July 16, 2018
Lincoln Center
Date: July 16, 2018
Press Contact: Pamela Hernandez, 212.875.5363
August 2018
—LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTS—
Calendar of This Month’s Performances and Events
Mostly Mozart Festival and Lincoln Center Out of Doors Both Run Through August 12 and
Feature Performances, Discussions, and the World Premiere of
In the Name of the Earth by John Luther Adams
Free Events in the David Rubenstein Atrium Include Atrium 360° Series
and a Mostly Mozart Festival Performance
Wednesday–Sunday, August 1–5 – FREE – Times Vary
Out of Doors
POP-UP Duets (fragments of love)
New York City debut
Lincoln Center’s campus becomes the stage for this “richly inventive, wonderfully perceptive” set of duets (Herald, U.K.) from acclaimed Scottish choreographer Janis Claxton. Over the course of nine encounters, pairs of dancers emerge from the crowds to offer ephemeral glimpses of love and affection, from overt flirtation to secret passions, all set to a gorgeous score by Pippa Murphy. A unanimous hit at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Duets will delight visitors during the second week of Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Various Plazas
FREE For show times and more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Wednesday, August 1 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
NPR Music’s Turning the Tables Live: 21st-Century Edition
Music and conversation with Carly Rae Jepsen, Jamila Woods, I’m With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan), and others to be announced
Moderated by Ann Powers
Last summer, NPR Music and Lincoln Center radically changed how we talk about the history of popular music with the publication of the 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women list and a live show at Lincoln Center Out of Doors celebrating those albums. This marked the beginning of the Turning the Tables project, a challenge to think bigger about music's past, present, and future by highlighting voices often relegated to its margins. This year, NPR's Turning the Tables Live: 21st-Century Edition shifts focus toward a new generation of artists claiming center stage. To celebrate, we present a night of music and conversation with Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum recording artist and singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen; visionary Chicago R&B artist and poet Jamila Woods; Americana supergroup I'm With Her; and more.
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutofDoors.org.
Wednesday, August 1 at 7:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
John Adams: Tromba Lontana
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Pre-concert recital at 6:30 pm:
Stephen Waarts, violin; Henry Kramer, piano
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor
Joshua Bell returns to the festival, performing a pearl of the violin repertoire: Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, which was the first concerto the violinist recorded and released at the age of 19. The concerto bridges John Adams’s cleverly subdued fanfare, Tromba Lontana, and Brahms’s uplifting Symphony No. 2, which concludes the program. Violinist Stephen Waarts, winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Competition, performs Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3 with pianist Henry Kramer in pre-concert recitals in David Geffen Hall at 6:30 pm.
David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Wednesday, August 1 at 10:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A Little Night Music
Daniel Lozakovich, violin (New York debut)
George Li, piano (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Bach: Chaconne, from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Beethoven: Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10, No. 2
Mozart: Sonata in B-flat major for violin and piano, K.378
A pair of thrilling young musicians, 17-year-old violinist Daniel Lozakovich and 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner George Li, make their New York and Mostly Mozart Festival debuts, respectively, in an electrifying program of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Thursday, August 2 – FREE – at 6:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Composers’ Forum
John Schaefer, moderator
International Contemporary Ensemble
Four diverse, contemporary composers—Courtney Bryan, Ashley Fure, George Lewis, and Michael Pisaro—whose works will be performed during the Mostly Mozart Festival, join members of the International Contemporary Ensemble for a discussion of the creative process. Together, they will offer insights into their compositions, illuminating visions for the future of classical music.
Presented in association with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Amsterdam Ave. and 65th St.
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit MostlyMozartFestival.org.
Thursday, August 2 at 7:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Grand Pianola Music
International Contemporary Ensemble
Christian Reif, conductor (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Courtney Bryan (Mostly Mozart Festival debut), Cory Smythe, Jacob Greenberg, pianos
Peter Evans, trumpet
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Ryan Muncy, saxophone
Quince Ensemble, voices (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Courtney Bryan: Songs of Laughing, Smiling, and Crying (2012)
George Lewis: Voyager (1987/2018)
John Adams: Grand Pianola Music (1982)
The piano in various forms is central to this program, conjured up by ICE’s ever-inventive musicians. In Courtney Brown’s Songs of Laughing, Smiling, and Crying, it converses with eclectic recordings plucked from YouTube. In a newly revised version of George Lewis’s epic chamber piece Voyager, artificial intelligence technology allows the piano to take up the conversation on its own, a sentient automaton among human wind players. And in John Adams’s groundbreaking 1982 work Grand Pianola Music, for two pianos, voices, and chamber ensemble, humans return with superhuman skills, recreating tape-delayed loops to astonishing effect.
