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Publisher’s Note.....6 American Ballet Theatre.....10 Atlantic Theater Company.....16 Carnegie Hall.....20 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.....32 The Frick Collection......34 Guggenheim Museum.....36 Lincoln Center.....44 Metropolitan Museum of Art.....52 Metropolitan Opera.....64 The Museum of Modern Art.....74 New York City Ballet.....84 New York Philharmonic.....96 The Public Theater.....118 Roundabout Theatre.....124 Signature Theatre.....128 Contacts.....133 Seating Charts.....134 www.guideforthearts.com
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Ambassador to the Arts
Major centers act as motors in the promulgation of the Arts. The infrastructure of the Arts is itself universally rooted. Strength resides in addressing a commonly-shared need for spiritnurturing, for emotional stability through self-expression, for delving into the whys of our lives. What happens in New York City impacts people the world over. The world needs NYC... the dynamo, the cauldron. But NYC and its citizens need all of humanity, its billions of souls who cry out in dance, music, word, image for solace and enlightenment in an evermore troubled human arena. This interdependence is vital to the very survival of the Arts. Every dollar spent supporting the Arts in NYC enables them to flourish by massively strengthening outreach through example and attracting the world’s major artists to the city. How many native New Yorkers at any given time are on NYC stages? How many actually attend performances? Patrons... do your duty! The Big Apple needs you... as does the world! Sincerely,
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A Thank You to Our Patrons
Welcome to the New York City edition of the Guide for the Arts. The arts in New York City continue to flourish, thanks to your patronage. Without your help, the New York City area arts landscape would not be the vibrant and inspiring community that you have come to know and expect. Because of people like you, New Yorkers and visitors alike will be able to enjoy a great variety of performing and visual arts. It is your generosity that has helped build a metropolitan arts scene that is more than just a source of civic pride—it is envied around the world. Guide for the Arts has put together a unique and informative guide to the New York City’s arts community and we encourage you to patronize the advertisers who helped make this year’s guide possible. Be sure to visit www.GuidefortheArts.com for in-depth coverage, behind the scenes arts information and our new digital guides. We hope that you enjoy this year’s Guide for the Arts. Thank you again and we look forward to seeing you in the coming season. Enjoy the show!
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American Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake Recognized as a living national treasure, Photo: John Grigiatis American Ballet Theatre regularly tours the United States and abroad, re-affirming its role as America’s National Ballet Company.® ABT boasts an international roster of the finest dancers, who provide an unusually broad knowledge of styles and athletic prowess, enabling them to perform the Company’s famously wide-ranging repertoire. Enjoy ABT in New York City during its fall performances at New York City Center, the holiday season with The Nutcracker at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, or the upcoming 2012 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House.
2011 fall season
New York City Center
november 8 -13 New York City Center
American Ballet Theatre continues a tradition of bringing repertory of unparalleled scope center stage. From classic ballets to innovative premieres, ABT’s world-class dancers bring their dramatic artistry and thrilling bravura to take dance to new heights this fall. Enjoy mixed repertory programs featuring ballets by an impressive roster of choreographers, including Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Martha Clarke, Paul Taylor, ABT’s Artist-in-Residence Alexei Ratmansky, and a premiere by Demis Volpi— the recent winner of 10 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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American Ballet Theatre the prestigious Erik Bruhn Prize for choreography. Reserve your seats today for intimate programs of great dance-theater at the newly renovated New York City Center, where you’ll feel so close to the action that you can almost touch the magic onstage.
november 8, 2011, 7:00 pm The Garden of Villandry Sinatra Suite Demis Volpi Premiere In the Upper Room november 9, 2011, 7:30 pm Duets Known By Heart Pas de Deux Seven Sonatas Black Tuesday november 10, 2011, 2:00 pm The Garden of Villandry Sinatra Suite Seven Sonatas Company B november 10, 2011, 7:30 pm Demis Volpi Premiere Duets The Garden of Villandry Known By Heart Pas de Deux Company B november 11, 2011, 7:30 pm Black Tuesday Demis Volpi Premiere In the Upper Room november 12, 2011, 2:00 pm Duets Known by Heart Pas de Deux Demis Volpi Premiere Company B www.guideforthearts.com
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American Ballet Theatre november 12, 2011, 8:00 pm Duets The Garden of Villandry Seven Sonatas In the Upper Room november 13, 2011, 2:00 pm Seven Sonatas Black Tuesday In the Upper Room The Nutcracker
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn
december 14–31, 2011 As the lights dim and Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score fills the air, your entire family will join young Clara for a dreamlike journey amid larger-than-life scenery, magical toy soldiers, mischievous mice, sparkling snowflakes, and a glittering Christmas tree! Featuring an impressive cast of over 100 performers, sets and costumes by Richard Hudson (Tony Award®-winner for The Lion King) and choreography by ABT’s Artist-in-Residence Alexei Ratmansky, The Nutcracker is bound to be a treasured memory for years to come. It is no wonder The New York Times praised, “American Ballet Theatre has a production like no other, made with complete theatrical authority from first to last. The poetry of Alexei Ratmansky’s vision is very striking. I’m impatient to see it again.”
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American Ballet Theatre december 28, 2011, 2:00 pm december 28 and 29, 2011, 7:00 pm december 30, 2011, 2:00 pm december 30, 2011, 7:00 pm december 31, 2011, 2:00 pm 2012 Spring Season
Metropolitan Opera House
may 14 – july 7, 2012 Subscriptions Now Available Box Office opens April 1, 2012 Enjoy the power, drama and athleticism of the world’s greatest dancers when American Ballet Theatre returns to the glamorous Metropolitan Opera House stage in May 2012 for its annual 8-week season. See exquisitely striking costumes, awe-inspiring sets, timeless tales, such as Swan Lake, and much more.
may 14, 2012, 6:30 pm Opening Night may 15, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 16, 2012, 2:00 pm Giselle may 16, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 17, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 18, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 19, 2012, 11:30 am ABTKids may 19, 2012, 2:00 pm Giselle may 19, 2012, 8:00 pm Giselle may 21, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 22, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 23, 2012, 2:00 pm La Bayadère may 23, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 24, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 25, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 26, 2012, 2:00 pm La Bayadère may 26, 2012, 8:00 pm La Bayadère may 28, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 29, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream may 30, 2012, 2:00 pm The Bright Stream may 30, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream may 31, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream www.guideforthearts.com
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American Ballet Theatre june 1, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream june 2, 2012, 2:00 pm The Bright Stream june 2, 2012, 8:00 pm The Bright Stream june 4, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 5, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 6, 2012, 2:00 pm Onegin june 6, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 7, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 8, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 9, 2012, 2:00 pm Onegin june 9, 2012, 8:00 pm Onegin june 11, 2012, 7:30 pm Thirteen Diversions, Apollo, The Firebird june 12, 2012, 7:30 pm 20th Anniversary Salute: Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie Thirteen Diversions, The Firebird and more! june 13, 2012, 2:00 pm Thirteen Diversions, Apollo, The Firebird june 13, 2012, 7:30 pm Thirteen Diversions, Apollo, The Firebird june 14, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 15, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 16, 2012, 2:00 pm Romeo and Juliet june 16, 2012, 8:00 pm Romeo and Juliet june 18, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 19, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 20, 2012, 2:00 pm Romeo and Juliet june 20, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 21, 2012, 7:30 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 22, 2012, 7:30 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 23, 2012, 2:00 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 23, 2012, 8:00 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 25, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 26, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 27, 2012, 2:00 pm Swan Lake june 27, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 28, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 29, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake 14 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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American Ballet Theatre june 30, 2012, 2:00 pm Swan Lake june 30, 2012, 8:00 pm Swan Lake july 2, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 3, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 4, 2012, 2:00 pm Le Corsaire july 5, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 6, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 7, 2012, 2:00 pm Le Corsaire july 7, 2012, 8:00 pm Le Corsaire Contact
American Ballet Theatre 890 Broadway New York, NY 10003 www.abt.org
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City Center: (212) 581-1212 BAM: (718) 636-4100 Metropolitan Opera House: (212) 362-6000
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Atlantic Theater Company
Atlantic Theater Company is the award-winning Off-Broadway theater that produces great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble. Founded in 1985 by David Mamet and William H. Macy, Atlantic believes that the story of a play and the intent of its playwright are at the core of the creative process. The plays in the Atlantic repertory, from both new and established playwrights, are boldly interpreted by today’s finest theater artists and resonate with contemporary audiences.
Happy Hour
World Premiere Signature Theatre Company’s Peter Norton Space by Ethan Coen directed by Neil Pepe
november 16, 2011 – january 1, 2012
Ethan Coen returns to Atlantic with this world premiere, following the success of his hit comedies Almost an Evening and Offices. An embittered barfly has a theory—or two—about what the world has become. A lonely young man and lonely young woman can’t see how right they are for each other. His motel room is so ugly a business traveler wants to end it all. Your life could be worse—and these three one-act comedies show you how.
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Atlantic Theater Company CQ/CX
World Premiere Signature Theatre Company’s Peter Norton Space by Gabe McKinley
january 25–march 11, 2012
Jay, an up and coming black reporter at the New York Times, finds his dreams of becoming a famous journalist come crashing down as he becomes the center of a plagiarism scandal. Drawing on his own experience as a newsman, McKinley weaves a revealing and complex story about the collateral damage of unchecked ambition and compounded lies. In this new play inspired by real events, truth becomes slippery and racial tensions reach a boiling point. CQ/CX raises difficult questions about the state of our media culture, and the meaning and price of journalistic integrity.
Chimichangas And Zoloft World Premiere Atlantic Stage 2 by Fernanda Coppel directed by Jaime Castañeda
spring 2012
Suffering from a profound sense of disappointment after her 40th birthday, Sonia flees her family and goes on a binge of prescription Zoloft and greasy chimichangas. Sonia’s rebellious daughter Jackie and her best friend Penelope hatch a plan to lure Sonia back home, while their fathers struggle with a secret association of their own. This irreverent story examines the search for happiness and the mysteries of sexuality through the eyes of two brazen teenagers.
Sleeping Demon
World Premiere The Linda Gross Theater by John Patrick Shanley
spring 2012
Sleeping Demon is the final installment of the trilogy called Church And State, which began with Doubt. The story concerns a Bronx Borough President who is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a 18 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Atlantic Theater Company confrontation with a local minister. The question they confront is one that faces us all. What is the relationship between spiritual experience and social action?
Contact
Atlantic Stage 2 330 West 16th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) New York, NY 10011 Classic Stage Company 136 East 13th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues) New York, NY 10003 Signature Theatre Company’s Peter Norton Space 555 West 42nd Street (between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues) New York, NY 10036 www.atlantictheater.org
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(212) 279-4200
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Carnegie Hall
For over a century, Carnegie Hall has been the place where distinctive artists of all stripes have come to make their names in New York City. This tradition of excellence has made Carnegie Hall an essential part of the city’s cultural fabric and the world’s most famous concert hall.
Featured Series International Festival of Orchestras I
This Series includes four events. No series exemplifies Carnegie Hall’s 120th anniversary celebration like this one: the most famous works from that golden age of music into which Carnegie Hall was born—including Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony and Mahler’s “Resurrection”—performed by illustrious orchestras and top conductors from around the world.
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 6, 2011, 8:00 pm
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1,
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Carnegie Hall Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
november 16, 2011, 8:00 pm
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Artistic Director and Conductor
ludwig van beethoven Egmont Overture ludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 7 ludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 5 Berliner Philharmoniker
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
february 25, 2012, 8:00 pm
Sir Simon Rattle, Music Director and Conductor Camilla Tilling, Soprano Bernarda Fink, Mezzo-Soprano Westminster Symphonic Choir Joe Miller, Conductor
hugo wolf “Elfenlied” hugo wolf “Der Feuerreiter” hugo wolf “Frühlingschor” from Manuel Venegas gustav mahler Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection” Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
march 2, 2012, 8:00 pm Lorin Maazel, Conductor
jean sibelius Symphony No. 7 jean sibelius Symphony No. 5 jean sibelius Symphony No. 1 International Festival of Orchestras II
This Series includes four events. Take a musical grand tour with orchestras from four European cultural capitals. Tchaikovsky’s third and fourth symphonies, Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s “Great” Symphony, and Bruckner’s Ninth are all part of this series.
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Carnegie Hall Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 10, 2011, 8:00 pm
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 3, “Polish” pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Budapest Festival Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 29, 2011, 8:00 pm
Iván Fischer, Music Director and Conductor András Schiff, Piano
bartók hungarian Peasant Songs bartók piano Concerto No. 2 franz schubert Symphony No. 9, “Great” Berliner Philharmoniker
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
february 24, 2012, 8:00 pm
Sir Simon Rattle, Music Director and Conductor
anton bruckner Symphony No. 9 (completion by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
march 4, 2012, 2:00 pm Lorin Maazel, Conductor
richard strauss Der Bürger Als Edelmann Suite, Op. 60 j. strauss and j. strauss ii Works to be announced International Festival of Orchestras III
This Series includes three events. This is the series for orchestra lovers that seek a little adventure. This series has music by Debussy and Schoenberg that remains as fresh and revelatory today as it did when it was premiered at the fin-de-siècle, and Lorin Maazel’s Ring Without Words, encapsulating the themes of the groundbreaking opera cycle by Wagner. 22 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Carnegie Hall Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 9, 2011, 2:00 pm
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian” pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Berliner Philharmoniker
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
february 23, 2012, 8:00 pm
Sir Simon Rattle, Music Director and Conductor
claude debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune dvorák The Golden Spinning-Wheel, Op. 109 arnold schoenberg Verklärte Nacht edward elgar Enigma Variations, Op. 36 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
march 3, 2012, 8:00 pm Lorin Maazel, Conductor
wolfgang amadeus mozart Symphony No. 40 wagner/lorin maazel The Ring Without Words,
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Concertos Plus
This Series includes three events. A double shot of Bartók by Perspectives artist András Schiff with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and its charismatic conductor Iván Fischer leads off this series, followed by two other Carnegie Hall favorites—Emanuel Ax performing Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto and Itzhak Perlman, Mozart.
