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34-396: Bar Kokhba Sextet brings together six core members of Masada under the leadership of John Zorn . An improvisational group of New York's downtown artists, the sextet includes Cyro Baptista on percussion, Marc Ribot on guitar, Greg Cohen on bass, Joey Baron on drums, Mark Feldman on violin, and Erik Friedlander on cello. According to Tzadik , Zorn's music label, the band's music

68-544: A double bill with Cecil Taylor 's New AHA 3." Nevertheless, they were scheduled to perform as the original quartet on a concert in Antwerp in Cultural Center Luchtbal on June 22, 2008 - the bill later changed with the addition of pianist Uri Caine , who performed with them the entire set, except for one song. Baron, Cohen and Douglas also joined the duo of Mike Patton and John Zorn the evening before, at

102-619: A mini festival. Tzadik has released a series of CDs of these songs played by various ensembles, including the Masada String Trio , Marc Ribot , Koby Israelite , Erik Friedlander and others as the "Masada Book 2: The Book of Angels" collection. As of early 2007, according to the Tzadik website, "Together for close to fifteen years, John Zorn's Masada Quartet is officially breaking up and will be performing two of their last live concerts ever at Lincoln Center March 9th and 10th on

136-669: A renovation. The main auditorium was renamed the Tsai Hall after a $ 50 million donation from Joseph Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai . Architects who designed buildings at the center include: The center has 30 indoor and outdoor performance facilities including: The center serves as home for eleven resident arts organizations: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) is one of the eleven resident organizations, and serves as presenter of artistic programming, leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of

170-413: A set of 100 "songs" notated within a limited number of staves and confined to specific modes or scales , Zorn's Masada project would eventually total 613 compositions divided into three specific "books". Zorn used Hebrew titles for these compositions along with melodic themes and musical structures reminiscent of klezmer music, and Jewish imagery on album covers to explore Jewish identity within

204-518: A sloping lawn roof, the film center is part of a new pavilion that also houses a destination restaurant named Lincoln, as well as offices. Subsequent projects were added which addressed improvements to the main plazas and Columbus Avenue Grand Stairs. Under the direction of the Lincoln Center Development Project, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in association with FXFOWLE Architects and Beyer Blinder Belle Architects provided

238-509: Is "Sephardic exotica for young moderns". The Bar Kokhba album, recorded from 1994 to 1996, started Zorn's transition into his second Masada Book, The Book of Angels. This article on a United States band or other musical ensemble is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Masada (band) Masada was the first ensemble to perform Zorn's compositions inspired by Radical Jewish Culture and written to be performed by small groups of musicians. Initially envisioned as

272-551: Is Electric Masada. Drawing on Zorn's wide-ranging stylistic influences, the band takes the Masada songbook into a whole new direction, reminiscent of jazz fusion and noise rock . The group, which includes Baron, Ribot, Wollesen, and Cyro Baptista, from previous Masada groups, as well as Trevor Dunn on bass, Jamie Saft on keyboards and Ikue Mori on laptop/electronics, continue to take the Masada themes and transform them into something entirely new. Zorn uses hand signals to conduct

306-542: Is credited with raising more than half of the $ 184.5 million in private funds needed to build the complex, including drawing from his own funds; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund also contributed to the project. Numerous architects were hired to build different parts of the center (see § Architects ). The center's first three buildings, David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall, originally named Philharmonic Hall), David H. Koch Theater (formerly

340-531: The Knitting Factory (1993) and at Tonic (2001) . The quartet released a live DVD in 1999, another recording from Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration Series and a double CD of unreleased studio recordings, Sanhedrin 1994–1997 in 2005. By the end of 2004, Zorn had composed over 300 new tunes for the "second" Masada songbook. Some of the new tunes were debuted at Tonic in December 2004, as

374-938: The Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan . It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic , the Metropolitan Opera , the New York City Ballet , the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Juilliard School . A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under

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408-600: The Secret Chiefs 3 the Bar Kokhba Sextet, Medeski Martin & Wood , Pat Metheny , 'The Spike Orchestra' (a big band) arranged by Sam Eastmond & Nikki Franklin, and most recently in 2016, Flaga (a piano trio) On March 19, 2014, the first 20 compositions of a third Masada book were performed live at The Town Hall in New York . The total number of compositions in the third book is 92, which brings