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 W 59th St, bet. 10th and 11th Avenues
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Thursday, August 2 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
OkayAfrica’s Mzansi Heat & Naija Beats
Yemi Alade
DJ Maphorisa
DJ Tunez
OkayAfrica—the online hub of the African New Wave—brings two Afropop superstars and one of the top Afrobeat DJs in the world to Damrosch Park for this high-octane party. Drawing on everything from Ghanaian highlife, Ivorian coupé-décalé, and American hip-hop, the Nigerian “Queen of Afrobeats” Yemi Alade (Fader) lights up the stage with power vocals and irrepressible charisma. DJ Maphorisa, the multiplatinum South African producer known for his banging blend of house and Afropop, and New York’s own DJ Tunez— known in NYC for his Blackout parties and worldwide for collaborations with Wizkid Davido, and more—will keep you feeling great all night long.
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Thursday, August 2 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Atrium 360°
Negro Leo
São Paulo–based singer-songwriter Negro Leo turns free jazz, funk, noise, Brazilian popular music, tropicalia, and no wave into the building blocks of a colorful and surreal musical universe.
Presented in collaboration with Brasil SummerFest
David Rubenstein Atrium, 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.
Friday, August 3 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
Peter Wolf
Super Soul Banned
Known to ’70s FM radio kids and early MTV fans as the lead singer of the J. Geils Band (“Centerfold,” “Love Stinks”), Peter Wolf is a sharp songwriter and eternally hip character who possesses an encyclopedic command of blues, pop, funk, soul, bluegrass, and rock. Super Soul Banned—legendary drummer Steve Jordan’s all-star funk project featuring Kool & the Gang’s Ronald Bell, the Beastie Boys’ Mix Master Mike, guitarist Ray Parker, Jr., and artists that have played with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Sonny Rollins—are the perfect traveling companions for Wolf’s "tour de force excursion through the landscape of American music" (All About Jazz).
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4 at 7:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Christian Zacharias, conductor and piano
Rosa Feola, soprano (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K.503
Ch’io mi scordi di te…Non temer, amato bene, K.505
Bella mia fiamma…Resta, o cara, K. 528
Symphony No. 38 (“Prague”), K.504
Pre-concert recital at 6:30 pm
Jon Manasse, clarinet
Shmuel Katz, viola
Drew Petersen, piano
Mozart: Trio in E-flat major, K.498 (“Kegelstatt”)
Mozart had great affinity for Prague, a city he frequently visited and where he wrote and premiered several important works. Christian Zacharias—one of those rare and brilliant musicians who is both an outstanding soloist and insightful conductor—leads the first half of this closely connected concert from the keyboard—first as soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, then performing the obbligato in the concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di te” with rising star Rosa Feola. In only her second New York appearance, Feola then joins Zacharias (sans piano) and the orchestra for the virtuosic “Bella mia fiamma.” Written for the storied Czech soprano Josepha Dušek, Mozart composed the piece at her summer home while he was composing and premiering Don Giovanni in Prague. His Symphony No. 38, “Prague” had its premiere during Mozart’s first visit to the city.
Members of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, along with pianist and 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Drew Petersen, will perform pre-concert recitals in David Geffen Hall at 6:30 pm.