Budapest Festival Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 28, 2011, 7:30 pm
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Carnegie Hall franz schubert Overture to Die Zauberharfe bartók Piano Concerto No. 1 bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 franz schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major London Philharmonic Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
december 8, 2011, 8:00 pm
Vladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor Emanuel Ax, Piano
ludwig van beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, “Emperor”
pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony, Op. 58
European Union Youth Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
april 18, 2012, 8:00 pm
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Music Director and Conductor Itzhak Perlman, Violin
Aaron Copland An Outdoor Overture wolfgang amadeus mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Richard Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie
Carnegie Hall Classics
This Series includes four events. It’s the perfect series for discovering all that makes Carnegie Hall the perfect place for orchestral music. Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms are all a part of Carnegie Hall Classics. So is Stravinsky’s magical Firebird, always an audience favorite, and a shimmering, atmospheric work by Carnegie Hall’s composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho.
Mariinsky Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 11, 2011, 8:00 pm
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Carnegie Hall Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor Prizewinner from the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition
igor stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919 version) concerto to be announced dmitri shostakovich Symphony No. 1 Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
november 17, 2011, 8:00 pm
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Artistic Director and Conductor
ludwig van beethoven
Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus ludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 4 ludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
London Philharmonic Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
december 7, 2011, 8:00 pm
Vladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor Janine Jansen, Violin
matthias pintscher Towards Osiris wolfgang amadeus mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, “Turkish”
johannes brahms Symphony No. 4 St. Louis Symphony
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
march 10, 2012, 8:00 pm
David Robertson, Music Director and Conductor Karita Mattila, Soprano
claude debussy Printemps kaija saariaho Quatre Instants igor stravinsky The Firebird (complete) Choral Classics
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Carnegie Hall come together on stage at Carnegie Hall, something truly special happens. The sheer power of the combined forces is overwhelming, and with the monumental Missa Solemnis by Beethoven and Bach’s St. John Passion—not to mention Honneger’s spectacular Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher—this season’s Choral Classics will be sublime.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
november 19, 2011, 8:00 pm
Marin Alsop, Music Director and Conductor Additional artists to be announced
arthur honegger Joan of Arc at the Stake Boston Symphony Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
march 6, 2012, 8:00 pm
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor Christine Brewer, Soprano Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-Soprano Simon O’Neill, Tenor Eric Owens, Bass-Baritone Tanglewood Festival Chorus John Oliver, Conductor
ludwig van beethoven Missa solemnis, Op. 123 Les Violons Du Roy
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
march 25, 2012, 2:00 pm
La Chapelle de Québec Bernard Labadie, Music Director and Conductor Ian Bostridge, Tenor Neal Davies, Bass-Baritone Karina Gauvin, Soprano Damien Guillon, Countertenor Nicholas Phan, Tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Bass-Baritone
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Carnegie Hall Great American Orchestras I
This Series includes four events. Each orchestra on this series has its own deep, rich history of remarkable performances here at Carnegie Hall. And each is sure to add to its legacy this season with performances of Salome (The Cleveland Orchestra), Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra), Schubert’s “Great” Symphony (Boston Symphony Orchestra), and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra (The Philadelphia Orchestra).
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
november 5, 2011, 7:30 pm
Robert Spano, Music Director and Conductor Garrick Ohlsson, Piano
esa-pekka salonen Nyx (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Radio France, Barbican Centre and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra) alexander scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy sergei rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 The Philadelphia Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
february 14, 2012, 8:00 pm
Charles Dutoit, Chief Conductor James Ehnes, Violin
richard martin Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments felix mendelssohn Violin Concerto bartók Concerto for Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
march 7, 2012, 8:00 pm
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor Peter Serkin, Piano
richard wagner A Faust Overture charles wuorinen Time Regained, a Fantasy for Piano
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Carnegie Hall The Cleveland Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
may 24, 2012, 8:00 pm
Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor Nina Stemme, Soprano Jane Henschel, Mezzo-Soprano Rudolf Schasching, Tenor Eric Owens, Bass-Baritone Additional artists to be announced
richard strauss Salome, Op. 54 (concert performance) The Philadelphia Orchestra
This Series includes three events. Together, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Dutoit make a “colorful, high-energy” pair (New York Times)—perfect partners for the always intriguing Lang Lang, who joins them for Beethoven’s Second Concerto. It’s a series filled with Romanticism: from Schumann’s “Rhenish” to Chopin’s First Piano Concerto with Maurizio Pollini.
The Philadelphia Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 25, 2011, 8:00 pm
Charles Dutoit, Chief Conductor Lang Lang, Piano
fauré Pavane in F-sharp Minor ludwig van beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major
dmitri shostakovich Symphony No. 10 The Philadelphia Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
april 27, 2012, 8:00 pm
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
johannes brahms Symphony No. 3 anton webern Six Pieces, Op. 6 robert schumann Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
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Carnegie Hall The Philadelphia Orchestra Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
may 18, 2012, 8:00 pm
Charles Dutoit, Chief Conductor Maurizio Pollini, Piano
ludwig van beethoven Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43
frédéric chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor maurice ravel Daphnis et Chloé (complete) The MET Orchestra
This Series includes three events. Always adventurous, Levine and The MET Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall this season with a wide range of music—and some very special guests. Among them are the People’s Diva Renée Fleming, performing Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, and a double shot of Christian Tetzlaff, who give us Mendelssohn and Schoenberg on the same concert.
The MET Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
october 16, 2011, 3:00 pm
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor Richard Goode, Piano Christine Rice, Mezzo-Soprano
wolfgang amadeus mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
john harbison / alice munro Closer To My Own Life (World Premiere)
George Gershwin An American in Paris The MET Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
january 15, 2012, 3:00 pm
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor Anthony McGill, Clarinet Stephen Williamson, Clarinet Renée Fleming, Soprano
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Carnegie Hall aaron copland Clarinet Concerto john corigliano Clarinet Concerto gustav mahler “Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft” gustav mahler “Liebst du um Schönheit” gustav mahler “Um Mitternacht” gustav mahler “Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder” gustav mahler “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” robert schumann Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra, Op. 86
The MET Orchestra
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
may 20, 2012, 3:00 pm
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
wolfgang amadeus mozart Adagio in E Major, K. 261 felix mendelssohn Violin Concerto arnold schoenberg Violin Concerto, Op. 36 Orchestra of St. Luke’s
This Series includes three events. New York City’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s puts its focus on Mozart and the Classical period in 2011–2012. Roger Norrington leads the group in a concert that includes Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with Jeremy Denk and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39. All of this is a prelude to a series finale with Iván Fischer that is truly grand—Mozart’s Requiem.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
december 15, 2011, 8:00 pm
Robert Spano, Conductor Susanna Phillips, Soprano Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-Soprano Nicholas Phan, Tenor Joshua Hopkins, Baritone Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus Norman Mackenzie, Director
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Carnegie Hall olivier messiaen Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine johann sebastian bach Magnificat, BWV 243 Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
february 16, 2012, 8:00 pm
Sir Roger Norrington, Conductor Jeremy Denk, Piano
joseph haydn Symphony No. 39 in G Minor ludwig van beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major wolfgang amadeus mozart Symphony No. 39 Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
april 12, 2012, 8:00 pm
Iván Fischer, Conductor Dominique Labelle, Soprano Kelley O’Connor, Mezzo-Soprano Remaining soloists to be announced Musica Sacra Kent Tritle, Music Director
wolfgang amadeus mozart Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K. 338
wolfgang amadeus mozart Requiem, K. 626 Contact
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
10x10 Sandbag House The museum’s main facility, housed in Cape Town, South Africa the Carnegie Mansion, will undergo renovation, beginning in fall 2011, as part of a $64 million capital campaign that includes enlarged and enhanced facilities for exhibitions, collections display, education programming and the National Design Library, and an increased endowment. During this time, we will program our exhibitions off-site. Our first offsite exhibition during the renovation will be “Design with the Other 90%: Cities” at the United Nations. “Design with the Other 90%: Cities,” the second in a series of themed exhibitions by Cooper-Hewitt that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, opens Oct. 15, 2011 at the United Nations and runs through January 9, 2012. Organized by Cynthia E. Smith, the museum’s curator of socially responsible design, the exhibition will feature more than 60 projects from 22 countries around the globe.
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The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection is one of New York City’s most beloved cultural treasures. Remarkable paintings, sculptures, and decorrative art objects are presented in the family’s former Fifth Avenue mansion. A visit to The Frick Collection evokes the splendor and tranquility of a time gone by.
Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition october 4, 2011, through january 8, 2012
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest draftsman of the 20th century. The Frick Collection, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., have co-organized an exhibition for 2011–12 that will look at the dazzling development of Picasso’s drawings, from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso classical works of the early 1920s. Through a selection of more than 50 works at each venue, the presentation will examine the artist’s stylistic experiments and techniques in this roughly 33-year period, which begins and ends in a classical mode and encompasses the radical innovations of Cubism and collage. The show (which opens at the Frick in the fall of 2011 and moves on to the National Gallery of Art in February of 2012) will demonstrate how drawing served as an essential means of invention and discovery in Picasso’s multifaceted art, while its centrality in 34 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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The Frick Collection his vast oeuvre connects him deeply with the grand tradition of European masters. Indeed, the exhibition will bring to the fore his complex engagement with artists of the near and distant past and will explore the diverse ways he competed with the virtuoso techniques of his predecessors and perpetuated them in revitalized form. Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition will feature loans from important public and private collections in Europe and the United States and will be accompanied by a full-length catalogue of the same name. It is being organized by Susan Grace Galassi, Senior Curator, The Frick Collection, and Marilyn McCully, Picasso expert, in conjunction with Andrew Robison, Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery. Comments Galassi, “Over the past decade several exhibitions organized both in the United States and abroad have explored Picasso’s art in relation to Western and non-Western traditions. The show focuses on this fundamental aspect of his work, specifically in relation to his drawings, where his interaction with artists of the past often first emerged. Our project aims to take a fresh look at Picasso’s drawing practice from his early training to maturity.” Major funding for the exhibition in New York is provided by Bill and Donna Acquavella, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and Melvin R. Seiden. Additional support is provided by Walter and Vera Eberstadt, Agnes Gund, the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, and the Thaw Charitable Trust. The project is also supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Guggenheim Museum
An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums. Visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings, classes for teens and adults, and daily tours of the galleries led by experienced docents. Founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond.
Kandinsky’s Painting with White Border october 21, 2011 – january 15, 2012
Vasily Kandinsky’s canvas Painting with White Border (Bild mit weissem Rand) was inspired by a trip to Moscow in fall 1912. Upon his return to Munich in December, Kandinsky searched for a way to visually record the “extremely powerful impressions” of his native homeland that lingered in his memory. Over a period of five months, he explored various motifs and compositions in study after study, moving freely between pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, and oil. After he produced at least 16 studies, Kandinsky finally arrived at the pictorial solution to the painting: the white border. This focused exhibition, co-organized 36 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Guggenheim Museum with the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., will bring the Guggenheim’s final version of the painting together with more than 12 preparatory drawings and watercolors and one major oil sketch, and will feature the results of an extensive conservation study of the Phillips and Guggenheim paintings. A rare glimpse into Kandinsky’s creative process, this presentation reveals the gradual and deliberate way the artist sought to translate his ideas into a bold new language of abstraction.
Intervals: Nicola López fall 2011
As part of the Guggenheim’s ongoing Intervals series, New Yorkbased artist Nicola López will create the site-specific work Landscape X, a sculptural collage environment in the rotunda. Intervals is designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices. Conceived to take place in the interstices of the museum’s exhibition spaces, in individual galleries, or beyond the physical confines of the building, the program invites a diverse range of practitioners to create new work. López will utilize three levels of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda between the exhibitions Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity and Maurizio Cattelan: All. Taking the construction site as a point of departure, López appropriates elements of urban infrastructure from chain-link fencing to orange mesh barriers to lane markers for her graphic intervention in the space. In Landscape X, the exterior floods the interior, the grid invades the spiral, and order is distorted. Using various printing, painting, and collage methods, the vocabulary of forms will periodically appear on available surfaces along the scrim, floor, wall, and ceiling. The work heightens the viewer’s awareness of the existing architecture and the sense of imminent activity on the other side of scrim.
Maurizio Cattelan: All november 4, 2011 –january 22, 2012
This retrospective survey will provide an overview of the Italianborn artist’s career, now nearly 20 years long but still vital and productive. Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture, 38 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Guggenheim Museum history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound. Working in a vein that can be described as hyperrealist, Cattelan creates unsettlingly veristic sculptures and installations that reveal contradictions at the core of modern-day society. While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique. This presentation marks the first time that the entirety of Cattelan’s oeuvre will be assembled into a coherent exhibition narrative, with more than 130 works on view, borrowed from private and public collections around the world and ranging from the late 1980s to the present. Long interested in the display of his work as part of his overall conceptual practice, Cattelan has a history of responding to the various contexts in which his art is encountered. His survey exhibition at the Guggenheim will follow suit by providing a platform for him to create a site-specific installation designed to encapsulate his complete production to date. The exhibition will fill the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda in an unorthodox and dramatic installation designed by the artist.
John Chamberlain: Choices february 24 – may 13, 2012
While John Chamberlain has been associated with Minimalist and Pop art movements alike, attempts to place him in such various, conflicting categories acknowledge the artist’s singularity. Chamberlain’s tireless pursuit of discovery and his intuitive, curious process distinguish him as one of the most important American sculptors of our time. This exhibition comprises approximately 110 works, from his earliest linear, monochromatic iron sculptures to the large-scale foil creations he is working on today, encompassing shifts in scale, materials, methods, and type, informed by the assemblage process that has been central to Chamberlain’s working method. Chamberlain rose to prominence in the late 1950s with energetic, vibrant sculptures hewn from disused car parts, achieving a three-dimensional form of Abstract Expressionism that astounded critics and captured the imagination of fellow artists. For a period in the 1960s, he turned to painting, using an enamel automobile finish to produce highly glossed, small-format square pictures; fueled by his interest in science, he produced sculptures in unusual materials, such as urethane foam, aluminum www.guideforthearts.com
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Guggenheim Museum foil, paper bags, and mineral-coated Plexiglas. Since returning in the mid-1970s to metal as his primary material, Chamberlain limited himself to specific parts of the automobile, adding color to found car parts, dripping, spraying, and patterning on top of existing hues to an often wild effect. In recent years, the artist has embarked on the production of a new body of work that demonstrates a decided return to earlier themes.
