Annual Report 2012–13 Summer at Lincoln Center attracted tens of thousands of people to Damrosch Park for magical nights under the stars. Lincoln Center 1 Now that the transformation of the Lincoln Center campus is This initiative leverages the knowledge and experience of our Introduction: Jed Bernstein complete, there is a natural inclination to look back with pride professional staff to advise clients on the establishment and and gratitude to the friends who made this multi-year, operation of performing arts centers around the world. Our first Jed Bernstein, will succeed Reynold Levy as Lincoln Center‘s new $1.2 billion project a reality. major consulting project has been successfully completed in president in January 2014. Tianjin, China, leading to new clients in many other parts of the Jed is a native New Yorker with a lifetime passion for the arts, From the stunning architecture of the redesigned Alice Tully Hall, world, and opening additional new opportunities for international and extensive experience in producing, arts administration and to the visitor services and community resources offered at the artistic exchange. education, fundraising, and the use of digital platforms to expand David Rubenstein Atrium and the serenity of inviting green spaces, the reach of the performing arts. For the past seven years, Jed was the campus reaffirms our role as the world’s leading center for the While reaching out in new directions, we remain committed to president of Above the Title Entertainment, a theater/television performing arts and arts education. It also makes Lincoln Center a producing and presenting the very best performing arts. That production company and marketing consultancy. As an independent welcoming visitor destination. commitment was gloriously in evidence during the 2012–2013 Broadway producer, he received a Tony Award for the revival of Hair, and most recently produced Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway, Reynold Levy Katherine Farley season. Classical favorites and cutting-edge contemporary the West End, and in Australia. Since 2011 he has simultaneously Buoyed by critical praise and public enthusiasm for the revitalized performances brought large and enthusiastic audiences to our played a central role in the financial and creative restructuring and campus, the logical question is “What’s next?” How do we continue concert halls and public spaces. You can enjoy season highlights renovation of the iconic Bucks County Playhouse, where he served to build on Lincoln Center's unwavering mission of providing the on the pages that follow. as producing director. finest performing arts to the widest possible audience? The season also found us preparing for an important transition As president of the Broadway League for 11 years, he led more than 500 members nationally, a role that required a collaborative style One way is through the expansion of arts education and in our leadership. At the end of January 2014, Reynold Levy of leadership. His work on digital platforms included the launches community engagement, areas that have been integral parts of will step down after serving nearly 12 years as president. of the Internet Broadway Database, the number-one theatrical Lincoln Center from the very beginning. Lincoln Center Education Jed Bernstein, a dynamic, entrepreneurial arts executive, theater industry data resource, and TonyAwards.com. During his 15 years (LCE) is moving forward with a number of new programs, some producer and arts educator, will become Lincoln Center’s ninth in the marketing and advertising industry, Jed led creative teams bringing more New York City children to Lincoln Center and president. We know you will join us in welcoming Jed to his and worked closely with corporate clients such as IBM, American others bringing Lincoln Center to more City schools. Arts in the new role. Express, and Seagrams. He has been a successful fundraiser for his Middle, for example, is a pilot program where LCE partners with many theatrical productions, for the Broadway League, and for the six middle schools that previously had little or no arts education. He will be taking the reins of an institution that is financially Bucks County Playhouse. We have deepened our work with educators across the U.S. and sound and creatively thriving. Institutions do not reach that kind in other countries while continuing to develop programs at home of status independently, and Lincoln Center’s vibrancy reflects on our New York campus. LCE’s arts-based approach to learning the support of our committed friends. We want to thank you for also has led to the creation of six public charter high schools in placing your confidence in us and for your generous support as the Bronx and Brooklyn, with plans for 12 additional charter high we have continued to expand the ways we deliver on our mission. schools citywide through our partnership with the New York City We also want to express our appreciation to the City of New Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools. York, which remains our leading public sector champion and has helped us broaden our scope as a civic asset for this