Past Seasons

THEATER

Le Theatre du Soleil

• Les Ephemeres
• Director, Ariane Mnouchkine
• US Premiere
• Park Avenue Armory. Part 1- 3 performances. Part 2- 3 performances. Full Cycle- 4 performances.

Katona Jozsef Theatre

• Ivanov- Anton Chekhov
• Director, Tamas Ascher
• New York Premiere
• 5 performances at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

Narodowy Stary Teatr

• Kalkwerk
• US Premiere
• Adapted from the novel by Thomas Bernhard.
• Adaptation, direction, and scenic design by Krystian Lupa.
• 5 performances at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.

Maly Drama Theatre

• Life and Fate
• From the novel by Vasily Grossman
• Adapted and directed by Lev Dodin
• 5 performances at Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

Chekhov International Theatre Festival

• Boris Godunov- Alexander Pushkin
• New York Premiere
• Director, Declan Donnellan
• 5 performances at Park Avenue Armory.

Piccolo Teatro di Milano/ Teatri Uniti di Napoli

• Trilogia Della Villeggiatura- Carlo Goldoni
• New York Premiere
• Adaptation and direction, Toni Servillo
• 5 performances at the Rose Theater.

MUSICAL THEATER

Bela Pinter and Company

• Peasant Opera
• US Premiere
• Playwright and director, Bela Pinter
• Composer, Benedek Darvas
• 6 performances at Clark Studio Theater.

DANCE

Shen Wei Dance Arts

• Re- (I,II,III)
• New York Premiere
• Choreography, Shen Wei
• 3 performances at Alice Tully Hall Theater

Emanuel Gat Dance

• Winter Variations/ Silent Ballet
• New York Premiere- Winter Variations
• North American Premiere- Silent Ballet
• Choreography, Emanuel Gat
• 3 performances at Rose Theater

MUSIC

Idir/ Najat Aatabou

• A Night in Maghreb
• US Debut
• 1 performance Avery Fisher Hall

A Tribute to Wardell Quezergue

• Ponderosa Stomp @ Lincoln Center
• Featuring Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), The Dixie Cups, Jean Knight, Robert Parker, Zigaboo Modeliste, Dorothy Moore, Tammy Lynn, Tony Owens, Michael Hurtt, and Wardell Quezergue.
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall.

Afro- Blue for the 21st Century

• Justin Adams and Judleh Camara/ Issa Bagayogo
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

Two by Four with the Ruhr

• Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

OPERA

Die Soldaten

• A RuhrTriennale production in association with the Park Avenue Armory
• Composed by Bernd Alois Zimmermann
• Conducted by Steven Sloane
• Directed by David Pountney
• 110-piece Bochumer Symphoniker, along with jazz combo, forty singers, actors/dancers
• Based on play by Jakob Lenz
• Audience seated on a rostrum, moveable stadium seating, mounted alongside a narrow stage, 220 feet in length
• Presented in German with English supertitles
• Performed at the Seventh Regiment Park Avenue Armory, 5 performances
• (2 invited rehearsals)

DANCE

William Forsythe’s Impressing the Czar

• Performed by The Royal Ballet of Flanders
• Set to music of Beethoven, Leslie Stuck and Thom Willems
• Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 5 performances

THEATER

Gate|Beckett

• Dublin’s Gate Theatre performed 3 one-man dramas by Samuel Beckett, none originally written for the stage
• Eh Joe performed by Liam Neeson, directed by Atom Egoyan, 8 performances
• I’ll Go On performed by Barry McGovern, directed by Colm O’Briain, 8 performances
• First Love performed by Ralph Fiennes, directed by Michael Colgan, 8 performances
• Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 24 total performances (includes Gate|Beckett Marathon- all three plays in one day)

Gate|Beckett Poetry & Prose

• Readings of Beckett’s novels, poetry, prose, and dramatic works
• 1st reading: Barry McGovern, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Julianne Moore
• 2nd reading: Barry McGovern, Liam Neeson, Bill Irwin, and Cynthia Nixon
• Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 2 readings

MUSIC THEATER

The Bacchae

• North American premiere of National Theatre of Scotland’s production (originally co-produced with Edinburgh)
• Original play by Euripides, conceived by David Greig from a translation by Ian Ruffell
• Directed by John Tiffany
• Starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus
• Rose Theater, 13 performances

MUSIC

Laurie Anderson Homeland

• A concert poem driven by political urgency of contemporary American culture
• With: Joey Baron, Rob Berger, Greg Cohen, Evyind Kang, and surprise guest, Lou Reed
• Rose Theater, 5 performances

Goran Bregovic and the Wedding & Funeral Band

• Serbian Gypsy brass performing a repertoire of Balkan folk arrangements, as conceived by Bregovic
• 2 concerts in Avery Fisher Hall

Damon Albarn & the Honest Jon’s Revue

• All artists tied under the Honest Jon recording label
• Afel Bocoum, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Kokanko Sata, Lobi Traore, Simone White, Candi Staton, and Damon Albarn
• Avery Fisher Hall, one night only

THEATER

Comédie-Française

• Fables de La Fontaine (North American Premiere)
• Direction, Set Design and Lighting by Robert Wilson
• Original Music by Michael Galasso
• Presented in French with English supertitles
• 7 performances in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
• (1 performance cancelled and rescheduled due to company injury)

Contemporary Legend Theatre of Taiwan

• Co-founder and Artistic Director Wu Hsing-kuo
• The Tipsy Concubine/Farewell My Concubine
  Two short Beijing operas performed with Intermission
  Featuring Wei Hai-Ming and Wu Hsing-kuo
  2 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center
• King Lear (New York Premiere)
  One man version adapted from Shakespeare’s King Lear
  Adapted, Directed, and Performed by Wu Hsing-kuo
  1 performance in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Cente

Heisei Nakamura-za

• Artistic Director Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII
• Acclaimed Japanese Kabuki Troupe’s second appearance in the Lincoln Center Festival
• Avery Fisher Hall was reconfigured to resemble a traditional Kabuki theater
• Renjishi
  Rare performance featuring Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII and his two sons
  1 performance in Avery Fisher Hall
• Hokaibo(North American Premiere)
  Starring Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII in the title role
  A contemporary take on a classic Kabuki story
  10 performances in Avery Fisher Hall

Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes (from Mexico)

• De Monstruos y Prodigios: La Historia de los Castrati
• Written by Jorge Kuri and Claudio Valdés Kuri
• Directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri
• Featuring a performance by Mexerico, a Lusitano horse from Portugal
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

Compañía Teatro Cinema (from Chile)

• Gemelos (North American Premiere)
• A free adaption of the novel The Notebook by Agota Kristof
• Directed by Laura Pizarro and Juan Carlos Zagal
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 5 performances in the Pope Auditorium at Fordham University

Centro Dramático Nacional (from Spain)

• Divinas Palabras (North American Premiere)
• Written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Proyecto Chejov (from Argentina)

• Un Hombre que se Ahoga (North American Premiere)
• A freely interpreted Three Sisters by Anton Chekov
• Directed by Daniel Veronese
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

DANCE

Ballet National de Marseille

• Metapolis II (North American Premiere)
• Artistic Director and Choreographer Frédéric Flamand
• Concept by Frédéric Flamand and Zaha Hadid
• Production Design by Zaha Hadid
• 3 performances in the New York State Theatre

MUSIC

Book of Longing (New York Premiere)

• A concert work by Philip Glass
• Based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen
• Music Direction by Michael Riesman
• Stage Direction by Susan Marshall
• Featuring 4 singers, 7 musicians, Philip Glass on piano, and Leonard Cohen’s voiceovers and drawings
• 2 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Os Mutantes

• Brazilian pop-rock featuring Zélia Duncan, Ronaldo “Dinho” Leme and band founders Sérgio Dias Baptista and Arnaldo Baptista
• 1 night only concert in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Sō Percussion and Matmos

• Collaboration between NY based Sō Percussion (Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting and Lawson White), and San Franciso electronica music duo Matmos (M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel)
• Special guests including Zeena Parkins and Dave Douglas
• 2 performances in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center

MUSIC THEATER

The Full Monteverdi (North American Premiere)

• Performed by early music ensemble I Fagiolini
• Artistic Director Robert Hollingworth
• Directed by John La Bouchardière
• A site specific staging of Claudio Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, featuring 6 singers and 6 actors
• 7 performances in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

