christoph Biller, Thomaskantor and conductor

Leipzig Baroque Orchestra

Bach: Der Herr denket an uns, Cantata BWV 196

Bach: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, Cantata BWV 150

Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV 589

Vivaldi: Magnificat in G minor, RV 610

The pure voices of youth will be heard in this first stateside appearance since 2000 by the renowned 800-year-old ensemble. Bach's works are a special legacy of the Choir, which was led by the composer himself from 1723 until his death.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 W. 46th St.)

White Light Lounge follows the performance

For ticket availability call CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or visit the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Wednesday & Thursday, November 13-14, 2013 at 7:30 pm

White Light Festival

Era la Notte (U.S. premiere)

Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano

Soloists of Les Siècles orchestra

Juliette Deschamps, concept and director

Dominique Bruguière, lighting design

Cécile Degos, set design

Christian Lacroix, costume design

Marini: Passacalio a terzo e a quattro, Op. 22

Giramo: Chi non mi conosce dirà

Marini: Sinfonia sesto tuono, Op. 22

Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna: Lasciatemi morire, SV 22

Marini: Sinfonia primo tuono, Op. 22

Strozzi: Lagrime mie, a che vi trattenete, from Diporti di Euterpe, overo Cantate e ariette a voce sola, Op. 7

Marini: Sinfonia terzo tuono, Op. 22

Marini: Balletto secondo a terzo e a quattro, Op. 22

Monteverdi: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV 153

Marini: Zarabanda terza, Op. 22

Acclaimed Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci portrays a love-besotted woman in works by 17th-century Italian composers in this staged production by French director Juliette Deschamps. "She brings her characters vividly to life ...in portraits of women in extremes of passionate despair and struggle," declared The Sunday Times (London) in a review of the CD.

Rose Theater (Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St.)

White Light Lounge follows the November 14 performance

Tickets, starting at $45, are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Thursday, November 14 - FREE - at 7:30 pm

Target Free Thursdays

The Ailey/Fordham Student Dancers

Presented in collaboration with Fordham University

The Ailey/Fordham Student Dancers (AFSD), established in 2003, perform an evening of fresh works from both emerging and established choreographers. The ensemble is made up of students from all over the world enrolled in the Ailey/Fordham Bachelor of Fine Arts Program and The Ailey School's Professional Division who train in ballet, Horton, Graham-based modern, jazz, West African, Dunham technique, and hip-hop.

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)

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

Friday, November 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm

White Light Festival

Beautiful Africa

Rokia Traoré

Pre-concert lecture by Banning Eyre at 6:15 in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Large Rehearsal Room

The Malian singer/songwriter performs songs from her latest top-reviewed album, Beautiful Africa. Singing in Bambara, French, and English, she sings about political uncertainty, social strife, and hope in her beloved homeland.

Rose Theater (Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th St.)

White Light Lounge follows the performance

Tickets, starting at $25, are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 7:30 pm

White Light Festival

Transcending Time

Tallis Scholars

Peter Phillips, director

Taverner: Kyrie "Leroy"

Taverner: Gloria, from Missa "Gloria tibi Trinitas"

Tallis: Audivi vocem

Taverner: Credo, from Missa "Gloria tibi Trinitas"

Taverner: Sanctus, from Missa "Gloria tibi Trinitas"

Muhly: Recordare, domine (New York premiere)

Pärt: ...which was the son of...

Taverner: Agnus Dei, from Missa "Gloria tibi Trinitas"

Recordare, domine is commissioned by the Tallis Scholars, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Lafayette College.

The Tallis Scholars' concert will highlight the works of celebrated Renaissance composer John Taverner, who served as choirmaster of Christ Church, Oxford, during the reign of Henry VIII. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the a cappella ensemble will showcase its wide-ranging repertoire with a program that moves from works written in the 1500s to contemporary pieces by Arvo Pärt and a new work by New York native Nico Muhly, co-commissioned by Lincoln Center.

Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)

White Light Lounge follows the performance

Tickets, starting at $45, are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm

White Light Festival

In the Dark

JACK Quartet

Georg Friedrich Haas: In iij. Noct., String Quartet No. 3

The JACK Quartet is known for its "mind-blowingly good" (Los Angeles Times) presentations of new works and this concert more than lives up to that pronouncement. For In the Dark, the ensemble delivers a not-to-be-missed performance in total darkness-as specified by the composer-in which the audience is invited to abandon all sense of time and space and truly listen.

