Live from Lincoln Center

Live From Lincoln Center is an ongoing series of musical performances produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with WNET in New York City. It is aired by PBS stations nationwide on a periodic basis. Some of its episodes are viewable online.

History

A series of concerts, ballets, operas, and recitals telecast, as the title says, live from Lincoln Center, it was created and developed by executive producer John Goberman, and premiered on January 30, 1976 with a concert featuring André Previn and Van Cliburn. It has presented performances by such artists as Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern, Sir James Galway, Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Audra McDonald, the New York City Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the American Ballet Theatre, the New York Philharmonic, and the New York City Opera.

Announcer Martin Bookspan was with the program from its premiere in 1976 until his 2006 retirement, when Fred Child, took over. Hosts have included Dick Cavett, Hugh Downs, Sam Waterston, Garrick Utley, Patrick Watson, and Beverly Sills, with Downs serving the longest. Sills was the host from 2000 until two months before her death in 2007. In recent years the host position has been filled by Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Lesley Stahl, and Audra McDonald. The program was principally directed by Kirk Browning from its inception in 1976 until 2008. Since 2008 Alan Skog has been primary director.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

Planning

A consortium of civic leaders and others led by, and under the initiative of, John D. Rockefeller III built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contracted to design the major buildings on the site, and over the next thirty years the previously blighted area around Lincoln Center became a new cultural hub.

Rockefeller was Lincoln Center's inaugural president from 1956 and became its chairman in 1961. He is credited with raising more than half of the $184.5 million in private funds needed to build the complex, including drawing on his own funds; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund also contributed to the project. The center's three buildings, David Geffen Hall, David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater) and the Metropolitan Opera House were opened in 1962, 1964 and 1966, respectively.

Lincoln Center (Denver)

Lincoln Center is a 366 feet (112 m) tall skyscraper in Denver, Colorado. It was completed in 1972 and has 30 floors. According to Skyscraperpage.com, it is the 26th tallest building in Denver..

See also

References

Lincoln Center (disambiguation)

Lincoln Center may refer to several places in the United States: