The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the nation's premier repertory company for chamber music, is devoted to the outstanding performance and creation of chamber music. Its unique structure allows the ensemble to present outstanding concerts of every instrumentation, style, and historical period. In addition to performances at Alice Tully Hall, activities include national and international tours, nationally-televised broadcasts on Live From Lincoln Center, a weekly radio show heard locally on WQXR 96.3 and distributed nationally, and regular appearances on National Public Radio's Performance Today. In its 36 years, CMS has commissioned over 132 new works, built a large and critically acclaimed discography that includes a year 2000 Grammy nomination, and developed educational programs reaching thousands of students around the tri-state area. The Chamber Music Society is dedicated to nurturing the very highest quality of performers and in cultivating new audiences from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and levels of musical knowledge. Press "Blue Button" for Chamber Music Society website.
There might be no Chamber Music Society as we know it but for the effort spearheaded by Alice Tully, William Schuman and Charles Wadsworth - because every note played by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center bears their unique and lasting stamp. Collectively and individually they contributed immeasurably to the cultural life of the United States.
The magnitude and diversity of chamber music demanded an institution devoted solely to its repertoire, and as President of Lincoln Center, William Schuman determined that chamber music should be housed, in a hall designed specifically for it, along with dance, orchestral music, theater, opera and film at America's preeminent artistic base. Dr. Schuman invited the eminent pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Charles Wadsworth, to help determine the structure of the new chamber music constituent. They decided on a unique format in which chamber works of every size and description would be presented by highly esteemed performers, including a core of Artist Members to be augmented each season by Guest Artists.
This institution would also encourage and commission the creation of new works. The founding triumvirate was made complete with the arrival of Alice Tully, a former opera singer and vocal recitalist who agreed to help finance a chamber music hall on condition that it have exemplary acoustics and comfort. The Chamber Music Society's inaugural concert on September 11, 1969 marked the opening of its home, Alice Tully Hall.
America’s pre-eminent film presentation organization, The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse film going audience.
Each year, The Film Society presents the New York Film Festival, the New Directors/New Films series (co-sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art), and a fundraising Gala Tribute, which honors preeminent actors and directors. Year-round programming at the 268-seat Walter Reade Theater explores new international cinema and the rich tradition of American film. The Film Society also publishes Film Comment magazine.
As an independent constituent of the world’s foremost performing arts center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a 363-day season that includes premieres of new films from an international roster of established and emerging directors; major retrospectives; in-depth symposia and high profile events. The Film Society is one of those rare institutions whose stature is matched by its popularity, each year welcoming an aggregate audience of more than 200,000 film aficionados, filmmakers and industry leaders of every nationality, age, economic and ethnic group. The organization has been a pioneer among film institutions and one of the film world’s most respected and influential arbiters of cinematic trends and discoveries. François Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson – over the last four decades there is scarcely a major director who has not been introduced to American audiences by the Film Society. Press "Blue Button" for more information.
The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 on a belief that a top quality education in filmmaking should be accessible to anyone with the drive and ambition to make films. The Academy opened its doors in 1992 in Robert DeNiro‘s Tribeca Film Center. Since that time we have grown into our own facilities in Manhattan‘s Union Square and Soho. We also opened Film Academies at Universal Studios in Los Angeles and St. Catherine’s College Oxford University, England. We hold One-Year and short-term programs throughout the year in these locations. During the summer we offer our short-term programs at a number of additional locations, including Harvard University; Princeton University; Disney-MGM Studios-Florida; Paris, France; and Florence, Italy.
Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, and of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. Press "Blue Button" for more information.
For more than 25 years Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) has developed and refined its own distinctive approach to the arts and education, one that challenges all students to learn about and through the arts. Working in partnership with pre-K through grade twelve educators and college teacher education programs, the Institute develops experiential studies focusing on works of art, including dance, music, theater, visual arts, and architecture.
The work of Maxine Greene, the Institute's Philosopher-in-Residence, is based on the writings of the pragmatist John Dewey and several existential philosophers. Greene's philosophy maintains that understanding a work of art exists in the transaction between the viewer and the art object, and not in the object itself. From this, the Institute developed its practice of aesthetic education.
Carefully planned observations and analyses of particular works of art are connected to participatory activities designed by teaching artists to highlight the possible relationship between an artist's choices and the viewer's aesthetic response. Through art-making explorations in performing and visual arts, participants integrate their experiences and perceptions to shape new understandings of a particular artwork, and often, their world. This approach is neither teaching "art for art's sake," nor using the arts as a vehicle for teaching other subjects. Rather it is a third process that incorporates some of the elements of both, involving perception, cognition, affect, and the imagination. Press "Blue Button" for more information.
