The Voices of Sarafina
An interactive screening of South Africa Then: Sarafina, starring Miriam Makeba and Whoopi Goldberg. The plot of the film is based on the ground-breaking 1988 Lincoln Center... Read More
Archived Events
Here we store all old events as an archive to browse. The events range from 1979 – June 2020.
The People of Clarendon County
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Clarendon County, a rural community in South Carolina, was the battleground of black sharecroppers, domestic workers, laborers and clergymen who joined with the NAACP to... Read More
Spike Lee, Kehinde Wiley, and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Join aclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee, artist Kehinde Wiley, and illustrator Tatyana Fazlalizadeh for a special one-night-only conversation about the role storytelling plays in the visual... Read More
Neighborhood Concert: Matuto
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The lively, joyous sound of Matuto entwines Brazilian folk music with the flatpicking guitars and fiery fiddling of American bluegrass. The line-up of Matuto, whose... Read More
Neighborhood Concert: Roomful of Teeth
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Yodeling, rhythmic clicks, and throat singing with complex harmonies are just some of the techniques that Roomful of Teeth pulls from its expansive vocal toolbox.... Read More
Talib Kweli
February 13, 2015, 8:30pm Lincoln Center’s American Songbook The Appel Room (Broadway, between 62nd & 65th Sts.) Manhattan (212)875.5456 Time and again, Brooklyn-born MC Talib... Read More
Who is Billie Holiday?
In President Barack Obama’s children’s book Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters, which profiles thirteen Americans who helped shape present-day America, the President describes singer as a woman with her “own song.” Indeed, Lady Day is one of the most distinctly recognizable voices of the 20th century.... Read More
Duke, Dizzy, Trane & Mingus
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis present music of the Americas through the lens of four pioneering giants of jazz. Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus singularly pursued ancestral music, particularly from Africa and Latin America, and used their discoveries to broaden the horizons of their artistry and create new terrain for jazz.... Read More