- Alice Tully
Alice Tully (September 14 1902 - December 10 1993) was a singer, music promoter and philanthropist. Tully began her career as a mezzo-soprano, then became a soprano. She studied in Paris, France and made her debut in 1927 with the Pasdeloup Orchestra. In 1933, she appeared in "Cavalleria Rusticana" in New York City. In 1958, Tully inherited the estate of her grandfather, William Houghton, founder of the Corning Glass Works. - Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills was perhaps the best-known American opera singer in the 1960s and 1970s. She was famous for her performances in coloratura soprano roles in operas around the world and on recordings. After retiring from singing in 1980, she became the general manager of the New York City Opera. In 1994, she became the Chairman of Lincoln Center and then, in 2002, of the Metropolitan Opera. - Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908-August 31, 2002), was a jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first real jazz vibraphone players. "Hamp" ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. - Joshua Redman
Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is a prominent American Neo-bop jazz saxophonist who records for Nonesuch Records. Redman, who is both African American and Jewish American, was born in Berkeley, California, to the late jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and his wife, Renee Shedroff. He graduated from Berkeley High School, class of 1986. In 1991 he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society. - Bartlett Sher
Bartlett Sher most recently directed the world premiere of "Singing Forest" by "Craig Lucas" at Intiman Playhouse; "The Light in the Piazza" by Lucas and Adam Guettel at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, for which he has received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination; and "Mourning Becomes Electra" for Seattle Opera and New York City Opera. He has received national and international recognition for his work as a classical director, … - Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is one of the most admired contemporary opera singers and recitalists, and one of the highest paid performers in classical music. A true dramatic soprano with a majestic stage presence, Norman is associated in particular with the roles of Aïda, Cassandre, Alceste, and Leonora in "Fidelio". Norman has been given the nickname 'Just Enormous' for her powerful voice and range. - Jack O'Brien
Jack O'Brien is a producer, writer, lyricist, and Tony Award-winning theater director who presently serves as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California. O'Brien is equally at home with musicals ("The Full Monty", "Hairspray"), contemporary dramas ("The Piano Lesson"), the classics ("Hamlet", "Henry IV"), and operas ("Il trittico"). O'Brien has had his share of failure. - Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (born October 25 1927) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after creating roles in the Broadway musicals "Candide" and "The Music Man", among others. In the seventies, she began a second career that continues to this day as a cabaret and concert singer. Cook is widely recognized as one of the "premier interpreters" of musical theatre songs and standards, … - Josh Hamilton
Josh Hamilton (born on 9 June 1969 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actor. Josh Hamilton's Broadway credits include "Proof" and "The Coast of Utopia" (2007, Lincoln Center). - Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller (born November 22 1925) is an American composer and horn player. He is regarded as one of the key figures in contemporary classical music. He studied at the Saint Thomas Choir School and became an accomplished horn player; at the age of seventeen he was principal hornist with the Cincinnati Symphony, and two years later took up a similar position with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In 1959 he gave up performance to devote himself to composition. - Arturo O'Farrill
Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill (b. Havana, Cuba, October 28, 1921; d. June 27, 2001) was a musician who led an Afro-Cuban big band, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra in New York City, which influenced Cal Tjader. He composed and arranged, and played the trumpet. As of 2006 the band plays at Lincoln Center, under the direction of his son, also named Arturo. He also composed many works for Benny Goodman's Bebop Orchestra. - Richard Tucker
Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913 - January 8, 1975) was an American tenor. He was born Ruvn Ticker in Brooklyn, New York, and his musical aptitude was discovered early. His first job was as a boy alto at the Lower East Side Manhattan Synagogue. He sang often for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs and eventually became a cantor at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. He participated in the Metropolitan Opera auditions in 1941, but did not win. - Marian Seldes
Marian Hall Seldes (born August 23, 1928) is an award-winning American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame. - Liz Callaway
Liz Callaway (born April 13, 1961) is an American actress and cabaret singer. Born in Chicago, she is the sister of Ann Hampton Callaway, with whom she sang the theme song for the Fran Drescher comedy series "The Nanny" and has performed in a number of stage acts. Among her stage credits are "Baby" (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination), "The Spitfire Grill" (for which she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination), "Merrily We Roll Along", … - Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is a Tony Award-winning American actress. Born in Paris, Tennessee, Jones is known primarily for her stage work, including her Tony-winning lead performances in Lincoln Center's 1995 production of "The Heiress" and John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt", which opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March 2005. - Graciela Daniele
