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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[1] It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually.[1] It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School.

This article is about the performing arts venue in New York City. For other uses, see Lincoln Center (disambiguation).

Location

10 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023

40°46′19″N 73°59′05″W / 40.7720°N 73.9847°W / 40.7720; -73.9847

New York City Subway:"1" train at 66th Street–Lincoln Center
Bus transport NYCT Bus: M5, M7, M11, M66, M104

Performing-arts center

1955–1969

1962 (when the center's first venue, Philharmonic Hall, opened)

April 21, 1955: The Mayor's Committee chaired by Robert Moses is approved by the New York City Board of Estimate to designate Lincoln Square for urban renewal.[8]

Slum Clearance

November 8, 1955: John D. Rockefeller III is elected as chairman.

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June 22, 1956: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. incorporated.

[8]

October 31, 1956: Lincoln Square Development Plan is approved, many changes to the area are proposed.

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May 14, 1959: Ground-breaking ceremony with U.S. President .[8]

Dwight D. Eisenhower

April 6, 1964: Lincoln Center Fountain, named for , opens.[3]

Charles Revson

April 23, 1964: New York State Theater opens.

[3]

October 14, 1965: Vivian Beaumont Theater and the Forum (now Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater) open.

[3]

November 30, 1965: The Library & Museum of the Performing Arts opens.

[3]

August 1, 1966: The first indoor festival in the United States, the Midsummer Serenades – A Mozart Festival begins.

[3]

September 16, 1966: The Metropolitan Opera House opens.

[3]

May 22, 1969: Damrosch Park and the Guggenheim Band Shell opens.

[3]

September 11, 1969: (named for Alice Tully) opens.[3]

Alice Tully Hall

October 26, 1969: Juilliard School opens.

[3]

May 20, 1974: The Lincoln Center Institute is officially founded.

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October 22, 1974: The Avery Fisher Artist Program is founded to give outstanding American instrumentalists significant recognition on which to continue to build their careers. It includes both The Avery Fisher Prize and the Avery Fisher Career Grants.

[10]

January 30, 1976: The first live telecast of Live from Lincoln Center is broadcast over PBS.

[10]

October 19, 1976: Avery Fisher Hall re-opens after renovation to improve acoustics.

[10]

December 4, 1981: The marks its first performances at its winter home in Damrosch Park. The circus has performed every winter at Lincoln Center through the 2016 season when it was forced to liquidate its assets due to continued financial losses.[11]

Big Apple Circus

September 7, 1982: New York State Theater re-opens after renovation to improve acoustics.

[12]

August 3, 1987: Classical Jazz, Lincoln Center's first concert series devoted exclusively to jazz, begins in Alice Tully Hall.

[12]

November 19, 1990: The Samuel B. and David Rose Building opens housing the Walter Reade Theater, the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Rehearsal Studio, the Clark Studio Theater, the School of American Ballet, Juilliard School student residences, and office space for a number of the member organizations.

[13]

January 27, 1991: The Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center opens with concerts held at Avery Fisher Hall and the Metropolitan Opera House, making it the world's largest and most comprehensive tribute to the life and works of Mozart.

[13]

June 13, 1994: Beverly Sills is elected Chairman of the Board of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. She is the first woman and the first professional musician to be elected to this position, serving until May 1, 2002.

[13]

January 18, 2001: The Lincoln Center Constituent Development Project is established to implement and oversee the comprehensive reconstruction, renovation, and modernization of Lincoln Center.

[14]

October 18, 2004: Jazz at Lincoln Center opens. The hall is made up of three theaters: the Rose Theater, the Allen Room, and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola.

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March 20, 2006: Preliminary construction on the West 65th Street Project begins. The Promenade Project, a plan to renovate Josie Robertson Plaza and the Columbus Avenue frontage to the Lincoln Center campus, is announced.

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June 8, 2006: Lincoln Center announces plans to transform the nearby Harmony Atrium into a public space for the arts open to the public, neighbors, students, and center patrons.