Mongolia: Music, Dance & Balladv

• Secret History of the Mongols(North American Premiere)
  1. Recited in 2 parts
     Co-production with Festival d’Automne à Paris
     2 (4 hour) performances in the Clark Studio Theater
  A recitation of the 13th century epic by professional bard Burenbayar
  2. Mongolia: Concert(North American Premiere)
     9 musicians and storytellers from Inner Mongolia
     Featuring Mongolian music performed on traditional instruments
     Indigenous dance rarely seen outside of family gatherings in Mongolia
     Co-production with Festival d’Automne à Paris
     7 performance in the Clark Studio Theater

OPERA

Kirov Opera of the Mariinsky Theatre

• Kirov Ring Cycle
• Conducted by Valery Gergiev
• Concept by Valery Gergiev and George Tsypin
• Co-presented by Lincoln Center Festival and The Metropolitan Opera
• Presented in German with English supertitles
• 2 complete cycles at the Metropolitan Opera House

George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill (North American Premiere)

• Composer George Bejamin’s first chamber opera
• Libretto by Martin Crimp
• Conducted by Franck Ollu
• Directed by Daniel Jeanneteau
• Performed by soprano Anu Komsi, contralto Hilary Summers, and Ensemble Modern
• A haunting adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Presented in English
• Co-produced by Lincoln Center Festival, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Paris National Opera, Ensemble Modern, T&M, Frankfurt Opera, Vienna Festival, Holland Festival and Liverpool, European Cultural Capital 2008
• 3 performances in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

Shen Wei Dance Arts

• Second Visit to the Empress (New York Premiere)
• Production Design, Choreography, and Direction by Shen Wei
• Conductor and Music Director Zhengou Liu
• Featuring 4 Beijing opera singers, 12 Shen Wei Dancers, and 16 Chinese opera orchestra musicians
• Performed in Chinese with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the New York State Theater

INSTALLATION

Slow Dancing (World Premiere)

• Conceived and Directed by David Michalek
• An outdoor multi-channel video installation featuring hyper-slow motion portraits of 43 dancers
• Projected onto the façade of the New York State Theater on three 40’-tall screens
• Nightly from July 12th through July 29th (9pm – 1am)

DANCE

STREB Extreme Action

• Choreography by Elizabeth Streb
• STREB vs. GRAVITY (World premiere) commissioned by Lincoln Center Festival
• 3 performances in the LaGuardia Drama Theater

Emanuel Gat Dance

• Choreography by Emanuel Gat
• Winter Voyage / The Rite of Spring (New York premieres)
• 3 performances in LaGuardia Concert Hall

Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company

• Choreography and direction by Bill T. Jones
• Blind Date (New York premiere)
• Original music and arrangements by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)
• 3 performances in LaGuardia Concert Hall

Batsheva Dance Company

• Artistic direction and choreography by Ohad Naharin
• Telophaza (U.S. premiere)
• 3 performances in the New York State Theater

Saburo Teshigawara / KARAS

• Choreography by Saburo Teshigawara
• Bones in Pages (U.S. premiere). Solo dance for Saburo Teshigawara with the participation of Kei Miyata and Rihoko Sato
• 2 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

San Francisco Ballet

• Artistic Direction by Helgi Tomasson
• Sylvia(New York premiere)
  Choreography by Mark Morris
  Featuring the New York City Opera Orchestra
  3 performances in the New York State Theater
• Opening Night Celebration
  Highlights from Giselee, Swan Lake, Harlequinade, Concerto Grosso, Glass Pieces, and more.
  Featuring the New York City Opera Orchestra
  Single performance in the New York State Theater
• Mixed Repertory Program
  7 for Eight, Choreography by Helgi Tomasson; Quaternary, Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon; Artifact Suite, Choreography by William Forsythe (New York premieres)
  Featuring the New York City Opera Orchestra
  2 performances in the New York State Theater

Yasmeen Godder and the Bloody Bench Players

• Choreography by Yasmeen Godder
• Original Live Music by Avi Belleli
• Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder (U.S. premiere)
• 2 performances in LaGuardia Drama Theater

OPERA

Grendel (New York premiere)

• Music by Elliot Goldenthal, Libretto by Julie Taymor and J. D. McClatchy
• Directed by Julie Taymor
• Conducted by Steven Sloane
• Featured performances by Eric Owens, Denyce Graves, the New York City Opera Orchestra, and the Concert Chorale of New York
• Co-produced and co-commissioned with the Los Angeles Opera
• Performed in English and Old English with English supertitles
• 4 performances in the New York State Theater

THEATER

Druid Theatre Company

• Artistic direction by Garry Hynes
• DruidSynge: The complete plays of John Millington Synge (New York premiere).
  Riders to the Sea, The Tinker’s Wedding, The Well of the Saints, The Shadow of the Glen, The Playboy of the Western World, Deirdre of the Sorrows
• (7) 8.5-hour performances in Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

MUSIC THEATER

TheatreWorks Singapore

• Directed and conceived by Ong Keng Sen
• Geisha (New York premiere)
• Performers: Karen Kandel, Gojo Masanosuke, Kihya Katsumatsu, Toru Yamanaka
• 4 performances in Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
• Commissioned by Singapore Arts Festival in association with Spoleto Festival USA and Lincoln Center Festival

Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne

• Eraritjaritjaka; Musée des phrases (U.S. premiere)
• Concept and Direction by Heiner Goebbels
• Featuring performances by André Wilms and the Mondriaan Quartet
• 3 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

MUSIC

Goran Bregovic

• Goran Bregovic Wedding and Funeral Orchestra (New York Debut)
• Featuring composer and guitarist Goran Bregovic and his dynamic 40-piece brass band, string orchestra, male choir and vocalists.
• Single performance in Avery Fisher Hall

Ramakien: A Rak Opera (World premiere)

• Artistic Direction by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Music Direction by Bruce Gaston, Choreography by Pichet Klunchun, Production Design by Wit Pimkanchanapong, Conceptual Direction by Tim Carr
• Featuring performances by Sek Loso, Palmy, The Photo Sticker Machine, Arto Lindsay, Modern Dog, Rik Vachilapun, Pru, Bruce Gaston and Fong Naam
• Based on Nang Loi (The Floating Princess), an episode from the Thai Ramayana as interpreted by King Rama I of Siam
• 3 performances in LaGuardia Concert Hall

Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf

• Benjamin Bagby, soloist and medieval harp
• Performed in Old English with English supertitles
• Expanded version from 1997 Festival
• 4 performances in LaGuardia Drama Theater

OPERA

La bella dormente nel bosco – N.Y. premiere

• Directed and designed by Basil Twist
• Music by Ottorino Respighi, Libretto by Gian Bistolfi
• Featuring the Gotham Chamber Opera, Westminster Festival Choir
• Performed in Italian with English supertitles
• 6 performances in Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

Shadowtime – U.S. premiere

• Composed by Brian Ferneyhough
• Libretto by Charles Bernstein
• Featuring Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, with Nicolas Hodges (piano/reciter), Mats Scheidegger (guitar), and conductor Jurjen Hempel
• Performed in English with English supertitles
• 2 performances in the Rose Theater, Time Warner Center

DANCE

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

• “Ocean” Concept by John Cage and Merce Cunningham
• 14 dancers accompanied by 112-piece orchestra
• Choreography by Merce Cunningham
• Orchestral Music by Andrew Culver
• 5 performances in the Rose Theater, Time Warner Center

Mugiyono Kasido

• Choreography by Mugiyono Kasido
• Kabar Kabur (Rumors); Bagaspati (From the Sun’s Soul); Mencari Mata Candi (Searching for the Eye of the Temple)
• 3 performances in Clark Studio Theater

Random Dance – U.S. premiere

• Choreography by Wayne McGregor
• Original Score by Michael Gordon, with live music performed by Icebreaker
• AtaXia (U.S. premiere)
• 2 performances in New York State Theater

Shen Wei Dance Arts

• Shen Wei, Artistic Director and Choreographer
• Map (World premiere); Near the Terrace Part I (N.Y. premiere)
• 3 performances in New York State Theater

THEATER

Le Dernier Caravansérail – North American premiere

• Ariane Mnouchkine, Director
• Created collectively by Le Theatre du Soleil
• Performed in multiple languages with English supertitles
• 19 performances in Damrosch Park

Arlecchino, Servant of Two Masters

• Piccolo Teatro di Milano
• Written by Carlo Goldoni
• Giorgio Strehler, Director
• Featuring Ferrucio Soleri
• Performed in Italian with English supertitles
• 4 performances in Alice Tully Hall

Modern Noh Plays – N.Y. premiere

• Written by Yukio Mishima
• Director Yukio Ninagawa
• Sotoba Komachi (Komachi at the Shrine); Yoroboshi (The Blind Young man)
• Performed in Japanese with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the Rose Theater, Time Warner Center

