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Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years

From October 15, 2009 through January 6, 2010
Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498 (directions)
Hours: Tues, Wed & Fri: 11 to 6; Mon, Thurs: 12 to 8; Sat: 10 to 6

Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years, the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the evolution and influence of America’s first performing arts center, will feature an extensive collection of historic and contemporary objects including photographs, ephemera, correspondence, costumes, set pieces, props and video recordings. Curated by Thomas Mellins, co-author of the book New York 1960, the free exhibition will be presented at the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center in collaboration with Lincoln Center, October 15, 2009-January 16, 2010. Mr. Mellins will discuss key exhibition themes in a free lecture on opening day, October 15 at 6:00pm in the Library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. From its inception in the mid 1950s, Lincoln Center has been a powerful symbol of New York’s core substance and style. Its scale, its architecture and urbanism, its concentration of talent culled from the realms of government, philanthropy, academia, architecture, art, and a broad spectrum of the performing arts, all powerfully embody main currents that run throughout New York City’s history and collective character. Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years will show the complex and symbiotic relationship between Lincoln Center and New York City over the course of a half century and the key role Lincoln Center has played in New York’s development as an international cultural capital.

Related Programs:

Date	Day	Time	Library	Title	Description
09/21/09	MON	6:00 PM	LPA	"A Trip to the Library": An Evening of Songs and Readings	Starring Steve Ross and special guests Carroll Baker, Richard Easton, and Dana Ivey. The program will feature readings of correspondence from the Library's collections, and songs based on the Library's special collections, such as "A Trip to the Library" from She Loves Me by Bock and Harnick, the manuscript for which is housed in the Music Division's Jerry Bock Papers. Guest artists: Frank Basile, Harry Crossfield, Carole Demas, Gregory Moore, Gretchen Reinhagen
10/03/09	SAT	5:00 PM	LPA	Constance Green, Ellen Lang, Irwin Reese, John Shelhart, singers; Robert Rogers, piano	Metropolitan Opera Chorus members celebrate their many years of performing at the Library.
10/05/09	MON	6:00 PM	LPA	Clurman and Kazan: Two Giants of the Theater	Stathis Giallelis, Linda Marsh, Lois Smith, and Eli Wallach talk about the two directors. Moderated by Foster Hirsch. The program will include a brief reading from the Theatre Division's Kazan and Clurman correspondence.
10/08/09	THU	6:00 PM	LPA	Imagination First: An Imagination Conversation	With Scott Noppe Brandon, Eric Liu, and special guests.
10/20/09	TUE	2:30 PM	LPA	Lincoln Center films	Dance on a May Day, color, 11 min. (Directed by John G. Avildsen, 1978) Dancing for Mr. B: Six Ballanchine Ballerinas, color, 86 min. (Directed by Anne Belle and Deborah Dickson, 1989)
10/23/09	FRI	2:30 PM	LPA	Lincoln Center films	Library and Museum at Lincoln Center, color, 16 min. (Directed By Robert M. Henderson, 1968) How to Live in a City, b&w, 30 min. (Directed By George C. Stoney, 1964) Pavarotti at Juilliard, color, 60 min. (Directed By Nathan Kroll, 1979)
11/05/09	THU	6:00 PM	LPA	Vincent Persichetti: The Man and His Music	Lecture-performance by Larry Alan Smith based on Persichetti's manuscripts in the Music Division.<
11/09/09	MON	6:00 PM	LPA	Anthony de Mare, Piano	Performance based on the Music Division's manuscript collection, including the works of Antheil and Cage.
11/12/09	THU	6:00 PM	LPA	Some Enchanted Evenings: The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) at 40	Lecture by TOFT Director Patrick Hoffman with video highlights.
11/14/09	SAT	3:00 PM	LPA	North/South Consonance Performance	Max Lifchitz, pianist, and other artists perform works by Carlos Chavez, based on the Music Division's Carlos Chavez Music Manuscript Collection.
12/03/09	THU	6:00 PM	LPA	A Very Lively Art: Producing Public Programs at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts	Lecture by Alan Pally with video selections from the Library's programs featuring Alan Bennett, Barbara Cook, Katherine Dunham, Christine Ebersole, Bobby Short, and others.
12/05/09	SAT	3:00 PM	LPA	Darynn Zimmer, soprano; Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano; Douglas Webster, baritone	Songs by Debussy, Poulenc, and others, based on the Music Division's manuscript collections.

Programs take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Admission to all programs is free and generally first come, first served, although tickets are occasionally required. When tickets are required, it will be noted in the individual listings. For information, call (212) 642-0142 or e-mail lpaprog@nypl.org. Programs are subject to change or cancellation without notice. For Monday programs, use Library entrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue, just south of 65th Street.

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