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Beautiful morning here at the Barclays Grove at Lincoln Center.

 

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Michael Bublé’s Surprise Performance in a NYC Subway Station

New York Philharmonic adds: Another pro-am performance at the station under Avery Fisher Hall. 

Human Vesuvius

Flamenco rhythms are in the air for the Phil’s Young People’s Concert: Fiesta this Saturday. They’re also in the blood of guest performers, including Omayra Amaya’s The dancer’s family name is synonymous with Flamenco tradition: Her great-aunt, Carmen Amaya, known as “The Human Vesuvius,” became an urban legend in New York, burning the cushions in her penthouse suite to grill sardines and hammering out hypnotic rhythms while dancing on tabletops and drums. Catch up with her in the “100 Years of Flamenco in New York” exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, also at Lincoln Center.

How to Get to Sesame Street

Well for starters, being the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic will land you where the air is sweet this coming month, as Sesame Street makes Lincoln Center the focus for its popular “People in Your Neighborhood” segment.

Alan Gilbert (who had his first exposure to Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik thanks to the Children’s Television Workshop) is one of those people in the neighborhood. You can catch him showing Murray Monster and Ovejita how an orchestra works, and what happens when he raises his baton. Check back here on April 9 when the segment will be available on YouTube, and tune into Sesame Street on April 11 to see this very auspicious debut! (We hear Ovejita even plays a solo…)

(Photo: Richard Termine/Lincoln Center)

Remembering Risë

The New York Philharmonic joins our neighbors next door and the music community in celebrating the life and voice of mezzo-soprano and arts advocate Risë Stevens. While Risë’s primary local venue was The Metropolitan Opera, on occasion she would  perform with the Phil in special events around the city (including at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden).

In two pictures from May 1959 (courtesy of our Digital Archives), Risë is shown at the construction of Lincoln Center with Leonard Bernstein, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Leonard Warren (above), and Bernstein and Warren (below).

Insights into Carousel

What does opera star Stephanie Blythe think about her upcoming turn as Nettie Fowler in the Philharmonic’s production of Carousel? 

Find out how the mezzo-soprano is approaching the role, which includes one of the most iconic songs in musical theater history –– “You’ll Never Walk Alone” ––  when she joins Carousel music director and conductor Rob Fisher and director John Rando for an Insights discussion tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m. in the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center. 

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Manny’s Mad for Mahler

An avid fan of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Artist-in-Residence Emanuel Ax  shares how he wore through two identical LP recordings of the work during college.

He’ll join musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival on November 4 for a special evening at The Rose Theater. On the program are selections from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Schoenberg’s Six Little Piano Pieces, and Schoenberg’s chamber arrangement of Das Lied von der Erde — never before performed by the Philharmonic. Learn more about the program here.

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The New York Philharmonic’s 2012-13 Artist-in-Residence Emanuel Ax discusses Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, which he will perform as a chamber work on Nov. 4, as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.