They Told Me Not to Take that Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center (62 page)
Authors: Reynold Levy
New York Observer,
on Lincoln Center politics,
2
New York Philharmonic
Avery Fisher Hall, agreement with Lincoln Center for use of,
122
Avery Fisher Hall, delay in renovation of,
248–250
Avery Fisher Hall, dissatisfaction with,
134
Carnegie Hall, historic relationship with,
131–132
Carnegie Hall, proposed merger with,
13–14
,
68
,
121–128
,
130
,
133–134
current challenges of,
136–137
fund-raising deficiency,
128–129
in Great Performers series,
108
at Lincoln Center Festival,
108
operating deficits,
229
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
fashion shows at,
171
Historic Debuts at SAB’s Workshop 75
exhibit,
109
Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years
exhibit,
109
Opera on the Air: The Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts
exhibit,
109
as part of the 65th Street Group,
70
,
72
New York State Theater (renamed David H. Koch Theater)
Balachine’s influence on,
67
dance performances in,
160
fashion shows in,
170–171
New York City Opera’s dissatisfaction with,
15
,
66–68
,
140–141
,
147
projection of
Slow Dancing
on,
62
New York Times
on Levy’s tenure at Lincoln Center,
247
on Lincoln Center redevelopment,
2
,
65
,
114
on Metropolitan Opera’s financial situation,
182
,
191
on Mostly Mozart Orchestra,
46
on need for renovation of Avery Fisher Hall,
251
on New York City Opera,
143
,
154
on New York Philharmonic’s proposed merger with Carnegie Hall,
123
,
130
on Susan Baker,
150–151
Tommasini, interview with,
153
on transformation of Alice Tully Hall,
87
New Yorker
on Lincoln Center redevelopment,
2–3
,
114
on Marclay’s
The Clock,
63
on Metropolitan Opera’s
Ring Cycle,
179
Newman, Arnold,
106
Nikolayevsky, Anna,
169
92nd Street Y,
5–7
,
26
,
225–226
,
253
Nixon, Richard,
231
Nonprofit institutions (third sector),
19
,
22
,
257–263
Oestreich, James R.,
46
O’Hara, Kelli,
39
Ohlsson, Garrick,
52
Olney, Colette Elyse,
255
Olney, Eric,
255
Opera Bastille,
184
Oppenheimer, Martin J.,
143
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
52
O’Rourke, Meghan,
63
Ouroussoff, Nicolai,
87
Ove-Andsnes, Leif,
44
Palmisano, Sam,
221
Paris Opera Ballet,
217
Park Avenue Armory,
54–56
Parr, Gary,
135
,
137
,
229
,
249
,
251
Parsons, Richard,
208–209
Paul Milstein Pool and Terrace,
38
,
51
,
59
,
75
,
171
,
299
Paulson, John,
201
Pavlick, Kathy,
86
Perahia, Murray,
52
Performing arts administrators, challenges of,
261
Pew Research Center, poll on dissatisfaction with big business and government,
20
Philharmonia Orchestra,
52
Philip Morris,
6
Phillips, Susanna,
44
Podell, Tamar,
64
Pogrebin, Robin,
2
,
123
,
130
,
150
,
210
,
247
Polisi, Joseph,
7
,
26
,
105
,
108
,
148
Polyglot Theatre,
51
Pountney, David,
54
Powell, Colin,
232
The President’s Bridge,
243
Prince, Hal,
153
Quasthoff, Thomas,
52
Quinn, Christine,
48
Ramey, Samuel,
153
Redden, Nigel,
53
,
57
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59
,
64
,
147
,
218
,
233
Remnick, David,
168
Renfro, Charles,
117
See also
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Rice, Andrew,
2
Richardson, Elliot,
231
Rieske, Phillips,
191
Rivers, Larry,
60
Robertson, Cooper,
73
Robertson, David,
14
Robertson, Julian,
201
Rockefeller, John D.,
204
Rockefeller, John D. III,
106
Rockefeller, Nelson,
200
Rockwell, John,
67
Romer, Christina,
232
Rose, Elihu,
54
Rosenthal, Lesley,
295
Ross, Arthur,
241
Ross, Steve,
117
The Royal Opera,
184
The Royal Shakespeare Company,
55
Rubenstein, Alice,
207
Rubenstein, David,
81
,
82
,
100
,
205–206
,
207
,
244
Rubin, Dan,
102
Rubins, Nancy,
61
Rupp, George,
253
Saariaho, Kaija,
44
Saint Francois d’Assise
(Messiaen),
108
Sandberg, Sheryl,
255
Santayana,
131
Schafer, Oscar,
251
Schola Cantorum,
52
School of American Ballet,
17
,
70
,
72
,
75
,
78
,
83
,
160
Schumer, Chuck,
5
Schumpeter, Joseph,
157
Schwarz, Gerard,
41
Segal, Edith,
215
Segal, Martin E.,
215–217
Serra, Richard,
60
Sharp, Peter Jay,
199
Sher, Bartlett,
180
Silk Road Ensemble,
51
Sills, Beverly
accomplishments of,
198–199
on acoustics at New York State Theater,
140–141
birthday party for,
199–200
as director of New York City Opera,
198
friendship with Mayor Bloomberg,
209–211
husband and children of,
199
as Lincoln Center board chair,
1
,
2
,
3
,
7
,
42
as president of Metropolitan Opera,
15
,
69
Silver, Shelly,
200
Simon, Robert,
132
65th Street Group,
69–72
,
73
,
83
,
87
Smith, David,
59
Smith, Steve,
46
Solomon, Deborah,
134
Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey,
224
Sony Classical,
188
Sorensen, Ted,
209
Souter, David,
221
Southern, Hugh,
103
Spitzer, Eliot,
200
Steel, George,
140
,
146–152
,
156
,
223
,
230
Stein, Peter,
57
Stengel, Casey,
124–125
Stern, Isaac,
5–6
Sternberg, Carel,
226
Strickler, James,
227
Stringer, Scott,
100
Sullivan, Margaret,
257
Swartz, Steve,
295
Sydney Theater Company,
56
Synge, J. M.,
56
Tallis, Thomas,
62
Tallis Scholars,
45
Task Force on the New York City Fiscal Crisis,
26
Taymor, Julie,
108
Tcherniakov, Dmitri,
180
Teachout, Terry,
193
Tenet, George,
232
Tetzlaff, Christian,
52
Le Theatre de Soleil,
55
Third sector (nonprofit institutions),
19
,
22
,
257–263
Tianjin, China,
40
Tiffany, John,
56
Tilson Thomas, Michael,
14
Tisch Illumination Lawn,
95
,
116
Tisch, Jon,
98
Tisch, Lizzie,
98
Toledo, Isabel,
172
Toledo, Rubin,
172
Tommasini, Anthony,
46
,
67
,
87
,
114
,
152–155
Tony Awards,
17
Trump, Donald,
112
Trustees/boards of directors