great city. Creative digital initiatives increasingly connect 21st century audiences with Lincoln Center’s creative energy. This summer we Together, our patrons, artists, board members, neighbors and Jed Bernstein launched an online video portal accessible through the Lincoln friends make up the Lincoln Center community. We look forward Center website that streams live performances and provides to what this community can accomplish in the years ahead. access to online videos, including interviews with Lincoln Center artists. Live From Lincoln Center, our popular public television performance series, has been expanded and is now hosted by multiple Tony Award–winner Audra McDonald, a frequent Lincoln Center performer. The development of new business initiatives consistent with our Katherine Farley Reynold Levy mission is helping to reinforce Lincoln Center’s strong financial Chair President position. Lincoln Center Global, the worldwide consulting practice we established several years ago, has grown significantly. 2 Lincoln Center Lincoln Center 3 Table of Contents Performance Season 6 Lincoln Center Overview 24 Lincoln Center Education, Community, and Free Programming 26 Donors 30 Annual Supporters 35 Looking Forward 42 Financial Statements 44 Board of Directors 48 Enthusiastic fans leapt from their seats for American Songbook’s Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman. 4 Lincoln Center Lincoln Center 5 “ A triumphant realization of a challenging work…For sheer productions values, Michaels Reise is arresting as anything Performance you will see in an opera house.” —New York Times Season Live performance is at the heart of Lincoln Center, and the from renowned pianist Emanuel Ax to violinist and rising star 2012–13 season hummed with the excitement of superb Isabelle Faust. Continuing the Festival’s broad exploration programming on a resplendent, reimagined campus. of its namesake genius, this year spotlighted Mozart’s influence on the music of Beethoven, surveyed contemporary A highlight of the Great Performers season was the New composers with the International Contemporary Ensemble, York premiere of John Adams’s The Gospel According to the and presented such quintessential Mozart evenings as an Other Mary with the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by a fiery inventively staged concert version of Le nozze di Figaro with Gustavo Dudamel. Keyboard enthusiasts were treated to the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the baton and direction virtuoso recitals by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and András Schiff, of Iván Fischer. and baritone Simon Keenlyside thrilled audiences in the title role of Berg’s opera Wozzeck. Lincoln Center Festival’s extraordinary international lineup of multidisciplinary events unfolded in six venues both on and off Broadway stars Kristin Chenoweth and legendary singer/ campus, with 62 performances by artists and ensembles from songwriter Valerie Simpson headlined a glowing American 10 countries. In addition to director Chen Shi-Zheng’s fantastical Songbook season in The Allen Room. This year, the program production of a Chinese folktale, Monkey: Journey to the West, expanded to an adventurous new series of intimate concerts there were concerts by Sinead O’Connor, John Zorn and the in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Mongolian band Hanggai; the North American premiere of The White Light Festival explored the human body as a vehicle Complicite’s theater work Shun-Kin; and the American premiere for transcendence with dance premieres from London’s Akram of Stockhausen’s seminal Michaels Reise um die Erde. Khan Company and Ireland’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre. In July and August, Lincoln Center Out of Doors filled our The roster of global artistry included choirs from Latvia and plazas with more than 100 free performances of music, dance, Georgia as well as repertoire from Mahler to Arvo Pärt. Post- theater, and commissioned works, including a world premiere concert White Light Lounges, where concertgoers mingle and from Mark Dendy Dance & Theater Projects, three New York greet the artists, returned as part of the White Light experience. debuts as part of Festival au Désert: Caravan for Peace, and a Summer at Lincoln Center began with the outdoor dance special week-long Kronos Quartet at 40 anniversary celebration. party Midsummer Night Swing marking its 25th anniversary An expanded Live From Lincoln Center television series on of live music under the stars. For three weeks, top bands from PBS welcomed the incomparable five-time Tony-winner Audra New York and around the world called thousands of joyful feet McDonald as its new host, reaching millions of viewers with to dance in Damrosch Park. Tango, salsa, and swing were all enhanced digital platforms. The New York Philharmonic part of the revelry, featuring Wynton Marsalis, Arturo O’Farrill, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, earning Emmy® and the wildly popular Silent Discos, where music can only be nominations, a star-studded New Year’s Eve tribute to Marvin heard through the dancers’ headphones.