MUSIC THEATER

I La Galigo – North American premiere

• Robert Wilson, Director, set design, lighting concept
• Performed in Indonesian with English supertitles
• 4 performances in New York State Theater

My Life As A Fairy Tale – World premiere

• Chen Shi-Zheng, Director
• Music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt
• Libretto by Erik Ehn
• Equity production featuring Fiona Shaw, Mia Maestro, Blair Brown, Qian Yi, Mary Lou Rosato
• 3 performances in Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

MUSIC

Wyclef Jean/Daara J

• America-Africa: Hip Hop’s Journey from the Terra to the Streets
• Daara J, hip hop group form Senegal, opening act; Wyclef Jean headliner
• One performance in Avery Fisher Hall

Rahuyu Supanggah

• Rahayu Supanggah, composer and music director for I La Galigo, in concert
• Sounds of the Beginning
• One performance in Clark Studio Theate

Music of Brian Ferneyhough

• The Music of Brian Ferneyhough performed by the New Juilliard Ensemble
• Joel Sachs, Conductor and Artistic Director
• One performance in Paul Hall, Juilliard School

Alarm Will Sound

• Unremixed
• Alan Pierson, Conductor and Artistic Director
• Richard Devine, guest DJ
• One performance in the Allen Room, Time Warner Center

Icebreaker

• 12-piece contemporary music ensemble from U.K. performing works by Louis Andriessen, David Lang, Frank Zappa, Thomas Ades, Conlon Nancarrow
• One performance in the Allen Room, Time Warner Center

OPERA

Tone Test – World Premiere

• Nicholas Brooke, composer
• David Herskovits, director
• Co-presentation with American Opera Projects
• 3 performances in the Clark Studio

DANCE

Ashton Celebration

• Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton on the Centenary of his birth
• Program I: The Joffrey Ballet, Monotones I and II; Birmingham Royal Ballet, Enigma Variations; K-Ballet Company, Rhapsody
• Program II: K-Ballet Company, Rhapsody; Birmingham Royal Ballet, Dante Sonata, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan; The Joffrey Ballet, A Wedding Bouquet
• Program III: The Joffrey Ballet, Les Patineurs, Monotones I and II, A Wedding Bouquet
• Program IV: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Enigma Variations, The Two Pigeons
• Program V: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Dante Sonata, The Two Pigeons
• Program VI: The Royal Ballet, Scenes de Ballet, Divertissements – Pas de deux (Awakening, Voices of Spring, Thais, Ondine), Marguerite and Armand (featuring Sylvia Guillem)
• Program VII: The Royal Ballet, Scenes de Ballet, Divertissements – Pas de deux (Awakening, Voices of Spring, Thais, Birthday Offering), Marguerite and Armand (featuring Sylvia Guillem)
• Program VIII: The Royal Ballet, Scenes de Ballet, Divertissements – Pas de deux (Awakening, Voices of Spring, Birthday Offering, Ondine), Marguerite and Armand (featuring Sylvia Guillem)
• Program IX: The Royal Ballet, Cinderella
• All choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton
• New York City Opera Orchestra
• 11 total performances at The Metropolitan Opera House

Shen Wei Dance Arts

• Shen Wei, Artistic Director
• Connect Transfer (N.Y. premiere)
• 3 performances at Alice Tully Hall

THEATER

The Doctor and The Patient

• Conceived and directed by Rezo Gabriadze
• Featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jon DeVries, Luis Perez, Pilar Witherspoon, Yvonne Woods
• Co-produced with Baryshnikov Dance Foundation
• 10 performances total at the John Jay Theater

Theatre-Atelier Piotr Fomenko

• War & Peace (2 performances) – U.S. Premiere
• Egyptian Nights (2 performances) – U.S. Premiere
• Performed in Russian with simultaneous English translation
• 4 performances in Alice Tully Hall

The Elephant Vanishes

• A Complicite co-production with Setagaya Public Theatre
• Adapted from three short stories by Haruki Murakami
• Directed by Simon McBurney
• Performed in Japanese with English supertitles
• 5 performances in New York State Theater

Heisei Nakamura-za

• Natsumatsuri Naniwa Kagami (The Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka) – New York Premiere
• Featuring Nakamura Kankuro
• Performed in Japanese. English Translation provided over headset
• 15 performances in Damrosch Park

Gesher Theatre – World Premiere

• Artistic Director Yevgeny Arye
• Based on the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Slave (4 performances: 2 Hebrew; 2 Russian)
• Shosha (2 performances: Hebrew)
• 6 performances in John Jay College Theater

MUSIC THEATER

The Frogs, A New Musical

• Co-production with Lincoln Center Theater
• A comedy written in 405 BC by Aristophanes, adapted by Burt Shevelove, Nathan Lane
• Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
• Direction and Choreography by Susan Stroman
• 22 preview performances Vivian Beaumont Theater

MUSIC

The Veil of the Temple – U.S. premiere

• Composed and conceived by Sir John Tavener
• Conducted by Stephen Layton
• Featuring the Choir of the Temple Church, Soloist Patricia Rozario, The Desoff Choir
• One performance at Avery Fisher Hall

Elvis Costello “In This Moment”

• Performance I: Elvis Costello and the Metropole Orkest, Conductor Jim McNeely
• Performance II: Elvis Costello and the Imposters
• Performance III: Il Sogno (North American Premiere), Elvis Costello, Composer, Performed by Brooklyn Philharmonic conducted by Brad Lubman
• 3 performances in Avery Fisher Hall

MULTIMEDIA

Transmetropolitan – World Premiere

• Curated by Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
• Featuring: Daniel Bernard Roumain, Acoustic/Electric Violin: Beth Coleman, Author; DJ Rekha, Musician; Eclectic Method, Video Artists; Vijay Iyer, Composer/Piano; Ryuichi Sakamoto, Composer/Musician; Tanya Selvaratnam, Author/Actor; Nitin Sawhney, Composer/DJ; Ibrahim Qurashi, Author; Colson Whitehead, Author
• One performance in Alice Tully Hall

DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation – New York Premiere

• D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” (1915) remixed by Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
• Co-commissioned by Lincoln Center Festival, Festival D’Automne, and Spoleto Festival USA
• 2 performances in Alice Tully Hall

Quatre Chiens (Four Dogs) – New York Premiere

• Co-presentation with the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• Ensemble Sospeso perform live to 4 consecutive Screenings of Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog)
• One performance in Walter Reade Theater

Phillips/Re-Sound Sound Screen

• ongoing installation at the Furman Gallery (Walter Reade Theater)

OPERA

The Kirov Opera from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg

• Valery Gergiev, Artistic and General Director
• The Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
• co-presentation with The Metropolitan Opera
• Semyon Kotko (North American premiere) by Sergei Prokofiev – 3 performances
• Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky – 4 performances
• Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi – 4 performances
• The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – 4 performances
• Eugene Onegin by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 4 performances
• The Demon (in concert) by Anton Rubinstein – 1 performance

Macbeth – U.S. premiere

• music by Salvatore Sciarrino; directed by Achim Freyer and Friederike Rinne-
  Wolf; set design by Achim Freyer
• Oper Frankfurt/Ensemble Modern conducted by Johannes Debus
• 5 performances at the John Jay College Theater

DANCE

Dance Theatre of Harlem

• Arthur Mitchell, Founder and Artistic Director
• Program A: The Four Temperaments; St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet (World premiere/choreography by Michael Smuin) - 4 performances
• Program B: Serenade; New Bach; "Meditation" from Thaïs; Fancy Free – 3 performances
• New York State Theater

Shen Wei Dance Arts

• Shen Wei, Artistic Director
• The Rite of Spring (N.Y. premiere); Folding (N.Y. premiere)
• 3 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

Batsheva Dance Company/Anaphaza (N.Y. premiere)

• Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director and Choreographer
• 4 performances at the New York State Theate

THEATER

Mythos – U.S. premiere

• Itim Theatre Ensemble in collaboration with The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv
• adapted and directed by Rina Yerushalmi
• 6 performances at the LaGuardia Drama Theater

The Orphan of Zhao – (English) World premiere

• co-production with Lincoln Center Theater
• conceived and directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
• script adaptation David Greenspan, based on the original play by Ji Juan-Xiang
• original music by Stephin Merritt
• 10 performances total at the LaGuardia Drama Theater

The Orphan of Zhao – (Chinese)

• conceived and directed by Chen Shi-Zheng based on an original 13th-century
  play by Ji Juan-Xiang
• 6 performances total at the LaGuardia Drama Theater