Graciela Daniele (born December 8, 1939) is a dancer, choreographer, and theatre director. Born in Buenos Aires, Daniele began her dance training at the age of seven at Teatro Colon, Argentina's equivalent of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. She later moved to Paris to continue her ballet studies, and while living there attended a performance of "West Side Story", with Jerome Robbins's original choreography. - Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress who has appeared in numerous films. Leigh's work has drawn high critical praise. Salon magazine praised her as “one of America’s best actors”, Paul Verhoeven, who directed her in "Flesh & Blood", similarly claimed “There is no greater actress working in America”, … - Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born on September 29 1962) is an American actor. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, grew up in New Jersey, Bart made his Broadway debut in "Big River" as Tom Sawyer in 1987. Additional theatre credits include Jonathan in the Alan Menken/Tim Rice musical "King David", Harlequin in "Triumph of Love", Snoopy in the Broadway revival of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" (for which he won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony), … - Paul Neubauer
Violist Paul Neubauer was the youngest principal player for the New York Philharmonic and currently teaches at the Juilliard School and performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Paul performs as concerto soloist across the globe, has his own edition of the Bartók Viola Concerto and was a prizewinner at numerous competitions. - Alisa Weilerstein
American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has attracted widespread attention for playing that combines a natural virtuosic command and technical precision with impassioned musicianship. At 26 years old, she is already a veteran on the classical music scene having performed with the nation's top orchestras, given recitals in music capitals throughout the U.S. and Europe, and having regularly appeared at prestigious festivals. - Lillias White
Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an award-winning American singer and actress. The Brooklyn native made her Broadway debut in "Barnum" in 1981. She understudied the role of Effie in the original 1981 production of "Dreamgirls" and later played the part in the 1987 revival. Additional Broadway credits include the ill-fated "Carrie", "Once on This Island", "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", "Chicago", … - Jerry Zaks
Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a multiple Tony Award-winning American Broadway theatre and television director and actor. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, the son of Holocaust survivors, Zaks graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master of Fine Arts from Smith College. He made his Broadway acting debut in the original production of "Grease" and also appeared in "Tintypes". - Dennis Russell Davies
Dennis Russell Davies is an American conductor and pianist. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and studied piano and conducting at the Juilliard School of Music where he received his doctorate. He is a noted champion of living composers and modern music including Hans Werner Henze, William Bolcom, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, Philip Glass, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron Copland. - Rob Ashford
Rob Ashford (born November 19, 1959) is a Tony Award-winning American choreographer. Born in Orlando, Florida and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, Ashford studied law at Washington and Lee University. His interest in dance was spurred by his participation in Theatre West Virginia, an outdoor musical-drama group that recreated events from the Civil War during the summer months, and he transferred to Pittsburgh's Point Park University, where he studied ballet, jazz, … - Brian D'Arcy James
Brian d'Arcy James is an actor and musician from Saginaw, Michigan. He received a Tony Award nomination in 2002 for his portrayal of Sidney Falco in the production of "Sweet Smell of Success" on Broadway, co-starring with John Lithgow. He also received an Obie Award for his performance in the one-man play "The Good Thief" by Conor McPherson. Brian's other Broadway credits include "Titanic", Lincoln Center's "Carousel", … - David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright, best known for "Fuddy Meers" and for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama "Rabbit Hole". He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in a family of five he describes as "very blue collar." His mother was a factory worker and his father worked for the Chelsea fruit market. He attended Boston public schools until the seventh grade, when he received a six-year scholarship to the Milton Academy, … - Esther Phillips
Esther Mae Jones who performed as Little Esther and as Esther Phillips, was an American singer; she performed in the pop, country, jazz, and rhythm and blues fields, including soul music. Born in Galveston, Texas, she entered an amateur contest in 1949 at Johnny Otis's Barrelhouse Club in Los Angeles. Otis was so impressed that he recorded her for Modern Records and added her, billed as Little Esther, to his travelling revue, … - Terell Stafford
