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But if you look past the awards and commendations you’llfind a man who is, most of all, generous toward others anddeeply respectful of his place on the continuum of jazz. Heoften speaks about the great jazz musicians who precededhim—Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington—and acknowledges the responsibility of carrying that torchforward.

As a teenager he was introduced to famed jazz trumpetplayer, Harry “Sweets” Edison who was known for hissparse but lyrical solos. In an effort to impress theelder musician, Wynton warmed up by playing a longrapid fire stream of notes on the trumpet. “That wasmore notes than I’ve played in my entire career,”responded Edison. The message being, it’s not thenumber of notes you play, it’s knowing which ones arethe right ones.

Learning to recognize the right notes led Wynton toplaying with some of New York’s best jazz musicians.During the 1980’s he released a stream of jazz andclassical CDs which earned him eight Grammy’s—sixfor jazz and two for classical.

Between his many jazz recordings, he wrote a three-and-a half hour oratorio called, Blood on the Fields, whichwon him a Pulitzer Prize for Music, and collaboratedwith some of the country’s leading classical, choral,

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It’s hard to overestimate the contributions

Wynton Marsalis has made to the world of

music. An award-winning trumpet player and

composer, this musical giant single-handedly

ushered in an era of neo-classic jazz and

co-founded Jazz at Lincoln Center all while

still in his 20’s. He’s internationally recognized

as a prolific performer, composer, and teacher.

Wynton is Coming…Continuing the Family TraditionBY RICHARD TENNANT

jazz, and pop musicians, as well as choreographers TwylaTharp and Judith Jamison.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, for which he servesas musical director, remains his musical laboratory. Two recent works feature the Orchestra with the 70-memberChorale Le Chateau performing “The Abyssinian Mass,” atribute to the gospel tradition of the black church from thedeep south, and “Spaces,” a suite of tone-poems based onjungle animals performed with dancers Jared Grimes andLil Buck.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is made up of fifteenof the finest musicians in jazz today. The band has touredover 300 cities in more than 35 countries on six continentsand has earned a reputation as the finest big band in theworld. Wynton is the fourth Marsalis to perform at the ShalinLiu Performance Center following his father, Ellis, and twobrothers, Branford (saxophone) and Jason (drums). Ellis described our hall as a “bucket list” destination for musicians.We’re fortunate to have had so many Marsalis musicians fillour bucket, and we look forward to it overflowing with greatmusic this August.

WYNTON MARSALIS PERFORMS WITH THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA IN THIS YEAR’SSUMMER GALA AT THE SHALIN LIU PERFORMANCE CENTER ON AUGUST 27.

Photo Credit: Frank Stewart

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We are indeed fortunate that 35 years ago a few peoplecollaborated to bring classical chamber music to Rockport,and later, a few others had the bold vision of building anarchitectural jewel of a seaside concert hall with superbacoustics and an intimate feel. We now regularly hear fromwell-known and emerging artists from all over the world.We deepen our knowledge and enjoyment of the musicthrough pre-concert lectures, interviews with performingartists, and evenings devoted to in-depth study of operaand other musical topics. We also reach into the communityto share musical experiences with students and adultsthrough educational programs and free concerts. Eachyear our reach expands and the musical experiencesdeepen. How fortunate we are to be part of Rockport Music.

This year’s 35th Rockport Chamber Music Festival is openedwith the legendary pianist Menahem Pressler and the GrammyAward-winning Parker Quartet. The Festival also highlightsBaroque expert Jordi Savall with his ensemble Hespèrion XXI,the all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and so much more.After the Festival, the summer continues with 20-time GrammyAward winner Chick Corea, the incomparable jazz vocalistDianne Reeves, folk icon ArloGuthrie, and many others;including this year’s Gala withWynton Marsalis and the Jazzat Lincoln Center Orchestra onAugust 27—an unforgettableevening of jazz!

Planning for Rockport Music’sfuture is a priority for theBoard of Trustees these days.With David Deveau’s decisionto retire as artistic directorafter next year’s Festival, hewill leave us with an incredibleartistic legacy, not to mentionshoes that will be hard to fill.However, with his final Festivaljust a year away, the searchcommittee has been diligentlyworking on seeking well-qualified applicants, reviewingapplications, and interviewingcandidates for the position.The number and quality of theapplicants has been heartening.The Committee hopes to

announce the new artistic director in theFall with his/her duties starting afterFestival 2017. Consistent with ourStrategic Plan, the Board is alsoinvestigating other initiatives that willstrengthen Rockport Music’s long-termsustainability. We will be sharing moreon this topic with you later this year.

