Live from Lincoln Center Wins Tenth Emmy Award from the Academy of Televison Arts and Science.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 2003 Live From Lincoln Center Live from Lincoln Center is an ongoing series of musical performances produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with Thirteen/WNET in New York City. , Executive Producer John Goberman and Supervising Producer Marc Bauman, has won its tenth Emmy Award Emmy award Annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. Its name is taken from the nickname “immy” for the image orthicon, a television camera tube. , taking top honors in the category of Best Classical Music-Dance Program. The series won for its September 1, 2002 telecast of the Lincoln Center Lincoln Center New York’s modern theater complex. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1586] See : Theater Theater's musical "Contact." "Contact" won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2000. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. John Goberman: "This Emmy recognizes the strength of Lincoln Center, as a place where some of the major performing arts companies in the world are concentrated. Lincoln Center has always provided a critical mass of the best, and all of us at Lincoln Center are honored by this award." Live From Lincoln Center, produced by Lincoln Center's John Goberman, directed by Kirk Browning, and hosted by Beverly Sills, has made the world's greatest artists accessible to home viewers in virtually every corner of the United States. Approximately six major Lincoln Center performances are televised to a national audience of millions each year. In addition to its nine Emmy Awards and fifty Emmy nominations, Live From Lincoln Center has won two Peabody Awards, two Grammy Awards, three Monitor Awards, a Television Critics Circle Award, and many others. John Goberman launched Live From Lincoln Center 27 years ago, when he developed the video and audio techniques and technology by which concerts, opera, ballets and plays can be telecast during live performances without disruption of performances and audiences. He has received ten Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, six Sigma Alpha Iota (language, specification) Iota - A specification language. ["The Iota Programming System", R. Nakajima er al, Springer 1983]. Awards, and the first Television Critics Circle Award for Achievement in Music. He has produced numerous opera, ballet and concert telecasts from major performing arts institutions both here and abroad and has produced The White House: In Tune with History a film for PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, about music at the White House. Most recently, he adapted a new score for the film Metropolis which was premiered by the National Symphony under Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center. In addition to underwriting from MetLife and New England Financial, the series is also made possible by generous support from Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum, the Robert Wood Johnson Robert Wood Johnson was the name shared by members of the family that descended from the President of Johnson & Johnson:
Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. . One of the original sponsors of Lincoln Center in the 1950's, MetLife continues its long-standing support of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is a complex of many buildings, including the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, the New York State Theater, the Juilliard , Inc. as the sponsor of Live From Lincoln Center. With this partnership, MetLife helps to bring world-class performances to millions of homes nationwide, reaffirming its commitment to making the arts accessible to the widest possible audience. Live From Lincoln Center is a presentation of Lincoln Center, which is responsible for over 350 performances produced and presented annually through such series as Great Performers, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, Lincoln Center Festival, and American Songbook. Separate from the superb offerings of the other Lincoln Center-based organizations, Lincoln Center showcases performance achievements of the highest caliber spanning diverse repertoire and disciplines, with a special emphasis on music. Other activities of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts include arts-and-education through the Lincoln Center Institute, and general support, maintenance, and coordination of the Lincoln Center campus. For more information about Live From Lincoln Center's next telecast, a presentation of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos by the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center on December 14 at 5 p.m. (check local listings), please visit Lincoln Center's website at www.lincolncenter.org. |
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