PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Join Sara Lukinson, filmmaker and writer for the Kennedy Center Honors for 38 years, to talk about the lives of performing arts legends and enjoy clips of their performances. Explore what made them so moving, memorable, and exciting. These artists both reflected their times and changed them. And we loved them for it.
Lukinson, a multiple Emmy Award winner, created more than 200 short biographical films for the Kennedy Center Honors. She teaches at NYU and the 92nd Street Y.
Please Note: Individual sessions are available for individual purchase.
MAR 7 Film Heroes Then and Now: The Noble, the Intense, the Complex, and the Everyman
Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Robert DeNiro, and Tom Hanks are four of the film stars who received the Kennedy Center Honors. Each actor was a larger-than-life embodiment of characteristics of the American hero of their time. Peck projected integrity, Douglas intensity, DeNiro complexity, and Hanks an everyman at the crossroads. As we changed, so did what we came to define as a hero.
APR 11 Strings of Delights: The Musial Glories of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Mstislav Rostropovich
This trio of recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors represents magicians of the strings, stars of the classical world and whatever music they played. On stage and off, they were forces of music who moved and delighted us. As committed citizen-musicians, their impact reached beyond the halls of music.
2 sessions
Photo caption (upper right):
Top: Robert De Niro alongside fellow,Kennedy Center honorees, 2009 with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, White House, 2009 (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
Bottom: Yo-Yo Ma performing for President Ronald Reagan, White House, 1987 (Photo: White House Photographic Office/1981-1989)
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