2004

Raymonda
Jan 18 and 19
American Ballet Theatre

Balanchine: The Early Years
Jan 25 and 26
New York City Ballet, Todd Bolender, Peter Martins, and Nancy Reynolds

Small Tragedy
Feb 1 and 2
Playwrights Horizons, Craig Lucas, Wallace Shawn, and Mark Wing-Davey

Bachianas Brasileiras
Feb 8 and 9
Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, Serena Benedetti, and Roberto Minczuk

Chamber Works of Menachem Zur
Feb 16
The Group for Contemporary Music, Charles Wuorinen, and Menachem Zur

Coppélia
Feb 22 and 23
American Ballet Theatre and Frederic Franklin

Volpone
Feb 29 and Mar 1
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Mark Campbell, and John Musto

Balanchine: The Middle Years
Mar 7 and 8
American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Melissa Hayden, and Maria Tallchief

Mourning Becomes Electra
Mar 15
New York City Opera and Nimet Habachy

Ermione
Mar 29
New York City Opera

Balanchine: The Late Years
Apr 18 and 19
New York City Ballet, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo, and Karin von Aroldingen

Frederick Ashton: A Celebration
Apr 25 and 26
American Ballet Theatre and Georgina Parkinson

Three Classical Heroines
May 6
Michelle DeYoung, Jonathan Scheffer, and Francesca Zambello

Trisha Brown: New Works
Jun 6 and 7
Trisha Brown Dance Company

Paul Auster: Poetry and Music
Sept 12 and 13
Paul Auster and the Group for Contemporary Music

Plan B
Sept 18 and 19
Big Dance Theater, Paul Lazar, and Annie-B Parson

Dialogues of the Carmelites–New Visions
Sept 27
New York City Opera

American Ballet Theatre and Christopher Wheeldon
Oct 3 and 4
American Ballet Theatre and Christopher Wheeldon

Young Concert Artists
Oct 24 and 25
Mason Bates, Kenji Bunch, the Claremont Trio, the Extension Ensemble, Hsing-Ay Hsu, Daniel Kellogg, Kevin Puts, and Fred Sherry

Bioethics and the Mind in the New Genetic Age
Nov 7 and 8
Robert Klitzman

Balanchine Continued . . .
Nov 14 and 15
Ib Andersen, Ballet Arizona, and Lourdes López

Two Gentlemen of Verona
Nov 21 and 22
John Guare and Galt McDermot

The Nutcracker Sweet: A Family Holiday Benefit at the Guggenheim Museum
Dec 6
New York City Ballet

Holiday Concert
Dec 18 and 19
George Steel and the Vox Vocal Ensemble

 

2003

Dance as Ever
Jan 26 and 27
Peter Boal and Leigh Witchel

My Life with Albertine
Feb 2 and 3
Playwright's Horizon
Ricky Ian Gordon and Richard Nelson

Dancers & Competitions
Feb 9 and 10
American Ballet Theatre

A Little Night Music
Feb 24
New York City Opera, Scott Ellis, Phillip Gainsley, Stephen Sondheim, and Susan Stroman

Tiffany Mills Company
Mar 2 and 3
The Tiffany Mills Company, Trisha Brown, Tiffany Mills, Ela Troyano, and John Zorn

An Evening with Tan Dun
Mar 6
CAMI Hall
Columbia Artists Management and Tan Dun

The Ensemble Alternance
Mar 9 and 10
The Ensemble Alternance, Philippe Manoury, Jean-Luc Menet, and Philippe Schoeller

Marc-André Dalbavie
Mar 15 and 16
Lionheart, Marc-André Dalbavie, and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Little Women
Mar 17
New York City Opera, Mark Adamo, and John Corigliano

Matthew Barney & Jonathan Bepler
Mar 30 and 31
Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler

Look Again: American Ballet Theatre's Corps de Ballet
Apr 6 and 7
American Ballet Theatre and Susan Jones

A Rose by Any Other Name . . .
Apr 27 and 28
American Ballet Theatre and Gillaume Graffin

Compañía de la Danza Narciso Medina
May 4 and 5
Cuban Artists Fund and Narciso Medina

Shen Wei Dance Arts
May 11 and 12
Shen Wei Dance Arts

Richard Festinger & Denis Johnson
May 18 and 19
The Group for Contemporary Music, Richard Festinger, Denis Johnson, and Amy Burton

William Christie–An Interpreter's Methods
Jun 12
Les Arts Florissants and William Christie

Two Takes on the Orphan of Zhao
Jun 29 and 30
Lincoln Center Festival, David Greenspan, Stephin Merritt, Nigel Redden, and Chen Shi-Zheng

Lucia di Lammermoor
Sept 8
New York City Opera and Nimet Habachy

Bright Lights Big City
Sept 14 and 15
Paul Scott Goodman and Jay McInerney

La Finta Giardiniera
Sept 22
New York City Opera and Himet Habachy

Antony Tudor Ballets
Sept 28 and 29
American Ballet Theatre

Stanley Kunitz: A Celebration
Oct 19 and 20
Stanley Kunitz, Andy Bey, and The Group for Contemporary Music