Being Singular Plural march 2 – june 6, 2012
Being Singular Plural presents audiences with a unique opportunity to encounter the film, video, and sound-based work of seven contemporary artists, filmmakers, and media practitioners living and working in India today. The exhibition will consist of several newly conceived and specially co-produced projects that celebrate and explore the unobtrusive, the unseen, and the individual nature of life and the moving image. The theories of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ideas include “being singular plural” and “the evidence of film,” serve as the intellectual framework for the exhibition. Desire Machine Collective (Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya), whose name derives from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, seeks to redirect attention toward careful looking, watching, and listening. The duo will install a site-specific sound installation Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted (2008/12) as a public art piece outside the museum, and will exhibit two new moving-image projects: Residue (2009–12), a 35 mm film installation, and Nishan (2007–), a meditative video installation on the contested region of Kashmir in India. Shumona Goel’s films investigate the stories of people who are often unheard or events that go un-witnessed. For Being Singular Plural, she and codirector Shai Heredia present I am micro (2009–), a 16 mm black-and-white film that mixes documentary, fictional, and philosophical commentary. Amar Kanwar’s complex videos and installations are fragmented narratives of violence, displacement, and resistance told through lyrical images and texts. His The Torn First Pages (2004–08) indirectly portrays (among other stories) the unbelievable horrors perpetrated by the Burmese junta upon its people, as well as the lives of Burmese exiles living in Norway and the United States. Kabir Mohanty also encourages alternative types of visual and 40 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Guggenheim Museum auditory experience. Some of his videos can be held in monitors that fit in the palm of one’s hand, while others test the limits of extended screenings. For Being Singular Plural, he offers his extended project Song for an ancient land (2003–), which, through its combination of new and archival material and complex camerawork, demands a new kind of viewership. Together with sound engineer Vikram Joglekar, Mohanty has also redesigned his multimedia sound installation In Memory (2009) to specifically respond to the museum galleries.
Francesca Woodman march 16 – june 13, 2012
Francesca Woodman will be the first major American exhibition of this artist’s work in more than two decades, and the first comprehensive survey of her brief but extraordinary career to be seen in the United States. The retrospective will include more than 150 vintage photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, and includes several of the large-scale blueprints she created at the end of career, as well as the intimate black-andwhite photographs for which she is best known. Now nearly 30 years since her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. Born in 1958, Woodman’s oeuvre represents a remarkably rich and singular exploration of the human body in space, and of the genre of self-portraiture in particular. Her deep and personal interest in serial imagery, Surrealism, Conceptualist practice, and photography’s relationship to both literature and performance are also the hallmarks of the heady moment in American photography during which she came of age. This retrospective offers an occasion to examine more closely the maturation and expression of a highly subjective and coherent artistic vision. It also presents an important and timely opportunity to reassess a critical juncture in American photographic history.
International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960 (working title) june – september 2012 This exhibition explores international contemporary trends in abstraction in the decade before the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building opened in 1959. Alternately embracing artistic freedom and gesture-based styles, nontradiwww.guideforthearts.com
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Guggenheim Museum tional materials and counter-cultural references, American and European artists in the post-World War II era pioneered such influential developments as Abstract Expressionism, CoBrA, Taschism, and Art Informel. International Abstraction and the Guggenheim especially highlights paintings and sculptures that entered the Guggenheim collection during the tenure of the museum’s second director, James Johnson Sweeney, from 1952 to 1960. Following Solomon R. Guggenheim’s death in 1949, and the end of founding director and curator Hilla Rebay’s tenure, Sweeney championed emerging and younger artists and augmented the museum’s existing modern holdings with what he called the “tastebreakers” of his day. Through collection works by Karel Appel, Alberto Burri, Eduardo Chillida, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, Kumi Sugaï, Antoni Tàpies, Takeo Yamaguchi, and others, this exhibition reveals the striking affinities between artists working continents apart in a period of great transition and rapid creative development.
Rineke Dijkstra june 29 – october 3, 2012
Rineke Dijkstra is the first U.S. mid-career survey of this important Dutch artist’s work in photography and video. Dijkstra came to prominence in the 1990s with her celebrated Beach Portraits, large-scale color photographs of children on the verge of adolescence posed on beaches around the world, from South Carolina to the Ukraine. From that point on, her sensitive and visually riveting portraits have documented individuals caught in transitional states, sometimes due to physical exertion, for example after giving birth or dancing, or charted over time through series. Along with other Western European photographers such as Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff, Dijkstra has been a leading innovator in the production of large-scale color images, which came to define contemporary photography in the 1990s and have transformed it ever since. This comprehensive retrospective will feature the Beach Portraits and other early works such as the photographs of new mothers and bullfighters, together with selections from Dijkstra’s later work. It also includes series that she has been working on continuously for years, such as Almerisa (1994–2008), which documents a young immigrant girl as she grows up and adapts to her new environment. Dijkstra’s work in video will be fully integrated in the exhibition. 42 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Guggenheim Museum Picasso Black and White october 5, 2012 – january 23, 2013
Few artists have exerted as considerable an influence over subsequent generations as Pablo Picasso, who is renowned for a great variety of styles, techniques, and ideas. Picasso Black and White is the first exhibition in a major museum setting to explore Picasso’s use of the recurrent motif of black and white across his oeuvre. Covering the whole of Picasso’s lengthy career, it considers all his major subjects through this particularly striking feature, as it pervades his rose and blue periods, investigations into Cubism, neo-classical and Surrealist-inspired figure paintings, homage to old masters canvases, and novel interpretations of historical subjects, as well as the highly charged works of his twilight years. His deceptively simple palette of isolated black, white, and gray hues and tones belies the extraordinary complexity and power of his most expressive and spontaneous works by purging color in order to highlight their inherent structure. This comprehensive chronological show will explore the consistency of Picasso’s career articulated through this striking formal study in an unprecedented fashion. It will comprise approximately one hundred paintings and sculptures and a small selection of works on paper drawn from museums across Europe and the United States, as well as significant loans from private collections, including those of the Picasso family.
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
London Symphony Orchestra Lincoln Center is the world’s leadSir Colin Davis, conductor ing performing arts center. Located Photo: Stephanie Berger on 16.3 acres in New York City, the Lincoln Center complex comprises 12 Resident Organizations, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is one of those 12. Since Lincoln Center first opened its doors, it has been a major contributor to New York City’s cultural and intellectual life, with an internationally recognized dedication to artistic excellence. Perhaps less apparent is the extent to which Lincoln Center serves as a dynamic economic engine for the region, hosting some five million visitors annually and transforming the Upper West Side into an exciting neighborhood that is now one of New York’s most desirable places in which to live and work.
Vienna Symphony Avery Fisher Hall
november 13, 2011, 3:00 pm Fabio Luisi, conductor Lise de la Salle, piano
rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 schmidt Symphony No. 4 Vienna Symphony Avery Fisher Hall
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beethoven Triple Concerto, Eroica Trio brahms Symphony No. 2 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Avery Fisher Hall
february 26, 2012, 3:00 pm Manfred Honeck, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin
prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major Dresden Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall
march 11, 2012, 3:00 pm Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Gautier Capuçon, cello
Weber Overture to Der Freischütz Dvorák Cello Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Avery Fisher Hall
april 11, 2012, 8:00 pm Joshua Bell, director and violin
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Overture to Coriolan Symphony No. 4 Violin Concerto
Bamberg Symphony Avery Fisher Hall
may 20, 2012, 3:00 pm Jonathan Nott, conductor Christian Zacharias, piano
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts webern Five Pieces, Op. 10 schubert Symphony No. 4 (“Tragic”) brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Bamberg Symphony Avery Fisher Hall
may 21, 2012, 8:00 pm Jonathan Nott, conductor Christian Zacharias, piano
beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 ives The Unanswered Question schubert Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”) Chamber Orchestras Britten Sinfonia (New York Debut) Alice Tully Hall
february 22, 2012, 7:30 pm Thomas Adès, conductor and piano Pekka Kuusisto, violin
couperin Les baricades mistérieuses couperin (arr. Adès) Les baricades mistérieuses adès Three Studies After Couperin ravel Le tombeau de Couperin stravinsky Chants du rossignol, Marche chinoise, Suites Nos. 1 and 2 adès Concerto for Violin, Concentric Paths Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir Alice Tully Hall
march 15, 2012, 7:30 pm Ton Koopman, conductor
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Cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre Magnificat Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Collegium Vocale Gent Choir and Orchestra Alice Tully Hall
march 31, 2012, 8:00 pm Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Bach St. Matthew Passion Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Alice Tully Hall
may 1, 2010, 3:00 pm Gottfried von der Goltz, violin and director
All Bach
Complete Orchestral Suites Nos. 1–4
Virtuoso Recitals Murray Perahia, piano Alice Tully Hall
march 25, 2012, 3:00 pm program to be announced
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Alice Tully Hall
april 21, 2012, 7:30 pm
works of liszt, bartók, ravel, messiaen, and marco stroppa Sergey Khachatryan, violin Lusine Khachatryan, piano Alice Tully Hall
may 23, 2012, 7:30 pm
works of beethoven and bach Emerson String Quartet Alice Tully Hall
march 21, 2012, 7:30 pm mozart and beethoven: the late quartets mozart Quartet in D major (“Prussian”) 48 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts beethoven Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127 beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 Emerson String Quartet Alice Tully Hall
april 4, 2012, 7:30 pm mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor mozart Quartet in B-flat major (“Prussian”) beethoven Alternate Finale to Op. 130 beethoven Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fugue, Op. 133
Emerson String Quartet Alice Tully Hall
april 29, 2012, 5:00 pm mozart Quartet in F major (“Prussian”) beethoven Quartet in F major, Op. 135 beethoven Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 Art of the Song Gerald Finley, bass-baritone Julius Drake, piano Alice Tully Hall
february 27, 2012, 7:30 pm works of schumann and britten Michael Schade, tenor Thomas Quasthoff, baritone Justus Zeyen, piano Alice Tully Hall
march 25, 2012, 5:00 pm
works of mendelssohn, mozart, schubert, schumann, and brahms Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano (New York Debut) Donald Sulzen, piano Alice Tully Hall
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts works of fauré, hahn, bachelet, tosti, tirindelli, cimara, toscanini, respighi, and zandonai Christine Brewer, soprano Craig Rutenberg, piano Alice Tully Hall
may 13, 2012, 5:00 pm
works of r. strauss, marx, and american composers Callas on Film Callas on Film
Walter Reade Theater
march 17, 2012, 1:30 pm Program 1 Vissi d’ Arte
Callas on Film
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march 17, 2012, 3:30 pm Program 2 The Hamburg Concert: 1959
Callas on Film
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march 18, 2012, 2:00 pm Program 3 Callas in Conversation and On Stage
Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Walter Reade Theater
february 26, 2012, 11:00 am Ma’alot Quintett
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Walter Reade Theater
march 18, 2012, 11:00 am Parisii Quartet
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Walter Reade Theater
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Andreas Brantelid, cello Shai Wosner, piano
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Walter Reade Theater
april 29, 2012, 11:00 am Claire Chase, flute Jacob Greenberg, piano
What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow Walter Reade Theater
december 12, 2011, 7:30 pm Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia Todd Palmer, clarinet
beethoven Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”) What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow Walter Reade Theater
february 27, 2012, 7:30 pm Inon Barnatan, piano
What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow Walter Reade Theater
april 23, 2012, 7:30 pm Sally Wilfert, soprano Michael Winther, tenor
Cole Porter Songs
Contact
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 70 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023 www.lincolncenter.org
Tickets
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Metropolian Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. The mission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and advance knowledge of works of art that collectively represent the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of quality, all in the service of the public and in accordance with the highest professional standards.
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son may 17 – november 13, 2011
This exhibition features a selection of early 20th century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann’s Mycenaean Greece. Emile Gilliéron and later his son were the senior draftsmen for Evans, responsible for reconstructing the fresco paintings in the palace at Knossos. The Gilliérons formed a thriving business selling original watercolors after the frescoes and other reproductions of three dimensional artworks, which they made directly from the originals. Their work influenced the 52
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Metropolian Museum of Art study of Aegean art and was integral to its widespread introduction throughout Europe and America. The installation draws from the Metropolitan Museum’s own collection of Gilliéron reproductions, which is the largest in existence.
Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum july 26 – october 10, 2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum will present 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters. Several of the Museum’s paintings by Hals are famous, especially the early Merrymakers at Shrovetide (ca. 1616) and the so-called Jonker Ramp and His Sweetheart (1623), both bequeathed to the Museum by Benjamin Altman in 1913. Also included in the exhibition will be two loans from private collections in New York—the small, exquisite Portrait of Samuel Ampzing (1630), on copper, and the well-known Fisher Girl (1630–32). A selection of other Dutch paintings from the Museum’s collection and a few engravings will set Hals’ work in the context of his native Haarlem and will help clarify how exceptional his animated poses and virtuoso brushwork were at the time. A portrait by Manet, inspired by Hals, will also demonstrate how strongly Hals anticipated impressionist effects.
9/11 Peace Story Quilt august 30, 2011 – january 22, 2012
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students aged 8–19. The quilt poignantly conveys the importance of communication across cultures and religions to achieve the goal of peace. Comprised of three panels, each with 12 squares on the theme of peace, the quilt will be displayed in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education alongside several original works of art that inspired the quilt’s content.
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Metropolian Museum of Art Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine september 13, 2011 – january 8, 2012
The exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the rich collection of this material in the Department of Drawings and Prints in the Metropolitan Museum. The show includes drawings and prints by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Enrique Chagoya alongside works by artists more often associated with the genre—James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier, and Al Hirschfeld.
Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures september 20, 2011 – january 29, 2012
Over the centuries across sub-Saharan Africa, artists have drawn upon various media to memorialize for posterity eminent individuals of their societies. They have achieved this in an astonishingly diverse repertory of regional sculptural idioms, both naturalistic and abstract, that idealize their subjects through complex aesthetic formulations. The original patrons of such depictions intended for them to commemorate specific elite members of a given community. For over a century, however, isolation of those creations from the sites, oral traditions, and sociocultural contexts in which they were conceived, has led them to be seen as timeless abstractions of generic archetypes. This exhibition will consider eight landmark sculptural traditions from West and Central Africa created between the 13th and early 20th centuries in terms of the individuals who inspired their creation. It will highlight the standardized aesthetic conventions apparent across a selection of 120 masterpieces that define particular regional genres, and will consider the cultural values that inform them. Selected for their artistic importance that has generated a critical mass of scholarship are the Akan www.guideforthearts.com
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Metropolian Museum of Art of Ghana, ancient Ife civilization and the Kingdom of Benin of Nigeria, Bangwa and related chiefdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields, the Chokwe of Angola and Zambia, and the Luluwa, Hemba, and Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This examination of major African forms of expression reveals the hidden meaning and inspiration of these great artistic achievements.
“Wonder of the Age:” Master Painters of India, 1100–1900 september 28, 2011 – january 8, 2012
An exhibition devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian painting, with works selected according to identifiable hands and named artists, dispelling the notion of the anonymity in Indian art. New scholarship has begun to securely link innovations in style with specific artists and their lineages. The identities of individual artists and their oeuvre are defined through signed and attributed works, presented through the greatest works of Indian painting known. The high points of artistic innovation in Indian painting will be demonstrated through the works of the 40 greatest painters in the history of Indian art. Drawn from collections in India, Europe, and the United States, it will include some 220 works, each artist represented by seminal works.
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection october 13, 2011 – january 2, 2012
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz’s collection, acquired by the Metropolitan in 1949. In addition to being a master photographer, Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a visionary promoter of modern American and European art, and he assembled a vast art collection of exceptional breadth and depth. Through a succession of influential galleries that he ran in New York City between 1905 and 1946, Stieglitz exhibited many of the most important artists of the era, and he collected works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Gino Severini, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove. For more than 60 years, The Alfred Stieglitz Collection has been the cornerstone of the Museum’s holdings of modern American art. 56 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis november 15, 2011 – april 22, 2012
More than 30 of the world’s most famous chess pieces—all part of a hoard unearthed in 1843 on the isle of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland—will be shown at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum dedicated to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. Created in the mid-12th century, probably in Scandinavia, each piece is a precious miniature sculpture in walrus ivory. The game of chess as we know it today is one of the great legacies of the Middle Ages, and the Lewis chess pieces are among the earliest that include the full cast of characters found on modern boards. Reflecting medieval society in Europe, there are bishops (replacing the elephants of Indian and Persian chess traditions) and queens (supplanting the viziers who stand at the king’s side in Islamic tradition). All of the chessmen in the exhibition are on loan from the British Museum.
Story-Telling in Japanese Painting november 19, 2011 – may 6, 2012
Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga) and animation. Historically, the subjects of narrative painting have varied: romances of court ladies, aristocrats, and monks; heroic warriors’ tales of courage in the face of overwhelming odds; stories of miracles, celebratory events, and personal accomplishments; and tales of animals and ghosts. www.guideforthearts.com
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Metropolian Museum of Art Illustrated tales appear in various formats: handscrolls (emaki), albums, books, hanging scrolls, and screens. This exhibition will show a wide variety of illustrated Japanese tales from the 13th to the 19th century that reflect the cultural and social landscape of the time. The exhibition will feature approximately 60 works, including a group of 30 illustrated handscrolls, the ideal format for continuous sequential illustration, and 20 scrolls, books, and screens from the Metropolitan’s collection. The exhibition will also include works from local New York collections.
Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche november 22, 2011 –january 6, 2012
The Museum will continue a long-standing holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid 18th century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—will adorn the candlelit spruce. Recorded music and lighting ceremonies will add to the enjoyment of the holiday display. The exhibit of the crèche is made possible by gifts to The Christmas Tree Fund and the Loretta Hines Howard Fund.
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York december 20, 2011 – may 6, 2012
Referred to during his lifetime as the “United States Rage,” Duncan Phyfe (1768–1854) remains to this day America’s best-known cabinetmaker. This will be the first major retrospective on Phyfe since 1922, when the Metropolitan mounted a monographic show on the cabinetmaker and his work. The exhibition will cover the full chronological sweep of Phyfe’s distinguished career and include his earliest and best known furniture based on the published designs of Thomas Sheraton, as well as work from the middle and later stages of his career when he adopted the richer “archaeological” antique style of the 1820s, and a refined plain Grecian style based on French Restauration prototypes. The exhibition is made possible in part by The Henry Luce Foundation, the Americana Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Cushman, and Mr. Robert L. Froelich.
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Metropolian Museum of Art The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini december 21, 2011 – march 18, 2012
It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. Certainly portraiture assumed a new importance, whether it was to record the features of a family member for future generations, celebrate a prince or warrior, extol the beauty of a woman, or make possible the exchange of a likeness among friends. This exhibition will bring together paintings, medals, drawings, and sculpture that testify to the new vogue for and uses of portraiture in 15th century Italy.
New Galleries for the Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia opening november 1, 2011
More than 1,000 works from the preeminent collection of the Museum’s Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—will return to view this fall in a completely renovated, expanded, and reinstalled suite of 15 galleries. The organization of the galleries by geographical area will emphasize the rich diversity of the Islamic world, over a span of 1300 years, by underscoring the many distinct cultures within its fold.
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and 18th Century Decorative Arts opening january 16, 2012
This third and final phase of the overall American Wing renovation project comprises 24 entirely new galleries on the wing’s second floor. Twenty-one of the galleries are for the display of the permanent collection of American paintings—including the rich holdings of such masters as Gilbert Stuart, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and John Singer Sargent. Centered in the Grand Gallery will be Emanuel Leutze’s monumental and iconic Washington Crossing the Delaware. Interspersed among the pictures will be American sculptures, notably the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Three other galleries, together with a grand pre-revolutionary New York interior, will display 18th century American decorative arts, principally treasures of colonial furniture and silver. In the Henry R. Luce www.guideforthearts.com
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Metropolian Museum of Art Center for the Study of American Art, on the mezzanine level, a concurrent renovation includes additional casework, touchscreen case labels, and upgraded computer access. Part 1 of the American Wing renovation project opened in January 2007 with galleries dedicated to the classical arts of America, 1810–1845. Part 2, inaugurated in May 2009, included the renovated Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms. After Part 3 is completed, nearly all of the American Wing’s 17,000 works will be on view, constituting an encyclopedic survey of fine art in the United States.
The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments opened march 2, 2010
The gallery devoted to Western musical instruments reopened in March 2010, showcasing more than 230 works drawn primarily from the Metropolitan’s extensive holdings of musical instruments, among the most important in the world. The new installation focuses attention on individual masterworks by exploring each within its musical and cultural context, by offering exciting comparisons of how individual makers realized the same concept, and by introducing examples of the various instruments’ developments. Among the wide range of objects on view—keyboard, string, percussion, woodwind, and brass instruments—a highlight is the famed “Batta” cello made in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), on loan from a private collection. The reinstallation also includes new acquisitions and objects from the permanent collection that have rarely been seen by the public.
Renovation of the Late Gothic Hall, The Cloisters opened december 8, 2009
The Late Gothic Hall at The Cloisters museum and gardens reopened following an extensive renovation. The four large, 15th century, French limestone windows from the Dominican monastery in Sens, Burgundy, were conserved, and new leaded glass was installed on the interior with protective glazing on the exterior. The new installation features a monumental tapestry from Burgos Cathedral representing the Salvation of Man, which 60 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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The Andean Tunic, 400 B.C.E. –1800 C.E. march 8 – september 18, 2011
Thirty Andean tunics drawn from Metropolitan holdings, the collections of the Textile Museum in Washington, DC, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, will examine, together with loans from a private collection, the form of the tunic—essentially a type of man’s shirt that held an important cultural place in Andean South America for centuries. The tunics of the Andean regions of Peru, northern Bolivia and Chile will be featured with examples that date from the late centuries before the Common Era until well after the arrival of European colonists in the 16th century. Textiles themselves, an extraordinarily well developed art form in ancient times, were valued as wealth, and tunics were among the most treasured of them. The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Friends of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
After The Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection march 22, 2011 – january 2, 2012 This installation in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography juxtaposes recently made photographs by An-My Lê, James Casebere, and Wolfgang Tillmans with prescient works by artists such as Hans Haacke and Adrian Piper that are equally relevant today.
Night Vision: Photography After Dark april 26 – september 5, 2011
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Metropolian Museum of Art until the first decade of the 20th century that night photography came into its own as a distinct artistic genre. This installation surveys the ways in which modern photographers have used the camera to explore the visual and symbolic potential of the nocturnal image. Among the featured works will be moody Pictorialist nocturnes by Edward Steichen and Alvin Langdon Coburn; shadowy street scenes by Brassaï, Bill Brandt, and Robert Frank; electric light abstractions by Italian Futurist Giuseppe Albergamo; and aerial views of suburban Los Angeles at night by contemporary photographer David Deutsch. Drawn entirely from the Metropolitan’s collection, the installation will include approximately 40 photographs, ranging from the late 1890s to the present.
Highlights from the Modern Design Collection, 1900 to the Present, Part II opened may 17, 2011
This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present. Highlights include René Lalique’s “Swan” necklace of opals and amethysts, a newly acquired chair by Henry Van de Velde, a playfully brilliant room divider by Ettore Sottsass, and a chandelier by the Dutch designer Joris Laarman. Also presented are glass, ceramics, metalwork, drawings, and posters.
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting june 29 – november 27, 2011
In India the Goddess (Devi) is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom. Devi in her myriad forms, benign, maternal, empowering, and fearsome, expresses the range of human emotion and is perhaps the most widely worshipped deity in all India, standing alongside Shiva and Vishnu in the first rank of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain pantheons. In addition to selected paintings from the collection, highlights will include rare early molded clay images of the goddess from the early centuries B.C., whose meaning is lost to us, such as Goddess with Attendants, from Chanduketugarh, in Bengal, dated to the Shunga Period, ca. first century B.C. A beautiful bronze of Yasoda nursing the infant Krishna from 12th century Tamil Nadu is an enduring 62 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection through spring 2012
This installation presents approximately 35 highlights from the Museum’s extensive collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the eighth to the 20th century. Included are several recent acquisitions that have never before been exhibited or published.
American Landscapes opened may 20, 2008
The first floor of the recently renovated Robert Lehman Wing displays nine large and superb American landscape paintings from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, enabling visitors to view selected highlights of American art during the major reordering and upgrading of the American Wing galleries and period rooms, scheduled for completion in January 2012.
Contact
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Tickets
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world premier The Metropolitan Opera, now in its 127th The Enchanted Island season, is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented artists, including singers, conductors, composers, orchestra musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. Known as the venue for the world’s greatest voices, the Met has been under the musical direction of James Levine since 1976. Maestro Levine is credited with having created one of opera’s finest orchestras and choruses.