The spirit of the founders is still felttoday, with beautiful music bringing people together in an intimate setting.The reach of the organization has expanded well beyond theNorthshore region and the Shalin Liu Performance Center hasbecome a cultural gem celebrated throughout New England. Ihope you will join us for this momentous anniversary year with35 years of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival!

Rockport Music thrives because of your support, involvement,and dedication to our mission. Thank you!

From the ChairBY SUSANNE GUYER

SUSANNE GUYER, CHAIR

For more information, contact Development Office at 978.546.7391 x106.

Please plan on joining us for Opening Night of the35th Rockport Chamber Music festival with theParker Quartet and Menahem Pressler, as well asthe post-concert reception located at the RockportArt Association and Museum across the streetfrom the Shalin Liu Performance Center.

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What is Zydeco?BY CHRISTOPHER BLAGG

What exactly is zydeco? Images of button accordions,washboards, and swampy Louisiana backwaters may come to mind, but many folks in the Northeastremain confused as to what it is or where it camefrom. It is not an African-American version of Cajunmusic, which many assume. The short definition isthat zydeco is a regional dance music created byFrench-speaking black Creoles in SouthwestLouisiana.

Creole music definitely shared some musical traditions with its Cajun neighbors, but the sharing was reciprocal as Cajunmusic borrowed much from Creole music and vice versa.

Creole music (played with fiddles, accordions, and acoustic guitars) morphed into modern zydeco around the middle of thecentury when it began incorporating R&B and the blues into its

sound, replacing the fiddle with an electric guitar and addingthe now ubiquitous rubboard for more percussion. You mayask, but what does “zydeco” mean? The origin of the word “zydeco” is thought to be derived from the popular Creole expression “Les haricots sont pas sale” which roughlytranslates to “The snap beans aren’t salty” (said quickly, “les haricots” sounds like “zydeco”).

While there are now hundreds of zydeco bands all over theglobe, the first big zydeco star was Clifton Chenier, who becameknown as the “King of Zydeco” and did the most to introducethe music to the world. Chenier’s guitarist in his famous RedHot Louisiana Band was Stanley Dural, Jr., who would laterbecome known for his stage name, Buckwheat Zydeco. Buckwheat makes his Rockport debut on Friday, August 19.

LIKE FAMILYEach year Rockport Music strives to bring a wide spectrum of artistscrossing a multitude of genres and styles, while making a concerted effort to introduce new, intriguing talent to the Hall at every opportunity.There are some artists, however, who fit the Rockport Music aestheticso perfectly that we bring back each year. Two of our most belovedreturnees are folk icon Tom Rush (performing August 4-5) and singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor (performing August 25-26). We asked themboth—what keeps them coming back to our little seaside village?

Tom RushThe Shalin Liu is an absolute delight from top to bottom, start to finish. The room itself is dazzling, the crew is top-notch, from theticket-takers to the sound and lighting people. Most important of all,the audiences are some of the warmest and most welcoming thatI’ve ever encountered. I look forward to coming back to Rockportthis year and for as many more as they’ll have me!

Livingston TaylorWell, my mother was raised in Newburyport and I'm as comfortableand at home around the North Shore of Boston as I am of any place onearth. The Shalin Liu Performance Center got it right: the sound, thelights, the seats, the wood, the staff, and, beyond all, the view behindthe stage… seeing that beautiful beaming audience of mine bathed inthe soft light of the evening sky over the Rockport harbor...magical.

David Deveau Artistic Director

Tony BeadleExecutive Director

BOARD OF TRUSTEESSusanne Guyer, ChairStephen M. Bell,

Vice ChairGarth Greimann,

Vice ChairAllan H. Cohen,

TreasurerJeannie McIntyre,

SecretaryFrank G. BersonPhilip CutterNina D. FieldsteelPhilip GoldsmithMargaretta HausmanSteve Lindo

Mary MaloneJoseph MuellerIrving H. PlotkinFrank E. PreviteRuth S. ShaneNaomi R. StonbergWilliam E. TaylorRichard TennantPeter WernauMargaret ZieringJames Bacon, Ex-Officio

TRUSTEES EMERITIJames BarkerThomas Burger

Mollie ByrnesJanice CaneSusan GrayMimi HarperWilliam Hausman

ROCKPORT MUSICCOUNCILJames Bacon, ChairDianne AndersonPatricia BerteroGregory R. BoverJohn BrennanLois BrynesAndrew Calkins

