Appendix I: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY: From Dry Hall to Warm, Glowing Vessel

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
GJW

For the well-received 1990 Bochum Schauspielhaus production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, Dieter Hacker, one of Germany's leading artists and stage designers, created fifty-four masks, including the one on the opposite page for Timon himself (Figure I). This mask, Hacker's designs, and photographs of the production were seen in the recent exhibition “Contemporary Stage Design from German and Austria” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, presented in collaboration with the Goethe House and German Cultural Center in New York.


Tempo ◽  
1972 ◽  
pp. 2-9
Author(s):  
Claudio Spies

During these summer months the New York Public Library has been holding an exhibition at the Research Library of the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, of manuscripts, drafts, annotations, letters, photographs, posters, objets, objets d'art, and other memorabilia selected from Stravinsky's legacy, and lent by his widow. The exhibition is unprecedented with respect to the collection of objects on display—since, for one thing, it is presumably only after so public a figure's demise that an assortment of this kind becomes open to the possibility of being thus exhibited—although a number of items had been familiar in published form. It is also, I conjecture, the first in a potential succession of exhibitions (depending, primarily, upon the eventual location of, and time at which, the entire legacy of these materials may become, as is to be hoped, in the most positive sense, public property), and it was mounted in conjunction with a Stravinsky Festival celebrating the 90th anniversary of the composer's birth.


Samuel Barber ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 451-469
Author(s):  
Barbara B. Heyman

For the opening week of the new Philharmonic Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1962, Barber composed a piano concerto in honor of the 100th anniversary of his publisher. The concerto was tailored to the technical prowess and individual style of John Browning, reflecting the Russian influence of his piano teacher Rosina Lhévinne. The second movement was a reworking of an earlier piece, Elegy, written for Manfred Ibel, a young art student and amateur flute player, to whom Barber dedicated his piano concerto. This chapter details Barber’s compositional process and influences for each movement of the concerto and describes the enthusiastic reception of the debut performance. Nearing completion of the concerto, Barber was invited to Russia as the first American composer ever to attend the biennial Congress of Soviet Composers, where he freely discussed his compositional philosophy and methods. For the concerto, Barber won his second Pulitzer Prize and the Annual Award of the Music Critics Circle of New York. His second composition for the opening season of Lincoln Center was Andromache’s Farewell, for soprano and orchestra. Based on a scene from Euripides’s The Trojan Women, the piece displayed deep emotional expression and striking imagery. With a superior opera singer, Martina Arroyo, singing the solo part, the success of Andromache’s Farewell presaged Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Hiie Saumaa

In this short piece, I highlight the question of how to bring somatics skills acquired in a somatics class to bear upon other life contexts. I use the example of scholarly work: I show how I use somatic methods as I conduct research in the archives of the choreographer Jerome Robbins (1918–98), housed at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. I suggest that we need to pay more attention to the question of how students and practitioners could bring physical awareness into their various life scenarios and tasks. I propose that if we learn how to transfer our somatic knowledge into different life contexts, our lives can become more embodied and we can tap into the knowledge that emanates from the physical self.


2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall Thomas ◽  
Thomas Keenan ◽  
Mark Franko

The following is a transcription of the presentation by Kendall Thomas, co-creator with William Forsythe of the performance installation Human Writes, followed by a discussion with Thomas Keenan and Mark Franko. Kendall Thomas's talk was given simultaneously with a screening of a silent video documentation of the work. (The reader can find moving images of Human Writes at <http://www.art-tv.ch/human_writes.html>). The panel “Rights to Move: Choreographing the Human Rights Struggle,” of which this discussion was a part, also included the participation of Leah Cox, dancer of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The event was curated and moderated by Mark Franko and produced by Alan Pally, and it took place at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, on October 12, 2009.


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