Michael Abels writes scores for Jordan Peele. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar.” Now, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center shows off his classical side.
Category: Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center
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Lincoln Center’s Rebranded Orchestra Settles Into Its Debut Season
Compared with previous seasons, recent concerts by the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center were refreshingly casual, but also more mixed.
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An 18th-Century Phenom Arrives at Lincoln Center
The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center will play Marianna Martines’s Symphony in C, a milestone for a composer whose music mostly fell silent after her death.
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Hannah Kendall Writes Music With a Vocabulary of Her Own
This composer’s latest work, for Lincoln Center, is in conversation with Robert Schumann’s music and mental health struggles.
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Lincoln Center’s Audiences Deserve Music Worthy of Them
When listeners were given the power to program an orchestral concert, the results were surprising.
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The ‘Converse Conductor’ Fighting Elitism in Classical Music
Jonathon Heyward wears sneakers onstage and embraces genres like jazz as part of his effort to bring more people into the concert hall.
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Lincoln Center’s Summer Festival to Focus on Civic Bonds
The third edition of Summer for the City will feature hip-hop, comedy, classical music and more, under the motto “life, liberty and happiness.”
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Goodbye Mostly Mozart, Hello Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center
The renamed ensemble will present a mix of new and old in its first season under the conductor Jonathon Heyward.