From Lincoln Center:
Given the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this summer’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts programming, including Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. These festivals have brought great joy to New Yorkers for decades, in ways only extraordinary, fearless artistry can.
Photo by Peter Gannushkin
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Anthony Braxton's multimodal musical language comes to Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival in a free program at the David Rubenstein Atrium. Braxton's Language Music and Ghost Trance Music layer several ensemble performance practices into complex and dynamic musical experiences. The sound character is distinctly Braxton's but his inventive sheet music, conducting practice, and opportunity for improvisational layering leaves room for the eclectic performance styles of the International Contemporary Ensemble to come to the surface. The International Contemporary Ensemble, along with numerous groups from around the world, are working closely with Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation as a part of their Braxton75, "a new initiative building up to Anthony Braxton’s 75th birthday celebration." (www.tricentricfoundation.org).
Performances and commissioning activities during the 2019-20 concert season are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc., Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Amphion Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Pacific Harmony Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, mediaThe foundation inc., The Casement Fund, BMI Foundation, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The International Contemporary Ensemble is the Ensemble in Residence of the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.