LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH LANG LANG FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31 @ 6:30PM & 11:30PM Each New Year’s Eve the New York Philharmonic plays a Gala Concert in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. The musical content is appropriately festive, and the stage is festooned with balloon and floral decorations. Over the years it has been the pleasure of Live From Lincoln Center...

SCHEDULE DECEMBER 30 – JANUARY 5

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GREAT PERFORMANCES

CELEBRACIÓN! GUSTAVO DUDAMEL & THE LA PHIL WITH JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ SATURDAY, JANUARY 1 @ 7:30PM Great Performances spotlights the October 7 opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel featuring renowned Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Actress Eva Mendes hosts the broadcast. In describing the conductor’s...

AMERICAN MASTERS

GLENN GOULD: GENIUS WITHIN MONDAY, DECEMBER 27 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM A profoundly enigmatic musical poet, there have been many documentaries about Glenn Gould, but they were typically sidetracked by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills and gloves and scarves – missing the man, the magic and the message behind his music. Find out more...

MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY

FRAMED SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM London’s National Gallery houses some of the world’s finest masterpieces, and its curator, Quentin Lester, wants nothing more than to live among them, distraction-free, in a pure and simple life of the mind. When the Gallery’s Victorian-era plumbing fails and floods the museum, its paintings are brought to safety in an abandoned...