J. Robert Cassady, M.D.Stephanie ConnaughtonMichael CostelloDeborah EpsteinS. Frank FritschSherwin GreenblattJudy HoodLorraine B. HornSusan KingWilliam KneiselLew LeathersichEdward Lowenstein, M.D.Michael J. MazziniEverett (Michael) MorssAnne Pardee

Olivia ParkerLeeAnne PowersMelvin RosenblattDavid W. ScudderMary Ann SherryArnold ShoreHinda SimonKathleen SkrabutHelen SoussouBarbara SparksAndrew SpindlerBruce D. SunsteinPaul SylvaSusan Wagner

BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO MAKES HIS ROCKPORT DEBUT AT THE SHALIN LIU PERFORMANCECENTER ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 19.

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Composer and MIT professor Elena Ruehr shares insights into the creation of her new work The WorldsRevolve to be premiered June 9 during this year’sRockport Chamber Music Festival by the BorromeoString Quartet and pianist Donald Berman. The newwork was inspired by T.S. Eliot’s fourth Prelude.

Q. How does your creative process typically begin? How do youfind inspiration?

A. I usually begin composing a new work by improvising at thepiano. In this case, I started playing around with a sound thatI’ve carried since I was in my early 20’s—the beginning of anidea I had set to T.S. Eliot’s fourth prelude for voice and piano. I never wrote that song—but the sound world that it seemed tooccupy in my mind has stayed with me all these years. I pulledthe poem down and put it on my piano, and went back and forthbetween reading the poem and improvising. The first movementof The Worlds Revolve has a melody that could actually be sungusing the words of the beginning of the poem. Once I have abody of material to work with, I enter that into my computer andstart editing and rewriting and reworking, going back and forthfrom the piano to the computer, until I have a finished piece.

Q. Please elaborate on how the T.S. Eliot poem inspired yournew work.

A. I am very interested in writing chamber music that has a senseof the past but looks toward the future. It seems to me thatchamber music, particularly, has such arich tradition that it is difficult to write anynew piece without a sense of history. InEliot’s poem, that sense of history ispartially contained in the meter of the poetry—it hearkens back to somethingolder, or even ancient, in it’s mostlyregular patterns, but also looks forward inthe ways the rhythm is broken. The poemitself moves from a regular, constrictedworld to something vast and open, withthe lines “The worlds revolve like ancientwomen gathering fuel in empty lots”bringing forth an image of the ancientpast and the timelessness of beinghuman. On a personal note, I grew up in a small mining town in Michigan where, by the time I was a child, the minesthemselves had been in disuse for morethan a generation. These old mines hadenormous smokestacks that were built onremote beaches, and stood like reminders

of some ancient civilization, now lostand covered in the encroaching forest.Those last lines of Eliot’s remindedme of that image from my childhood.

Q. Tell us about the process ofworking with an ensemble toprepare a world premiere.

A. In this case, I have worked withboth Donald Berman and theBorromeo Quartet before—some of my favorite people and musicians!I know their particular styles, whatit is that I especially like about what they do, and that soundgets into my head as I work. I also visually imagine each playeras I’m working, and somehow this makes the music morepersonal to them. One example is that I love the way DonBerman creates a sense of space through his exquisite pedalingand voicing of chords, and my second movement, for instance,creates a sound world that is written just for him.

Q. Please tell us about your dedication of this piece to Rockport Music Artistic Director David Deveau.

A. David has been a close friend and a colleague at MIT for 25years. David and Rockport commissioned some of my firstimportant chamber works—my second and third stringquartets—that have led to my writing six string quartets, reallya whole lifetime of work. I am always grateful that David took a chance and commissioned that first work from me, and I so

much appreciate his work as director of theRockport Chamber Music Festival. This is myway of appreciating his work and support.

The concert is sponsored in part by the HarvardPilgrim Health Care Foundation. Make sure youdo not miss the world premiere performanceof Elena Ruehr’s The Worlds Revolve dedicatedto David Deveau!

World Premiere of The Worlds RevolveAN INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER ELENA RUEHR

COMPOSER ELENA RUEHR

PIANIST DONALD BERMAN

From PRELUDESBy T.S. EliotHis soul stretched tight across the skiesThat fade behind a city block,Or trampled by insistent feetAt four and five and six o’clock; And short square fingers stuffing pipes, And evening newspapers, and eyesAssured of certain certainties,The conscience of a blackened streetImpatient to assume the world.

