Lincoln Center: A Promise Realized, 1979 - 2006
This book chronicles the major milestones in the artistic, physical, and administrative history of Lincoln Center’s last two-and-a-half decades. Filled with over sixty beautiful black-and-white photographs that highlight the Center’s rich cultural history, it illuminates how Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts served and supported its constituent groups while producing its own innovative artistic programming and how, in the process, it became a role model for performing arts organizations throughout the world.
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Book details
- Author
- Stephen Stamas
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Performing Arts › Theater › History & Criticism
Performing Arts › Dance
Music › Genres & Styles › Classical - Topics
- performing arts history · cultural institutions · arts administration · classical music · dance · theater history · historical photography · New York City
- ISBN-13
- 9780470101230
About the author
STEPHEN STAMAS is a not-for-profit administrator and public policy adviser and the author of Lincoln Center: A Promise Realized, 1979–2006, co-written with Sharon Zane.
Stamas earned an AB from Harvard University in 1953, a B.Phil. from Oxford University in 1955 as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1957. He served in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Policy in the U.S. Department of Commerce before serving as a corporate vice president at Exxon Corporation.
When not writing, Stamas has held leadership roles across major cultural institutions, including president of the New York Philharmonic from 1984 to 1989, its chairman from 1989 to 1996, and vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 1986 to 1996. He is Director Emeritus of Lincoln Center and has chaired the American Assembly of Columbia University and the Marlboro School of Music.