From its opening in 1883, the Metropolitan Opera has been one of the world’s leading opera companies. Today, the Met’s preeminent position rests on the elements that established its reputation: high quality performances with many of the world’s most renowned artists, a superior company of orchestral and choral musicians, a large repertory of works, and the resources to make performances available to the public.
The Metropolitan Opera has always engaged many of the world’s most important artists. Christine Nilsson and Marcella Sembrich shared leading roles during the opening season. In the German seasons that followed, Lilli Lehmann dominated the Wagnerian repertory and anything else she chose to sing. In the 1890s, Nellie Melba and Emma Calvé shared the spotlight with the De Reszkes (Jean and Edouard), and two American sopranos, Emma Eames and Lillian Nordica. Enrico Caruso arrived in 1903 and by the time of his death had performed more times with the Met than with all other opera companies combined.
In 1977, the Metropolitan began a regular series of televised productions with a performance of La Bohème viewed by more than four million people. “The Metropolitan Opera Presents” has made seventy-eight complete Met performances available to a huge audience around the world. Many of these performances have been issued on videotape, laserdisc, and DVD.
Almost from the beginning, it was clear that the opera house on 39th Street did not have adequate stage facilities. However, it was not until the Metropolitan Opera joined with other New York institutions in forming Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts that a new home became possible. The new Metropolitan Opera House, which opened at Lincoln Center in September of 1966, was equipped with the finest technical facilities.
In 1995, the Metropolitan introduced “Met Titles,” a unique system of simultaneous translation. “Met Titles” appear on individual computerized screens mounted in specially built railings at the back of each row of seats, for those members of the audience who wish to utilize them, but with minimum distraction for those who do not. “Met Titles” are provided for all Metropolitan Opera performances. Each season the Metropolitan stages more than two hundred performances of opera in New York. More than 800,000 people attend the performances in the opera house during the season. Millions more, throughout the world, experience the Metropolitan Opera on television, radio, on tour and recordings.
Be sure to press "Blue Button" to explore and enjoy the Metropolitan Opera's website. It is just wonderful! You can learn about opera or even hear new and old recordings of the greatest voices ever heard. Press to hear "Sounds of the Met" Listen to Caruso, Ezio Pinza, Jan Peerce, Richard Tucker, Placido Domingo, Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman and many more of the greatest voices ever heard; or enjoy James Levine and Leonard Bernstein conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. This website is a gift!
The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 on a belief that a top quality education in filmmaking should be accessible to anyone with the drive and ambition to make films. The Academy opened its doors in 1992 in Robert DeNiro‘s Tribeca Film Center. Since that time we have grown into our own facilities in Manhattan‘s Union Square and Soho. We also opened Film Academies at Universal Studios in Los Angeles and St. Catherine’s College Oxford University, England. We hold One-Year and short-term programs throughout the year in these locations. During the summer we offer our short-term programs at a number of additional locations, including Harvard University; Princeton University; Disney-MGM Studios-Florida; Paris, France; and Florence, Italy.
Each year hundreds of students of all occupations, races, ethnicities, and of a wide range of ages from around the world benefit from the extraordinary education offered at the New York Film Academy. Today, little more than a decade after the first students graduated, the New York Film Academy is considered one of the most prominent fixtures of film education in the world. Press "Blue Button" for more information.
Riverbank State Park is the only park of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. Inspired by urban rooftop designs in Japan, this 28-acre multi-level landscaped recreational facility is a state-of-the-art park facility. Rising 69 feet above the Hudson River, Riverbank offers a wide variety of recreational, athletic and arts experiences for all ages, interests and abilities.
Housed in five major buildings are an Olympic-size pool, a covered skating rink for roller skating in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, an 800-seat cultural theater, a 2,500-seat athletic complex with fitness room, and a 150-seat restaurant.
Outdoor sports amenities include a 25-yard lap pool, a wading pool, four tennis courts, four basketball courts, a softball field, four hand/paddleball courts, and a 400-meter eight-lane running track with a football/soccer field.
Riverbank also boasts spectacular promenade views of the Hudson River, the Palisade Mountains and the George Washington Bridge. At water level, there is a 900-seat amphitheater and docking facilities for excursion and fishing boats.
Points of Interest: The "Totally Kid Carousel", created by Milo Mottola and 37 young children.
Parks attractions include: Carousel, Food, Gymnasium, Hiking, Ice Skating, Performing Arts Theater, Picnic Tables, Playground, Playing Fields, Pool, Recreation Programs, Showers, Tennis
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