Located between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, from West 60th to West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the Lincoln Center complex was the first gathering of major cultural institutions into a centralized location in an American city. The 16.3-acre Lincoln Center complex, the worlds leading performing arts center, is home to the 12 resident arts organizations representing the highest standards of excellence in symphony, opera, chamber music, theater, dance, film, and arts education: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Theater, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, School of American Ballet, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. LCPA presentations (called "Lincoln Center Presents") include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Emmy Award-winning Live from Lincoln Center. These programs offer more than 400 performances of music, opera, theater, dance, and multi-media events each year, ranging from authentic kabuki theater and dance premieres from world-renowned choreographers to groundbreaking outdoor video installations; outdoor dancing to live music on Josie Robertson Plaza; opera performed with life-size puppets; and free performances of Korean drumming and African dance. Last season alone, these events brought some 5,000 performances by more than 3,000 artists from every corner of the globe to Lincoln Center. In addition, Emmy Award-winning Live from Lincoln Center telecasts, the only series of live broadcast performances on American television today, extend the reach of Lincoln Center to millions of Americans nationwide. "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses program of urban renewal in the 1960s was an inspiration to a consortium of civic leaders under the initiative of John D. Rockefeller III to built Lincoln Center. Rockefeller was its inaugural president from 1956 and became its chairman in 1961. He is credited with raising more than half of the $184.5 million in private funds needed to build the complex, including drawing on his own funds; the Rockefeller Brothers Fund also contributed to the project. The first structure to be completed and occupied as part of this renewal was the Fordham Law School of Fordham University in 1962. Lincoln Center cultural institutions also make use of facilities located away from the main campus. In 2004 Lincoln Center was expanded through the addition of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s newly built facilities (Frederick P. Rose Hall) at the new Time Warner Center, located a few blocks to the south. In March 2006 Lincoln Center launched construction on a major redevelopment plan that has just been completed for its 50th anniversary celebration. Since Lincoln Center first opened its doors, it has been a major contributor to New York City’s cultural and intellectual life, with an internationally recognized dedication to artistic excellence. Perhaps less apparent is the extent to which Lincoln Center serves as a dynamic economic engine for the region, hosting some five million visitors annually and transforming the Upper West Side into an exciting neighborhood that is now one of New York’s most desirable places in which to live and work. During the year long 50 anniversary celebration at Lincoln Center you may expect The New York debut of Venezuelan-born conductor Gustavo Dudamel with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the U.S. premiere of One Evening, a gripping new stage work combining Schubert’s beloved song cycle Winterreise and the writings of Samuel Beckett, directed by Katie Mitchell and featuring tenor Mark Padmore: All-Chopin recitals by acclaimed pianist Garrick Ohlsson and a four-part Chopin on Film series to mark the composer’s 200th birthday. he world premiere of Pictures Reframed, a collaborative performance of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and South African visual artist Robin Rhode; the U. S. premiere in the Park Avenue Armory of Stifter’s Dinge, Heiner Goebbels’ fantastical musical installation featuring the writings of Adalbert Stifter, Malcolm X, and William S. Burroughs, five pianos playing themselves in sculptural works, and projected imagery, wind, and mist. Viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall’s Jerusalem project, uniting Palestinian, Israeli, Syrian, Greek, Turkish, and Armenian musicians in two concerts exploring the city’s Muslim, Jewish, and Christian musical heritage; 100,000 happy feet kicking up their heels under the stars to the sounds of Big Band Swing, Tango, Sakda Disco, and Funk at Midsummer Night Swing; Free outdoor concerts for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers by artists from around the world as part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors and more. For scheduling details go to: http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/50-stream