This is the inside story of the world's most prestigious cultural association. Soon to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the internationally respected "Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts" is one of the great cultural success stories of our time. This one-of-a-kind book, the first in a new alliance between Wiley and Lincoln Center, takes a behind-the-scenes look at the growth and maturation of this celebrated institution. Stephen Stamas and Sharon Zane reveal the triumphant yet often tortuous route the Center took to prosper and produce a half-century of excellence in its offerings to the public. They explain in fascinating detail how Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., has supported its bevy of constituent groups the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Julliard School, to name but a few and how it became the global leader in the performing arts. Stephen Stamas (Scarsdale, NY) was vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 1986 to 1996. Sharon Zane (New York, NY) is an oral historian who has been associated with Lincoln Center since 1990.
