Take in Lincoln Center's 2016 Mostly Mozart Festival with Radio Broadcast, Video Livestreams

By: Jul. 14, 2016
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Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, now celebrating its milestone 50th season, will make select concerts accessible beyond the New York campus and to a wider audience this summer through a radio broadcast and video livestreams. These concert events reflect Mostly Mozart's diverse range of musical offerings, which make it a beloved summertime New York tradition and one of the world's major music festivals.

In partnership with New York's flagship classical radio station, Classical 105.9 WQXR, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra concert on Tuesday, August 9, at 7:30 pm will be broadcast live on radio and online at wqxr.org. WQXR's Terrance McKnight hosts the broadcast. This all-Mozart program spans the full spectrum of the festival's namesake composer's career with three distinct works. Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée will lead Mozart's first and last symphonic works, including the beloved "Jupiter" Symphony, demonstrating the master composer's development and range as a composer over his lifetime. The concert will feature pianist Richard Goode, who first performed at Mostly Mozart in 1971 and has since maintained a lasting relationship with the festival, performing Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K.414. It will also be captured for a future Live From Lincoln Center broadcast on PBS, broadcast to be announced separately.

In addition, Lincoln Center will offer video livestreams of several "A Little Night Music" concerts, late-night recitals from the intimate Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. These late-night performances, starting at 10:00 pm ET feature a wide range of classical music artists, including the return of Festival favorites Paul Lewis (piano), the festival debuts of Inon Barnatan (piano) and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), and a contemporary music program filled with world premieres with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (artists-in-residence). Each of these Lincoln Center-produced video-streams can be seen live at LincolnCenter.org, and will be accessible for later viewing.



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