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Lincoln Center welcomes visitors at its main entrance facing Broadway with an elegant plaza, a majestic fountain and an array of travertine concert halls and theaters.But the view from the center's western edge, along Amsterdam Avenue, is far less convivial: An imposing wall stretches across several blocks, giving the feel of a fortress.

Jonathon Heyward, the rising young conductor who this fall will become the first Black music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, has been tapped to lead Lincoln Center's summer ensemble, a reimagined version of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the center announced on Wednesday.Heyward, 30, will start a three-year contract with Lincoln Center next year.

The violins were tuning, the woodwinds warming up and the trumpets blaring bits of Mahler.Then the musicians of the New York Philharmonic began to whistle and cheer.Gustavo Dudamel, one of the world's biggest conducting stars, strode onto the stage this month for his first rehearsal with the Philharmonic since being named the ensemble's next music director.

Lincoln Center faces a series of challenges in the coming years: recovering from the pandemic, reaching new audiences and making its campus more welcoming to the public.Now it will have a new board chair to help tackle those priorities: Steven R. Swartz, president and chief executive of Hearst, whom the center announced on Thursday would replace Katherine G. Farley, the longtime chair, in June.

New York chefs and restaurants left last night's James Beard Awards without winning any national recognitions.The annual awards, one of the highest honors in the American restaurant industry, to the point that they are called the "Oscars of the food world," passed over New York in every national category, the first time the state has been shut out of the awards since the honors were first presented over three decades ago.

Pinky's Space, an East Village cafe that sued the city for $615,000 earlier this year after officials tore down its elaborate outdoor setup, is on its last legs.The building's landlord took possession of the space at 70 E. First Street, between First and Second avenues, earlier this spring, according to local blog EV Grieve.

Chef Kwame Onwuachi has finally come home to New York: The Bronx native worked in the kitchens of Per Se and Eleven Madison Park; opened two restaurants in Washington, DC; was a contestant on Top Chef, season 13; and has received numerous accolades, including a James Beard award, before opening his first NYC restaurant at Lincoln Center in early November.

Since March 16, 2020, when the state first temporarily closed indoor dining, hundreds of new restaurants have opened, including a splashy new Lincoln Center restaurant, a second location of a congee cafe, and another Rockefeller Center heavy-hitter.Here's a roundup of the restaurants and bars that opened in November.

The countdown to Thanksgiving has officially begun.And while most people gather at a loved one's house for dinner (4 p.m. or bust!), a brave, avant-garde few forgo the headaches and the dishwashing and their worst relatives, choosing instead to leave the work to the professionals.Whether you're a restaurant Thanksgiving lifer, or you're just ready to put more emphasis on the thanks than the giving, I've got six stellar dinner recommendations to share.

Since moving back into David Geffen Hall this season, the New York Philharmonic has tried to use its newly renovated, technologically adept space to give extra multimedia glamour to a few premieres.Etienne Charles's San Juan Hill opened the season in October, and dealt directly with the midcentury displacement of economically vulnerable populations on the blocks that became Lincoln Center.

Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Disney beckons you to dive back into the deep with Ariel, the human-loving undersea princess, in a live-action version of The Little Mermaid.Here's more on that film and other entertainment highlights this weekend The remake of the animated classic The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey as Princess Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as the sea witch Ursula, is more a moral redress than a work of true inspiration, Wesley Morris writes.

It's pretty unusual for a 32-year-old chef to open his own restaurant in Manhattan.For The New York Times to choose it as the best restaurant in the city five months after it opens?Well, that's kind of crazy.But then, Chef Kwame Onwuachi's rise to superstar chefdom has been a little crazy.Drugs and gangs were part of a tough upbringing in the South Bronx.

Turning the corner of 54th Street in a New York City taxi, the peerless nightclub singer Marilyn Maye is reminded of an early moment in her career.Sixty years ago, while performing on national television, she was also singing at a nightclub.This was on Broadway, she says, quickly adding, on Broadway, I mean, in Kansas City.

In the fall of 1947, Dizzy Gillespie called on his friend, the trumpeter-arranger Mario Bauza, in search of a conga player for an upcoming Carnegie Hall concert where he planned to debut songs exploring the connection between Afro-Cuban music and jazz.Bauza suggested Chano Pozo, a swaggering master of Yoruba rhythms, who had just arrived from Cuba.

For about a decade now, seeing George Balanchine's The Nutcracker at New York City Ballet has been the enchanting kickoff of the Christmas season for my teenage daughter and me.She took ballet when she was little.I took dance classes too in younger years.But that's not the draw.It's the joy, the storybook wonder of the holiday classic that's made it a Christmastime mainstay for us.

On the night of April 17, a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, many of them queer, packed into Georgia Room, a Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired nightclub at the Freehand Hotel in Manhattan.They were there to drink and dance, but they hadn't paid $25 each to grind or freestyle.They came to line dance.More than 300 people some in cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats and biceps-exposing denim vests turned out for the sold-out event.

The Thai director explains to IndieWire his plan to return to the Amazon for a unique filmmaking experience.When Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul made the 2021 Colombian Oscar entry "Memoria," his first movie outside of his home country, it was only the start of his new chapter in Latin America.

