Video Vignettes

Live from Lincoln Center opens its virtual online stage door for a personal visit with performers from its broadcasts.

• Joshua Bell and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra – August 12, 2009:
  Click here to view The Making of a Musician: Joshua Bell
  
  
• New York City Ballet: Romeo + Juliet – May 21, 2009:
  Click on the links below to learn more about the making of Peter Martins’ full-length staging of this intensely powerful work.
  Weapons Training
  Dancing the Leads
  Reinterpreting the Score
  
  
• Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis:
  March 26, 2009:
  Click on the links below to hear jazz legend Wynton Marsalis discuss the inspiration, improvisational techniques, and scores used in jazz music.
  Wynton at Home on the Road
  Wynton Knows the Score
  By Arrangement
  Promo
  
  
• New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve Concert with Susan Graham and Lorin Maazel: December 31, 2008:
  Click on the links below to hear Music Director Lorin Maazel discuss how a Maestro conducts himself with his orchestral colleagues and reminisces about previous music directors of the New York Philharmonic.
  How a Maestro Conducts Himself …
  Maazel Remembers
  
  
• Shaham @ the Penthouse: November 20, 2008:
  Click on the link below to learn more about the broadcast and hear Gil Shaham discuss the life and influence of Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate.
  Promo
  Gil Shaham on Pablo de Sarasate
  Niccolo Paganini and Pablo de Sarasate
  
  
• Madama Butterfly performed by New York City Opera: March 20, 2008:
  Click on the links below to learn more about the real Madam Butterfly and how her story became the subject of a play by David Belasco.
  There Really Was A Madam Butterfly
  Butterfly & Belasco
  
  
• I Can’t Believe It’s Schoenberg! with Rob Kapilow and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: January 10, 2008:
  Click HERE to learn more about What Makes It Great?, hosted by Rob Kapilow
  
  
• New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve Gala with Joshua Bell: December 31, 2007:
  Click HERE to view The Making of a Musician: Joshua Bell
  
  
• Red Hot Holiday Stomp with Wynton Marsalis & Friends: December 10, 2007:
  Click HERE to view Maya Angelou and Wynton Marsalis discuss their collaboration on the piece Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul and the history of African-American music.
  
  
• New York Philharmonic Opening Night Concert with Yo-Yo Ma: September 18, 2007:
  Click on the links below to learn more about the cello and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto. Explore the inner workings of a cello as it is dismantled and view interview footage of Yo-Yo Ma and performance footage of the New York Philharmonic.
  
  This Old Cello …
  Almost Everything You Should Know about Dvorak’s Cello Concerto
  
  
• Mozart Dances – Mark Morris Dance Group: August 16, 2007:
  Click on the links below to view interviews with Mark Morris and rehearsal footage of the Mark Morris Dance Group as they prepare to perform Mozart Dances, as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival.
  
  Notes for a Dancer
  Taking Sides
  Slow Movement 27
  
  
• Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year’s Eve with Members of the New York Philharmonic: December 31, 2006:
  Click HERE to view Audra McDonald discuss performing well-known music from the movies.
  
  
• New York Philharmonic Opening Night Program: September 13, 2006:
  Click HERE to view pianists Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman discuss playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos.
  
  
• Mostly Mozart Festival: 40th Anniversary Gala Opening Night Program: August 2, 2006:
  Click HERE to view pianist Garrick Ohlsson talk about how to make the piano sing and play Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26. Maestro Louis Langrée discusses Mozart.
  
  
• The Juilliard School: Celebrating 100 Years, April 3, 2006:
  Click HERE to view Renée Fleming and Juilliard President Joseph Polisi talk with our producer John Goberman about studying voice and choosing an instrument.
  
  
• New York Philharmonic: An Evening of Firsts, September 22, 2005:
  Click HERE to view pianist Lang Lang talk about Chopin’s First Piano Concerto, Maestro Lorin Maazel discuss the art of composition and video vignettes about playing the timpani, and the nature of Mahler.
  
  
• Mostly Mozart: A Concert at Mozart’s House: July 28, 2005:
  Click HERE to view soprano Renée Fleming talk about Mozart and Handel arias, to view conductor Louis Langrée discuss about what a concert at Mozart's house was like, and Mozart’s letters about the music business in the 18th century.
  
  
• New York Philharmonic: Shaham’s Sibelius: June 15, 2005:
  Click HERE to view violinist Gil Shaham talk about the difficulties of the Sibelius Violin Concerto, as well as watch a vignette about Sibelius.