Lincoln Center Announces Additions to White Light Festival

A number of artists and events have been added to Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, the new fall festival recently announced by Jane Moss, Festival Director and Lincoln Center's Vice President for Programming. This year's festival takes place from October 28 through November 18, 2010 and its debut season will explore the spiritual manifestations of music's transcendent power spanning different cultural traditions. Over 22 days, the festival will include 21 performances as well as panel discussions, a sound-art installation, and pre and post performance talks. There will be 12 world, U.S., and New York premieres and debuts by artists and companies from such countries as Belgium, China, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.

Four new presentations have been added to the White Light Festival schedule: the festival opening performance program, a free concert by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble (October 28, David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center); The Forty-Part Motet, a free sound-art installation by Canadian artist Janet Cardiff (October 28-November 13, Frederick P. Rose Hall); a concert by Antony and The Johnsons (October 30, Alice Tully Hall); and Credo (November 15, Church of St. Paul the Apostle), which includes works by members of the Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Rós, in a collaboration with The Hilliard Ensemble, Latvian National Choir and the Wordless Music Orchestra.

Two free panel discussions have also been added. WNYC's John Schaefer will host Conversations: Sound of Silence, free on opening weekend (Saturday, October 30 and Sunday, October 31) in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center. Guests will include Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God, composer John Luther Adams, physicist and auditory physiologist Christopher Shera, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed Bharucha, and other speakers. So Percussion and pianist Pedja Muzijevic will perform. The festival will also include a number of White Light Lounges, post-performance parties exclusive to White Light Festival ticketholders for performers and concertgoers. Most of them will take place in at65 in Alice Tully Hall.

About the White Light Festival:
The opening week of Lincoln Center's new annual fall festival includes performance of Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem featuring the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Westminster Choir led by Daniel Harding; and the U.S. premiere of Sutra, a modern dance work by acclaimed Belgian/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Other festival highlights include: Judith an adaptation of 16th-century Croatian poet Marko Maruli?'s poem of the Biblical tale of Judith, set to a reconstruction of Dalmatian music of the era; the U.S. premiere of Roysten Abel's music-theater work The Manganiyar Seduction performed by Muslim musicians from northern India; concerts by the Tallis Scholars, Collegium Vocale Gent, Latvian National Choir, Kremerata Baltica, The Hilliard Ensemble, organist Paul Jacobs, and more. Visit WhiteLightFestival.org for complete details.

Tickets
Tickets for the White Light Festival are available online at WhiteLightFestival.org, by calling 212-721-6500, or at the Avery Fisher or Alice Tully Hall box offices, Broadway and 65th Street.

In describing the scope and intention of the White Light Festival, Vice President of Programming Jane Moss said, "It is our hope and ambition that the festival offers musical experiences that give audiences a sense of shared emotional connection and wholeness in an increasingly fragmented and frenetic world. Throughout history music has been the language of the universal and transcendent within all of us."

Newly Added Artists and Events:
l Thursday, July 28 at 8:30 PM Composer and performer Meredith Monk performs a concert titled The Soul's Messenger with her vocal ensemble. Long at the forefront of creating new musical dimensions with her unusual, genre-spanning fusion of song, theater, dance, and film, Monk will offer a quartet concert showcasing her range as a composer and her engagement with performance as a vehicle for spiritual transformation. David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, FREE
This Target® Free Thursday performance is generously underwritten by Target.

l October 28-November 13: Canadian visual artist Janet Cardiff's The Forty-Part Motet, a re-working of 16th century British composer Thomas Tallis' Spem in alium nuquam habui, comprises 40 separately recorded voices (the Salisbury Cathedral Choir) played back through 40 speakers that are strategically placed throughout the space. Depending on where visitors stand in the installation, they might hear one single voice, several in harmony, all 40, or nothing at all. The Forty-Part Motet will be installed in the Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rehearsal and Recording Studio, Frederick P. Rose Hall (Jazz at Lincoln Center), 60th Street and Broadway. FREE. Opening reception October 28, 6:30 - 8 PM; open October 29 through November 13, noon until 8 PM and until the end of the performances in the Rose Theater on November 2, 3 and 4.