Terell Stafford is a professional jazz trumpet player and current Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University. Terell Stafford born in Miami, Florida and raised in both Chicago, Illinois and Silver Spring, Maryland. He went on to get a degree in music education from University of Maryland in 1988 and a degree in classical trumpet performance from Rutgers University in 1993. - Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943 in New York City) is American actress and singer, best known for her Tony Award-winning work in "Hallelujah, Baby!" Uggams first started in show business as a child in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on the television series "Beulah". She was a regular on "Sing Along with Mitch", starring record producer/conductor Mitch Miller. - George Hearn
George Hearn (born June 18, 1934, in St. Louis, Missouri), is an American actor and singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre. Hearn studied philosophy at Southwestern University before he embarked on a career in the theater, training for the stage with legendary actress turned acting coach Irene Dailey. Most of Hearn's early performances were in traditional productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival and theaters at Lincoln Center. - Charles Burnett
Charles Burnett (b. April 13 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker, educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. Burnett's style is rarely violent and his most original work concentrates on the lives of the African American middle class. His first feature, "Killer of Sheep" (1977), was made while he was a graduate student at UCLA. - Kevin Adams
KEVIN ADAMS (b. 1962 in Pampa, Texas) is an American theatrical lighting designer, scenic designer and visual artist. In 2007 he received a Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for Spring Awakening (musical). Other productions he has designed include Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Passing Strange, Take Me Out (play), Betty's Summer Vacation, Some Men and solo shows for Anna Deveare Smith, Eve Ensler, Eric Bogosian, John Leguizamo, John Fleck and Rachel Rosenthal. - Michael Weiss
Pianist, composer Michael Weiss, best known for his fifteen year association with saxophonist Johnny Griffin, has forged a solid reputation accompanying jazz luminaries such as Art Farmer, Charles McPherson, Slide Hampton, George Coleman, the Heath brothers, the Jazztet, Lou Donaldson, Pepper Adams, Bill Hardman, Junior Cook, Wynton Marsalis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. In 2000 he was the grandprize winner in the BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute's Composers Competition. - Gregory Mosher
Gregory Mosher presently serves as Director of the Columbia University Arts Initiative. He is a Tony Award-winning director and producer of nearly two hundred stage productions – at the Lincoln Center and Goodman Theatres, on and off-Broadway, at the Royal National Theatre, and in the West End. He is also a film and television director, producer, and writer. - Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark, best known as Mary Higgins Clark, (b December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels currently residing in New York City, New York. Each of her twenty-four suspense novels has been a bestseller in the United States and in various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, "Where Are The Children", … - Stew
Stew (Mark Stewart, born 1961) is a critcally acclaimed singer/songwriter from Los Angeles. In the early 1990s he formed a band called The Negro Problem and later went on to release albums under his own name. His 2000 release "Guest Host" was named Album of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and his 2002 album "The Naked Dutch Painter and Other Songs" repeated that feat. - Rudolf Bing
Sir Rudolf Bing (January 9, 1902 - September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born opera impresario. Bing was General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972. He was Knighted in 1971. Born Rudolf Franz Joseph Bing in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a well-to-do Jewish family (his father was an industrialist) Bing studied at the University of Vienna and as a young man worked in theatrical and concert agencies. - Natalia Makarova
Nataliya Romanovna Makarova is a retired ballet dancer. She was born November 21, 1940 in Leningrad in the USSR. When she was 13, she auditioned for the Vaganova Ballet Academy, and was accepted despite being significantly older than most applicants. She was a permanent member of the troupe with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad from 1956 to 1970, holding her status as primaballerina during the 1960s. She made the decision to defect to the West while on tour in 1970, … - Charles Wadsworth
Charles Wadsworth is a classical pianist and musical promoter. In 1960, he gained international renown by originating the Midday Concerts at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He also started the chamber music concert series at the Spoleto Festival USA, which he directs, performs at and hosts. In 1969, Wadsworth performed the opening concerts at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. He led the series for twenty seasons, commissioning new works by Pierre Boulez, … - Larry Bryggman
Larry Bryggman (born Arvid Laurence Bryggman on December 21, 1938) is an American actor.
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