Ned Rorem: 80th Birthday Celebration
Oct 24
The New York Festival of Song

Balanchine's Lost Choreography
Nov 16 and 17
Frederic Franklin, Maria Tallchief, Nikolaj Hübbe, and Nancy Reynolds

Alladeen
Nov 23 and 24
The Builders Association, motiroti, and Marianne Weems

Professor Murray Gell-Mann: The Regular and the Random
Dec 7 and 8
Murray Gell-Mann

The Further Adventures of Monkey
Dec 14 and 15
Fred Ho and Rebecca Lazier

Choral Music for the Holidays
Dec 20 and 21
Vox Vocal Ensemble and George Steel

 

2002

American Ballet Theatre–Latin Stars
Feb 3 and 4
José Manuel Carreño, Marcelo Gomes, and Paloma Herrera

Batsheva Dance Company
Feb 11 and 12
Batsheva Dance Company and Ohad Naharin

The Carolina Ballet
Feb 24 and 25
Andrea Marcovicci, Glenn Mehrbach, Robert Weiss, and Lynne Taylor-Corbett

Synch or Swim
Mar 3 and 4
Andrew Asnes and John Selya

Agrippina
Mar 18
New York City Opera
John Conklin, Cori Ellison, Lillian Groag, Brenda Harris, and David Walker

The Glass Blowers
Apr 1
New York City Opera
Christopher Alden, June LeBell, and Jonathan Sheffer

Poetry Speaks
Apr 15
Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, Elise Paschen, and Sonia Sánchez

American Ballet Theatre–The Theater of Dance
Apr 21 and 22
Victor Barbee, Guillaume Graffin, Julie Kent, and Georgina Parkinson

Ricky Ian Gordon
Apr 28 and 29
Ricky Ian Gordon, Audra McDonald, Richard Nelson, and Ted Sperling

Young America
May 5
The Juilliard Theater
Juilliard Theater Symphony and New York Concert Singers, Judith Clurman Delan, Gordon Getty and Efrain Guigui, Charles Ketcham, and Ralph Wells

The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS
May 5 and 6
The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, John Corigliano, Joseph Dalton, Anthony de Mare, and Fred Hersch

Celebrating Les Murray
Jun 2 and 3
The Group for Contemporary Music, Jason Eckhardt, Ricky Ian Gordon, Jo Kondo, Les Murray, Wayne Peterson, and Charles Wuorinen

The Diamond Project
Jun 23 and 24
György Ligeti, Jock Soto, Christopher Wheeldon, and Wendy Whelan

Ta'ziyeh
Jun 30 and Jul. 1
Lincoln Center Festival
Mohammad Ghaffari

Dead Man Walking
Sept 9
New York City Opera, David Del Tredici, Leonard Foglia, Jake Heggie, and Terrence McNally

Three Tales
Oct 6 and 7
Beryl Korot and Steve Reich

The Haroun Songbook
Oct 13 and 14
The Group for Contemporary Music, New York City Opera, James Fenton, Salman Rushdie, and Charles Wuorinen

Les Larmes du Couteau
Oct 27 and 28
Henry Street Chamber Opera and Neal Goren

Charles L. Mee & Tony Kushner
Nov 3 and 4
New York Theater Workshop, Tony Kushner, Charles Mee, and James C. Nicola

A Celebration of Derek Walcott
Nov 10 and 11
Milton Babbitt, Jason Robert Brown, Tania León/Bernard Rands, Derek Walcott, and Charles Wuorinen

A Richard Rodgers Tribute
Nov 24 and 25
American Ballet Theatre, Lar Lubovitch, and Brian MacDevitt

Velocity
Dec 8 and 9
Scott Ardizzone, Mark Lonergan, John Socas, and Brian Torrell

Choral Music for the Holidays
Dec 20 and 21
Vox Vocal Ensemble and George Steel

 

2001

American Ballet Theatre & Mark Morris
Jan 21 and 22
American Ballet Theatre, Isaac Mizrahi, and Mark Morris

John Hollander/Milton Babbitt and Alice Fulton/Anthony Cornicello
Feb 3 and 4
The Group for Contemporary Music, Milton Babbitt, Anthony Cornicello, Alice Fulton, John Hollander, and Lucy Shelton

Vertigo Dance Company
Feb 11 and 12
92nd Street Y, Harkness Dance Project, Adi Sha'al, and Noa Wertheim

Rigoletto La Boheme
Feb 26
New York City Opera

Pierre Boulez as Composer
Mar 5
Ensemble Sospeso, Alice Tully Hall, and Pierre Boulez

Acis and Galatea
Mar 12
New York City Opera

Pam Tanowitz/Open 24 Hours Dance Company
Mar 18 and 19
Tom Gold, Dan Siegler, and Pam Tanowitz

The Ballad of Baby Doe
Mar 25 and 26
New York City Opera, Colin Graham, and George Manahan

William Styron
Apr 5
Cooper Union

About Staging a Major Revival
Apr 8
Jude Kelly, Stephen Sondheim, and Matthew Warchus

