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Lincoln Center BooksAll Lincoln Center books now available through CenterCharge at 212.721.6500! Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. have formed a new multi-year partnership to publish a co-branded series of books that will carry the names of both Wiley and Lincoln Center. These two institutions will collaborate to publish a minimum of 15 books that will draw on Lincoln Center’s community of performing artists, global presentations, and Lincoln Center Institute’s educational expertise, as well as on Lincoln Center’s archives. The range of works is targeted to families, general interest consumers, educators, and performing arts professionals. The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart
The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart is an accessible, insightful, and entertaining resource for music lovers looking for a deeper understanding of the genius of Mozart. It combines a brief and revealing account of his life and times with a comprehensive survey of his major compositions. You'll also discover accounts of major performances, fascinating anecdotes about Mozart and his works, comments from artists past and present, and tips on what to listen for when you listen to Mozart. And, a selected discography will help you develop a fantastic collection of recordings by the finest modern musicians playing Mozart's greatest music. Filled with insightful quotes from fellow composers, critics, and Mozart admirers, as well as informative illustrations, The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart answers all of your questions about this transcendent genius and his music, and probably some you never thought to ask. Click HERE for more information and to purchase the book. The Man with the Golden Flute: Sir James, A Celtic Minstrel
By turns witty and informative, engaging and inspiring, The Man with the Golden Flute is a captivating read for fans of Galway and his music. Click HERE for more information and to purchase the book. Art at Lincoln Center
Millions of arts lovers visit Lincoln Center’s 16.3 acre campus each year. On their way to the thousands of opera, dance, music, and theater performances and events annually at the world’s leading performing arts center, they also view an extraordinary public collection of modern and contemporary art on its outdoor plazas, within its lobbies, along its hallways, and on display in its galleries. Art at Lincoln Center is a beautifully produced full-color volume complete with 250 photographs, offering a complete review of the 20th century masterpieces in the two world-renowned collections housed at Lincoln Center: public art—which includes Marc Chagall’s soaring paintings in the Metropolitan Opera as well as sculpture by Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin—and the entire List Poster and Print Collection, with its more than 200 works commissioned from artists ranging from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein to Chuck Close and Jim Dine. The volume also offers anecdotal features on the artists in the collections and a history of the architects, collectors, and benefactors who made the visual arts such a vibrant part of Lincoln Center. The book is an essential addition to every art-lover’s collection. Click HERE for more information and to purchase the book. All You Have To Do Is Listen
Kapilow helps readers become great listeners, based on his belief that the core of great listening has less to do with facts and far more to do with our ability to pay attention, listen closely, and notice. He shows how to listen to music from the inside out: from the composer's point of view, about all the things in a piece of music that composers want you to hear but that are so often missed. He gives readers a non-traditional listening toolbox filled with ideas and suggestions that will help enrich the reader's musical experiences. Each chapter explores a single often seemingly simple concept drawn from everyday experience designed to help readers think about and hear music differently. The book is organized like a piece of music, introducing topics as they arise in listening to a composition from beginning to end, so that the focus gradually widens as the book progresses: from idea, to phrase, to section, to movement. Click HERE for more information and to purchase the book. Along the Roaring River: My Wild Ride from Mao to the Met “Now I understand…how the passion and strength in that beautiful voice were created in desperate and dangerous times. Tian has had a life worthy of an opera!” — Placido Domingo
In Along the Roaring River, Tian relives his coming of age in China during one of its most chaotic periods, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Wild and rebellious, nature-loving, emotional, and yearning for beauty, he finds release in underground love songs howled from mountaintops and banned books stolen from boarded-up libraries. Decades after leaving China during the post-Mao Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign, he returns to find his homeland vastly different. In between, more by fate than by design, he achieves success in the most Western of art forms — and takes his place among the influential Chinese artists, film directors, and composers of this era, who were all shaped by that terrible time. Click HERE for more information and to purchase the book. Book Launch at Asia SocietyAbout the Author: In the Wings: Behind the Scenes at the New York City Ballet
About the Authors: Click HERE for more information and to purchase the book. Lincoln Center: A Promise Realized, 1979-2006
About the Authors: SHARON ZANE is an oral historian who has been associated with Lincoln Center since 1990. Her oral history projects include numerous projects for corporate and non-profit institutions. Zane has also worked on oral history projects in conjunction with the Columbia University Oral History Research Office. Click HERE for more information and to purchase the book. |
Over a period of roughly twenty years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 finished pieces of music. If you were the director of a major symphony orchestra, you could program only works by Mozart for an entire year—and still you would barely have scratched the surface of the composer's immense, and immensely moving, body of work.
Sir James Galway is one of the top musicians of our time, with a dazzling career that has spanned five decades and many genres of music. Now he celebrates his seventieth birthday with a look back on his incredible career, during which he has traveled around the world many times over and made countless friends, including legends from the worlds of classical and popular music. He reflects on the challenges he faced coming from the poverty of working-class Belfast and making the decision to go solo as a flutist, as well as the triumphs as he made his way to the top of his profession.
Art at Lincoln Center by author Charles A. Riley II, the fifth installment in the LCPA/Wiley series of books, takes readers on a comprehensive tour of Lincoln Center’s acclaimed visual arts collections. A special 50 th Anniversary publication celebrating Lincoln Center’s 1959 groundbreaking, the book serves as both a fascinating look at the 1960s art world of Lincoln Center’s beginnings and a survey of the important works that can be found on campus.
Modeled on Aaron Copland's classic What to Listen for in Music, Rob Kapilow has written an engaging book about listening to music for the 21st century — for an entirely new breed of listeners, with completely different musical background, requiring completely different kinds of approaches, topics, and language.
Since his 1991 debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Hao Jiang Tian has appeared on the world’s stages, more than 300 times at the Met alone. How he got there, however, is a drama of bittersweet humor, mortal danger, heartbreaking tragedy, and inspiring triumph — more passionate and turbulent than even the grandest opera.
Lavishly illustrated, with some fifty color and fifty black and white photographs, In the Wings takes readers behind the scenes of the New York City Ballet for an intimate look at the exhilarating, awe-inspiring, physically demanding life of the dancers in the largest dance company in America. Told through photographs and text, this book gives a first-hand account of what it takes to be a New York City Ballet dancer: the daily training, the injuries, the last-minute cast changes, and ultimately, the transcendent moments onstage at the end of the day.
Soon to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the internationally respected Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is one of the great cultural success stories of our time. This one-of-a-kind book, the first in a new alliance between Wiley and Lincoln Center, takes a behind-the-scenes look at the growth and maturation of this celebrated institution. Sharon Zane reveals the triumphant, yet often torturous, route the Center took to prosper and produce a half-century of excellence in its offerings to the public. She explains in fascinating detail how Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. has supported its bevy of constituent organizations—the New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera, and the Julliard School, to name but a few—and became the global leader in the field of the performing arts.