l October 30: Antony of Antony and The Johnsons reveals interior worlds of tenderness and sorrow with a multi-octave voice that wavers and soars with aching vulnerability. The Mercury Prize-winning group, which has collaborated with a range of noted artists including Lou Reed and Björk, will perform works from its latest recordings (2009) The Crying Light, the follow-up Swanlights, lifted to new levels of poignancy by the Orchestra of St. Luke's (Rob Moose, conductor), and an atmospheric projection of Chiaki Nagano's film, Mr. O's Book of the Dead, starring dancer Kazuo Ohno. The performance takes place at Alice Tully Hall.

l November 15: Composer and keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson of the Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Rós will join forces with The Hilliard Ensemble and the Latvian National Chorus for an evening titled Credo. They will perform three of his new works, one of which features texts by Canadian poet Anne Carson. The evening also comprises a world premiere of works from Riceboy Sleeps, the celebrated ambient creation of Jón Por "Jónsi" Birgisson, the incandescent voice of Sigur Rós, and his partner Alex Somers. Credo takes place at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, 405 West 59th Street (at Columbus Avenue), Manhattan.

Support for Great Performers is provided by Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, The Winston Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Great Performers Circle, Chairman's Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center.

Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.

Corporate support is provided by BNY Mellon.

Endowment support for Symphonic Masters is provided by the Leon Levy Foundation.

Endowment support is provided by UBS.

Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center, Inc.

Continental Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center, Inc.

MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center, Inc.

The White Light Festival is a presentation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA), which serves three primary roles: presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. As a presenter of more than 400 events annually, LCPA's programs include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Live From Lincoln Center. In addition, LCPA is leading a series of major capital projects on behalf of the resident organizations across the campus.

Lincoln Center is committed to providing and improving accessibility for people with disabilities. For information, call the Department of Programs and Services for People with Disabilities at (212) 875-5375.
Programs, artists and prices are subject to change.

WHITE LIGHT FESTIVAL
PROGRAMS - CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING
(as of 7/29/10)

Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 8:30 PM
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 63rd Street
Composer and performer Meredith Monk opens the White Light Festival with a concert entitled The Soul's Messenger with her vocal ensemble
FREE

Thursday, October 28-Saturday, November 13, 2010
Opening reception October 28, 6:30 - 8 PM; open October 29 through November 13, noon until 8 PM and until the end of the performances in the Rose Theater on November 2, 3 and 4.
The Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rehearsal and Recording Studio, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 60th Street and Broadway
Janet Cardiff
The Forty-Part Motet (2001)
A re-working of Spem in alium nuquam habui (1573) by Thomas Tallis
40 track sound recording, 40 speakers
Sung by Salisbury Cathedral Choir
Recording and Postproduction by SoundMoves
Edited by George Bures Miller
Produced by Field Art Projects
The duration of the artwork is approximately 14 minutes long. It will be played on a loop that consists of 11 minutes of singing with 3 minutes of intermission. Please feel free to walk among the speakers.
FREE

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder in memory of Rolf Hoffmann, 2002.
Forty-Part Motet by Janet Cardiff was originally produced by Field Art Projects with the Arts Council of England, the Salisbury Festival, BALTIC Gateshead, The New Art Gallery Walsall, and the NOW Festival Nottingham.