American Ballet Theatre–The Pied Piper
Apr 22 and 23
American Ballet Theatre, John Corigliano, and David Parsons

The Universe of Philippe Decouflé
Apr 29
Patrick Bensard and Philippe Decouflé

Celebrating John Ashbery
May 13 and 14
The Group for Contemporary Music, John Ashbery, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lee Hyla, Peter Lieberson, Charles Wuorinen, and John Zorn

The Brave New Word
Jun 3 and 4
Loss Pequeño Glazier, Michael Joyce, Andruid Kern, Jennifer Ley, Stuart Moulthrop, Janet Murray, Anna Rabinowitz, Stephanie Strickland, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Eric Zimmerman

Prometheus
Jun 28
Robert Wilson

Shunkin
Sept 9
Glenn Branca, Cynthia Hopkins, Paul Lazar, Annie-B Parsons, and Junichiro Tanizaki

The Capulets and the Montagues and The Mikado
Sept 10
New York City Opera and Jonathan Miller

Ensemble Alternance
Sept 23 and 24
Ensemble Alternance, Simon Holt, Philippe Manoury, Bruno Mantovani, and Philippe Schoeller

Blood on the Floor
Sept 28 and 29
The Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Absolute Ensemble, Bruce Arnold, Peter Epstein, Peter Erskine, Kristjan Järvi, and Mark-Anthony Turnage

American Ballet Theatre—Stanton Welch
Oct 7 and 8
Stanton Welch

Richard Wilbur–Poetry and Theater
Part 1 - Guggenheim Museum
Theater and Translations
Part 2 - The Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Oct 14 and 15
Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Karl Kirchwey, and J. D. McClatchy

The Return of Ulysses and Lilith
Oct 22
The Colony Club
New York City Opera

Homebody/Kabul
Oct 28 and 29
New York Theater Workshop, Declan Donnellan, Tony Kushner, and Nick Ormerod

Brazil! Dance, Music & Spirit
Nov 4 and 5

American Ballet Theatre–Toward the Stars
Nov 11 and 12
American Ballet Theatre

From the Amazon River to Philip Glass
Nov 19 and 20
The Uakti Ensemble, Philip Glass, and Heitor Villa-Lobos

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Dec 2 and 3
Aureole Trio
Richard Rodney Bennett, Mary Cleere Haran, and Fred Sherry

The Music of Colonial Brazil
Dec 16 and 17
The Vox Vocal Ensemble, Gotham City Baroque Orchestra, and George Steel

 

2000

Eric Moe & Augusta Read Thomas
Jan 30 and 31
Christine Brandes, J. Karla Lemon, Eric Moe, and Augusta Read Thomas

A Dancer's Home: Why American Ballet Theatre
Feb 6 and 7
American Ballet Theatre, Peter Gallagher, Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent, Kevin McKenzie, and Martine van Hammel

Donald Byrd/The Group
Feb 13 and 14
Donald Byrd

Avila/Weeks Dance Company
Feb 27 and 28
Homer Avila, Celia Ipiotis, and Edisa Weeks

Oliver Knussen and Julian Anderson
Mar 3 and 4
Julian Anderson, Oliver Knussen, and Lucy Shelton

The Mother of Us All & La Clemenza di Tito
Mar 6
New York City Opera and Lauren Flanigan

Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Mar 13
Jude Kelly and Patrick Stewart

A French Playwright in NY
Mar 20
Jean-Marie Besset

New York City Opera/Platée
Mar 26 and 27
New York City Opera, Amy Burton, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Isaac Mizrahi, and Mark Morris

Strings and Strings
Apr 4
The Emerson String Quartet and Brian Greene

Twyla Tharp & American Ballet Theatre
Apr 9 and 11
American Ballet Theatre and Twyla Tharp

Mounting a New "Swan Lake"
Apr 16 and 17
Elizabeth Kaye and Kevin McKenzie

1900: Music at the Crossroads
May 22
John Beeson, Jane Bunnell, Amy Burton, George Cordes, Cori Ellison, Vivien Greene, Paul Kellogg, and Robert Rosenblum

Prometheus
Jun 25 and 26
Robert Wilson

Philip Glass
Sept 11
Music at the Anthology, Philip Glass, Kusumita Pederson, and The Very Rev. James Parks Morton

What Price Confidence
Sept 18
Elysium and Gregorij H. von Lëitis

Rinaldo/The Love for Three Oranges
Oct 2
New York City Opera

Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
Oct 7 and 8
Cleveland Orchestra and Marc-André Dalbavie

From Petipa to Balanchine
Oct 15 and 16
New York City Ballet
Suki Schorer

American Ballet Theatre & Christian Holder
Oct 22 and 23
American Ballet Theatre, Christian Holder, Susan Jaffe, Kevin McKenzie, and Ethan Stiefel

The Gogmagogs Gobbledygook
Oct 29 and 30
The Gogmagogs and Lucy Bailey

Marrying the Hangman
Nov 5 and 6
Psappha Ensemble, Ronald Caltabiano, and Phyllis Bryn Julson

Xtravaganza
Dec 10 and 11
The Builders Association and Marianne Weems