442-709: The British architect Norman Foster in 2005, but did not approve a full scale redesign until 2012, in part because of the need to raise $ 300 million in construction costs and the New York Philharmonic's fear that it might lose audiences and revenue while it was displaced. Among the architects that have been involved were Frank Gehry ; Cooper, Robertson & Partners ; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; Beyer Blinder Belle ; Fox & Fowle ; Olin Partnership ; and Diller & Scofidio . In March 2006,

476-618: The Lincoln Center Institute's educational background and archives. Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund is the first of its kind as a grant program that seeks to make the arts accessible to all people, focusing on those who live in some of New York City's poorest neighborhoods. Partnering with the Rockefeller Foundation , the new pilot grant program offers one-time grants to non-profit organizations to provide cultural activities in these communities in

510-603: The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, was the Fordham Law School of Fordham University . In 1961, Fordham Law School was the first building to open as part of the renewal project, and in 1968, Fordham College at Lincoln Center welcomed its first students. The development of the condominium at 3 Lincoln Center, completed in 1991, designed by Lee Jablin of Harman Jablin Architects, made possible

544-711: The Masada songbook and groups. He stated: "The idea with Masada is to produce a sort of radical Jewish music, a new Jewish music which is not the traditional one in a different arrangement , but music for the Jews of today. The idea is to put Ornette Coleman and the Jewish scales together." In 1993 Zorn first worked with Dave Douglas (trumpet), Greg Cohen (double bass), and Joey Baron (drums) to provide musical cues for Joe Chappelle 's first film Thieves Quartet (later collected on Filmworks III: 1990–1995 ) and established them as Masada to perform his recent compositions using

578-439: The Masada songbook in a classical - chamber jazz form. Personnel include Mark Feldman (violin), Erik Friedlander (cello), and Cohen (bass). With the addition of Marc Ribot (guitar), Cyro Baptista (percussion) and Joey Baron (drums), this same group has performed as the "Bar Kokhba Sextet". The performing style of both groups is characterised by the use of improvisation (sometimes conducted by Zorn himself) and its use of

612-901: The New Masada Quartet with Julian Lage (guitar), Jorge Roeder (bass), and Kenny Wollesen (drums). 2003 saw the 10th Anniversary of Masada and Tzadik released five new CD sets in commemoration. The first release, Masada Guitars , has three guitarists, Bill Frisell , Marc Ribot and Tim Sparks , playing the tunes, mainly acoustically. Volume 2, Voices in the Wilderness , has a huge range of groups and individuals playing and Volume 3, The Unknown Masada , has yet more new groups, together with some familiar faces playing Masada tunes never before performed in public. A fourth volume, Masada Recital , performed by Sylvie Courvoisier on piano and Mark Feldman on violin, followed in 2004. The fifth and final volume Masada Rock features

646-743: The New York State Theater), and the Metropolitan Opera House were opened in 1962, 1964, and 1966, respectively. It is unclear whether the center was named as a tribute to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln or for its location in the Lincoln Square Neighborhood. The name was bestowed on the area in 1906 by the New York City Board of Aldermen , but records give no reason for choosing that name. There has long been speculation that

680-483: The band Rashanim and was released in August 2005. From 2003 Zorn has written a range of new Masada compositions which have been released on a series of albums under the banner of Masada Book 2: The Book of Angels . Musicians contributing to the series include Jamie Saft , Masada String Trio, Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier , Koby Israelite , The Cracow Klezmer Band , Uri Caine , Marc Ribot , Erik Friedlander ,

714-623: The band, allowing for him to make up different arrangements on the spot. During Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration at Tonic in September 2003, Electric Masada was recorded live. Released in May 2004, 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4 became the group's first official recording. This was followed by At the Mountains of Madness recorded in 2004 in Moscow and Ljubljana . In 2019, Zorn formed

