Tag Archives: Lincoln Center

Not Exactly Tunneling

By hugh | Published: April 22, 2011

The lights are on but nobody’s home. Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, with my good pal no one there.

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Roof Lawn at Lincoln Center

By hugh | Published: September 19, 2010

I actually wrote a letter to Lincoln Center in the 1980s saying they should make it more of a hang-out and add more low-brow entertainment further advising them that it would pay off in the long run. Since then, they’ve expanded the whole “Out-of-doors” program and rebuilt the plaza to include this amazing roof lawn [...]

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Spieling Around a Dry Fountain; Alice Tully Hall

By hugh | Published: May 12, 2009

At Lincoln Center yesterday, there was a graduation ceremony for Juilliard students. I found it odd they couldn’t turn the fountain on as part of the festivities — all those snapshots of parents and new graduates in their fine clothes and lint-free graduation gowns made lacklustre by some cost-cutting bureaucrat. The refurbishing of Alice Tully [...]

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Rhys Chatham’s A Crimson Grail Returns

By hugh | Published: May 6, 2009

A Crimson Grail rehearsal, 2008 It was a sad night last year when 216 guitarists and bassists were told three days of rehearsal were all for nought due to rain. Wordless Music is thankfully remounting it again this year on Saturday, August 8, 2009, with precautions in place that’ll make sure the show goes on, [...]

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