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From Handel to hip-hop
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Record Online, From Handel to hip-hop >>
High above Central Park, about midnight, a saxophone player jams to Thelonious Monk, his riffs stroking the curved bamboo walls of a new jazz club. The lights of Manhattan glow through the picture window behind the stage.
Suddenly, a sparrow flutters by on the other side of the glass.
This is Jazz at Lincoln Center in its new home at Columbus Circle, at the edge of Central Park, the first ever complex devoted to America's original music. A few blocks up Broadway, on Manhattan's West Side, the main campus of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts spreads over 16 acres.
The world's largest arts mecca has grown artistically from the symphonic music, opera, ballet and theater that were its bedrock when it opened in the 1960s to today's embrace of every style from Handel to hip-hop.
Web-based technology is being used to lure new audiences to such acts as the indie rock band Yo La Tengo, who will perform at a May concert while screens flash underwater footage by oceanographer Jean Painleve. In July, audiences can catch Senegalese rappers Daara J.
-Verena Dobnik 03/10/05 >> go there
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