The New York Public Library on Thursday named Brent Reidy as director of its Research Libraries, putting the 40-year-old music historian at the helm of four vast public research centers whose holdings encompass 17th-century Shakespeare folios and sheet music belonging to Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie and Mozart.

About an hour after sunrise on a recent Saturday morning, while many New Yorkers were just waking up, a line of people in Christmassy outfits stretched for 300 feet outside a warehouse by railroad tracks in industrial Brooklyn.There were Santa hats, red and green sweaters, elf ears and reindeer antlers.

Adrienne Mancia, who scoured the world for significant films and brought them to New York as a longtime curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, died on Sunday in Teaneck, N.J.She was 95.Her niece Francine Pozner Ehrenberg confirmed the death, in a care center.

Three days after a cyberattack first paralyzed its website and box office, the Metropolitan Opera on Friday announced that it would sell $50 tickets to some performances on a site run by Lincoln Center.The Met, in a brief note posted on social media, said it would offer the general admission tickets as it worked to fully restore its computer systems, which have been down since Tuesday morning.

The pair of concerts that William Christie and his ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, offered at Carnegie Hall this week made me a little sad.Not the concerts themselves: They were excellent, occasionally exquisite.What depressed me was the question of whether there's a future in New York for this pathbreaking early-music group, founded in France four decades ago by Christie, an American.

Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Axelle/Bauer-Griffin and FilmMagic, via Getty Images For some, this year's Super Bowl promises to be a nail-biting showdown between two N.F.L. powerhouses.For others, it will be a bunch of running and tackling bookending a long-awaited Rihanna mini-concert.

Stanley Drucker, who was known as the dean of American orchestral clarinetists during a 60-year career with the New York Philharmonic, putting his mark on more than 10,000 performances and recordings under a legion of celebrated conductors, died on Monday in Vista, Calif., outside San Diego.He was 93.

Nine days after an audacious cyberattack struck the Metropolitan Opera, forcing its website offline, paralyzing its box office and hobbling its ability to sell tickets, the company announced on Thursday that those services had been restored.After suffering a cyberattack that temporarily impacted our network systems, we're pleased to announce that the Met is now able to process ticket orders through our website and in person at our box office, the Met said in a message on its website, which reassured customers that no credit card information had been stolen during the attack.

Several years ago, during one in a series of visits I made to Ned Rorem's apartment, he said with his trademark lightness that it would be kind of cute to make it to 100 years old.This composer, diarist and reluctant pioneer of gay liberation was nearing 95 at the time, and had me convinced that he would live at least another five more.

I doubt I'd have enjoyed meeting the real Robert Moses, New York's paver of highways, evictor of minorities, eminent domain eminence and all-purpose boogeyman.But it's a huge pleasure to meet him, in the form of Ralph Fiennes, in David Hare's Straight Line Crazy, which opened on Wednesday at the Shed.

If the new dining scene at Rockefeller Center was the restaurant event of 2022, something slightly smaller but no less exciting is playing out at Lincoln Center.Last summer, I addressed a reader question about where to dine near the arts complex and found myself struggling to find pre-ballet-opera-Philharmonic options that were on the newer side.

The American Conservatory Theater has technically been back open and audiences have been seeing shows there since last September.But this week's opening of a new play by San Francisco-born playwright Christopher Chen marks a more complete return for the theater in presenting a new work on stage.After months in which A.C.T.'s main stage has featured out-of-town imports (), a rerun of a one-man show (Bill Irwin's ), and the annual production of , the "regular" season at the theater now begins with .

Jazz at Lincoln Center announced a 2023-24 concert season on Tuesday that includes tribute concerts to the influential saxophonist Wayne Shorter and performances from both jazz world fixtures like Bobby Rush and Terence Blanchard and up-and-coming artists like the singer Samara Joy, who won a Grammy for best new artist this year.

Though it's named after the Marin Headlands, The Headlands is a San Francisco play through and through.Written by San Francisco native Christopher Chen and now having its West Coast premiere at American Conservatory Theater, it's a film noir-inspired mystery about a Chinese American true crime enthusiast trying to unlock the mystery of his father's death many years later.

Bernadette Carey Smith, who in the 1960s was one of the first Black women to be hired as a reporter at The New York Times and The Washington Post, died on Dec. 5 at an assisted living complex in Tuckahoe, N.Y.She was 83.Her nephew Scott Taylor said the cause was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Believe it or not, NYC's libraries are some of the most prestigious around the country (and world for that matter).Whether you're looking for somewhere to curl up with your new book, or want somewhere lesser known to admire architecture, there's plenty of places to do it!From the famous New York Public Library in Midtown to lesser known (but equally beautiful) spots, you're sure to be in awe when you see the detailing and book collections these places have to offer.

Frederick Swann, who in churches on the East Coast and the West played some of the world's grandest organs, performing classical and religious works on the complex instruments with sensitivity and technical skill, died on Nov. 13 at his home in Palm Desert, Calif.He was 91.The cause was cancer, said Karen McFarlane Holtkamp, who was Mr. Swann's secretary in the 1960s and '70s and then his concert manager.

Luke Hemsworth, Jeffrey Wright, Aaron Paul, Angela Sarafryan, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, and James Marsden attend HBO's Westworld Season 4 premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on June 21, 2022 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Fans of Westworld won't get to see the show again  at least for the foreseeable future.