world premiere The Enchanted Island
Composer George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Antonio Vivaldi and others libretto Jeremy Sams conductor William Christie
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composer Gaetano Donizetti libretto Felice Romani conductor Marco Armiliato
february 4, 2012, 12:00 pm
Production a gift of Mercedes and Sid R. Bass
New Productions Don Giovanni
composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto Lorenzo da Ponte conductor James Levine /Andrew Davis
february 21 and 24, 2012, 8:00 pm february 29, 2012, 7:30 pm march 3, 2012, 8:00 pm march 7, 2012, 7:30 pm march 10, 2012, 12:00 pm march 14, 2012, 7:30 pm march 17, 2012, 8:00 pm
Production a gift of the Richard and Susan Braddock Family Foundation Additional funding from Jane and Jerry del Missier and Mr. and Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha
Siegfried
In collaboration with Ex Machina composer Richard Wagner libretto Richard Wagner conductor James Levine
november 5, 2011, 12:00 pm
Production a gift of Ann Ziff and the Ziff family, in memory of William Ziff
Faust
Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera composer Charles Gounod libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin /Alain Altinoglu
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Metropolitan Opera december 3, 2011, 8:00 pm december 6, 2011, 7:30 pm december 10, 2011, 1:00 pm december 13, 2011, 7:30 pm december 17, 2011, 8:00 pm december 20, 23, and 28, 2011, 7:30 pm january 5, 9, 13, 16, and 19, 2012, 7:30 pm
Production a gift of the Betsy and Edward Cohen/Areté Foundation Fund for new productions and revivals
Götterdämmerung
In collaboration with Ex Machina composer Richard Wagner libretto Richard Wagner conductor James Levine
january 27 and 31, february 3 and 7, 2012, 6:00 pm february 11, 2012, 12:00 pm
Production a gift of Ann Ziff and the Ziff family, in memory of William Ziff
Manon
Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; Teatro alla Scala, Milan; and Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. composer Jules Massenet libretto Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille conductor Fabio Luisi
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Metropolitan Opera march 26, 2012, 7:30 pm march 31, 2012, 8:00 pm april 3, 2012, 7:30 pm april 7, 2012, 12:00 pm april 11 and 14, 2012, 8:00 pm april 17, 20, and 23, 2012, 7:30 pm
Production underwritten by The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund
Repertory Aida
composer Giuseppe Verdi libretto Antonio Ghislanzoni conductor Marco Armiliato
february 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, and 28, 2012, 7:30 pm march 3, 2012, 1:00 pm Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
composer Gioachino Rossini libretto Cesare Sterbini conductor Maurizio Benini
february 4, 2012, 8:00 pm february 8, 2012, 7:30 pm february 11, 2012, 9:00 pm february 15, 2012, 7:30 pm february 18, 2012, 1:00 pm Billy Budd
composer Benjamin Britten libretto E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier conductor David Robertson
may 4 and 10, 2012, 7:30 pm may 12, 2012, 9:00 pm La Bohème
composer Giacomo Puccini libretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica conductor Louis LangrĂŠe
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composer Gaetano Donizetti libretto Felice Romani conductor Donato Renzetti
march 5, 9, 12, 16, and 21, 2012, 7:30 pm march 24, 2012, 8:30 pm march 27, 2012, 7:30 pm march 31, 2012, 1:00 pm Ernani
composer Giuseppe Verdi libretto Francesco Maria Piave conductor Marco Armiliato
february 2, 6, 10, and 14, 2012, 7:30 pm february 18, 2012, 8:00 pm february 25, 2012, 1:00 pm La Fille Du Régiment
Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London and the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna composer Gaetano Donizetti libretto Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and JeanFrançois-Alfred Bayard conductor Yves Abel
december 24, 2011, 12:00 pm december 29, 2011, 7:30 pm january 2 and 6, 2012, 7:30 pm Hansel And Gretel
Originally created for Welsh National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago composer Engelbert Humperdinck libretto Adelheid Wette translation David Pountney conductor Robin Ticciati
december 16 and 21, 2011, 7:30 pm december 24, 2011, 6:30 pm december 26, 2011, 7:00 pm december 29 and 30, 2011, 11:00 am www.guideforthearts.com
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Metropolitan Opera january 3, 2012, 7:30 pm january 7, 2012, 1:00 pm Khovanshchina
composer Modest Mussorgsky libretto Modest Mussorgsky conductor Kirill Petrenko
february 27, march 1 and 6, 2012, 7:00 pm march 10, 2012, 7:30 pm march 13, 2012, 7:00 pm march 17, 2012, 12:00 pm
Macbeth
composer Giuseppe Verdi libretto Francesco Maria Piave conductor Gianandrea Noseda
march 15 and 20, 2012, 7:30 pm march 24, 2012, 1:00 pm march 29, april 2, 2012, 7:30 pm april 5, 2012, 8:00 pm april 9, 2012, 8:30 pm Madama Butterfly
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Metropolitan Opera december 5, 9, and 14, 2011, 7:30 pm december 17, 2011, 1:00 pm december 22, 27, and 30, 2011, 7:30 pm february 17 and 22, 2012, 7:30 pm february 25, 2012, 8:30 pm march 2 and 8, 2012, 7:30 pm The Makropulos Case composer Leoš Janácek libretto Leoš Janácek conductor Jirí Belohlávek
april 27, may 1, 2012, 8:30 pm may 5, 2012, 12:30 pm may 8 and 11, 2012, 8:30 pm Nabucco
composer Giuseppe Verdi libretto Temistocle Solera conductor Paolo Carignani
november 2, 2011, 7:30 pm november 5, 2011, 9:00 pm november 9, 2011, 7:30 pm november 12, 2011, 1:00 pm november 17, 2011, 7:30 pm Das Rheingold
In collaboration with Ex Machina composer Richard Wagner libretto Richard Wagner conductor James Levine
april 4, 2012, 8:00 pm Rodelinda
composer George Frideric Handel libretto Nicola Haym conductor Harry Bicket
november 14, 2011, 7:30 pm november 19, 2011, 8:00 pm www.guideforthearts.com
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Metropolitan Opera november 23, 2011, 7:30 pm november 26, 2011, 8:00 pm november 30, 2011, 7:30 pm december 3, 2011, 12:30 pm december 7, 2011, 7:30 pm december 10, 2011, 8:00 pm Satyagraha
Co-production with English National Opera, in collaboration with Improbable composer Philip Glass libretto Constance DeJong conductor Dante Anzolini
november 4 and 8, 2011, 7:30 pm november 12, 2011, 8:00 pm november 15, 2011, 7:30 pm november 19 and 26, 2011, 1:00 pm november 1, 2011, 7:30 pm Tosca
Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich composer Giacomo Puccini libretto Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa conductor Mikko Franck
january 10, 2012, 7:30 pm january 14, 2012, 1:00 pm january 18 and 21, 2012, 8:00 pm january 24, 2012, 7:30 pm january 28, 2012, 1:00 pm La Traviata
Original production of the Salzburger Festspiele; with thanks to De Nederlandse Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi libretto Francesco Maria Piave conductor Fabio Luisi
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Metropolitan Opera april 6 and 10, 2012, 8:30 pm april 14, 2012, 1:00 pm april 18, 2012, 7:30 pm april 21, 2012, 8:30 pm april 25, 2012, 7:30 pm april 28, 2012, 8:30 pm may 2, 2012, 7:30 pm Die Walk端re
In collaboration with Ex Machina composer Richard Wagner libretto Richard Wagner conductor James Levine
april 13, 2012, time tba april 28, 2012 time tba may 7, 2012, time tba Contact
The Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center New York, NY 10023 www.metoperafamily.org
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The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. Our mission is helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time.
Collection Rotation 8 may 13, 2011 – february 12, 2012
The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor This survey of the history of photography, drawn from the Museum’s collection, will feature many recent acquisitions on view for the first time, including works by Henry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Cornell, Geraldo de Barros, Lewis W. Hine, Jules Janssen, Stephen Shore, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Carleton E. Watkins.
Talk to Me july 24 – november 7, 2011
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The Museum of Modern Art people with access to complex systems and networks, behaving as gateways and interpreters. Whether openly and actively, or in subtler, more subliminal ways, things talk to people—and designers help to develop and improvise the dialogue. Talk to Me focuses on objects that involve a direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, visualization designs, and communication devices, and on projects that establish an emotional, sensual, or intellectual connection with their users. Examples range from the late 1960s, represented by a few iconic products, all the way to projects in current development, which form the bulk of the exhibition. Featured designs include computer and machine interfaces, websites, videogames, devices and tools, furniture and physical products, and even installations and whole environments.
Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Days august 24 – november 14, 2011
The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa (b. 1961) conceived Sum of Days as an environmental and participatory sound installation— a monumental, voluminous construction made of soft, white, translucent material that hangs from the ceiling to the floor and takes the shape of an elliptical labyrinth. This structure hides, or interrupts, the defined limits of its surrounding architectural space, allowing an experience of total immersion while suspending the usual parameters of spatial reference known to the beholders. A system of microphones hangs from various heights and records the ambient noise on a daily basis, which is played back the next day through several speakers. Each day a new recording superimposes the one from the previous day, slowly erasing the oldest sound into a layer of whispers and putting forth newly recorded sonic vibrations. Adding another layer of sound will be the music of American composer Philip Glass. The accumulation of these recordings will constitute as an immaterial layering of time, as a memory of an experience, or a sculptural auditory experience, where all the sounds that are produced are constantly layered. Carvalhosa’s Sum of Days is therefore a sculptural work through the use of sound as a mnemonic material—a sculpture of music that is constantly being erased by the accidental noise of every day experiences. This marks the artist’s first exhibition in the United States. www.guideforthearts.com
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The Museum of Modern Art De Kooning: A Retrospective september 18, 2011 – january 9, 2012
The Rene d’Harnoncourt Exhibition Galleries, sixth floor De Kooning: A Retrospective is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s. Bringing together more than 200 works from public and private collections, the exhibition is the first to occupy the Museum’s entire sixth-floor gallery space, totaling approximately 17,000 square feet. Representing nearly every type of work de Kooning made, in both technique and subject matter, this retrospective includes paintings, sculptures drawings, and prints. Among these are the artist’s most famous, landmark paintings—among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950–53)—plus indepth presentations of all his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black-and-white compositions of 1948–49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artist’s return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade. Also included is de Kooning’s famous yet largely unseen theatrical backdrop, the 17-foot-square Labyrinth (1946).
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art november 13, 2011 – february 27, 2012 The Michael H. Dunn Gallery, second floor
Diego Rivera was the subject of MoMA’s second monographic exhibition (the first was Henri Matisse), which set new attendance records in its five-week run from December 22, 1931, to January 27, 1932. MoMA brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the exhibition’s opening and gave him studio space within the Museum, a strategy intended to solve the problem of how to present the work of this famous muralist when murals were by definition made and fixed on site. Working around the clock 76 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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The Museum of Modern Art with two assistants, Rivera produced five “portable murals”— large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime, and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, now taking on New York subjects through monumental images of the urban working class and the social stratification of the city during the Great Depression. All eight were on display for the rest of the show’s run. The first of these panels, Agrarian Leader Zapata, is an icon in the Museum’s collection. This exhibition will bring together key works made for Rivera’s 1931 exhibition, presenting them at MoMA for the first time in nearly 80 years. Along with mural panels, the show will include full-scale drawings, smaller working drawings, archival materials related to the commission and production of these works, and designs for Rivera’s famous Rockefeller Center mural, which he also produced while he was working at the Museum. Focused specifically on works created during the artist’s stay in New York, this exhibition will draw a succinct portrait of Rivera as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico, and the United States and will offer a fresh look at the intersection of artmaking and radical politics in the 1930s. MoMA will be the exhibition’s sole venue.
Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda november 23, 2011 – february 20, 2012 Projects Gallery, second floor
Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda (b. 1980, Nicosia, Cyprus) is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as for her video installations, in which film and television footage sourced from Greek soap operas from the artist’s childhood are re-shot or re-edited in new sequences. This exhibition presents Epaminonda´s three-channel video installation Tarahi III, V, VI (2007), part of an ongoing series of short films that enlist the use of montage, cuts, and repetition to address the permeability of memory. Favoring a slowed-down filmic flow and the lush colors one associates with the saturated hues of Douglas Sirk melodramas, these enigmatic videos are presented in a new installation specifically conceived for the Museum. www.guideforthearts.com
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The Museum of Modern Art Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence december 18, 2011 – march 26, 2012
Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor and The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor The first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Sanja Ivekovic (b. 1949, Zagreb) covers four decades of the artist´s remarkable practice. A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying the ground for a form of praxis antipodal to official art. Part of the generation known as the Nova Umjetnicka Praska (New Art Practice), Ivekovic produced works of cross-cultural resonance that range from conceptual photomontages to video and performance. This exhibition brings together a historic group of single-channel videos and media installations, including Sweet Violence (1974), Personal Cuts (1982), Practice Makes a Master (1982/2009), General Alert (Soap Opera) (1995), and Rohrbach Living Memorial (2005). Among the 100 photomontages featured in the exhibition is Ivekovic´s celebrated series Double Life (1975–76), for which the artist juxtaposed pictures of herself culled from her private albums with commercial ads clipped from the pages of women’s magazines such as Elle, Grazia, Brigitte, and Svijet. While in the 1970s Ivekovic probed the persuasive qualities of mass media and its identity-forging potential, after 1990—following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the birth of a new nation—she focused on the transformation of reality from socialist to post-socialist political systems. Ivekovic offers a fascinating view into the official politics of power, gender roles, and the paradoxes inherent in society’s collective memory.
Print/Out: Multiplied Art in the Information Era, 1990–2010 february 19 – may 14, 2012
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth floor This upcoming survey of prints, books, multiples, and ephemera will span roughly the last two decades and examine the evolution of artistic practices related to the print medium. From 1990 through today, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant 78 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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The Museum of Modern Art cross-pollination between vernacular modes and post-conceptual strategies. From the resurgence of ancient printmaking techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artists’ books and ephemera, prints, both in innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. The exhibition brings together around 200 works drawn substantially from MoMA’s extensive collection of prints and books, with the addition of several important loans.
Cindy Sherman february 26 – june 11, 2012
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary artists of the last 40 years. Throughout her career, Sherman has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. This retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present, bringing together more than 170 key photographs from a variety of the artist’s acclaimed series, for which she created myriad constructed characters and tableaus. The first comprehensive museum survey of Sherman’s career in the United States since 1997, the exhibition will draw widely from public and private collections, including MoMA’s collection.
From Line to Plane june 8, 2010 – ongoing
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden This summer´s Sculpture Garden installation features a selection of abstract geometric works dating from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. Highlights include Tony Smith’s minimalist sculptures Free Ride and Die (both 1962), George Rickey’s thirty-five-foot, kinetic stainless steel work Two Lines—Temporal I (1964), Mark di Suvero’s recently restored For Roebling (1971), and Ellsworth Kelly’s monochrome steel sculpture Curve II (1973). In addition to these newly installed works, perennial Sculpture Garden favorites like Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk (1963– www.guideforthearts.com
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Plywood: Material, Process, Form february 2, 2011 – february 27, 2012
The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor “Plywood,” explained Popular Science in 1948, “is a layer cake of lumber and glue.” In the history of design, plywood is also an important modern material that has given 20th century designers of everyday objects, furniture, and even architecture greater flexibility in shaping modern forms at an industrial scale. Plywood: Material, Process, Form, and installation in MoMA’s Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, features examples from MoMA’s collection of modern designs that take advantage of the formal and aesthetic possibilities offered by plywood, from around 1930 through the 1950s. Archival photographs illuminate the process of design and manufacture in plywood. Iconic furniture by Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Arne Jacobsen appear alongside organic platters by Tapio Wirkkala (1951), Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly Stool (1956), an architectural model for a prefabricated house by Marcel Breuer (1943), and experimental designs for plywood in the aeronautics industry.
Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design march 2, 2011 – january 31, 2012
The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor Since the late 19th century and throughout much of the 20th, designers have celebrated the socially uplifting promise of industrial production, believing the true path to modernity lay in standardization. A designer’s job was to conceive a model that could be converted into a working prototype—a blueprint for a series of objects, each identical and manufactured according to exacting rules. Yet it is human nature to crave individuality, and since the 1980s designers have sought to inject “chromosomes” of unique identity into objects produced on an industrial scale. 80 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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The Museum of Modern Art Digital technology has made the dream of creating families of objects with common traits and distinct behaviors a reality; today, the model is the working prototype is the series. Standard Deviations showcases objects and designs in the Museum’s collection that belong to “families,” including an important recent acquisition of 23 digital typefaces, on view here for the first time. All digital or designed with a foresight of the scope of the digital revolution, these typefaces significantly respond to the technological and cultural advancements occurring at the end of the 20th century and in the opening years of the 21st. Each one of them is a milestone in the history of digital typography.
Film Exhibitions
Film programs are shown in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters and The Celeste Bartos Theater.
An Auteurist History of Film september 9, 2009 – ongoing
This two-year screening cycle is intended to serve as both an exploration of the richness of the Museum’s film collection and a basic introduction to the emergence of cinema as the predominant art form of the twentieth century. The auteurist approach to film—articulated by the critics of Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s and brought to America by Andrew Sarris—contends that, despite the collaborative nature of the medium, the director is the primary force behind the creation of a film. The exhibition takes this theory as its point of departure, charting the careers of several key figures not in order to establish a formal canon, but to develop one picture of cinematic history.
To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation october 14 – november 17, 2011
To Save and Project, MoMA’s annual international film preservation festival, celebrates its ninth year with gloriously preserved masterworks and rediscoveries of world cinema. Virtually all of the preserved prints in To Save and Project have their New York premieres, and some are shown in versions never before seen in the United States.
