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The American Classical Orchestra explores Romantic-era writing on period instruments. Berwald's Second Symphony joins Weber and Beethoven's Fourth in a programme that gives a less frequently heard symphony a prominent place.
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The American Classical Orchestra explores Romantic-era writing on period instruments. Berwald's Second Symphony joins Weber and Beethoven's Fourth in a programme that gives a less frequently heard symphony a prominent place.
Miranda Ferriss Jones presents The Precipice, a musical fairy tale about sisters resisting forces that would diminish their identities. Laura Benanti joins a cross-generational, predominantly female creative ensemble for its New York premiere.
Ithaca College's students take over Alice Tully Hall for an evening spanning wind ensemble, orchestra, choir and jazz. It is a broad introduction to the next generation of performers and music educators.
Luisito Gómez & Calle 107 bring a New York salsa sound to the ¡VAYA! dance floor. Original music and reinterpretations share the programme, with vocalists Ordanis Castillo, Marvin Moscoso and Jason Martinez.
Make a graphic score with New York Philharmonic musicians and teaching artists, then hear it take shape in sound. This collaborative workshop welcomes participants without musical experience and connects drawing, listening and composition.
Jasmine Sharma's satirical play follows brown artists competing for a place in American theatre. Music by Xander Browne and direction by Asmeret Ghebremichael support a story about ambition, relationships and their costs.
Graffiti artist DAZE leads teens and young adults through tags, designs and collaborative mural making. Individual contributions come together on one larger canvas, offering a practical introduction to working as an artistic collective.
Rain is a gentle sensory performance for babies and their carers, combining cello, voice and movement. The environment is designed specifically for lap or crawling babies, rather than walking toddlers.
Breaking the Binary Theatre presents the first public concert material from The Danish Girl musical. Nora Brigid Monahan's book and lyrics meet Alex Parker's score in a Transgender Day of Remembrance programme.
Taiwan's Ju Percussion Group marks forty years with music by its resident composers. The ensemble combines theatrical presentation with percussion traditions from East and West for an energetic return to Lincoln Center.
Tatiana Frank brings her Thought Daughter online series into a live variety-show format. Stand-up, crowd work and guests expand her comedy about everyday situations and the expectations attached to gender.
Él y Ella follows two Mexican artists building a life in New York through a Spanglish musical score. Four multi-instrumentalists move between mariachi, cumbia, ranchera, corrido and norteña traditions.
Lachi leads a family musical programme celebrating disability and difference. Pop, hip-hop and R&B help make this an accessible introduction to the singer's work in disability culture and advocacy.
Sing seasonal hymns and carols with New York Philharmonic musicians and members of The Unsung Collective. This participatory gathering places shared music-making at the centre of a winter afternoon.
Art Bath mixes music, dance, theatre, opera and visual art in one interdisciplinary evening. Mara Driscoll and Liz Yilmaz's project returns to the Atrium with an emphasis on close encounters between different forms.
Amando Houser's clown alter ego DeliaDelia pursues two ambitions: becoming a real girl and joining a human basketball team. The performance brings an absurd, physical theatre adventure to Lincoln Center.
Tap artist Michela Marino Lerman and Love Movement explore the connections between the blues and percussive dance. Sole Blue traces shared rhythms through multiple traditions, treating the feet as both instruments and storytellers.
Puppetry, clowning and textured sound introduce young audiences to worlds at different scales. Haydeé Boetto and Hélène Ducharme's cOsmO uses a cocoon-filled visual environment to invite close looking and listening.
Cuban-born pianist and vocalist César Orozco brings SonAhead to the ¡VAYA! dance floor. Cuban son and timba meet jazz and electronic influences in a set built for a moving audience.
Lyricist Lounge revisits hip-hop histories through an onstage conversation in its Origin Stories series. The host and guest are still to be announced, so check the programme before choosing this particular date.
Boombox Burlesque joins hip-hop performance with burlesque in Remixes and Reveals. The collective foregrounds Black culture and multidisciplinary performance; this programme includes partial nudity and adult themes.
Comedy and music share the bill at the twentieth Stand Up for Heroes benefit. Announced performers include Josh Johnson, Hasan Minhaj, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart and Alex Warren, with proceeds supporting the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
Geoffrey Keezer curates a centennial tribute to John Coltrane across several changing lineups. The remaining dates move between Blue Train material, a classic-quartet approach and a set featuring harpist Brandee Younger; choose the session for its musicians.
Pianist Joe Block launches There Is Always Hope with a group built around his own compositions. Horns, piano, bass and drums frame a set focused on melody and improvisation.