David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Friday, August 3 at 10:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A Little Night Music
Pražák Quartet
Dušek: String Quartet in A major (1767) (U.S. premiere)
Mozart (arr. Joseph Kueffner): Two arias from Don Giovanni
Mozart: String Quartet in D major, K.499 (“Hoffmeister”)
Founded in 1972 at the Prague Conservatory, the Pražák Quartet has been at home on music stages worldwide for more than 30 years. For this special performance, the ensemble juxtaposes works by Mozart with the U.S. premiere of the String Quartet in A major by Czech composer František Xaver Dušek, whose wife, soprano Josepha Dušek, who performed one of the arias by Mozart featured on the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra program earlier in the evening.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5 – FREE – Times Vary
Out of Doors
La Casita
Poetry: Timothy DuWhite, el-Walad, Amanda Gorman, Randall Horton, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Fred Moten, José Olivarez, Purvi Shah, Danez Smith, and Frank Waln
Music: Bohio Music, Los Pleneros de la 21, Madison McFerrin, Soul Inscribed, and Ulali Project
MC: Falú
Through poetry, music, and stories, a powerful community of artist-activists give voice to the everyday heroes working to uphold and extend LGBTQ, women’s, civil, immigrant, and human rights.
La Casita is curated by Melody Capote, Caribbean Cultural Center; Lillian Cho, consultant; C. Daniel Dawson, arts and media consultant; LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, writer, vocalist, sound artist, and curator; Cady Gierke, Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian; Claudia Norman, Claudia Norman Management; and Rich Villar.
American Sign Language interpretation provided
Saturday, August 4 – 12 pm – Hearst Plaza, Lincoln Center
Sunday, August 5 – 2:30 pm – Teatro Pregones, The Bronx
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Saturday, August 4 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
Dance Theatre of Harlem
ALA.NI
For 50 years, Dance Theatre of Harlem has been spreading a message of empowerment through the arts. In recent years, the historic company has used its superlative, multiethnic group of artists to present a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century. For this celebratory evening, the company dances some of the signature works that embody this impressive legacy. The magic of the night begins with London-born, Paris-based singer-songwriter ALA.NI, who brings the spirit of Billie Holiday and Judy Garland to her jewel box of intimate songs.
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
Related Event:
Dance Theatre of Harlem: 50 Years of Trailblazing History – 4 pm
Join the panel discussion with former Dance Theatre of Harlem members about the company’s half-century of existence prior to its Damrosch Park performance.
Presented in association with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Amsterdam Ave. and 65th St.
Both events are FREE; Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Saturday, August 4 at 10:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A Little Night Music
Paul Lewis, piano
ALL-HAYDN PROGRAM
Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI:32
Sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:49
Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI:40
Internationally regarded as a leading musician of his generation, Paul Lewis is one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European Classical-period repertoire. Having already completed cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert, Lewis turns his attention to another titan of the era: Haydn.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Sunday, August 5 – FREE – see times below
Out of Doors
Heritage Sunday
1:00 pm Hearst Plaza
Made in NYC: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance featuring Andy Statman, Cherish the Ladies, Grupo Rebolu, and Sidiki Conde and Tokounou
5:00 pm Josie Robertson Plaza
Heritage Sunday Dance Party
With DJ Rekha
For this 50th birthday celebration, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance calls upon some of its favorite artists—many of whom got their start with CTMD—for an eclectic, energetic afternoon of music reflecting the diversity of New York City’s neighborhoods. Among the guests are klezmer pioneer Andy Statman, Irish-American supergroup Cherish the Ladies, the groundbreaking Afro-Colombian band Grupo Rebolu, and the miraculous Guinean dancer, drummer, and singer Sidiki Conde and his group Tokounou. DJ Rekha—the visionary behind the legendary Basement Bhangra parties—oversees the post-show dance party around the Revson Fountain.
Presented in association with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Center for Art, Tradition and Cultural Heritage
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Sunday, August 5 – FREE – at 7:00 pm
Out of Doors
Yoruba Remixed!
A Sonic Journey Through the Sounds & Vibes of the African Diaspora
featuring PALO!, Philbert Armenteros y Los Herederos, Yuba Iré, Something Positive Dance Company, DJ Carlos Mena, and DJ Bembona
Join the Caribbean Cultural Center as they celebrate the legacy of its founder Marta Moreno Vega with music and dance inspired by West African Yoruba traditions. Dance performances by the Something Positive Dance Company open and close this evening that also features live music from Puerto Rican percussion ensemble Yuba Iré and two celebrated Miami bands—Philbert Armenteros y Los Herederos and PALO! In between, world-renowned DJs keep the vibe going with sets of remixed Yoruba songs.
