![]() At its incorporation, the group was essentially only a name as it had no cash, no staff, and no real estate. was incorporated in 1956 as a nonprofit corporation. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. Rockefeller and others involved in the project toured Europe in 1956, visiting other cultural capitals, and when they returned, they decided that building a large combined performing arts complex that would house both the opera company, the Philharmonic, and possibly other arts groups, was a feasible plan. Rockefeller III, who was interested in doing something for the arts, for exploratory talks in 1955. Leaders of the Philharmonic and the Met, as the opera company is called, got together with philanthropist John D. Home to more than 1,600 families, the area was considered blighted, and had attracted the eye of New York's "master builder," urban renewal chief Robert Moses. The area, known as Lincoln Square, was a four-block stretch between 62nd and 66th Streets, bounded by Broadway, Columbus, and Amsterdam Avenues. The third crucial element that brought Lincoln Center to life was the planned razing of several blocks of midtown Manhattan tenements. Second, the New York Philharmonic, the city's leading orchestra, was also looking for a new home as the hall it rented, Carnegie Hall, was slated to be torn down in 1959. First, the Metropolitan Opera, New York's venerable opera company, had decided to leave its inadequate concert hall and was looking for space to build a new one. Lincoln Center came about as the confluence of a trio of needs and circumstances. Alan Rich, in The Lincoln Center Story, declared that one would have "to run the clock back to a Medici palace in Renaissance Florence" to find anything comparable in the world at the time Lincoln Center was being designed. When Lincoln Center was conceived in the mid-1950s, it was the first such massive arts complex in the nation. Lincoln Center also reaches an audience of an estimated 35 million television viewers through its ongoing Live from Lincoln Center series of broadcast performances. Lincoln Center is also the home of many free outdoor events such as Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Midsummer Night Swing. Lincoln Center serves an additional 200,000 students each year through its educational outreach programs. Lincoln Center's constituent groups present some 5,000 concerts and performances annually, and the Center serves as many as five million visitors and concertgoers. Lincoln Center's financial support comes from concert revenue, rental fees, and gifts from individuals, private foundations, and corporations. While the resident organizations retain their own autonomous management, the groups do share the funds Lincoln Center raises, and are represented on Lincoln Center's board of directors. Lincoln Center's resident organizations include the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York City Ballet, the School of American Ballet, the Juilliard School, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Lincoln Center Theater. ![]() ![]() Lincoln Center's concert halls include the Metropolitan Opera House, Avery Fisher Hall, the New York State Theater, and the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Lincoln Center sits on over 16 acres of land in midtown Manhattan. The organization is both the landlord and administrator for the 12 resident organizations housed within Lincoln Center, and also a concert organizer and producer. ![]() runs a huge performing arts complex in the center of New York City. NAIC: 711310 Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events, with Facilities ![]()
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