I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling:The notion of some infinitely gentleInfinitely suffering thing.

Wipe your hand across your mouth,And laugh;The worlds revolve like ancient womenGathering fuel in vacant lots.

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What in the world?What do a vocal quartet from St. Petersburg, Russia, a classicallytrained string quartet, and a family of chorões from Brazil have incommon? Well, if you add to that a klezmer band, bluegrass musicians,a brass quintet, music from northern India, and a Big Band, you havethe makings of Rockport Music’s remarkably diverse Education andOutreach Program for youth. Events are designed to introducestudents to a wide variety of musical genres from a host of cultures,with musicians giving interactive presentations to small groups ofstudents, demonstrating their instruments, discussing the culturefrom which the music originated, and telling their own personalstories about when they began playing, and what life entails for aprofessional musician. An evening performance (usually a freeCommunity Concert) follows, with students encouraged to bringtheir parents. Often this results in patrons experiencing music atthe Shalin Liu Performance Center for the first time, and with manyof the students hearing a style of music for the first time. We’rebringing the world to Rockport.

EDUCATION AND OUTREACHBY STEPHANIE WOOLF

HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR 2015-16 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH(CLOCKWISE FROM TOP): KLEZMER BAND EZEKIEL’S WHEELS ATTHE ROCKPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (RES), THE JASPER QUARTETAS RES, THE BOSTON CONSERVATORY STUDENT PERFORMANCEOF LA TRAVIATA (THE FIRST LIVE OPERA PRESENTATION AT THEHALL), THE MILE TWELVE BLUEGRASS BAND IN A “POP-UP” CONCERT AT THE COMMON CROW, AND HINDUSTANI MUSIC FROMNORTHERN INDIA PERFORMED AT MANCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL.

ANNUAL FUNDDemonstrating your commitment tobringing great live music experiencesand unprecedented musical educationto the Cape Ann community and beyond(a gift envelope is enclosed).

SPECIAL GIFTSGifts given in honor or memory ofsomeone special in your life

PLANNED AND ESTATE GIFTSBequests and other types of deferredgifts enable Rockport Music toprepare to meet future challenges.Planned gifts may have favorable taxconsequences, allowing donors toleave a lasting legacy to Cape Ann’scultural community while benefitingloved ones.

Live music enriches lives and it takes aspecial community of donors, musicians,volunteers, staff and YOU—our audience—to make it happen! Help us continue tobring outstanding live music to our stageall year long—consider making a gift today.

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To learn more, please contact our Development Director Susan K. Coffin at 978.546.7391 x113 or visit

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An excerpt…

When pianist Constance Emmerich came to town in June 1982 to play in the first Rockport Chamber Music Festival, she told co-founder David Alpher, “If you stick with this for ten years, it will succeed iffor no other reason than it becomes a habit.”

Succeed it did—over and over again. Commencing its 35th season, the Festival is proof of an enduring brand loyalty: Superb music in a seaside setting is a welcome habit for many.

The Oral History Project of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival(RCMF) interviewed many who helped shape the organization in its first decade. Townspeople and summer visitors alikeset up seats and sold tickets; baked dozens of cookies; or likemany innkeepers, provided rooms for visiting musicians.Finances were usually scant, sometimes critically so, butvolunteers persisted in efforts to keep the little music box afloat.

The first two-week season opened June 3, in the gallery of theRockport Art Association. It featured the Annapolis BrassQuintet, An die Musik (Ms. Emmerich’s group), the AmericanString Quartet, and the New York BachEnsemble. Just three or four tickets were soldin advance, yet 80 people paid six dollars at the door and sat on wooden chairs in theunairconditioned room. At intermission, cookieswent for a dollar. Torrential rains accompaniedmuch of the Festival, lending staccato notesfrom the roof of the gallery, a former barn.

Nothing could dampen the optimism of thethree founders, the late Lila Deis, a performerwith a luscious soprano voice; Alpher, a composer/pianist; andbusinessman Paul Sylva, who raised the seed money.

Sylva shares a story from the early years: Cellist Daniel Rothmuller, of An die Musik, came in one day with his Stradivarius.When Sylva remarked how beautiful the instrument sounded,Rothmuller said, “It should. It’s {worth} about two and a halfmillion dollars.” Sylva asked him when he was going to get thescratches on the rare instrument taken care of. The cellist saidhe couldn’t, because “They were made by Napoleon.” So I said,“Napoleon, like Bonaparte?" Rothmuller said one of Napoleon’sgenerals had owned it.

