Construction can’t stop the festivities or the freebies!

By Nancy Mandell, guest blogger

It was just a short time ago that we blogged in this space about the new David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, and now we learn that it will be temporarily closed starting this Friday, May 28, in order to complete deferred construction work on the space. Unfortunately this means that Target Free Thursdays will suspend performances until July 22, and Meet the Artist Saturdays will not return until August. For updates, go to www.LincolnCenter.org/Atrium.

But there is good news from the Atrium, too. Its services will relocate during this summer solstice (see below), and there will still be a free (Target-underwritten) performance this Thursday evening at 8:30 by artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Highlighting the program is Mendelssohn’s String Quintet No.1— a favorite of the repertoire—and it also includes the “vivacious, spirited, and virtuosic” sonata for two cellos by Jean-Baptiste Barrière. (The adjectives belong to the program notes!)

Of course there is lots more on Lincoln Center’s summer schedule. Visit www.SummerAtLincolnCenter.org for information about Midsummer Night Swing, the always innovative cross-genre performances of Lincoln Center Festival, the free Lincoln Center Out of Doors performances and the annually anticipated Mostly Mozart Festival.

For the next several weeks—probably until mid-July—the Atrium’s Day-of Discount Tickets (David Zucker box office) will move to Alice Tully Hall, and Lincoln Center Tours and Visitor Information to Avery Fisher Hall (across from each other on the West side of Broadway at 65th Street.) If you’re wondering what Day-of discount tickets you might have picked up last week, examples are Lincoln Center Theater’s production of “South Pacific,” performances by the New York City Ballet and presentations of The Film Society at Lincoln Center.

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