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The Museum of Modern Art Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You november 2011
For the sixth year running, MoMA’s Department of Film, in association with IFP and its quarterly publication Filmmaker, screens the five nominees for the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. The nominees were selected by senior members of the Filmmaker editorial staff, and Joshua Siegel, associate curator in MoMA’s Department of Film. The five nominees represent this year’s best American independent films on the festival circuit that have yet to be picked up for theatrical distribution.
Carte Blanche: James Curtis on Spencer Tracy november 5–6, 2011
An exploration of Spencer Tracy’s early films presented by his biographer.
In Focus: Fortissimo Films november 10–21, 2011
Fortissimo Film is a key component in the international expansion of Asian cinema, ushering into the arena a multitude of supremely talented artists. The company’s ability to confront tough issues, politically, thematically, and formally in the films they have championed are evident in the titles in this selection which stretch across many Asian territories to represent two decades of production, sales, and distribution, and look at the directors with whom the multi-national company is the most associated. Avid supporters of Hong Kong and Chinese cinema— from Wong Kar-wai’s titles In The Mood for Love and Happy Together to Tian Zhuangzhuang’s Springtime in A Small Town and Zhang Yuan’s Beijing Bastards—the company’s principals early on set about exploring the region, helping to develop titles from Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines and, in particular, Thailand, supporting filmmakers such as Wisit Sasanatieng, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (all in the program).
Henri-Georges Clouzot december 2011
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The Museum of Modern Art features masterworks including Le Corbeau (The Raven) (1943), Quai des Orfèvres (1947), Le Salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear) (1953), Diabolique (1955), and Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) (1956), and such rediscoveries as L’Assassin habite…au 21 (1942), Manon (1949), and Les Espions (1947). Serge Bromberg’s recent award-winning documentary Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2009), about Clouzot’s unfinished film L’Enfer, is also presented.
Iberoamérican Images december 8–18, 2011
Ibermedia has for close to 15 years been influential in the continued ascent in production and quality of contemporary Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese films. This intergovernmental organization facilitates and finances coproductions of documentaries and fiction films between two or more of Iberoamérica’s Spanish—and Portuguese—language member countries, and grants money for international distribution and promotion once the films are finished. No strings are attached to the joint financing, which protects the filmmakers’ personal vision and allows the project to retain the rooted particularity of a national and/or personal-historical tradition.
Italian Treasures december 22, 2011 – january 10, 2012
Ten rare and exceptional films from the 1950s and 1960s golden age by both well-known and obscure Italian filmmakers presented in new prints made possible by MoMA’s collaboration with Cinecitta Luce.
Contact
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New York City Ballet
The longest home season of any dance company in the world, over the course of 21 weeks NYCB’s 91 dancers and 62-piece orchestra will present a total of 159 performances, featuring 55 different ballets from its unparalleled repertory, including 29 works by George Balanchine and 10 works by Jerome Robbins. The season will also feature five full-length favorites, including George Balanchine’s Jewels and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Martins’ Swan Lake and Romeo + Juliet, and Susan Stroman’s Double Feature. All performances will take place at the David H. Koch Theater, which is located on the Lincoln Center Plaza at Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street. This year New York City Ballet will present 47 performances of the holiday classic George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. Balanchine’s beloved production, which premiered on February 2, 1954, at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York, helped to establish The Nutcracker and its score as perennial favorites in the United States, evident by the now countless versions of the ballet performed all over the country. NYCB’s acclaimed production is seen by more than 100,000 people annually and has been performed more than 2,000 times. New York City Ballet will present six weeks of winter performances with an all Balanchine program consisting of The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Who Cares? The highlight of the winter season will be NYCB’s 84 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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New York City Ballet first-ever all Christopher Wheeldon program, consisting of three works by the British-born choreographer and former NYCB Soloist and Resident Choreographer. The program will consist of a World Premiere ballet, the NYCB premiere of DGV: Danse À Grande Vitesse, and Polyphonia. The all Wheeldon program will debut at NYCB’s annual New Combinations Evening. Created to honor of George Balanchine’s legacy of new choreography, each year since 1992 NYCB has presented a world premiere ballet as part of the New Combinations Evening. Other highlights of the winter season include the return of Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s The Seven Deadly Sins, Peter Martins’ full-length production of Romeo + Juliet, and Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky’s Suite No. 3, last performed by NYCB in 2009. The season will also feature five all Balanchine programs, including a special performance consisting of Who Cares? and Union Jack.
january 17, 2012, 7:30 pm All Balanchine The Steadfast Tin Soldier Le Tombeau de Couperin Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Who Cares?
january 18, 2012, 7:30 pm All Balanchine The Steadfast Tin Soldier Le Tombeau de Couperin Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Union Jack
january 19, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Tombeau de Couperin Ocean’s Kingdom (New Martins) Who Cares?
january 20, 2012, 8:00 pm All Robbins In G Major In Memory of... The Concert
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New York City Ballet january 21, 2012, 2:00 pm Founding Choreographers The Steadfast Tin Soldier Le Tombeau de Couperin Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux The Concert
january 21, 2012, 8:00 pm
Ocean’s Kingdom (New Martins) Union Jack
january 22, 2012, 3:00 pm All Balanchine Who Cares? Union Jack
january 24, 2012, 7:30 pm See The Music...
Ocean’s Kingdom (New Martins) Union Jack
january 25, 2012, 7:30 pm All Robbins In G Major In Memory of... The Concert
january 26, 2012, 7:30 pm Founding Choreographers Donizetti Variations In Memory of... Firebird
january 27, 2012, 8:00 pm
Le Tombeau de Couperin Ocean’s Kingdom (New Martins) In G Major
january 28, 2012, 2:00 pm All Balanchine Firebird The Steadfast Tin Soldier
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New York City Ballet Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Who Cares?
january 28, 2012, 8:00 pm New Combinations Evening All Wheeldon
Polyphonia New Wheeldon (World Premiere) DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse (NYCB Premiere)
january 29, 2012, 3:00 pm
Donizetti Variations Polyphonia Ocean’s Kingdom (New Martins)
january 31, 2012, 7:30 pm Founding Choreographers Concerto Barocco Tarantella In G Major Firebird
february 1, 2012, 7:30 pm Interplay Tarantella In Memory of... DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse
february 2, 2012, 7:30 pm Concerto Barocco New Wheeldon The Concert
february 3, 2012, 8:00 pm À La Russe Allegro Brillante Russian Seasons Zakouski Stravinsky Violin Concerto
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New York City Ballet Polyphonia New Wheeldon DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse
february 4, 2012, 8:00 pm Stravinsky Violin Concerto New Wheeldon Firebird
february 5, 2012, 3:00 pm Donizetti Variations DGV: Danse à Grand Vitesse Firebird
february 7, 2012, 7:30 pm À La Russe Allegro Brillante Russian Seasons Zakouski Stravinsky Violin Concerto
february 8, 2012, 7:30 pm Concerto Barocco Tarantella The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes
february 9, 2012, 7:30 pm Allegro Brillante The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes
february 10, 2012, 8:00 pm Interplay The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes
february 11, 2012, 2:00 pm Concerto Barocco Tarantella The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes
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New York City Ballet february 11, 2012, 8:00 pm Stravinsky Violin Concerto The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes
february 12, 2012, 3:00 pm Interplay Zakouski The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes
february14, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo + Juliet february 15, 2012, 7:30 pm Allegro Brillante Russian Seasons Fancy Free
february 16, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo + Juliet february 17, 2012, 8:00 pm Founding Choreographers Agon Fancy Free Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
february 18, 2012, 2:00 pm Romeo + Juliet february 18, 2012, 8:00 pm See The Music… Founding Choreographers Interplay Agon Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
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New York City Ballet february 23, 2012, 7:30 pm Stravinsky Violin Concerto Russian Seasons Fancy Free
february 24, 2012, 8:00 pm Donizetti Variations Russian Seasons Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
february 25, 2012, 2:00 pm Allegro Brillante Zakouski Fancy Free Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
february 25, 2012, 8:00 pm Founding Choreographers Donizetti Variations Agon Fancy Free
february 26, 2012, 3:00 pm All Balanchine Agon Stravinsky Violin Concerto Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
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New York City Ballet full-length Double Feature will also return to the NYCB repertory for five performances from May 24 through 27. Created for NYCB in 2004, Double Feature is Stroman’s homage to the silent film era, and consists of The Blue Necklace, a classic melodrama set to the music of Irving Berlin; and Makin’ Whoopee, a slapstick comedy set to songs by Walter Donaldson.
may 1, 2012, 7:30 pm All Balanchine
Serenade Kammermusik No. 2 Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
may 2, 2012, 7:30 pm See The Music... All Balanchine
Serenade Kammermusik No. 2 Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Firebird
may 3, 2012, 7:30 pm
Kammermusik No. 2 Tarantella DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
may 4, 2012, 8:00 pm
Serenade DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse Firebird
may 5, 2012, 2:00 pm All Robbins In the Night The Cage Andantino In G Major
may 5, 2012, 8:00 pm All Balanchine Concerto Barocco
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New York City Ballet Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Kammermusik No. 2 Firebird
may 6, 2012, 3:00 pm All Robbins In the Night The Cage Andantino In G Major
may 8, 2012, 7:30 pm All Robbins In the Night The Cage Andantino In G Major
may 9, 2012, 7:30 pm All Balanchine
Serenade Firebird Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
may 10, 2012, 7:00 pm
New Martins (World Premiere) New Millepied (World Premiere) Symphony in C
may 11, 2012, 8:00 pm
Concerto Barocco DGV: Danse Ă Grande Vitesse Symphony in C
may 12, 2012, 2:00 pm
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may 13, 2012, 3:00 pm All Balanchine Serenade Firebird Symphony in C
may 15, 2012, 7:30 pm New Martins New Millepied Fancy Free
may 16, 2012, 7:30 pm 21st Century
Russian Seasons New Millepied DGV: Danse Ă Grande Vitesse
may 17, 2012, 7:30 pm
Concerto Barocco Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux The Cage Andantino New Wheeldon (Winter 2012)
may 18, 2012, 8:00 pm Balanchine & Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
may 19, 2012, 2:00 pm Concerto Barocco Tarantella Russian Seasons Fancy Free
may 19, 2012, 8:00 pm New Martins Liebeslieder Walzer
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New York City Ballet may 20, 2012, 3:00 pm
In G Major Liebeslieder Walzer New Wheeldon (Winter 2012)
may 22, 2012, 7:30 pm Balanchine & Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
may 23, 2012, 7:30 pm See The Music...
New Martins In the Night New Wheeldon (Winter 2012)
may 24, 2012, 7:30 pm Double Feature may 25, 2012, 8:00 pm Double Feature may 26, 2012, 2:00 pm Double Feature may 26, 2012, 8:00 pm Double Feature may 27, 2012, 3:00 pm Double Feature may 29, 2012, 7:30 pm Russian Seasons Moves Jeu de Cartes
may 30, 2012, 7:30 pm
New Wheeldon (Winter 2012) Moves Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
may 31, 2012, 7:30 pm Jeu de Cartes New Millepied
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New York City Ballet june 1, 2012, 8:00 pm Founding Choreographers Concerto Barocco Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Fancy Free Symphony in C
june 2, 2012, 2:00 pm Jeu de Cartes Moves Symphony in C
june 2, 2012, 8:00 pm Russian Seasons Moves Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
june 3, 2012, 3:00 pm Jeu de Cartes Fancy Free Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
june 5–7, 2012, 7:30 pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream june 8, 2012, 8:00 pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream june 9, 2012, 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream june 10, 2012, 3:00 pm A Midsummer Night’s Dream Contact
New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater 20 Lincoln Center New York, NY 10023 www.nycballet.com
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New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Founded in 1842 by a group Philharmonic with Lisa Batiashvili of local musicians led by as soloist. Photo: Chris Lee American-born Ureli Corelli Hill, the New York Philharmonic is by the far the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world. It currently plays some 180 concerts a year. Since its inception the orchestra has championed the new music of its time, commissioning or premiering many important works.