Deis and Alpher, the co-founders, eventually stepped downfrom their Festival posts—Alpher in 1991, and Deis in 1995.In 2010, Lila Deis died of cancer.

Over the decades, the Festival blossomed creatively, showcasingnew works along with music at the heart of the chamber musicrepertoire. Fund shortages would on occasion be worrisome.

No matter. The board, the co-directors andvolunteers would see to it that the Festival notonly kept going but continued to explore newcreative horizons.

Unforeseen was this: Their achievementswould one day make possible Rockport Music,an organization that would build the $20-millionShalin Liu Performance Center. Situated justkitty-corner across from the Art Association,this acoustically splendid venue at the sea

would promote multi-genre music programs while stayingtrue to its chamber music roots. Soon, social media platformslike Facebook and Twitter would help let the world know thatperformers like Yo-Yo Ma, Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis,and The Kingston Trio would be coming to town.

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Collected and written by the Rockport Music Oral History Project:Michael Pardee (writer), Nina Fieldsteel, Christina Doyle, PamelaBynum, Jean Woodbury, Ruth Shane, Margaret Ziering, Jean Rees,and Eileen Mueller

The above is an excerpt, please look for the full story in the Rockport ChamberMusic Festival program or on our website at rockportmusic.org/festivals. Thisis the first article in a series based on the Oral History Project’s interviews withpeople involved in the Rockport Chamber Music Festival over the past 35 years.

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ROCKPORT MUSIC the Early Years

THE FOUNDERS (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT): DAVID ALPHER, PAUL SYLVA, AND LILA DEIS

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Volunteer harmony was key to Festival growth in early years

Over the decades, the Festival blossomedcreatively, showcasingnew works along with

music at the heart of thechamber music repertoire.

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Volunteer Appreciation BY KAREN HERLITZ

Each year, Rockport Music hosts a reception in appreciationof all the hard work donated to the organization by itsdedicated volunteers. During this Volunteer AppreciationParty, Rockport Music celebrates the spirit of volunteerismwith the presentation of an award to an individual for theirdedicated and long-term service. At the May 1st event, theBoard of Trustees, represented by Chairwoman SusanneGuyer and Executive Director Tony Beadle, bestowed theLovgren Award to Linda Teahen for her sixteen years ofservice. Linda has given countless hours in service toRockport Music and the chamber music festival, includingeverything from baking cookies and serving on the FriendsBoard in the early years to personally sewing all the tablerunners for a gala, not to mention her gift of decorating theShalin Liu Performance Center for the holidays every year.

When Linda’s name was announced, showing obvious surprise,she shared the story of how she became involved. It wentsomething like this: Sixteen years ago, sheand her husband Brian were visitingRockport for 2-3 weeks trying to decidewhere they would like to live in retirement.After just three days in town, she turned toBrian asking, “Why don’t we live here?” to which he replied incredulously, “Can’tyou give it at least three weeks?” They noticed there was a Festival concert thatweekend and decided to attend. It wassold out, but they went anyway andsomeone working told them, “Please

stay, we’ll make sure you get in.” After Linda and Brian heardtheir first Rockport Chamber Music Festival concert, they werehooked. Said Linda, “A week later I was baking cookies!” It allstarted there—a moment, an experience that led someone tocommit both her time and talent to this organization.

The Volunteer Appreciation Party is about celebrating all ofRockport Music’s volunteers, and the LovgrenAward represents that tremendous spirit ofvolunteerism that keeps this organizationgoing every year. With approximately 130 in attendance, the Volunteer Appreciation Partyallows the staff and Board of Trustees to say“Thank you” for all that the volunteers dothroughout the year, all while socializing, having a mimosa and smoked salmon, and(for all those concert ushers and concessionvolunteers), getting to wear some color!

NEWLY AWARDED LOVGREN AWARD WINNER LINDA TEAHEN (CENTER, FRONT) WITH PASTLOVGREN AWARD WINNERS (LEFT TO RIGHT, FRONT ROW): MARY RUTH SOLE, ELEANOR HOY,LINDA TEAHEN, PAMELA BYNUM, BARBARA SPARKS, (BACK ROW) TERRI KRAUSE, CHRISTINELOVGREN, MOLLIE BYRNES, DIANNE ANDERSON.