Daedong Gut (Korean Shaman Ritual)

• performed by Kim Keum-hwa
  play by Ji Juan-Xiang
• 1 performance at the John Jay College Theater

PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION

The Angel Project – U.S. premiere

• conceived and directed by Deborah Warner; designed by Tom Pye
• daily from July 7 through July 27

MUSIC THEATER

Pansori

• Heungboga performed by Kim Soo-yeon
• Sugungga performed by Cho Tong-dal
  
• Simcheongga performed by Kim Young-ja
• Jeokbyeokga performed by Kim Il-goo
• Chunhyangga performed by Ahn Suk-sun
• percussionists: Lee Tae-baek and Kim Chung-man
• 5 performances (1 performance each) at John Jay College Theater

MUSIC

Ensemble Modern/Eislermaterial – U.S. premiere

• composed and directed by Heiner Goebbels
• 1 performance at LaGuardia Concert Hall

Chamber Music of Salvatore Sciarrino

• New Juilliard Ensemble; Joel Sachs, Artistic Director and Conductor
• Piano Trio No. 2; Le voci sottovetro; Tre notturni brillianti; Infinito nero (four U.S. premieres)
• 1 performance at The Juilliard School's Paul Hall

Prokofiev Marathon/The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – David Shifrin, Artistic Director

• Prokofiev Piano Sonatas: No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1; No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14; No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28; No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29; No. 5 in C Major, Op. 38/135; No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82; No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83; No. 8 in B-flat Major, Op. 84; No. 9 in C Major, Op. 103 – Anne-Marie McDermott, pianist
• Chamber works: Adagio from Cinderella for Cello and Piano, Op. 97a; Ballade for Cello and Piano, Op. 15; Cinq Melodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 35a; Humoresque Scherzo, Op. 12b; Overture on Hebrew Themes for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano, Op. 34; Quintet in G minor for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Bass, Op. 39; Sonata in C Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 119; Sonata in D Major for Flute and Piano, Op. 94; Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56; Sonata in D Major for Unison Violins, Op. 115; Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 94a; Sonata for Violin and Piano in F minor, Op. 80; String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50; String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92
• above repertoire performed over the course of 2 separate performance dates at Alice Tully Hall

Brazil: Beyond Bossa

• 1. Selma do Coco(NY debut)/Mundo Livre S/A; 2. Lactomia (U.S. debut)/Timbalada (NY debut); 3. Vanildo de Pombos (U.S. debut)/Mestre Ambrosio; 4. Carlinhos Brown with Hip-Hop Roots; 5. Mestre Salustiano (U.S. debut)/DJ Dolores and Orchestra Santa Massa (NY debut)
• 5 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

OPERA

The Night Banquet (Ye Yan) - U.S. premiere

• music by Guo Wenjing; libretto by Zou Jingzhi; directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
• Ensemble Modern conducted by Ed Spanjaard
• co-production with Festival d'Automne, Les Gemeaux/Sceaux Scene Nationale; Kunsten Festival des Arts, Hebbel-Theater; Theatre de Caen; Ensemble Modern
• 4 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall
  

The Silver River – N.Y. premiere

• music by Bright Sheng; libretto by David Henry Hwang; directed by Ong Keng Sen; choreographed by Muna Tseng
• 5 performances at the John Jay College Theater

DANCE

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

• Program A: Pictures; Mélange; Loose Time; How to Pass, Kick, Fall, and Run; a video montage w/narration shown on opening night only
• Program B: Suite for Five; Mélange; Fabrications; Loose Time; an animated video shown prior to each performance
• 4 performances (2 of each program) at the New York State Theater

Urban Bush Women / Shadow's Child

• Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Artistic Director and Choreographer
• 4 performances at the Clark Studio Theater

Kirov Ballet/Mariinsky Theatre – Valery Gergiev, Artistic and General Director

• a co-presentation with the Metropolitan Opera
• Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre; conductors: Boris Gruzin and Mikhail Sinkevich
• La Bayadère (5 performances); Swan Lake (5 performances); Don Quixote (3 performances); Jewels (3 performances)
• 16 performances total at the Metropolitan Opera House

THEATER

The Mute Dream – U.S. premiere

• written and directed by Attila Pessyani/Theatre Bazi
• 6 performances at the Clark Studio Theater

Rezo Gabriadze/Tbilisi Municipal Theatre Studio

• The Battle of Stalingrad (6 performances) – N.Y. Premiere
• Autumn of My Springtime (4 performances) – U.S. Premiere
• 10 performances total at the Clark Studio Theater

MUSIC THEATER

Pacific Overtures

• music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by John Weidman
• New National Theatre, Tokyo directed by Amon Miyamoto
• 5 performances at Avery Fisher Hall Ta'ziyeh – U.S. premiere

Ta'ziyeh – U.S. premiere

• directed by Mohammad Ghaffari
• The Ta'ziyeh of Hor; The Children of Moslem; The Ta'ziyeh of Imam Hussein
• 9 performances (3 of each story) at Damrosch Park (originally 12 performances)

Logic of the Birds (A Multimedia Collaboration: Phase II)

• Sussan Deyhim, Composer/Singer/Performance Artist; Shirin Neshat, Visual Artist/Filmmaker; Shoja Azari, Writer/Filmmaker; Ghasem Ebrahimian, Filmmaker/Cinematographer; Richard Horowitz, Composer
• 2 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

Laurie Anderson/Happiness- N.Y. premiere

• 2 performances at Alice Tully Hall

MUSIC

East-West Alchemy

• 1. Dikla/(Souad Massi cancelled); 2. Rachid Taha/B'net Marrakech; 3. Hamza El Din/Yair Dalal and the Ensemble Al Ol; 4. Al Mashreq All-Stars (Elliot Sharp, musical director, featuring Natasha Atlas, Bachir Attar and others)
• 4 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

New York Philharmonic/Kurt Masur's Birthday Farewell

• Bernstein: Candide Overture; Weber: Intro to Act II of Der Freischütz; Turrin: Fandango for Trumpet, Trombone and Band; Dittersdorf: Allegro, from Sinfonia concertante in D major for Viola, Double Bass and Orchestra; J.S. Bach: Largo ma non tanto, from Concerto in D minor for Two Violins and Orchestra, BWV 1043; Mendelssohn: Nocturne and Scherzo from Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61; Brahms: Vivace non troppo from Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 102; Puccini: Intro to Act II, Part 2 of Madama Butterfly; Rimsky-Korsakov: Festival at Baghdad from Scheherazade, Op. 35; Ravel: Boléro; Encores: Bernstein: Mambo from West Side Story; J. Strauss: Egyptian March; Bach: Air on the G String
• 1 performances at Avery Fisher Hall

Ensemble Modern Concert – Franck Ollu, conductor

• Guo: Drama-Trio Op.26; Lachenmann: Trio Fluido; Sharp: Tessalation Row; Carter: Triple Duo
• 1 performance at LaGuardia Drama Theater

New Juilliard Ensemble – Joel Sachs, Conductor/Artistic Director

• Guo: She Xi (U.S. premiere) and Concertino for Cello (Clarice Jensen, cellist); Sheng: Two Poems from the Sung Dynasty and String Quartet No. 3 (Camille Zamora, soprano)
• 1 performance at the Juilliard Theater

OPERA

Luci mie Traditrici – U.S. premiere

• music by Salvatore Sciarrino; directed by Trisha Brown
• Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie conducted by Kazushi Ono
• 4 performances at LaGuardia Drama Theater

White Raven – U.S. premiere

• music by Philip Glass; libretto by Luisa Costa Gomes; direction and design by Robert Wilson
• American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
• 4 performances at the New York State Theater

DANCE

La Scala Ballet – Frederic Olivieri, Director

• New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by David Garforth
• Amarcord/Carmen (4 performances); Giselle (2 performances)
• Viviana Durante replaced Alessandra Ferri in Carmen and Massimo Murru replaced Laurent Hilaire in Carmen and Giselle; Sylvie Guillem starred in Giselle
• 6 performances total at the New York State Theater

Compañia Nacional de Danza – Nacho Duato, Artistic Director

• Bach: Multiplicity – U.S. premiere
• 4 performances at the New York State Theater

Trisha Brown Dance Company

• El Trilogy – N.Y. premiere
• Music by Dave Douglas, performed with live ensemble
• 5 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

