Date: 10/18/12 through 11/18/12
Ages: All
Address: Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000
www.whitelightfestival.org

Description: This festival's focus is music's unmatched capacity to illuminate the many dimensions of our interior lives. Spanning musical traditions, genres and disciplines the festival will feature 27 performances and events and will take place in nine venues, on and off the Lincoln Center campus. Returning also are the popular post-performance White Light Lounges, where performers and audience members can meet and talk. Highlights include: U.S. premiere of Rian, performed by Ireland's Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre; Virtuoso Wang Li plays jaw harps and calabash flute; N.Y. premiere of choreographer Akram Khan's Vertical Road; Cameron Carpenter plays Bach on the Alice Tully Hall organ; Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, arranged for chamber orchestra, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, and performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, members of the New York Philharmonic, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Russell Thomas; Cosmic Pulses, all-Stockhausen program, performed by percussionist Stuart Gerber and sound projectionist Joe Drew; U.S. debut of the Latvian Radio Choir; Mary Chapin Carpenter sings from her new album, Ashes and Roses; Heiner Goebbels' music/theater work I went to the house but did not enter featuring the Hilliard Ensemble; Esa-Pekka Salonen leads Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 9.