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February 22, 2009: Alice Tully Hall reopens after redevelopment.

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September 30, 2009: Opening of the redesigned Charles H. Revson Fountain.

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May 21, 2010: Renovation plans of central and north plazas unveiled.

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June 4, 2012: Claire Tow Theater opens.

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October 1, 2012: The President's Bridge opens over West 65th Street.

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May 15, 2013: begins tenure as president.[18]

Jed Bernstein

October 1, 2013: The New York City Opera files for reorganization and ceases operation.[19]

Chapter 11 bankruptcy

September 24, 2015: Avery Fisher Hall renamed .[20]

David Geffen Hall

January 22, 2016: The New York City Opera resumes performances in the Rose Theater.

[21]

November 16, 2016: becomes Lincoln Center's first woman president after the sudden departure of Jed Bernstein.[22]

Debora Spar

:[34] Public spaces,[35] Hypar Pavilion and Lincoln Ristorante, The Juilliard School, Alice Tully Hall,[36] School of American Ballet,[37] Josie Robertson Plaza,[38] Revson Fountain,[39] President's Bridge (over 65th Street)[40] and Infoscape

Diller Scofidio + Renfro

: David Geffen Hall, original design of Josie Robertson Plaza (with Wallace K. Harrison and Philip Johnson)[38]

Max Abramovitz

: The Juilliard School (including Alice Tully Hall). Modified by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in association with FXFOWLE Architects[36]

Pietro Belluschi

: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.[3]

Gordon Bunshaft

: the center's master plan, the Metropolitan Opera House, and original design of Josie Robertson Plaza (with Max Abramovitz and Philip Johnson)[38]

Wallace Harrison

: 3 Lincoln Center, the adjacent condominium built by a private developer[41]

Lee S Jablin

: New York State Theater, now known as the David H. Koch Theater, original design of Josie Robertson Plaza (with Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz)[38] and original Revson Fountain[39]

Philip Johnson

: Vivian Beaumont Theater[3]

Eero Saarinen

: The Samuel B. and David Rose Building.[13]

Davis, Brody and Associates

Billie Tsien, Tod William: The David Rubenstein Atrium[41]

[34]

/H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture LLC: The Claire Tow Theater[37]

Hugh Hardy

: Revson Fountain[39]

WET Design

Nina Rappaport and Ken Smith

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Cultural Innovation Fund[edit]

Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund is the first of its kind as a grant program that seeks to make the arts accessible to all people, focusing on those who live in some of New York City's poorest neighborhoods.[53] Partnering with the Rockefeller Foundation, the new pilot grant program offers one-time grants to non-profit organizations to provide cultural activities in these communities in the diverse neighborhoods of Central Brooklyn and the South Bronx.[54] Each of the 12 grantees will receive support and financial backing for their project based on organizational budget size. These are one-year long projects, and grant amounts range from $50,000–$100,000.[54] The over-all goal of the program is to support non-profit organizations in creating cultural innovative strategies that cultivate participation in the arts as well as increase the range and availability of cultural activities to underserved communities.[55]

200 Amsterdam

American Express

Bank of America

BNY Mellon

Colgate-Palmolive

First Republic Bank

Google

Holland America

J.C.C.I

Mitsubishi Corporation(Americas)

Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.

Morgan Stanley

Movado

NBCUniversal

NewYork-Presbyterian

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal U.S.A., Inc.

Nordstrom

Omnicom

PepsiCo

PGIM

Sumitomo Corporation of America

Zabar's and Zabars.com

The Walt Disney Company

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Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival

List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

Young, Edgar B. (1980). Lincoln Center: The Building of an Institution. New York: . ISBN 978-0-81479-656-6. OCLC 6446862.

New York University Press

(2022). Beacon to the World: A History of Lincoln Center. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-30024-996-5. OCLC 1314630733.

Polisi, Joseph W.

Notes


Bibliography

the center's official website

lincolncenter.org

—Documentary produced by Treasures of New York

Lincoln Center with Patti LuPone

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts at Google Cultural Institute