THEATER

Harold Pinter Festival

• The Gate Theatre - A Kind of Alaska/One for the Road
• Directors: Karel Reisz/Robin Lefevre; Starring: Penelope Wilton, Stephen Brennan, Harold Pinter, Indira Varma
• 4 performances at Alice Tully Hall
• The Gate Theatre -The Homecoming
• Director: Robin Lefevre; Starring: Ian Holm
• 6 performances at John Jay College Theater
• The Gate Theatre - Landscape
• Director: Karel Reisz; Starring: Penelope Wilton, Stephen Brennan
• 6 performances at the Clark Studio Theater
• The Almeida Theatre - Monologue
• Director: Gari Jones; Starring: Henry Woolf
• 5 performances at the Clark Studio Theater
• The Almeida Theatre - The Room/Celebration
• Director: Harold Pinter/Harold Pinter; Starring: Lindsay Duncan, Keith Allen, Steven Pacey
• 5 performances at LaGuardia Drama Theater
• The Royal Court Theatre - Mountain Language/Ashes to Ashes
• Director: Katie Mitchell; Starring: Gabrielle Hamilton, Anastasia Hille, Neil Dudgeon
• 4 performances at the John Jay College Theater

MUSIC THEATER

Black on White/Ensemble Modern – U.S. premiere

• conceived, directed and composed by Heiner Goebbels
• 3 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

Edda – N.Y. premiere

• conceived and directed by Benjamin Bagby and Ping Chong
• Ensemble Sequentia
• 3 performances at the John Jay College Theater

CIRCUS

Cirque Plume/Mélanges-Opéra Plume – U.S. premiere

• 10 performances at Damrosch Park

MUSIC

Africa Out Loud

• 1. Super Rail Band of Bamako; 2. Amampondo/Cheikh Lô; 3. Koffi Olomide - 1 performance of each at LaGuardia Concert Hall
• Youssou N'Dour – 1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall

A Philip Glass Celebration

• Music in 12 Parts - 1 performance at AFH w/the Philip Glass Ensemble
• Choral and Chamber Works: Knee Play No.3 from Einstein on the Beach; Father Death Blues from Hydrogen Jukebox; Three Songs for Chorus A Cappella; Vessels from Koyaanisqatsi; Voices for Organ, Didgeridoo, and Narrator (U.S. premiere) – 1 performance at ATH w/The Dessoff Choirs conducted by Kent Tritle and the Philip Glass Ensemble
• Shorts (World premiere) conceived by Linda Greenberg-Brumbach featuring film shorts by Atom Egoyan, Peter Greenaway, Shirin Neshat, Godfrey Reggio and Michal Rovner – 2 performances at ATH w/the Philip Glass Ensemble

Salvatore Sciarrino Chamber Concert

• New Juilliard Ensemble - Joel Sachs, Conductor/Artistic Director
• Sciarrino: Piano Sonata No. 2 (Eric Huebner, piano) and Aspern Suite (Wonjung Kim, soprano)
• 1 performance at Paul Recital Hall (Juilliard)

OPERA

Writing to Vermeer/De Nederlandse Opera – U.S. premiere

• music by Louis Andriessen; libretto by Peter Greenaway
• directed by Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway
• Asko Ensemble and Schöenberg Ensemble
• conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw
• 4 performances at the New York State Theater

DANCE

Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez – U.S. premiere

• In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
• Wim Vandekeybus, Director and Choreographer; original music and soundscape by David Byrne
• The Last Words (film) written by Wim Vandekeybus and Jan De Coster; directed by Wim Vandekeybus
• 3 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

Bolshoi Ballet – Alexei Fadeyechev, Artistic Director

• New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Alexandre Sotnikov
• Giselle (4 performances) – U.S. premiere – starring Nina Ananiashvili
• Repertory Program: Appian Way from Spartacus; Grand Pas from Don Quixote; Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère; Symphony in G (3 performances)
• 7 performances total at the New York State Theater

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

• You Walk (3 performances) – N.Y. premiere
• The Breathing Show (1 performance) – N.Y. premiere
• choreography by Bill T. Jones; original music in The Breathing Show by Daniel Bernard Roumain
• 4 performances total at LaGuardia Concert Hall

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Judith Jamison, Artistic Director

• Program A (4 performances): Grace music by Duke Ellington and others, choreography by Ronald K. Brown; Double Exposure (World Premiere) music by Robert Ruggieri, choreography by Judith Jamison; Revelations traditional music, choreography by Alvin Ailey
• Program B (3 performances): Blues Suite traditional music, choreography by Alvin Ailey; Pas de Duke music by Duke Ellington, choreography by Alvin Ailey; Memoria music by Keith Jarrett, choreography by Alvin Ailey; Revelations traditional music, choreography by Alvin Ailey
• 7 performances total at the New York State Theater

Compagnie Mathilde Monnier

• Pour Antigone – N.Y. premiere
• music by Christophe Séchet and Zani Diabaté; choreography by Mathilde Monnier
• 3 performances at LaGuardia Concert Hall

THEATER

Maly Drama Theatre/Brothers and Sisters – N.Y. premiere

• written by Lev Dodin, Sergey Bekhterev and Arkadiy Katsman based on the novel trilogy by Fyodor Abramov; directed by Lev Dodin
• Part I: 4 performances and Part II: 4 performances at John Jay College Theater

Vakhtangov Theater/Innocent as Charged – U.S. premiere

• written by Alexander Ostrovsky; directed by Piotr Fomenko
• 5 performances at Fordham University Theater

Lincoln Center Theater/Spinning Into Butter

• co-production with Lincoln Center Theater
• written by Rebecca Gilman; directed by Daniel Sulliva

CIRCUS

Filao/Les Colporteurs – N.Y. premiere

• 10 performances at Damrosch Park (originally 13 performances)

MUSIC

Olivier Messiaen Tribute

• Chamber Music Society: Des Canyons Aux Étoiles conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw
• New York Philharmonic: Éclairs Sur L'au-Delà and Turangalila-Symphonie conducted by Hans Vonk
• 3 performances (1 performance of each piece) at Avery Fisher Hall

Meredith Monk: Voice Travel

• Solo Landscapes
  • 1 performance at Society for Ethical Culture
  • Music for Unaccompanied Voice: Porch/Songs from the Hill; Music for Voice and Piano: Gotham Lullaby/ Travelling/ Madwoman's Vision/Choosing Companions/St. Petersburg Waltz/The Tale/New York Requiem
  • music composed and performed by Meredith Monk; Nurit Tilles, pianist
• Expeditions in Concert
  • 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall
  • Selections from Facing North; Selections from Parts I and II of Atlas; Selections from American Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island and Quarry; Selections from Part III of Atlas
  • music composed and performed by Meredith Monk, with Theo Bleckmann and Vocal Ensemble
• Monk Retrospectives
  • 1 performance at LaGuardia Concert Hall
  • Excerpts from Our Lady of Late; Ellis Island film; Turtle Dreams; Film from Quarry
  • music composed and performed by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble; films directed by Meredith Monk

Electronic Evolution

• Asko and Schöenberg Ensemblesconducted by Reinbert de Leeuw
  • 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall
  • Ford: Salome Fast ( U.S. premiere); Varèse: Déserts; Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine
  • Naurez Atto, Narrator; Peter Serkin, Pianist; Valérie Hartmann-Claverie, Ondes-Martenot; Vox Vocal Ensemble conducted by George Steel
• Electronic Ensembles
  • 1 performance at Society for Ethical Culture
  • Messiaen: Le Merle Noir; Johnson: Worth Having; Martinu: Fantasia; Crumb: Black Angels/Departure/Lost Bells; Riley: In C
• Multi-Channel Tape Music
  • 1 performance at Low Library at Columbia University
  • Varèse: Poème Électronique; Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge; Lansky: Night Traffic; Barrière: Chéode; Smalley: Vortex; Xenakis: Bohor
• The Turntable as an Ensemble Instrument
  • 1 performance at Society for Ethical Culture
  • Cage: Imaginary Landscapes No. 5 (3 versions); Rossini: William Tell Overture; Mesinai: String Quartet for 4 Turntables (World premiere); X-ecutioners: Deconstructing the Blues on 4 Turntables (World premiere)
• Music from the Ether: A Celebration of the Theremin
  • 1 performance at Society for Ethical Culture
  • Grainger: Free Music No. 1 for four Theremins; Schillinger: Melody; Achron: Improvisation; Wilckens: Dance in the Moon; Kavina: Suite for Theremin and piano (N.Y. premiere); Wolff: Exercise 28 (World premiere); Rózsa: Spellbound Concerto; Neuwirth: Bählamms Fest (World premiere); Shore: Suite from Ed Wood (World premiere)
  • Lydia Kavina, theremin; Stephen Gosling, piano; The Ensemble Sospeso conducted by Charles Peltz