Presented in association with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Monday, August 6–Wednesday, August 8 at 6:30 and 8:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects (New York premiere)
International Contemporary Ensemble
Ashley Fure, composer and co-director
Adam Fure, architectural design
César Alvarez, co-director
Lucy Dhegrae and Lisa E. Harris, voice
Ross Karre, percussion and producer
Levy Lorenzo, percussion and engineer
Nick Houfek, lighting
Lilleth Glimcher, associate director
Ashley Fure and Adam Fure: The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects (2016–17)
Composer Ashley Fure combines installation and live performance to create this immersive music-theater experience, which premiered at Peak Performances in 2017 to rave reviews. Collaborating with her architect brother Adam Fure and the International Contemporary Ensemble, she activates the Brooklyn space with 24 subwoofers vibrating at subsonic levels under a dense canopy of objects and materials to create an otherworldly soundscape in which seven live performers overlay a wordless drama.
American Premiere, Alexander Kasser Theater, Peak Performances @ Montclair State University (NJ).
Co-produced by Peak Performances @ Montclair State University
The 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival presentation of The Force of Things is made possible in part by the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, Brooklyn
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Tuesday, August 7 – FREE – at 7:00 pm
Out of Doors
West Side Story: A Masterwork Reimagined
A conversation with Bobby Sanabria and Jamie Bernstein
Narrator, writer, broadcaster, and daughter of Leonard Bernstein, Jamie Bernstein joins educator, drummer, composer, and arranger Bobby Sanabria to discuss his re-envisioning of West Side Story—which will be performed in Damrosch Park on Friday, August 10—as well as the origins of the 60-year-old masterwork and why it remains so relevant today.
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater, 144 West 65th Street
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Tuesday, August 7 – FREE – at 6:15 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Artist Discussion: In the Name of the Earth
John Schaefer, moderator
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams and esteemed conductor Simon Halsey join WNYC’s John Schaefer to discuss the world premiere of In the Name of the Earth, Adams’s choral work for 800 singers that was commissioned by Lincoln Center and will be performed under the baton of Halsey in Central Park on August 11.
Co-presented with Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th floor
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit MostlyMozartFestival.org.
Wednesday, August 8 – FREE – at 6:30 pm
Out of Doors
Sun Ra Arkestra live score to Space Is the Place
Lean On Me: José James Celebrates Bill Withers
Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite
This cosmic evening, part of LPR’s 10th-anniversary celebrations, builds up to the Sun Ra Arkestra performing the live score to the film, in which Black people create their own paradise on Saturn, transported there by music. Getting us to that place tonight are the beloved songs of soul singer and composer Bill Withers (“Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone,” “Just the Two of Us”) performed by Blue Note jazz and R&B artist José James. Jazz pianist and composer Samora Pinderhughes opens with The Transformations Suite, a musical and theatrical examination of the radical history of resistance within communities of the African diaspora.
Presented as part of LPR X, celebrating (le) poisson rouge's 10th-anniversary season
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Tuesday, August 7 and Wednesday, August 8 at 7:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor
Daniel Lozakovich, violin
John Adams: The Chairman Dances
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K.216
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Pre-concert recital at 6:30 pm
Dominic Cheli, piano
Brahms: Rhapsody in E-flat major
Liszt: Réminiscences de Don Juan
Seventeen-year-old Swedish-born violin prodigy Daniel Lozakovich joins the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, which the composer wrote when he was 19. The program is bookended by two works offering glimpses of artistic potential: John Adams’s The Chairman Dances, an “outtake” that paved the way for his opera Nixon in China, and Beethoven’s First Symphony. Pianist Dominic Cheli, first-prize winner of the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Competition, will perform Brahms’s Rhapsody in E-flat Major and Lizst’s Réminiscences de Don Juan during pre-concert recitals at 6:30pm in David Geffen Hall.
David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Wednesday, August 8 at 10:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A Little Night Music
Lyrics by Shakespeare
New York Festival of Song
Steven Blier, pianist, host, and arranger (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Mikaela Bennett, soprano (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Matt Boehler, bass (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Kathleen Chalfant, reader (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Dankworth: If music be the food of love
Dick Hyman: Who is Sylvia?
Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with his lute
Finzi: It was a lover and his lass
Quilter: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Poulenc: Fancy
Berlioz: La mort d’Ophélie
Kabalevsky: Shakespeare Sonnet No. 13
Kabalevsky: Shakespeare Sonnet No. 153
Thomson: Sigh no more, ladies
Stephen Sondheim: Fear no more
Dankworth: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
Dankworth: Dunsinane Blues
In their first appearance at the Mostly Mozart Festival, the New York Festival of Song and its Artistic Director Steven Blier explore the breadth of influence and inspiration of Shakespeare’s words on composers from diverse cultures and eras. Mikaela Bennett and Matt Boehler, two exciting young singers, join Obie Award– winning actor Kathleen Chalfant in celebrating the musical legacy of the Bard.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Thursday, August 9–Saturday, August 11 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, August 12 at 5:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mark Morris Dance Group
Mark Morris, choreographer
I Don’t Want to Love
Monteverdi: Madrigals
Jolle Greenleaf, Brian Giebler, James Kennerley, Thomas Meglioranza, vocalists
Colin Fowler, harpsichord
Hank Heijink, theorbo
Daniel Swenberg, lute/guitar
John Moran, cello
Love Song Waltzes
Brahms: Liebeslieder-Walzer
Jennifer Zetlan, Luthien Brackett, Thomas Cooley, Thomas Meglioranza, vocalists
Colin Fowler, Amir Farid, piano
The Trout (World premiere)
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (“Trout”)
Inon Barnatan, piano
Ariel Quartet (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Timothy Cobb, bass
The world premiere of The Trout, set to Schubert’s famous quintet, anchors this performance, which also illuminates music by Monteverdi and Brahms with Mark Morris’s buoyant and poetic choreography. The program includes three dances spanning nearly 30 years of Mark Morris’s career, opening with two dances that explore the social intricacies of romance—1989’s Love Song Waltzes set to Brahms’s romantic Liebeslieder-Walzer for voices and piano four hands, and 1996’s I Don’t Want to Love, a revelatory exploration of some of Monteverdi’s most lovelorn madrigals. Acclaimed pianist Inon Barnatan and members of the distinguished Ariel Quartet join the Mark Morris Dance Group for the premiere of The Trout.
The 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival presentation of Mark Morris Dance Group is made possible in part by the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust.
Endowment support for the Mostly Mozart Festival presentation of Mark Morris Dance Group is provided by Blavatnik Family Foundation Fund for Dance.
Rose Theater, Broadway at 60th St.
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Thursday, August 9 – FREE – at 7:30 & 9:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A wave and waves
International Contemporary Ensemble
Michael Pisaro’s 70-minute deep listening experience a wave and waves embeds audience members within a slowly emerging ocean of sound created by 100 performers. Isolated, imperceptibly soft noises—sandpaper on stone, seeds falling on glass, bowed bells—are layered into powerful waves of sound with reactive lighting adding to the immersive nature of the experience. A work of monumental scale and uncommon immediacy, a wave and waves melds microscopic moments of friction, gravity, and vibration into a single, pulsing organism. This program is a collaboration between ICE, Walden School’s Young Musicians Program, and Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts as part of the OpenICE initiative.
Due to the intimate, immersive nature of this experience, seating is very limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
A collaboration of ICE, Walden School’s Young Musicians Program, and Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts as part of the OpenICE initiative
David Rubenstein Atrium, 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 MostlyMozartFestival.org.
Friday, August 10 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
West Side Story Reimagined
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band
Poetry by La Bruja and Rich Villar
Leonard Bernstein's score to West Side Story fused progressive big-band jazz, lyric opera, modern dance, and Latin rhythms into a groundbreaking masterpiece that revolutionized the Broadway musical. Celebrate Maestro Bernstein’s centennial year with the Grammy-nominated Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band. Just a few blocks from where the opening of the film was shot, they reimagine the timeless instrumental score using traditional Afro-Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Mexican rhythms, funk, rock, and jazz. Poets La Bruja and Rich Villar kick off the evening with an electrifying set of spoken word.