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748-494: The center launched construction on a major redevelopment plan that modernized, renovated, and opened up its campus. Redevelopment was completed in 2012 with the completion of the President's Bridge over West 65th Street. When first announced in 1999, Lincoln Center's campus-wide redevelopment was to cost $ 1.5 billion over 10 years and radically transform the campus. The center management held an architectural competition, won by

782-500: The center launched the 65th Street Project – part of a major redevelopment plan continuing through the fall of 2012 – to create a new pedestrian promenade designed to improve accessibility and the aesthetics of that area of the campus. Additionally, Alice Tully Hall was modernized and reopened to critical and popular acclaim in 2009 and Film at Lincoln Center expanded with the new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Topped by

816-781: The center's campus. LCPA has some 5,000 programs, initiatives, and events annually, and its programs include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival , Target Free Thursdays, the White Light Festival and the Emmy Award –winning Live from Lincoln Center . In July 2006, the LCPA announced it would join with publishing company John Wiley & Sons to publish at least 15 books on performing arts, and would draw on

850-565: The design services. Additionally, Turner Construction Company and RCDolner, LLC were the construction managers for the projects. Another component to redevelopment was the addition of the David Rubenstein Atrium designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects , a visitors' center and a gateway to the center that offers free performances, day-of-discount tickets, food, and free Wi-Fi . Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall (previously Avery Fisher Hall) reopened in 2022 after

884-481: The diverse neighborhoods of Central Brooklyn and the South Bronx . Each of the 12 grantees will receive support and financial backing for their project based on organizational budget size. These are one-year long projects, and grant amounts range from $ 50,000–$ 100,000. The over-all goal of the program is to support non-profit organizations in creating cultural innovative strategies that cultivate participation in

918-516: The expansion of The Juilliard School and the School of American Ballet . The center's cultural institutions also have since made use of facilities located away from the main campus. In 2004, the center expanded through the addition of Jazz at Lincoln Center 's newly built facilities, the Frederick P. Rose Hall, at the new Time Warner Center , located a few blocks to the south. In March 2006,

952-569: The inflections of Jewish music that are part of the compositional language of Zorn's "Masada" themes. Two different projects in the Masada family share this name. Prior to the creation of the Bar Kokhba Sextet , the Bar Kokhba album was released, featuring a cast of regular Zorn collaborators performing Masada material in a variety of different small ensemble configurations. One of Zorn's most active Masada projects of recent years

986-433: The initiative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III , built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses 's program of New York's urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. Respected architects were contracted to design the major buildings on the site. Rockefeller was appointed as the Lincoln Center's inaugural president in 1956, and once he resigned, became its chairman in 1961. He

1020-638: The instrumental lineup and improvisational approach of Ornette Coleman 's pioneering free jazz quartet. From 1994 the group released ten studio albums on the Japanese DIW label, each titled after a letter of the Hebrew alphabet . Further releases by Masada on Tzadik highlighted live performances recorded in Jerusalem (1994) , Taipei (1995) , Middelheim (1999) , Seville (2000) and in New York at

1054-504: The name came from a local landowner, because the square was previously named Lincoln Square. However, property records from the New York Municipal Archives from that time have no record of a Lincoln surname; they only list the names Johannes van Bruch, Thomas Hall, Stephen De Lancey , James De Lancey, James De Lancey Jr. and John Somerindyck . One speculation is that references to President Lincoln were omitted from

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1088-628: The records because the mayor in 1906 was George B. McClellan Jr. , son of General George B. McClellan , who was general-in-chief of the Union Army early in the American Civil War and a bitter rival of Lincoln's. In 1955, the first city institution to commit to be part of the Lincoln Square Renewal Project, an effort to revitalize the city's west side with a new performing arts complex that would become

1122-435: The same venue, and the quartet also performed one song as an encore. The quartet performed together at Yoshi's San Francisco jazz club on March 12, 2008. The 8pm show featured music from the original Masada songbook and the 10pm performance featured songs from Masada Book 2: The Book of Angels . Since the mid-1990s a number of new projects have arisen under the Masada banner. The Masada String Trio performs selections from

1156-456: The total number of Masada compositions at 613, the same as the number of mitsvah or commandments in the Torah . Musical group compositions range from loud avant-garde rock to string quartet. Studio Recordings Live Recordings Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center ) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in

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