Musicians Launch “Dear American Orchestras” Campaign 
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A Night of Jazz, Legacy, and the Unexpected at Unterfahrt 
Cultural Wrap-Up May 23, 2025 | Patti LaBelle … 
✨Cultural Wrap-Up: James Brown, Friday, May 2, 2025 
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February 28: Sarah Vaughan 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 23: Marian Anderson 
February 22: Berry Gordy 
February 20: Duke Ellington 
February 19: Nina Simone: The Power of Protest Through Music 
February 18: Bessie Smith: Jazz’s First Superstar 
February 17: Thomas A. Dorsey 
February 16: Ma Rainey 
February 15: John Coltrane 
February 14: Scott Joplin 
February 12: Art Tatum 
Fatoumata Diawara: A Fusion of Tradition and Modernity 
February 11. Ella Fitzgerald 
February 8: Louis Armstrong 
February 2: Mahalia Jackson 
Sylvester: Beyond the Gimmick | 1980-1-1 
The Ntu Sound Chamber: A Spiritual Jazz Journey with WDR Big Band and Nduduzo Makhathini 
Music: WRVR-FM JAZZ RADIO | 8/1978 
Part 3. – Miles Davis and the Evolution of Jazz Fusion from Classical Roots 
Part 2. — How the Modern Jazz Quartet Blended Jazz and Classical Music to Create Something Timeless 
Part I. Blending Jazz and Classical Music: Schuller, Davis, and MJQ 
Introducing the Series: Jazz at the Crossroads of Innovation 
🎉 Happy Birthday to the Legendary James Mtume! 🎶 
February 26: Sidney Poitier 
February 25: Paul Robeson 
February 6: Lorraine Hansberry 
George C. Wolfe: Shaping American Theater with Unapologetic Truth 
James Augustus Van Der Zee — Harlem Renaissance Historian 
February 4: Augusta Savage 
February 1: Jacob Lawrence 
✨ Sneak Peek Alert! ✨— Jacob Lawrence 
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
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
A Priceless Calling for LaZette McCants
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In the 1970s, LaZette McCants by accident got to know Marvin Sin — a gifted artisan who transformed recyclable old, worn leather goods (jackets, pants,... 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