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Lucas Wittmann takes the helm of the Unterberg Poetry Center

Bryan Cranston reads The Power Broker with Robert Caro and Stacy Schiff. Molly Ringwald and Griffin Dunne join bestselling writers Sloane Crosley, Jay McInerney, and John Burnham Schwartz on the legacy of Truman Capote. Alice McDermott discusses her new novel to Amor Towles. In his first season as Executive Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center, Lucas Wittmann is gathering a blend of some of the greatest writers of our moment with leadings actors and critics

That time when …
Favorite moments from our 150-year history
May 14, 1979:

Isaac Stern, a concert, and a critic’s botched review

One of the 20th century’s most celebrated and influential musicians, violinist Isaac Stern performed on our stage more than a dozen times over 50 years, from his first concert in 1943 to his last in 1994. On a May evening in 1979 – just a month before his historic, groundbreaking trip to China – Stern performed an evening of chamber music in Kaufmann Concert Hall. The concert was to open with a solo violin performance, which Stern originally planned to be Bach’s B-Minor Partita

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Lucas Wittmann takes the helm of the Unterberg Poetry Center

Bryan Cranston reads The Power Broker with Robert Caro and Stacy Schiff. Molly Ringwald and Griffin Dunne join bestselling writers Sloane Crosley, Jay McInerney, and John Burnham Schwartz on the legacy of Truman Capote. Alice McDermott discusses her new novel to Amor Towles. In his first season as Executive Director of the Unterberg Poetry Center, Lucas Wittmann is gathering a blend of some of the greatest writers of our moment with leadings actors and critics …

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Ten years ago, the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact welcomed the first cohort of the Women inPower Fellowship. A free mentorship program offered by 92NY, Women inPower provides senior level women-identifying leaders across all professional sectors the community, coaching, and tools they need to advance to the highest levels of leadership …

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92NY’s School Engagement in the Arts plays an outsized role in bringing the arts to public school students in NYC. They serve thousands of students and teachers every year with in-depth classroom visits from top teaching artists and innovative curriculum design; they program concerts and dance performances on 92NY main stages with some of the most respected artists in the world …

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