Lincoln Center Scrambles After Visa Problems

November 15, 2010, 6:00 pm

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

Visa problems have forced Lincoln Center to delay the culminating performances of its White Light Festival, dedicated to transcendence in music, until next week. “The Manganiyar Seduction,” which was scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, will now take place on Monday and Tuesday. Manganiyars are a caste of Indian musicians of Muslim origin from western Rajasthan state whose songs celebrate Hindu deities. Jane Moss, Lincoln Center’s vice president for programming and the organizer of the festival, said that visa applications were made in May and that about half of the 50-member troupe involved in the show had received visas by Oct. 13, but the rest were sent for further review by State Department officials. By Friday a dozen members still had not received visas, so the performances were postponed. Word came over the weekend that the remaining visas had been granted. The Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center was available Monday and Tuesday for the shift. Tickets can be used for the new dates, refunded or exchanged.

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A flash of Brilliance Bach before white light of the Lincoln Center Festival

Preconcert conferences go, it was enough pre. But it is excellent.

Light for the white of the Lincoln Center festival, which opens its doors on Thursday evening, extends until November 18 and one of its most notable events - premiere at the organ pipe Kuhn newly reinstall in Alice Tully Hall, with Paul Jacobs playing third Bach "Clavierübung" - great book comes later in the game, 16 novembre.Mais ago prestance m. Jacobs Wednesday evening at the console of the organ in Christ and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Street West 69th, where he was artist in residence, offering a detailed analysis of the works of Bach, with extracts copieuses.

"Some masterpieces is unknown and undeservedly so," said Mr. Jacobs, is going to be convincing in demande.Le work consists mainly of 21 Chorale Preludes (variations on the hymn tunes), followed by four duets (pieces of reversible counterpoint to both parties), all the monumental framed by a prelude and a fugue closure. As in other collections published in the last decade or his life, Bach presented treated virtually all of a given subject: in this case, the countless available techniques vary and choral songs beautification.

As noted by m. Jacobs, requires concentration, the same study, on the part of the listener to be able to follow the music of the anthem, not all familiar modern listeners, by which they are sometimes almost deliberately fragmented or submerged transmutations. ""Bach was not really interested in what people would think about this work", he said."Music is one such exalted level."Exalted to the austerity, he added, and austerity "is something that we have today in 2010 love."

This is not, in other words, gratuity instantanée.Il music was to be perhaps for this upcoming taste if long before réelle.Mais festival may want to consider consent m. Jacobs to give his presentation, once again, more closely at the time of execution.

In all cases, Mr. Jacobs will take part in discussion preconcert November 16 with Ara Guzelimian, Dean of the Juilliard School, including Mr. Jacobs credits with the idea to perform "Clavierübung" for the occasion .and if book 3 to interview Mr. Jacobs overuses the word "extraordinary" once more, it should be forgiven when all warnings are said and done, this music is truly extraordinary.

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