White Light Festival
Photo of Sutra, choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
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| Country and Region | United States — New York |
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| Type of Festival | Dance, Music |
| Location of Festival | New York, New York, USA |
| Festival Contact Information | White Light Festival |
| Festival Description | The festival’s focus is music’s unmatched capacity to illuminate the many dimensions of our interior lives. Spanning musical traditions, genres and disciplines the festival will feature 27 performances and events and will take place in nine venues, on and off the Lincoln Center campus. Returning also are the popular post-performance White Light Lounges, where performers and audience members can meet and talk. White Light Festival opens on October 18 with ghazal and Punjabi folk songs performed by Kiran Ahluwalia, noted for the depth of character of her pliable, expressive voice, in a free concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium. The Festival closes on November 18 with Gustav Mahler’s deeply personal contemplation of death, his Ninth Symphony, as interpreted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra. |
| Festival Dates | October 18 - November 18, 2012 |
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Festival Events:
Highlights 2012:
- US premiere of Rian, performed by Ireland’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre
- Virtuoso Wang Li plays jaw harps and calabash flute
- NY premiere of choreographer Akram Khan’s Vertical Road
- Cameron Carpenter plays Bach on the Alice Tully Hall organ
- Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, arranged for chamber orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, and performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, members of the New York Philharmonic, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Russell Thomas
- Cosmic Pulses, all–Stockhausen program, performed by percussionist Stuart Gerber and sound projectionist Joe Drew
- US debut of the Latvian Radio Choir
- Mary Chapin Carpenter sings from her new album, Ashes and Roses
- Heiner Goebbels’ music/theater work I went to the house but did not enter featuring the Hilliard Ensemble
- Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 9
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- Jane Moss, White Light Festival
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