Caribbean Roots: Caribbean Routes

• Nyabinghi Spirit: The Hearbeat of Reggae
  • 1 performance at Society for Ethical Culture
  • Mystic Revelation of Rastafari with guest appearance by Mutabaruka
• Mizik Racine and The Rhythm of Vodou
  • 1 performance at Society for Ethical Culture
  • Boukman Eksperyans
• Griots of the West Indies: Dub Poetry and Calypso
  • 1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall
  • David Rudder; Charlie's Roots; Composer, The Mighty Power; Linton Kwesi Johnson; The Dennis Bovell Dub Band
• Tradewinds of Trinidad: Parang and Indo-Calypso-Jazz
  • 1 performance at Society for Ethical Culture
  • The San José Serenaders; Mongal Patasar and Pantar ( U.S. debut)
• The French Connection: Rising Stars of Creole Song
  • 1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall
  • Chris Combette w/special guest Mungal Patasar; Beethova Obas; Kali

OPERA

The Peony Pavilion – World premiere of the complete production

• music by Tang Xianzu; music notation by Ye Tang; directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
• co-production with Festival d’Automne
• 18 performances (3 performances of each of 6 episodes) at LaGuardia Concert Hall

DANCE

Ea Sola/Voilà Voilà – U.S. premiere

• 3 performances at Alice Tully Hall

Nederlands Dans Theater

• Jiř í Kyli á n, Choreographer and Artistic Director
• One of a Kind (NDT I) – U.S. premiere (2 performances)
• Bella Figura (NDT I) – N.Y. premiere; Skew Whiff (NDT II) – U.S. premiere; Wings of Wax (NDT I) – U.S. premiere; A Way A Lone –(NDT III) – U.S. premiere; Arcimboldo (selections) (NDT I, II, III) (3 performances)
• 5 performances total at the New York State Theater

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

• Merce Cunningham, Mikhail Baryshnikov, pianist Stephen Drury, Members of the New York City Ballet and New York City Ballet Orchestra conducted by John Kennedy
• Program I: Summerspace; BIPED (N.Y. premiere); Occasion Piece (World premiere); Sounddance - (1 performance)
• Program II: Rune; Occasion Piece; Pond Way(N.Y. premiere); Ground Level Overlay – (2 performances)
• Program III: Windows; BIPED; Occasion Piece; Sounddance – (1 performance)
• 4 performances total at the New York State Theater

Steve Reich: Four / Fase

• dancers Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Michèle Anne de Mey
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

MUSIC THEATER

The Days Before: Death Destruction & Detroit III – World premiere

• music by Ryuichi Sakamoto; text by Umberto Eco; conceived, designed and directed by Robert Wilson
• with Fiona Shaw and others
• 5 performances at the New York State Theater

Steve Reich: Four / The Cave

• multi-channel video and screen design by Beryl Korot; the Steve Reich Ensemble conducted by Bradley Lubman
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

THEATER

Brian Friel Festival

• Gate Theatre Uncle Vanya
  • directed by Ben Barnes
  • 14 performances at the LaGuardia Drama Theater
• Gate Theatre Aristocrats
  • directed by Ben Barnes
  • 6 performances at the LaGuardia Drama Theater
• The Abbey Theatre Freedom of the City
  • directed by Conall Morrison
  • 14 performances at John Jay College Theater

Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab

• Black Codes from the Undergroundby Duma Ndlovu, Gregory A. Holtz and Layding Kaliba
  • directed by Ruben Polendo
  • 6 performances at McGinn/Cazale Theater
• 'Maids by Erik Ehn
  • directed by Maria Mileaf
  • 6 performances at McGinn/Cazale Theater

CIRCUS

Les Arts Sauts/Kayassine – U.S. premiere

• 10 performances at Damrosch Park

MUSIC

The New York Philharmonic

• Kurt Masur, Music Director and Conductor; Emanuel Ax, Pianist
  • Program I : Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op.15; Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra in C major, Op. 48
  • Program II : Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op.19; Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
  • Program III : Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 (Little Russian)
  • Program IV : Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58; Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme By Mozart, Op. 132
  • Program V : Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 (Emperor); Dov Seltzer: Lament to Yitzhak – U.S. premiere – with 4 vocal soloists, The Philadelphia Singers Chorale and The Boys Choir of Harlem
  • 5 performances (1 of each program) at Avery Fisher Hall

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Schumann Revealed

• John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor and Artistic Director
• Program I: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra; Konzertst ü ck for Horns and Orchestra, Op. 86; Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
  • Robert Levin, piano; Roger Montgomery, Susan Dent, Huw Evans and Gavin Edwards, horns
  • 3 performances at Alice Tully Hall
• Program II : Scenes from Goethe's Faust
  • 6 vocal soloists, the Monteverdi Choir and The American Boychoir
  • 1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall

Gospel Marathon and Gala

• House Full O' Praise: The Vestibule
  • Shelton Becton and Musicians
• House Full O' Praise: Cornerstones
  • Great Day Singers directed by Louvinia G. Pointer
• House Full O' Praise: Corridors and Passageways
  • North Jersey Philharmonic Glee Club directed by J. Hamilton Grandison
• House Full O' Praise: Pillars and Posts
  • Thrashing Wonders/Nancey Jackson
• House Full O' Praise: Cookin' in the Kitchens
  • The Broadway Gospel Choir directed by Michael McElroy
• House Full O' Praise: The New Wing
  • Christ Church Choir directed by Reverend Angel Garrett and Joy Unlimited Youth Mass Choir directed by John B. Samuel
• House Full O' Praise: House Party
  • Crossroads Tabernacle directed by Reverend Joseph Henry Cortese and New York State Haitian Interdenominational Mass Choir directed by Dickson Guillaume
• House Full O' Praise: Treasures in the Attic
  • The New York Christian Life Centre Singers and Band directed by Rob Robinson and Gary Anglin with soloist Dennis Collins
• 8 performances (1 of each program) at Society for Ethical Culture

• House Full O' Praise: Gospel Gala
  • Featuring Yolanda Adams, Helen Baylor, Shirley Caesar, Donnie McClurkin, Hezekiah Walker and the House Full O' Praise Gospel Choir directed by Hezekiah Walker
• 1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall

Steve Reich: Four – Steve Reich Ensemble and Synergy

• Triple Quartet/Proverb/Drumming performed by the Kronos Quartet, members of the Steve Reich Ensemble and Synergy, conducted by Bradley Lubman
• The Desert Music/Tehillim performed by members of the Steve Reich Ensemble, Orchestra of St. Luke's and Synergy, conducted by David Robertson
• 2 performances total (1 of each program) at Alice Tully Hall

OPERA

The Peony Pavilion/Shanghai Kunju Opera Company CANCELLED (See 1999)

Patience & Sarah ñ World premiere

• music by Paula M. Kimper; libretto by Wende Persons based on a novel by Isabel Miller; stage direction by Douglas Moser
• a co-production with American Opera Projects
• American Opera Projects Orchestra conducted by Steven Osgood
• Lori Phillips: Patience; Elaine Valby: Sarah
• 3 performances at the John Jay College Theater

Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard von Bingen

• Sequentia (Ensemble for medieval music); Founders and Music Directors: Barbara Ann Thornton and Benjamin Bagby
• Stage Director: Franz-Josef Heumannsk ‰mper
• 3 performances at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle

DANCE

Stuttgart Ballet ñ Reid Anderson, Artistic Director

• Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev; New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by James Tuggle
• Onegin by Tchaikovsky; New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Stewart Kershaw
• 6 performances (3 of each program) at the New York State Theater

Hamburg Ballet ñ John Neumeier, Artistic Director

• Mahler: Soldier Songs/Des Knaben Wunderhorn; The Fifth Symphony
  • Yvi J‰nicke, Mezzo-soprano; Dietrich Henschel, Baritone
  • The New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Klauspeter Seibel
• Bernstein Dances
  • Sebastian Knauer, piano; Vadim Gluzman, violin; Angela Horn and Yvi J‰nicke, mezzo-sopranos; Scott Cheffer and Philip Cutlip, baritones
  • The New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Rainer M¸hlbach
• 6 performances (3 of each program) at the New York State Theater

THEATER

Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare

• Produced by Lincoln Center Theater in association w/LCF98
• directed by Nicholas Hytner; sets by Bob Crowley; costumes by Catherine Zuber; lighting by Natasha Katz; with Helen Hunt, Kyra Sedgwick, Amy Hill, Paul Rudd, Rick Stear, Brian Murray, Max Wright and Philip Bosco
• 23 performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