CHRISTINE DOYLE AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERNINA FIELDSTEEL CHATTING AT THE RECEPTION.

VOLUNTEERS ENJOY THE SUNDAY BRUNCH RECEPTION GOODIES. VOLUNTEERS (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT)–ANN TADLER, LIZ PARILLO, MARIE ALFIERI, ANDBARBARA BREWER-ENJOYING AN OPPORTUNITY TO SOCIALIZE AT THE BRUNCH.

Linda Teahen Receives the Lovgren Award

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JUNE 3, 7 PMParker Quartet & Menahem PresslerJUNE 4, 10 AMFamily Concert | Parker Quartet FREE

JUNE 4, 8 PM NEXUSJUNE 5, 5 PM Trio SolistiJUNE 9, 2 PM Lecture-PerformanceElena Ruehr, Borromeo Quartet & Donald Berman FREEJUNE 9, 8 PMBorromeo Quartet & Donald BermanJUNE 10, 8 PM Ridenour & KudoJUNE 11, 8 PM Capps & PrimakovJUNE 12, 5 PM Othello in the Seraglio: Tragedy of Sümbül the Black Eunuch JUNE 16, 8 PMKalichstein-Laredo-Robinson TrioJUNE 17, 8 PM Kutik & BarkerJUNE 18, 8 PM Lise de la Salle, pianoJUNE 19, 5 PM Chameleon Arts EnsembleJUNE 21, 7 PMFILM | Talent has Hunger FREEJUNE 23, 8 PM George Li, pianoJUNE 24, 2 PMMasterclass | Gilles Vonsattel, piano FREE

JUNE 24, 8 PM Cárdenes-Williams-DeveauJUNE 25, 8 PM Huang & Vonsattel

JUNE 26, 5 PMCárdenes-Kong-Williams-Deveau JUNE 27, 1 PM Met in HD | ToscaJUNE 28, 7 PM National Theatre in HD | Hamlet

JUNE 30, 8 PM Jeremy Denk, piano

JULY 1, 8 PMHarlem Quartet & Aldo López-GavilánJULY 2, 8 PMAztec Two-Step & Jon Pousette-DartJULY 5, 8 PM Ladysmith Black MambazoJULY 7, 8 PM Calder QuartetJULY 8, 8 PM Hesperion XXI w/Jordi SavallJULY 9, 8 PM “Viva Tango!”JULY 10, 5 PM Kirill Gerstein, pianoJULY 11, 1 PM Met in HD | L’Elisir d’Amore

JULY 14, 8 PM 1964: The TributeJULY 15, 8 PM Dianne ReevesJULY 17, 5 PM Frank Vignola & Vinny RaniolowithBadi AssadJULY 18, 1 PM Met in HD | La Bohème

JULY 19, 8 PM Colvin & EarleJULY 22, 5 & 8 PM ChanticleerJULY 23, 8 PM Paula ColeJULY 24, 5 PM The House JacksJULY 25 & 26, 8 PM Chick Corea TrioJULY 28, 8 PM Booker T. Jones

JULY 29, 8 PM Lizz WrightJULY 30, 8 PM & JULY 31, 5 PM Arlo Guthrie

AUGUST 1, 1 PM Met in HD | Cosi fan TutteAUGUST 4 & 5, 8 PM Tom RushAUGUST 6, 8 PM Kathy Mattea & Bill CooleyAUGUST 10, 8 PM James Hunter SixAUGUST 11, 8 PM Terence Blanchard featuring the E-CollectiveAUGUST 12, 8 PM Harold López-Nussa AUGUST 13, 8 PM Dr. Lonnie SmithAUGUST 14, 2 PM Thinkin’ BigAUGUST 14, 7 PM Ravi Coltrane, saxophoneAUGUST 17, 7 PM Family Concert | Alexa Tarantino Jazz QuintetAUGUST 18 &19, 2 PMMasterclasses | Improvisation FREE

AUGUST 18, 8 PM Johnny A w/Davy KnowlesAUGUST 19, 8 PM Buckwheat ZydecoAUGUST 20, 10 AMFamily Concert | FIVE PLAY FREE

AUGUST 25 & 26, 8 PM Livingston TaylorAUGUST 27, 6 PM GALA: Jazz at LincolnCenter Orchestra with Wynton MarsalisAUGUST 28, 5 PM Kingston Trio

SEPTEMBER 1 & 2, 8 PM Ani DiFrancoSEPTEMBER 9, 8 PM Paul Galbraith