SCHEDULE DECEMBER 31 – JANUARY 6

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Live from Lincoln Center

The New Year's Eve program showcases baritone Thomas Hampson (Credit: Dario Acosta). New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve: Hampson, Gershwin, Copland & Broadway THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 @ 6:00PM, 9:00PM & 11:00PM A tradition almost as venerable as Live From Lincoln Center itself is our live coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Eve concert. The...

NOVA

WHAT DARWIN NEVER KNEW TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures”1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life’s endless forms was...

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

AMERICAN MASTERS SUNDAY, MAY 20 @ 11:03PM Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, is an almost universally recognized name.  Her reputation as a morally upstanding New England spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of mid-19th century Concord, is firmly established.  Raised among reformers, iconoclasts and Transcendentalists, the intellectual protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson...

NATURE

CHRISTMAS IN YELLOWSTONE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 @ 9:00PM NATURE presents Christmas in Yellowstone, a breathtaking look at wintertime deep within America’s first national park. Stretching across more than 2.2 million acres of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho is one of the greatest expanses of unspoiled nature and wildlife anywhere on Earth, Yellowstone National Park. Designated...