Saturday, October 30, 2010 from 2 PM until 3:30 PM
Conversations: The Sounds of Silence
Panel Discussion
Hosted by John Schaefer
with Karen Armstrong, So Percussion, and other guests
FREE

Sunday, October 31, 2010 from 1 PM until 2:30 PM
Conversations: The Sounds of Silence
Panel Discussion
Hosted by John Schaefer
with Karen Armstrong, John Luther Adams, and other guests
FREE

Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Alice Tully Hall, Broadway at 65th Street
Antony and The Johnsons
with Orchestra of St. Luke's
Rob Moose, conductor
featuring director Chiaki Nagano's film Mr. O's Book of the Dead
Starring Kazuo Ohno
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall
Tickets: $45/60/75

Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 3 p.m.
Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway at 65th Street
Dresden Staatskapelle
Daniel Harding, conductor
Christiane Karg, soprano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Westminster Choir
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Tickets: $75, 60, 56, and 35

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street
SUTRA (U.S. Premiere)
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, director and choreographer
Antony Gormley, visual design
Szymon Brzóska, music
with Monks from the Shaolin Temple
Belgian/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui combines the graceful, spiritual, and gravity-defying athleticism of China's Shaolin monks with his signature blend of modern ballet, African dance, and hip-hop. Cherkaoui spent several months at the Shaolin Temple, in the Henan Province of China, developing Sutra, drawing inspiration from the skill, strength, and spirituality of martial arts. The production features 17 Shaolin monks, a set designed by groundbreaking British sculptor Antony Gormley, and music by Polish composer Szymon Brzóska.

Post-concert discussion on Wednesday, November 3 by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Szymon Brzóska, Shi Yanhao and Shi Yanji; Rose Theater
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall

Tickets: $90, 75, 60, 45 and 35

A Sadler's Wells London Production, co-produced with Athens Festival, Festival de Barcelona Grec, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, La Monnaie Brussels, Festival d'Avignon, Fondazione Musica per Roma and Shaolin Cultural Communications Company.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Broadway at 65th Street
Collegium Vocale Gent Choir
Accademia Chigiana Siena (New York debut)
I Solisti del Vento (New York debut)
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben, Op. 74, No. 1
Schubert (arr. Verhaert): Andante, from String Quartet in D minor ("Death and the Maiden"), D.810
Cornelius: Requiem "Seele, vergiss sie nicht"
Brahms: Begräbnisgesang, Op. 13
Bruckner: Mass in E minor

Pre-concert lecture at 6:15, Rose Studio (165 W. 65th Street, 10th floor)
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall

Tickets: $75, 60, 45

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 5, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 W. 65th Street, 10th floor
JUDITH (New York Premiere)
A biblical story from Renaissance Croatia
Ensemble Dialogos
Katarina Livljani?, director and voice
Albrecht Maurer, fiddle and lirica
Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes
Sanda Herzic, staging, scenography, and costume design
Marie Bellot, lighting design and director
The biblical story of Judith, a Bethulian widow who kills the enemy Holofernes to liberate her people, became a cornerstone of medieval Croatian literature, set in verses by Marko Maruli?, Dalmatian poet of the 16th century. Written in Croatian, in the way of old traditional Glagolitic poets, this story is one of the few texts that Maruli? wrote in his mother tongue, probably intended for a female audience which generally wasn't familiar with the Latin language.

70 minutes without intermission

Post-concert discussion on Wednesday, November 3 and Friday, November 5 with Katarina Livljani?, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.
White Light Lounge: Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

Tickets: $45

Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 5 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Broadway at 65th Street
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips, director
Arvo Pärt: Sieben Magnificat Antiphons
Palestrina: Nunc dimittis for double choir
Tallis: Miserere nostri
Allegri: Miserere
Praetorius: Magnificat II
Byrd: Miserere mei
Byrd: Miserere mihi, Domine
Arvo Pärt: Nunc dimittis
Arvo Pärt: Magnificat

Pre-concert discussion with Peter Phillips at 3:45 p.m., Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall

Tickets: $75, 60 and 45

Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Broadway at 65th Street
Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer, violin and leader
Ula Ulijona, viola
Giedre Dirvanauskaite, cello
Andrei Pushkarev, percussion
Auerbach: Sogno di Stabat Mater
Kancheli: Silent Prayer
Beethoven (arr. Kremerata String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, arranged for chamber orchestra
Baltica):
Tickets: $75, 60 and 45
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall

Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 10:30 p.m.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 W. 65th Street, 10th floor
Late-Night Elegies
Alexei Lubimov, piano
C.P.E. Bach: Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Wq. 67
Cage: In a Landscape
Tigran Mansurian: Nostalgia
Liszt: La lugubre gondola
Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45
Georgs Pelecis: Suite No. 3
Ustvolskaya: Sonata No. 6
Arvo Pärt: Für Alina
Valentin Silvestrov: The Messenger

Tickets: $45

Friday, November 12, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue
The Hilliard Ensemble
Jan Garbarek, saxophone
Armenian sacred and folk music; works by Arvo Pärt and Jan Garbarek (U.S. premiere program)

Pre-concert discussion with members of The Hilliard Ensemble at 6:15 p.m., Wallace Hall, Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

Tickets: $50

Friday, November 12, 2010 at 10:30 p.m.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 W. 65th Street, 10th floor
Late-Night Elegies
Latvian National Choir (U.S. debut)
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Frank Martin: Mass for double chorus
Arvo Pärt: Dopo la vittoria
Veljo Tormis: Curse upon Iron

Tickets: $45

Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Broadway and 65th Street
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
Latvian National Choir
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225
Arvo Pärt: Stabat mater (New York premiere)
Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm!, BWV 229
Arvo Pärt: Adam's Lament (New York premiere)
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall
Tickets: $75, 60, 45

Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 10:30 p.m.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 W. 65th Street, 10th floor
Late Night Elegies
Alexei Lubimov, piano
All-Schubert program
Complete Schubert Impromptus

Tickets: $45

Monday, November 15, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Church of St. Paul the Apostle, 405 West 59th Street, Manhattan
Credo (World Premiere)
featuring
The Hilliard Ensemble
Latvian National Choir
Members of Sigur Rós
Wordless Music Orchestra
Jeff Milarsky, conductor
Jónsi Birgisson and Alex Somers (arr. David Handler): Selections from Riceboy Sleeps (world premiere)
Busnois: In Hydraulius
Kjartan Sveinsson: World premiere, work to be announced
Kjartan Sveinsson: Credo (world premiere)
Kjartan Sveinsson and Jónsi Birgisson: World premiere, work to be announced

Co-presented by Lincoln Center and Wordless Music
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall

Tickets: TBA

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Broadway at 65th Street
The Organ Master: J.S. Bach
Paul Jacobs, organ
The Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, conductor
Bach: Clavier-Übung III

Pre-concert discussion with Paul Jacobs at 6:15 p.m., Alice Tully Hall
White Light Lounge: AT65, Alice Tully Hall

Tickets: $50, 45, 30

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
The Rose Theater, Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, Broadway at Columbus Circle
THE MANGANIYAR SEDUCTION (U.S. premiere)
Roysten Abel, director and conception (U.S. debut)
Daevo Khan, conductor
with Manganiyar Musicians
75 minutes, no intermission
India's deeply rooted spiritual heritage comes alive in this dazzling production by Indian director Roysten Abel. The Manganiyars, a caste of Muslim musicians who have uniquely incorporated the worship of Hindu deities into their faith, perform a combination of folk and classical music on a colorful, multi-level set. The performance begins with a single voice, soon joined by another, and then more, in a dramatic build-up of instruments and voices as the Manganiyar community takes audiences into and beyond their world.

Post-concert discussion with Roysten Abel on November 17, Rose Theater
White Light Lounge: Nov. 17 -- Empire Hotel's Lobby Bar, 44 W. 63rd Street/Nov. 18 --AT65, Alice Tully Hall

Tickets: $80, 55, 45, 35, 25

 

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