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Friday, August 10 and Saturday, August 11 at 7:30 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
Jodie Devos, soprano (U.S. debut)
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Andrew Stenson, tenor (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Concert Chorale of New York
James Bagwell, choral director
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Meistermusik (“Replevit me amaritudinibus”), K. deest
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467
Requiem, K.626
A transcendent summer finale brings together the dirges of Mozart’s Meistermusik with the spiritual ascension of his Requiem. Louis Langrée and the Festival Orchestra are joined by four acclaimed singers and the Concert Chorale of New York for Mozart’s final masterpiece. Pianist Stephen Hough brings his intellect and technical brilliance to one of the composer’s most beloved piano concertos, No. 21, famously known as “Elvira Madigan.”
David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Friday, August 10 at 10:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
A Little Night Music
Stephen Hough, piano
Imani Winds (Mostly Mozart Festival debut)
Debussy: Clair de lune
Mozart: Quintet in E-flat major for piano and winds, K.452
Poulenc: Sextet for piano and winds
An exceptionally insightful concert pianist, as well as a writer and composer, Stephen Hough is joined by acclaimed woodwind quintet Imani Winds. Opening with Debussy’s beloved Clair de lune, marking the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death, the program then juxtaposes Mozart’s beloved chamber composition for piano and woodwinds with one written by Poulenc nearly 150 years later.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor
Tickets can be purchased online at MostlyMozartFestival.org, by phone via CenterCharge at 212.721.6500, or by visiting the David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall Box Offices.
Saturday, August 11 – FREE – at 3:00 pm
Mostly Mozart Festival
In the Name of the Earth
North, South, East, and West choruses
Simon Halsey, conductor
John Luther Adams: In the Name of the Earth (World premiere)
Co-presented with Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Harlem Meer, Central Park (entrance at 5th Avenue and 106th Street)
(Rain location: The Cathedral of St. John the Divine)
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit MostlyMozartFestival.org.
Saturday, August 11 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Out of Doors
Annual Roots of American Music Weekend
AMERICANAFEST NYC
Mavis Staples
Joe Henry
For the past six decades, American music icon Mavis Staples has been a beacon of spiritual fortitude for artists from Bob Dylan to Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, whose third collaboration with Staples, If All I Was Was Black, was released to critical acclaim in 2017. Tonight, she brings us together with the power of her voice and a message of strength, perseverance, and love that is as vital today as it was when she and her family sang alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. Grammy-winning producer and singer-songwriter Joe Henry, who has worked with Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, and many others, adds his poetic storytelling to this inspiring evening of song.
Presented in association with Americana Music Association
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutOfDoors.org.
Sunday, August 12 – FREE – at 7:00 pm
Out of Doors
Annual Roots of American Music Weekend
AMERICANAFEST NYC
Margo Price
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
With her infectious blend of Nashville country, Memphis soul, and Texas twang, Margo Price is “one of the most compelling country talents to come out of Nashville in recent memory” (Vulture). She brings unflinching honesty and vivid songcraft to nuanced portraits of men and women just trying to get by, evoking everyone from Waylon and Willie to Loretta and Dolly along the way. Price splits the night with singer-songwriter Lukas Nelson (Willie’s son) and his band. On tour with Neil Young in recent years, they’ve built a devoted following for their distinctive brand of cosmic country soul.
Presented in association with Americana Music Association
Damrosch Park, 62nd Street, bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues
FREE Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, including program updates, visit LCOutofDoors.org.
Thursday, August 16 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium, 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.
Thursday, August 23 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium, 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.
Thursday, August 30 – FREE – at 7:30 pm
Soy Caribeña!: Womxn's Voices of the Caribbean?featuring Krudas Cubensi + Carolina Camacho
Presented in collaboration with C’mon Everybody
David Rubenstein Atrium, 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.
The discount ticket facility is made possible by Donald and Barbara Zucker.
American Express is the lead sponsor of the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Endowment support is provided by Blavatnik Family Foundation Fund for Dance.
Nespresso is the Official Coffee of Lincoln Center.
NewYork-Presbyterian is the Official Hospital of Lincoln Center.
“Summer at Lincoln Center” is supported by Bubly.
Artist Catering provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com.
Lincoln Center free programming is made possible in part by our NextGen supporters
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 offers 15 series, festivals, and programs including American Songbook, Avery Fisher Artist Program, Great Performers, , Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, Martin E. Segal Awards, Meet the Artist, Mostly Mozart Festival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award-winning Live From Lincoln Center, which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Center complex and 11 resident organizations: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. For more information: LincolnCenter.org.