Clark Studio Theater (Rose Building, 165 W. 65th St., 7th floor)

Post-performance discussion with Georg Friedrich Haas, the JACK Quartet, and John Schaefer

White Light Lounge follows in the Samuels Studio, 7th Fl

For ticket availability call CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or visit the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Great Performers

Nelson Freire, piano

Bach (trans. Siloti): Organ Prelude in G minor, BWV 535

Bach (trans. Hess): Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, from Cantata BWV 147

Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 119

Prokofiev: Selections from Visions fugitives, Op. 22

Granados: Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor, from Goyescas, o Los majos enamorados

Chopin: Ballade in F minor, Op. 52

Chopin: Berceuse in D-flat major, Op. 57

Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53

"Outstanding pianism and superlative interpretive insight at the service of great music," said The International Record Reviewof the Brazilian pianist's 2012 CD of the complete Chopin Nocturnes. Experience Nelson Freire's sublime pianism when he returns to Lincoln Center for this concert of Bach, Brahms, Prokofiev, Granados, and Chopin.

Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th St.)

Tickets, starting at $45, are available online at LCGreatPerformers.org, WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Thursday - Saturday, November 21-23, 2013 at 7:30 pm

White Light Festival

L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Mark Morris Dance Group

Mark Morris, choreographer

MMDG Music Ensemble

Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Dominique Labelle, soprano

Yulia Van Doren, soprano

John McVeigh, tenor

Douglas Williams, bass-baritone

Riverside Choral Society Chamber Singers

PatRick Gardner, director

Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Pre-concert discussion November 22 with Mark Morris and Ara Guzelimian at 6:15 at the David Rubenstein Atrium (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)

"Reams of paper and buckets of ink have been spent describing its manifest wonders," wrote The New York Times of Mark Morris' landmark work, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Using the music that Handel wrote in 1740 for two poems by John Milton, the dance/oratorio was further inspired by an 1816 watercolor series by William Blake reflecting Milton's poetry. These performances mark the 25th anniversary of L'Allegro's premiere.

David H. Koch Theater (Columbus at 63rd Street)

White Light Lounges follow each performance at the David Rubenstein Atrium (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)

Tickets, starting at $40, are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or at the Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall box offices.

Thursday, November 21 - FREE - at 7:30 pm

Target Free Thursdays

Basya Schechter: Songs of Wonder

A Musical Tribute to Abraham Joshua Heschel

Basya Schechter (best known as leader of the acclaimed band Pharaoh's Daughter) presents her musical settings of Yiddish Poetry by the revered Jewish philosopher and civil rights activist Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel using her majestic voice, percussion, flute, strings, and electronica. Her work reflects influences of Hasidic song, Sephardic folk-rock, and religious chant from a series of trips to the Middle East.

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)

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

Tuesday, November 26 - FREE - at 7:30 pm

Target Free Thursdays (Note: special day because of the Thanksgiving holiday)

Queer Urban Orchestra: Voyages

Journey from the busy streets of Manhattan to the fields of India, and from the banks of the Rhine River to the Hobbit holes of Tolkien's Middle Earth with New York's premier orchestra that celebrates the LGBTQ community. This performance pays special homage to activist Harvey Milk and continuing struggles of LGBTQ equality.

David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage (Broadway bet. 62nd & 63rd St.)

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

On Exhibit Through January 6, 2014

Aaron Curry

Melt to Earth

Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center

FREE

Melt to Earth, a site-specific installation of 14 monumental, aluminum sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Curry, was commissioned by Lincoln Center as its second free public art exhibition since the completion of its major renovation. On view through January 6, the boldly-colored sculptures are positioned in orbit around the iconic Revson Fountain transforming the Josie Robertson Plaza into a sculptural theater-in-the-round.

Programs, artists, schedules, and tickets prices are subject to change.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presenter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educational activities annually, LCPA's series include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, Mostly Mozart Festival, White Light Festival, and the Emmy Award-winning Live From Lincoln Center. As manager of the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Center complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a series of major capital projects, now complete, on behalf of the resident organizations across the campus.