Archival Exhibit Who’s Listening? A Look at the Philharmonic Subscribers Since 1842 Bruno Walter Gallery
november 2–december 31, 2011 Music With Film: Philip Glass And Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi Live
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november 2 and 3, 2011, 7:30 pm
Michael Riesman, conductor* Philip Glass* and the Philip Glass Ensemble*
philip glass Koyaanisqatsi
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november 10, 2011, 7:30 pm november 11 and 12, 2011, 8:00 pm november 15, 2011, 7:30 pm Bernard Haitink, conductor Cynthia Phelps, viola Carter Brey, cello
r. strauss Don Quixote beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral Young People’s Concert Avery Fisher Hall
november 12, 2011, 2:00 pm four greats: leonard bernstein Case Scaglione, conductor* Theodore Wiprud, host Program tba * denotes New York Philharmonic debut
Chamber Music
College of Staten Island City University of New York
november 14, 2011 musicians of the philharmonic Bernard Haitink Conducts Haydn And Bruckner Avery Fisher Hall
november 17, 2011, 7:30 pm november 18 and 19, 2011, 8:00 pm Bernard Haitink, conductor
haydn Symphony No. 96, Miracle bruckner Symphony No. 7
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Erik Thomsen Asian Art
Bird and Plum Tree in Winter Detail from a two-panel folding screen Painting in ink and mineral colors on gold leaf Japan, Edo Period, 18th century · H 72" × W 65 ¾"
Japanese screens Lacquers Contemporary art
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New York Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street
november 20, 2011, 3:00 pm Eric Bartlett, cello Sumire Kudo, cello Ru-Pei Yeh, cello Wei Yu, cello
jonathan pieslak Gray Fractures Sandra Church, flute Sherry Sylar, oboe Pascual Martinez Forteza, clarinet Amy Zoloto, bass clarinet* Kim Laskowski, bassoon R. Allen Spanjer, horn
janácek Mládí (Youth) Lisa Kim, violin Rebecca Young, viola Maria Kitsopoulos, cello William Woilfram, piano*
brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 * denotes guest artist
Jeffrey Kahane Conducts From The Piano
Avery Fisher Hall
november 22, 2011, 7:30 pm november 25 and 26, 2011, 8:00 pm november 29, 2011, 7:30 pm Jeffrey Kahane, conductor, harpsichord, and piano Sheryl Staples, violin Liang Wang, oboe
j.s. bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe mozart Symphony No. 33 beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1
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New York Philharmonic Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall
november 26, 2011, 2:00 pm Jeffrey Kahane, conductor, harpsichord, and piano Glenn Dicterow, violin Sheryl Staples, violin Carter Brey, cello Liang Wang, oboe
schubert Piano Trio in B-flat major (Glenn Dicterow, Carter Brey, Jeffrey Kahane) j.s. bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe (Sheryl Staples, Liang Wang) mozart Symphony No. 33 Daniel Harding Conducts Mahler Avery Fisher Hall
december 1, 2011, 7:30 pm december 2, 2011, 11:00 pm december 3, 2011, 8:00 pm Daniel Harding, conductor
mahler Symphony No. 10 (Completed by Deryck Cooke) New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street
december4, 2011, 3:00 pm Na Sum, violin Qiang Tu, cello
beethoven Duo No. 1 in C Major, WoO 27 Fiona Simon, violin Sharon Yamada, violin Robert Rinehart, viola Elizabeth Dyson, cello
britten String Quartet No. 2 Vladimir Tsypin, violin William Blossom, bass Adonis Gonzales, piano* www.guideforthearts.com
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New York Philharmonic douglas vistel Three Pieces for Violin, Double Bass, and Piano Anna Rabinova, violin Joo Young Oh, violin Irene Breslaw, viola Qiang Tu, cello
beethoven String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3 * denotes guest artist
Daniel Harding And Joshua Bell Avery Fisher Hall
december 7 and 8, 2011, 7:30 pm december 9 and 10, 2011, 8:00 pm Daniel Harding, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
oliver knussen Flourish with Fireworks tchaikovsky Violin Concerto stravinsky The Rite of Spring Holiday Brass Avery Fisher Hall
december 11, 2011, 3:00 pm Peter Schreier Conducts Messiah Avery Fisher Hall
december 13 and 14, 2011, 7:30 pm december 15, 2011, 7:30 pm december 16, 2011, 2:00 pm december 17, 2011, 7:30 pm Peter Schreier, conductor* Ute Selbig, soprano Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto* Steve Davislim, tenor* Peter Rose, bass* Westminster Symphonic Choir Joe Miller, director
handel Messiah
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New York Philharmonic Contact!, The New York Philharmonic New-Music Series Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue
december 16, 2011, 7:00 pm Peter Norton Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street
december 17, 2011, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor HK Gruber, chansonnier*
alexandre lunsqui Fibers, Yarn, and Wire (World Premiere—New York Philharmonic Commission)
magnus Lindberg Gran Duo hk gruber Frankenstein!!
* denotes New York Philharmonic debut
Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Anne Sofie Von Otter Avery Fisher Hall
december 28 and 29, 2011, 7:30 pm december 30, 2011, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
haydn Symphony No. 88 schubert Selected Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra ravel Mother Goose (complete ballet) ravel La Valse Alan Gilbert Conducts: A New Yorker’s New Year’s Eve With Jean-Yves Thibaudet Avery Fisher Hall
december 31, 2011, 8:00 pm Live From Lincoln Center Alan Gilbert, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
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New York Philharmonic bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Alan Gilbert Conducts: Bernstein And Ravel At Rush Hour Avery Fisher Hall
january 4, 2012, 6:45 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor
bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story ravel Mother Goose (complete ballet) ravel La Valse Archival Exhibit An Extraordinary Musician: Remembering Bruno Walter Bruno Walter Gallery
january 5 – february 25, 2012 alan Gilbert Conducts: New York Premiere Of Thomas Adès’s Polaris And Mahler’s Ninth Avery Fisher Hall
january 5, 2012, 7:30 pm january 7, 2012, 8:00 pm january 10, 2012, 7:30 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor
thomas adès Polaris (New York Premiere—New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Miami’s New World Symphony, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, London’s Barbican Centre, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony) mahler Symphony No. 9 Alan Gilbert Conducts: Mahler At The Tilles Center For The Performing Arts Tilles Center for the Performing Arts C.W. Post Campus Long Island University Brookville, New York
january 6, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor
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New York Philharmonic thomas adès Polaris (New York Premiere—New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Miami’s New World Symphony, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, London’s Barbican Centre, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony) mahler Symphony No. 9 Zubin Mehta Conducts Bruckner Avery Fisher Hall
january 12, 2012, 7:30 pm january 13 and 14, 2012, 8:00 pm Zubin Mehta, conductor
bruckner Symphony No. 8 New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street
january 15, 2012, 3:00 pm
Pascual Martinez Forteza, clarinet Judith Nelson, viola Gema Nieto-Forteza, piano*
mozart Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498 Charles Rex, violin Vivek Kamath, viola Eileen Moon, cello June Choi Oh, piano*
foote Piano Quartet Thomas Smith, trumpet Howard Wall, horn James Markey, bass trombone
daniel schnyder Trio for Trumpet, Horn, and Bass Trombone Kuan-Cheng Yu, violin Sumire Kudo, cello
Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello * denotes guest artist
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New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Lang Lang, And Magnus Lindberg’s Feria
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january 18 and 19, 2012, 7:30 pm january 20 and 21, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Lang Lang, piano
magnus lindberg Feria bartók Piano Concerto No. 2 prokofiev Symphony No. 5 Artist-In-Residence Frank Peter Zimmermann All-Brahms Chamber Concert Avery Fisher Hall
january 22, 2012, 3:00 pm Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin Enrico Pace, piano* Philip Myers, horn Sheryl Staples, violin Cynthia Phelps, viola Alan Gilbert, viola Carter Brey, cello Eileen Moon, cello
brahms Scherzo for Violin and Piano (from the FAE Sonata) brahms Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano brahms String Sextet No.1 * denotes guest artist
Chinese New Year january 24, 2012, 7:30 pm Long Yu, conductor* Lang Lang, piano Lian Wang, oboe Tang Jun Qiao, bamboo flute* Quintessenso Children’s Chorus*
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Artist-In-Residence Frank Peter Zimmermann Alan Gilbert Conducts: Beethoven Violin Concerto Avery Fisher Hall
january 26, 2012, 7:30 pm january 27 and 28, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
beethoven Violin Concerto stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements ravel Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2 Europe/Winter 2012
In February 2012 Alan Gilbert will lead the Orchestra in performances throughout European music capitals on the Europe/ Winter 2012 tour. The London stay represents the Philharmonic’s inaugural residency as an International Associate of the Barbican Centre, part of a long-term agreement between the two institutions, and will include a performance of Thomas Adès’s Polaris, a Co-Commission with Miami’s New World Symphony, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, London’s Barbican Centre, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. Traveling with the Orchestra in Europe will be Frank Peter Zimmermann, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence. Details to be announced.
Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Joyce Didonato Avery Fisher Hall
february 23, 2012, 7:30 pm february 25, 2012, 8:00 pm february 28, 2012, 7:30 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
steven stucky Son et lumière berlioz Les Nuits d’été musorgsky/ravel Pictures at an Exhibition www.guideforthearts.com
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New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert And Joyce Didonato At The Kimmel Center The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
february 24, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
steven stucky Son et lumière berlioz Les Nuits d’été musorgsky/ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Archival Exhibit Beethoven in 19th-Century America: Why Did He Take So Long to Be Heard Here? Bruno Walter Gallery
march 1 – june 23, 2012 The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival Conducted By David Zinman Program I Avery Fisher Hall
march 1, 2012, 7:30 pm march 2, 2012, 2:00 pm march 3, 2012, 8:00 pm march 6, 2012, 7:30 pm David Zinman, conductor Peter Serkin, piano
beethoven Symphony No. 2 stravinsky Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra beethoven Symphony No. 7 The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival Conducted By David Zinman Program II Avery Fisher Hall
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beethoven Symphony No. 8 barber Cello Concerto beethoven Symphony No. 4 David Zinman And The Philharmonic At NJPAC New Jersey Performing Arts Center Newark, New Jersey
march 9, 2012, 8:00 pm David Zinman, conductor Alisa Weilerstein, cello
beethoven Symphony No. 8 barber Cello Concerto beethoven Symphony No. 4 The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival Conducted By David Zinman Program III Avery Fisher Hall
march 15, 2012, 7:30 pm march 16, 2012, 11:00 pm march 17, 2012, 8:00 pm march 20, 2012, 7:30 pm David Zinman, conductor Gil Shaham, violin
beethoven Symphony No. 1 hartmann Concerto funèbre for Solo Violin and String Orchestra beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica David Zinman Conducts A Young People’s Concert Avery Fisher Hall
march 17, 2012, 2:00 pm David Zinman, conductor
Christoph Von Dohnányi Conducts Henze And Schubert
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Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
henze Adagio, Fugue, and Maenads’ Dance from The Bassarids schubert Symphony No. 9, Great Rush Hour Concert: Christoph Von Dohnányi Conducts Schnittke And Tchaikovsky Avery Fisher Hall
march 28, 2012, 6:45 pm Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
schnittke (K)ein Sommernachtstraum tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Artist-In-Residence Frank Peter Zimmermann
Dvorák With Christoph Von Dohnányi Avery Fisher Hall
march 29, 2012, 7:30 pm march 30 and 31, 2012, 8:00 pm
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
schnittke (K)ein Sommernachtstraum dvorák Violin Concerto tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique Jaap Van Zweden Conducts Avery Fisher Hall
april 12, 2012, 7:30 pm april 13 and 14, 2012, 8:00 pm april 17, 2012, 7:30 pm Jaap van Zweden, conductor* Yuja Wang, piano
prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 mahler Symphony No. 1
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Herbert Blomstedt Conducts Avery Fisher Hall
april 19, 2012, 7:30 pm april 20 and 21, 2012, 8:00 pm Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano
mozart Piano Concerto No. 9, Jeunehomme tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Lisa Batiashvili At Rush Hour Avery Fisher Hall
april 25, 2012, 6:45 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin
berlioz Le Corsaire Overture mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish debussy La Mer Alan Gilbert Conducts: World Premiere Of Marc Neikrug’s Concerto For Orchestra Avery Fisher Hall
april 26, 2012, 7:30 pm april 27, 2012, 2:00 pm april 28, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin
berlioz Le Corsaire Overture marc neikrug Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere—New York Philharmonic Commission)
mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish debussy La Mer Alan Gilbert Conducts: Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 At Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall
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may 3, 2012, 7:30 pm may 4, 2012, 11:00 am may 5, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano
Dvorák Carnival Overture magnus lindberg Piano Concerto No. 2
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tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 West Coast Tour
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Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Glenn Dicterow In Bartók Avery Fisher Hall
may 19, 2012, 8:00 pm may 22, 2012, 7:30 pm may 26, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Glenn Dicterow, violin
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may 19, 2012, 2:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Glenn Dicterow, violin Judith LeClair, bassoon Philip Myers, horn Sheryl Staples, violin Michelle Kim, violin Rebecca Young, viola Eileen Moon, cello Satoshi Okamoto, bass
schubert Octet bartók Violin Concerto No. 1 dvorák Carnival Overture Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Evgeny Kissin Avery Fisher Hall
may 23, 2012, 7:30 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Evgeny Kissin, piano
program to include: Grieg Piano Concerto
Alan Gilbert Conducts: Free Annual Memorial Day Concert The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
may 28, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor
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falla Selections from Atlántida orff Carmina burana
*denotes New York Philharmonic debut
Pinchas Zukerman Performs And Conducts Avery Fisher Hall
june 6 and 7, 2012, 7:30 pm june 8, 2012, 2:00 pm june 9, 2012, 8:00 pm Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
j.s. bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 stravinsky Concerto in D major for String Orchestra (1961
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mozart Symphony No. 39 Contact!, The New York Philharmonic New-Music Series Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue
june 8, 2012, 7:00 pm
Peter Norton Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street
june 9, 2012, 8:00 pm
David Robertson, conductor
yann robin Backdraft (World Premiere—New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Casa da Música, Porto)
michael jarrell New Work (U.S. Premiere—New York Phil-
harmonic Co-Commission with Ensemble Contrechamps) pierre boulez ... explosante-fixe ...
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beethoven Coriolan Overture korngold Violin Concerto nielsen Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia espansiva * denotes New York Philharmonic debut
Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall
june 16, 2012, 2:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor and violin Leonidas Kavakos, violin Cynthia Phelps, viola Carter Brey, cello Maria Kitsopoulos, cello Joshua Hopkins, baritone*
schubert String Quintet in C Major nielsen Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia espansiva * denotes guest artist
New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street
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New York Philharmonic Sharon Yamada, violin Cynthia Phelps, viola Ru-Pei Yeh, cello Nancy Allen, harp
cras quintette Robert Langevin, flute Sandra Church, flute Barbara McKenzie, piano*
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Alan Gilbert Conducts: Mozart’s Mass In C Minor, Great Avery Fisher Hall
june 20 and 21, 2012, 7:30 pm june 22 and 23, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Jennifer Zetlan, soprano Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-soprano Paul Appleby, tenor* Joshua Hopkins, baritone New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, director
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Contact
New York Philharmonic 10 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023 www.nyphil.org
Tickets
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The Public Theater
As the nation’s foremost theatrical producer of Shakespeare and new work, The Public Theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an American theater that is accessible and relevant to all people, through productions of challenging new plays, musicals, and innovative stagings of the classics. Founded by Joseph Papp as the Shakespeare Workshop and now one of the nation’s preeminent cultural institutions, The Public is an American theater in which all the country’s voices, rhythms, and cultures converge. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes, The Public is dedicated to embracing the complexities of contemporary society and nurturing both artists and audiences, as it continues Joseph Papp’s legacy of creating a place of inclusion and a forum for ideas.
Downtown Season The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs New York Premiere created and performed by Mike Daisey directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
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The Public Theater and industrial design. He illuminates how the CEO of Apple and his obsessions shape our lives, while sharing stories of his own travels to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPods. Daisey’s dangerous journey shines a light on our love affair with our devices and the human cost of creating them.
King Lear
by William Shakespeare directed by James Macdonald
october 18 – november 20, 2011 In no other play is Shakespeare’s tragic vision more terrifyingly clear—and nowhere in his canon does he dramatize more powerfully or humanely that only kindness and love are potent enough to counter mankind’s darkest impulses. When King Lear divides his kingdom among his three daughters, he sets in motion a cascade of violence that sweeps the civilized world to the brink of chaos, and Lear to the edge of madness. Featuring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Sam Waterston in the title role.
Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good) devised and performed by Gob Squad
january 19 – february 5, 2012 (limited run) Gob Squad’s Kitchen returns after its hit run at The Public’s 2011 Under the Radar Festival. It’s 1965 and everything is just about to happen. The German/British collective Gob Squad invites you to take the hand of the King of Pop himself, Andy Warhol, and take a trip back to the underground cinemas of New York City, back to where it all began. Gob Squad’s Kitchen reconstructs Warhol’s films in the quest to illuminate the past for a new generation, reflecting on the nature of authenticity, the here and now, and the hidden depths beneath the shiny surfaces of modern life.
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The Public Theater Best-selling author Nathan Englander (For the Relief of Unbearable Urges) adapts this warm and deeply moving new play from his acclaimed short story of the same name. A Soviet prison, 1952. Stalin’s secret police have rounded up 26 writers, the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia. As judgment looms, a twenty-seventh suddenly appears: Pinchas Pelovits, unpublished and unknown. Baffled by his arrest, he and his cellmates wrestle with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture and identity, and with what it means to write in troubled times. When they discover why the twenty-seventh man is among them, the writers come to realize that even in the face of tyranny stories still have the power to transcend.
February House
World Premiere music and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane book by Seth Bockley directed by Davis McCallum
may/june 2012
Visionary and flamboyant editor George Davis transforms a dilapidated Brooklyn boardinghouse into a bohemian commune for the leading lights of 1940s New York. Residents include novelist Carson McCullers, composer Benjamin Britten, poet W.H. Auden, and the infamous Gypsy Rose Lee. The luminaries of 7 Middagh Street form a tumultuous and remarkable makeshift family, and search for love, inspiration, and refuge from the looming war in Europe. Inspired by true events, this powerful and funny new musical marks the first commission of The Public’s Musical Theater Initiative. February House will be developed this summer at New York Stage and Film.
Chinglish
New York Premiere On Broadway by David Henry Hwang directed by Leigh Silverman Nowadays, everyone wants to do business with China. Daniel, a Midwestern American businessman, travels to the provincial capital of Guiyang in the hope of landing a contract for his family firm, only to learn how much he doesn’t understand. His www.guideforthearts.com
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The Public Theater translators are unreliable, his consultant may be a fraud, and he is captivated by Xu, a government official who may be trying to help him—at least that’s what he thinks she’s saying. A funny, sexy portrait of our Pacific Century from the author of M.
Public Lab Season Sweet And Sad
World Premiere written and directed by Richard Nelson
september 6 – september 25, 2011 Rhinebeck, New York. September 11, 2011. The Apple Family finds themselves together again for the first time since Election Night, 2010. Marian, reeling from a personal tragedy, now lives with her sister Barbara; sister Jane is back with her boyfriend Tim; their brother Richard has come up from Manhattan; and Uncle Benjamin prepares for his first dramatic performance in years. Over Sunday brunch on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the Apples find themselves talking about loss, memory, remembrance, and the meaning of compensation. With Sweet and Sad, Tony Award-winner Richard Nelson (Conversations in Tusculum, James Joyce’s The Dead) continues his series of plays exploring the immediate present and the ever-changing state of the nation through the story of the liberal Apples. The critically acclaimed ensemble cast first introduced to Public Lab audiences in last season’s That Hopey Changey Thing returns.
Love’s Labor’s Lost
by William Shakespeare directed by Karin Coonrod
october 18 – november 6, 2011 The King of France and his three best buds swear off romance and withdraw into their studies ... until four girls show up. As the young couples stumble their way toward love, the others in their circle—a pedantic schoolmaster, a Spanish dandy, a streetwise con-man, and a cop with a few screws loose—work through their own mad dilemmas. In the end, the real world intrudes and brings everyone back to earth, but not even a cold winter blast manages to chill the warmth of this beguiling play.
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The Public Theater Titus Andronicus
by William Shakespeare directed by Michael Sexton
november 29 – december 18, 2011 Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble Roman family. When his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen unleashes a fury that rocks Titus’s city, devastates his children, and shatters his sense of self. The cycle of revenge is shocking, bloody, and all-encompassing, but expressed through poetry and theatricality as vivid, energized, and thrilling as anything in Shakespeare’s later works.
The Total Bent
World Premiere book and lyrics by Stew music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald directed by Joanna Settle
february 14 – march 4, 2012
Stew and Heidi Rodewald, creators of the Tony Award-winning Passing Strange, team up with director Joanna Settle and return to The Public with a new musical about a black gospel prodigy from down south and a white music producer from South London who meet in a recording studio just south of the Twilight Zone, as they both desperately seek their own versions of transcendence, salvation, and a hit record. Divine inspiration, fantastical visions, and one legendary music-producer father frame this electrifying new musical about the complicated space between the sacred and the profane. The Total Bent is a co-commission with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Contact
The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10003
Tickets
(212) 539-8500
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Roundabout Theatre
Roundabout’s mission has remained consistent. At the very heart of our work is our commitment to teaming great theatrical works with the industry’s finest artists to re-energize classic plays and musicals. In 1995, we expanded our mission to include the development and production of new works by today’s great writers and composers. The production of these new works, alongside the production of classics, enables Roundabout to embody the crossroads of American theatre. Roundabout’s future is filled with extraordinary possibility. Roundabout now operates five theatres: the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, the American Airlines Theatre, Studio 54, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre, and Black Box Theatre. Each of these spaces fulfils a different aspect of our mission, and has given Roundabout’s audiences, artists, and staff a place that we can all call home.
Man and Boy
American Airlines Theatre by Terence Rattigan directed by Maria Aitken
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Signature Theatre Sons of the Prophet
Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre by Stephen Karam directed by Peter Dubois
september 28 – december 23, 2011
Tony Award® winner Joanna Gleason stars in this New York premiere. From the writer of the breakout hit Speech & Debate, Sons of the Prophet is a refreshingly honest take on how we cope with wounds that just won’t heal, and the funniest play about human suffering you’re likely to see.
Suicide, Incorporated
Blackbox Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre by Andrew Hinderaker directed by Jonathan Berry
october 14 – december 23, 2011
The right words can be hard to find, especially when they’re your last. Andrew Hinderaker’s provocative and darkly funny new play takes us to an unorthodox writing service that specializes in crafting the perfect suicide note, where a subversive new employee is suspected of the unthinkable. Could he actually be trying to keep his client alive?
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne directed by Sam Gold
Considered to be a pivotal work of the last century, Look Back in Anger is John Osborne’s uncompromising and vibrant drama about four people struggling to live together and love each other in 1950’s England.
The Road to Mecca
American Airlines Theatre by Athol Fugard directed by Gordon Edelstein
january 17 – march 12, 2012
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Signature Theatre Tony, Emmy,速 and Golden Globe速 winner Rosemary Harris returns to Roundabout with the remarkable Carla Gugino and Tony winner Jim Dale in this celebrated work by Tony winner Athol Fugard about an artist making her last stand for free expression in apartheid South Africa.
Contact
Roundabout Theatre 231 West 39th Street, Suite 1200 New York, NY 10018 www.roundabouttheatre.org
Tickets
(212) 719-1300
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Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre is a Tony Award®-winning, non-profit professional theater company with a mission to produce contemporary musicals and plays, reinvent classic musicals, develop new work, and reach its community through engaging educational and outreach opportunities. Signature Theatre’s 2011-2012 season launches with the pioneering AMVP Rep: a pair of world premiere musicals that make theatre history by running full productions in rotating repertory.
Hairspray
in the MAX book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan music by Marc Shaiman lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray directed by Eric Schaeffer
november 21, 2011 – january 29, 2012
The 2003 Tony Award®-Winner for Best Musical The world is spinning out of control…but all Tracy Turnblad wants to do is dance. When she wins a coveted spot on “The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s most popular teen dance program, the high school loser with the big heart, big personality, and big hair proves everyone wrong and becomes a local TV celebrity. It seems like Tracy will have it all—the eye of heart128 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Signature Theatre throb Link Larkin, the Miss Teenage Hairspray crown, even a modeling gig with Mr. Pinky’s Hefty Hideaway. But is segregated Baltimore ready to embrace her demand for racial integration? And will her larger-than-life mother ever leave the house? “Stocked with deliriously tuneful songs…Hairspray is as sweet as a show can be without promoting tooth decay.” (The New York Times)
Really Really
in the ARK by Paul Downs Colaizzo directed by Matthew Gardiner
january 31 – march 25, 2012 World Premiere “The gem of this generation, and the upside to our selfishness, is the invincibility we espouse.” From one of the country’s most promising new voices comes this contemporary drama that pushes the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today’s youth. At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping away. In this quick-witted and gripping comic tragedy about “Generation Me,” it’s every man for himself.
Brother Russia
in the MAX book & lyrics by John Dempsey music by Dana Rowe directed by Eric Schaeffer
march 6 – april 15, 2012
World Premiere A world premiere rock musical from the award-winning creators of The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick. In a desolate potato field north of Omsk, a comically fourth-rate Russian theatre troupe sets up its tents and wows the local farmers with rock-fueled adaptations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Tonight, however, the company will toss classic literature aside to showcase the life story of their impresario and star, the seemingly immortal Brother Russia—more commonly known as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. Yes, that Rasputin: the hypnotic mystic who seduced and ruled the Tsar and Tsarina in the waning days of Imperial www.guideforthearts.com
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Signature Theatre Russia. “Dempsey’s lyrics are exceptionally witty, and Rowe’s music jaunty and tuneful, yet with the sophisticated sweep of a Sondheim.” (Time Magazine)
God Of Carnage
in the ARK by Yasmina Reza translated by Christopher Hampton
april 10 –june 24, 2012
The three-time 2009 Tony Award®-Winner, including Best Play Washington Premiere From the award-winning author of Art comes this shrewd and vicious comedy that gleefully flouts the perception of human “civility.” Two upper-middle-class Brooklyn couples meet to discuss an incident of playground violence between their sons. Though the evening begins with polite pleasantries, it quickly descends into primal madness as tempers flare, loyalties shift, and the parents devolve into children. Like last season’s Art, Reza ferociously and hilariously strips her affluent, over-achieving characters down to their savage core. “An expert piece of stagecraft, and savagely funny.” (International Herald Tribune)
Xanadu
in the MAX book by Douglas Carter Beane music & lyrics by Jeff Lynne & John Farrar based on the 1980 Universal Pictures film directed & choreographed by Matthew Gardiner
may 8 – july 1, 2012
Washington Premiere The award-winning instant cult classic musical comedy—featuring the hit songs “Magic,” “Suddenly,” and “I’m Alive.” Grab your loved ones and glow sticks—as Signature turns the MAX Theatre into one big disco-heaven ball! 1980. Venice, California. Legwarmers are in and roller skates are way sexy. Xanadu, the zany send-up of the cult film starring Olivia Newton-John, delivers rock-star hilarity in an electrifying tale of forbidden love. Kira, one of seven quirky Greek muses, is sworn to three things: to inspire mortals, never reveal her identity and never, ever fall in love. However, when she 130 guide for the arts 2011-2012
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Signature Theatre emboldens struggling artist Sonny to create the first roller disco, Kira feels the artistic pull of her own. “Heaven on wheels…outlandishly enjoyable.” (The New York Times)
Limited Engagements
In addition to the mainstage productions, Signature will also be presenting three shows with limited engagements.
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men Of The South in the ARK written and performed by E. Patrick Johnson
september 13 – october 9, 2011 tues. & wed. 7:30 pm; thurs. & fri. 8:00 pm; sat. 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm; sun. 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm Washington DC Premiere Based on his award-winning and critically acclaimed book, E. Patrick Johnson stars in this new one-man exploration into the southern black gay community. A fascinating, validating oral history inspired by the author’s personal journey, Sweet Tea explores the perceptions, angst, triumphs, and vulnerabilities of this minority within a minority. With passion and insight, Johnson reinforces the spoken-word tradition while challenging stereotypes—and finding humor, humanity and hope within.
Saturday Night
in the MAX book by Julius and Philip Epstein music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
october 29–30, 2011 sat. 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm; sun. 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm only Stephen Sondheim’s hidden gem Saturday Night (1953) is a Signature special concert event that will play for four performances only. Unproduced for almost 45 years, Saturday Night is the first musical Mr. Sondheim ever wrote. This romantic comedy surges with the composer’s unique musical voice and sophisticated lyrics. On the eve of the 1929 stock market crash, a group of Brooklyn boys despair of their dateless Saturday nights. One of them dreams of Manhattan society life and hatches a get rich quick scheme which ultimately backfires. Features gems such as “Saturday Night,” “So Many People,” and “What More Do I Need?” www.guideforthearts.com
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Signature Theatre A Second Chance
in the ARK book, music & lyrics by Ted Shen directed by Jonathan Butterell
november 15 – december 11, 2011 tues. & wed. 7:30 pm; thurs. & fri. 8:00 pm; sat. 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm; sun. 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm World Premiere From the director of Signature’s Giant comes this intimate new musical about unexpectedly finding love when you are least looking for it. Two savvy New Yorkers are seated next each other at a dinner party—he is mourning the recent loss of his wife; she is newly divorced. They share a passion for art. Neither wants nor feels that they deserve to find love—and yet they are irresistibly drawn to the other. This lyrical duet showcases their journey toward happiness against all the odds.
Contact
4200 Campbell Avenue Arlington, VA 22206 www.signature-theatre.org
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American Repertory Theatre Contact Information American Ballet Theatre:
City Center: (212) 581.1212
BAM: (718) 636.4100 Metropolitan Opera House: (212) 362.6000
Atlantic Theater Company: (212) 691.5919 Carnegie Hall: (212) 247.7800 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: (212) 849.8400 The Frick Collection: (212) 288.0700 Guggenheim Museum: (212) 423.3500 Lincoln Center: (212) 875.5999 Metropolitan Museum of Art: (212) 535.7710 Metropolitan Opera: (212) 362.6000 The Museum of Modern Art: (212) 708.9400 New York City Ballet: (212) 721.6500 New York Philharmonic: (212) 875.5656 The Public Theater: (212) 967.7555 Roundabout Theatre: (212) 719.1300 Signature Theatre: (212) 244.7529
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