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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

(Encyclopedia) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is both a complex of buildings and the arts…

Belluschi, Pietro

(Encyclopedia) Belluschi, PietroBelluschi, Pietropyĕˈtrō bəl&oomacr;ˈskē [key], 1899–1994, Italian-American civil engineer, designer, and architect. Belluschi served as dean and professor at the…

Juilliard School, The

(Encyclopedia) Juilliard School, TheJuilliard School, Thej&oomacr;lˈyärd [key], in New York City; school of music, drama, and dance; coeducational; est. 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art,…

Harrison, Wallace Kirkman

(Encyclopedia) Harrison, Wallace Kirkman, 1895–1981, American architect and city planner, b. Worcester, Mass. Harrison designed the Trylon and Perisphere, the structures that came to symbolize the…

Schuman, William

(Encyclopedia) Schuman, WilliamSchuman, Williamsh&oomacr;ˈmən [key], 1910–92, American composer, b. New York City. Schuman taught at Sarah Lawrence College (1935–45), and while president of…

Chapin, Schuyler Garrison

(Encyclopedia) Chapin, Schuyler GarrisonChapin, Schuyler Garrisonskīˈlər, chāˈpĭn [key], 1923–2009, American operatic manager and cultural impresario, b. New York City. The scion of an old and…

Broadway

(Encyclopedia) Broadway, famous thoroughfare in New York City. It extends from Bowling Green near the foot of Manhattan island N to 262d St. in the Bronx. Throughout its length Broadway is chiefly a…

Rodgers, Richard Charles

(Encyclopedia) Rodgers, Richard Charles, 1902–79, American composer, b. New York City. Rodgers studied at Columbia and the Institute of Musical Art, New York City. He met both of his future…

New York Public Library

(Encyclopedia) New York Public Library, free library supported by private endowments and gifts and by the city and state of New York. It is the one of largest libraries in the world. The library was…

New York City Ballet

(Encyclopedia) New York City Ballet (NYCB), one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th and 21st cents. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in…