The Gesher Theatre/Village (K'far) by Joshua Sobol

• directed by Yevgeny Arye; sets by Alexander Lisiyansky; costumes by Anna Khruscheva; lighting by Bueno Avi-lona
• 6 performances at Alice Tully Hall

The Gesher Theatre/Adam Resurrected by Alexander Chervinsky ñ U.S. premiere

• directed by Yevgeny Arye; sets and costumes by Elena Stepanova; lighting by Niv Sade
• 6 performances at Damrosch Park

Theatre de Complicite/The Street of Crocodiles ñ U.S. premiere

• directed by Simon McBurney; designed by Rae Smith
• 10 performances at the John Jay College Theater

La Fura dels Baus/F@ust: Version 3.0 ñ U.S. premiere

• based on Faust parts I and II by J.W. von Goethe
• directed by Alex OllÈ and Carlos Padrissa; conceived by Pablo Ley, Alex OllÈ, Carlos Padrissa, and Magda Puyo with Jaume Plensa
• 5 performances at the New York State Theater

MUSIC

The New York Philharmonic ñ Kurt Masur, Music Director and Conductor

• Program A: Bernstein: The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2) with Lukas Foss, pianist; Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major
• Program B: Ives: Three Places in New England; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue with Fazil Say, pianist; Copland: Clarinet Concerto with Stanley Drucker, clarinetist; Bernstein: Jeremiah (Symphony No. 1) with Susanna Poretsky, mezzo-soprano
• 4 performances (2 of each program) at Avery Fisher Hall

Seven Gates of Jerusalem ñ an oratorio by Krzysztof Penderecki ñ U.S. premiere

• The New York Philharmonic ñ Kurt Masur, Music Director and Conductor
• The Philadelphia Singers Chorale ñ David Hayes, Director; Christine Goerke and Wendy Nielsen, sopranos; Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano; Jon Villars, tenor; William Stone, baritone; Boris Carmeli, speaker
• 2 performances at Avery Fisher Hall

EOS Orchestra ñ Jonathan Sheffer,Artistic Director and Conductor

• Bernstein:Excerpts from Songfest with Angelina RÈaux, mezzo-soprano, Philip Cutlip, baritone and Richard Bernstein, bass-baritone;Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) with Anne Akiko Meyers, violin; Dybbuk with Philip Cutlip, baritone and Richard Bernstein, bass-baritone
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

The Unknown Bernstein

• Michael Barrett, music director, pianist and host; Carter Brey, cellist; Paula Robison, flautist; Amy Burton and Karen Holvick, sopranos; Steven Goldstein, tenor; Ted Keegan, baritone
• 35; Valse Lente; Mixolydian Mix-up; One-Minute Charlie; For Nicky Slonimsky; Valse Lente G-A-E-A; Lonely Me; Re La Mi; Can You Love; Meditations Before a Wedding; Two Meditations from Mass; Screwed on Wrong; Variations on an Octatonic Scale; Like Everybody Else; Spring Will Come Again; My Baby's Baby; Play No More; Halil
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

Hildegurls ñ The Electronic Ordo Virtutum ñ World premiere

• directed by Grethe Barrett Holby; performers Lisa Bielawa, Kitty Brazelton, Eve Beglarian and Elaine Kaplinsky, in collaboration with Hildegurls
• 3 performances at Clark Studio Theater

The Complete Organ Works of J.S. Bach

• Christopher Herrick, Organist
• 14 performances at Alice Tully Hall

David Tudor's Rainforest

• in collaboration with the Lincoln Center Institute
• an electroacoustic environment realized by Composers Inside Electronics; Beverly Emmons, lighting designer
• 5 performances at the Clark Studio Theater

OPERA

Palestrina/The Royal Opera

• a co-presentation with The Metropolitan Opera
• music and libretto by Hans Pfitzner
• directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff; sets by Tobias Hoheisel; costumes by Bettina J. Walter; lighting by Mark Henderson
• singers: Thomas Moser, Alan Held, Sergei Leiferkus, Thomas Allen, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and others
• The Royal Opera Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Christian Thielemann
• 3 performances at The Metropolitan Opera House

DANCE

The Royal Ballet – Sir Anthony Dowell, Director

• a co-presentation with The Metropolitan Opera
• The Royal Opera Orchestra and Chorus
• Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas choreographed by Sir Kenneth MacMillan and conducted by Richard Bernas (4 performances)
• Prokofiev: Cinderella choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton and conducted by Alexander Vedernikov (4 performances)
• Ravel: La Valse, Daphnis and Chloë choreographed by Frederick Ashton and conducted by Emmanuel Plasson; Ravel: Pavane pour une infante d é funte choreographed by Christopher Wheelden, La Fin du jour choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, both conducted by Anthony Twiner (3 performances)
• 11 performances total at The Metropolitan Opera House

THEATER

Les Danaïdes – U.S. premiere

• a reconstruction of Aeschylus' lost tetralogy
• directed and adapted by Silviu Purcarete/National Theater of Craiova
• 12 performances in Damrosch Park

Woza Afrika: After Apartheid

• presented in association with Lincoln Center Theater
• The Suit – U.S. premiere
  • writtenby Can Themba; directed by Barney Simon and John Matshikiza
  • 6 performances at John Jay College Theater
• Ma-Dladla's Beat – U.S. premiere
  • written and directed by Magi Nonzini Williams; performed by Delly Malinga
  • 7 performances (with Bergville Stories) at John Jay College Theater
    • Bergville Stories – U.S. premiere
  • written and directed by Duma Ndlovu
  • 7 performances (with Ma-Dladla's Beat) at John Jay College Theater
• On My Birthday – U.S. premiere
  • written and directed by Aubrey Sekhabi
  • 7 performances at LaGuardia Theater
• Once a Pirate – U.S. premiere
  • written by Paul Slabolepszy; directed by Lara Foot; performed by Seputla Sebogodi
  • 6 performances (with White Men With Weapons) at LaGuardia Theater
• White Men With Weapons – U.S. premiere
• written and performed by Greig Coetzee; directed by Garth Anderson
• 6 performances (with Once a Pirate) at LaGuardia Theater

Umabatha: The Zulu Macbeth

• a Johannesburg Civic Theatre production
• written and directed by Welcome Msomi
• 7 performances at New York State Theater

PERFORMANCE ART

Le Cercle Invisible

• created/performed by Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierrée
• 5 performances at John Jay College Theater

The Aquarium/A Meditation on Life in the City – World premiere

• Text, music and stage design by Connie Beckley
• 3 performances at the Clark Studio Theater

Downtown Underground – World premiere

• The Wendy Perron Project
• 3 performances at LaGuardia Theater

Incident at Cobbler’s Knob – World premiere

• written by The Talent Family (Amy and David Sedaris)
• 4 performances at LaGuardia Theater

The Solo Magic Flute – U.S. premiere

• Christoph Homberger, Tenor; Herbert Wernicke, Director/Designer
• 4 performances at Alice Tully Hall

MUSIC

The New York Philharmonic – Kurt Masur, Music Director and Conductor

• Program A: Henze: Tristan, Preludes for Piano, Tape and Orchestra – Homero Francesch, piano; Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and Wesendonk Lieder – Deborah Voigt, soprano
• Program B: Happy Birthday potpourri with Haken Hagegard, baritone and MC; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; the Royal Opera Chorus: Wagner: Excerpts from Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Bizet: Excerpts from Carmen; Sarasate CarmenFantasy; Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28; Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs; Verdi: Fuoco di Gioia from Otello; Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1; Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture for Orchestra
• 4 performances (2 of each program) at Avery Fisher Hall

Ornette Coleman: ? Civilization

• Program A: Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man; Coleman: Skies of America with the New York Philharmonic/Kurt Masur, Ornette Coleman and ensemble (2 performances)
• Program B: unspecified with Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins and special guests (1 performance)
• Coleman: Tone Dialing with Ornette Coleman and Prime Time with dancers, rapper, video artists, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Fireplay (1 performance)
• 4 performances total at Avery Fisher Hall

The Intimate Pfitzner /The Chamber Music Society - David Shifrin, Art. Dir.

