Leo Holder and Supporting Actor Geoffrey Holder
A little more than a week after developing pneumonia, Geoffrey Holder made a decision. He was calling the shots as always. He was done. 2 attempts at removing the breathing tube didn't show promising results. In his truest moment of clarity since being rolled into I.C.U. he said he was good. Mouthing the words “No, I am not afraid” without a trace of negativity, sadness or bitterness, he sincerely was good with it. He had lived the fullest life he could possibly live, a 70 + year career in multiple art forms, and was still creating. ... Read More
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The New Jim Crow
Exhibiting artist Titus Kaphar is joined by Schomburg director Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad in discussing "The Jerome Project," his exhibition of small-scale works that directly engage contemporary social issues, particularly the criminal justice system and prison-industrial complex.... Read More
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
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
Pharoah Sanders
Legendary saxophonist Pharoah Sanders first rose to fame in the 1960s after joining the Sun Ra Arkestra and John Coltrane’s later ensembles. An essential (and essentially divisive) component of free jazz’s early days, Sanders was first recognized for his notoriously aggressive and huge tenor sound.... Read More
Texas in Paris
A musical Play based on true events by Alan Governor. Spirituals, Cowboy Songs and Country Hymns. Starring Lillias White with Scott Wakefield, Directed by Akin Babatundé.... Read More