• with musicians of the New York Philharmonic and Royal Opera Orchestra
• all Pfitzner program including Cello Sonata, Sextet, Piano Quintet and lieder
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

Intimate Immensity – a staged media poem by Morton Subotnick

• electronic music, vocalists, traditional Balinese dancer
• 3 performances at LaGuardia Theater

The World of Palestrina /Pomerium – Alexander Blachly, Director

• music of Palestrina, Josquin, Dufay, Cipriano de Rore, Lassus, Victoria, Byrd and more
• 2 performances at Alice Tully Hall

Expresiones Latinas

• Gal Costa - 1 performance
• Bamboleo ( U.S. debut) and NG La Banda ( U.S. debut) – 1 performance
• Gilberto Santa Rosa with special guest Andy Monta ñez – 1 performance
• Los Amigos Invisibles and Franco de Vita – 1 performance
• Africando and Cachao and his band – 1 performance
• Albita and Daniela Mercury – 1 performance
• Ednita Nazario – 1 performance
• 7 performances total at Avery Fisher Hall

Benjamin Bagby's Beowulf

• Benjamin Bagby, soloist and medieval harp
• 3 performances at Kaplan Penthouse

OPERA

Four Saints in Three Acts – N.Y. premiere

• music by Virgil Thomson; libretto by Gertrude Stein
• co-production with Houston Grand Opera; conceived, designed and directed by Robert Wilson
• Marietta Simpson, Wilbur Pauley, Ashley Putnam, Sanford Sylvan, the Houston Grand Opera Chorus
• New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
• 4 performances at New York State Theater

DANCE

Lyons Opera Ballet/Coppélia – U.S. premiere

• music by Léo Delibes; Choreography by Maguy Marin
• Artistic Director: Yorgos Loukos
• Lead Dancers: Nerses Boyadjian, Maria Brown, Françoise Joullié, Josu Zabala
• New York City Opera Orchestra conducted by Laurent Pillot
• 4 performances at New York State Theater

Merce Cunningham Dance Company/Ocean – N.Y. premiere

• concept by John Cage and Merce Cunningham; choreography by Merce Cunningham
• Essential Music Orchestra; John Kennedy/Charles Wood, Art Dirs.
• 6 performances at Damrosch Park (open air)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater/Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

• Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director, Conductor and Trumpet/LCJO
• Alvin Ailey, Founder and Choreographer and Judith Jamison, Artistic Director and Choreographer/AAADT
• Program A: Ellington: The River; Marsalis: Sweet Release (World premiere); Traditional: Revelations – 4 performances
• Program B: Ellington: Night Creature; Coltrane/Nyro/Griffin: Cry; Marsalis: Sweet Release; Ruggieri: Hymn – 2 performances
• 6 performances total at NY State Theater

THEATER

The Beckett Festival/The Gate Theatre - Michael Colgan, Director

• all 19 of Samuel Beckett's plays
• 33 performances at John Jay Theatre and Clark Studio Theater

Theatre de Complicite /The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol – U.S. premiere

• based on a story by John Berger; adapted by Simon McBurney and Mark Wheatley; devised by the Company
• Directed by Simon McBurney
• 5 performances at Alice Tully Hall

Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre – N.Y. debut

• Le Van Ngo, Artistic Director
• 11 performances at Damrosch Park

MULTI-MEDIA

Brain Opera – World premiere

• composed and created by Tod Machover at the MIT media lab
• nearly 100 performances at Juilliard's Morse Recital Hall

MUSIC

The New York Philharmonic – Kurt Masur, Music Director and Conductor

• Program A: Beethoven: Fidelio with Deborah Voigt, Gary Lakes, Paul Plishka, Simon Estes, Dominique LaBelle, New York Choral Artists (3 performances)
• Program B: Morton Feldman: Structures for Overture; Hindemith: Concert Music for String Orchestra and Brass, Op. 50; R. Strauss: Metamorphosen,Dance of the Seven Veils and Final Scene from Salome with Maria Ewing (2 performances)
• Program C: Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64; Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture (2 performances)
• 7 performances total at Avery Fisher Hall

The Kirov Orchestra and Chorus – Valery Gergiev, Principal Conductor/Artistic Dir.

• Program A: Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103; Prokofiev: Cantata for the 20 th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74
• Program B: Prokofiev: Zdravitsa, Op. 85 (“A Toast”); Symphony No. 6; Alexander Nevsky, Cantata for Mezzo-soprano, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 78 with Olga Borodina
• Program C: Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, symphonie dramatique, Op. 17 with Olga Borodina, Nikolai Gassiev and Sergei Alexashkin
• Program D: Stravinsky: Solovey (“The Nightingale”), a musical fairy tale; The Firebird
• 4 performances (1 of each program) at Avery Fisher Hall

MUSIC

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – John Eliot Gardiner, Cond./Artistic Dir.

• Program A: Beethoven: Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112; Symphony No. 9 in D minor, “Choral”, Op. 125 with Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Schade, Franz Hawlata, Monteverdi Choir (1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall)
• Program B: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis with same cast as above (1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall)
• Program C: Beethoven: Leonore with Hillevi Martinpelto, Christiane Oelze, Michael Schade, Franz Hawlata, Kim Begley, Monteverdi Choir (2 performances at Alice Tully Hall)
• 4 performances total at AFH and ATH

Benefit Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin

• Orchestra of St. Luke’s/Yehudi Menuhin, conductor
• featuring music by Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, Chen Yi, Luciano Berio, Lukas Foss, Philip Glass, Shulamit Ran, Foday Musa Suso, György Kurtág, Somei Satoh, Henryk Górecki, Ravi Shankar, Steve Reich and David Del Tredici
• artists: Edna Michell, Shlomo Mintz, Elmar Oliveira, Barbara Hendricks, Richard Stoltzman, Ko Ishikawa, Foday Musa Suso, Ole Akahoshi, Allen Ginsburg
• 1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall

A Morton Feldman Celebration

• Program A: Only; I Met Heine on the Rue F ür stenberg ; The Viola in My Life I; Why Patterns? with Joan La Barbara, John Palumbo, Ransom Wilson, David Shifrin, The Chamber Music Society
• Program B: Illusions; Extensions 3; Piano; Triadic Memories with Aki Takahashi, pianist
• Program C: Three Voices; For Samuel Beckett with Joan La Barbara, Mezzo-soprano and Essential Music
• 3 performances (1 of each program) at The Society for Ethical Culture
• performance at Alice Tully Hall with The Kronos Quartet playing the String Quartet II (six hours uninterrupted) was cancelled

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - David Shifrin, Artistic Director

• W. Schuman: String Quartet No. 3; Barber: Dover Beach for Baritone and String Quartet, Op. 3; Piano Sonata, Op. 26; Copland: Sextet for Clarinet, String Quartet and Piano; Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles for Mezzo-soprano, Baritone and Piano Four-Hands with Theodora hanslowe, William Sharp and John Browning
• Chen Qigang: Poème Lyrique II (N.Y. premiere); Toshio Hosokawa: Interim for Harp and Chamber Ensemble ( U.S. premiere); Somei Satoh: Uzu (Vortex); Tan Dun: Concerto for Pizzicato Piano and 10 Instruments ( U.S. premiere); Guo Wenjing: She Huo (N.Y. premiere); Jin Hi Kim: Voices of Sigimse (World premiere); Tan Dun: Circle with Four Trios, Conductor and Audience
• 2 performances (1 of each program) at Alice Tully Hall

Hyperstring Trilogy

• Music of Tod Machover featuring the Eos Ensemble/Jonathan Sheffer, Conductor
• 1 performance at Alice Tully Hall

Merce Cunningham and Music

• Program A: David Behrman: Interspecies Smalltalk; Takehisa Kosugi: Spectra; David Tudor: Rainforest featuring John D.S. Adams, David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi and electronic instruments
• Program B: John Cage: The Seasons; Credo in Us; Morton Feldman: Ixion; Alex Haieff: Princess Sondidla and Her Entourage; Lou Harrison: The Open Road; Eric Satie: Sting of Jellyfish (Ruse of Medusa) featuring the Eos Ensemble
• 2 performances (1 of each program) at the Society for Ethical Culture

Gospel and Soul Celebration

• featuring Tramaine Hawkins, Institutional Radio Choir of Brooklyn, Al Green, and The McCollough Sons of Thunder (Tom Zé did not appear)
• 1 performance at Church of St. Paul the Apostle; 1 performance at Avery Fisher Hall

Reigakusha (N.Y. Debut) - Sukeyasu Shiba, Artistic Dir.

• Program A: Trad: Kangen; Bugaku Dance; Toru Takemitsu: Shuteiga (N.Y. premiere)
• Program B: Maki Ishii: Hiten Seido; Toru Takemitsu: Distance; Lois V. Vierk: Silversword (World premiere); Sukeyasu Shiba: Rodai-Ranbu
• 2 performances (1 of each program) at Alice Tully Hall