Quartet and Orchestra to Reopen Alice Tully Hall

The Emerson String Quartet, members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Juilliard Orchestra will be among the first to take the stage after Alice Tully Hall reopens February 22, it was announced yesterday at a press briefing at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

The concert hall, which has been undergoing renovations since last May, will offer two weeks of chamber music and film programming in February and March 2008 to celebrate the completion of the project. There also will be a concert dedicated to the "Art of the Song"; a performance by the artist Stew, and a concert featuring the new-music ensembles Bang on a Can, Alarm Will Sound, and Steve Reich & Musicians, among other programs. The opening night of the Film Society's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema will take place in Alice Tully Hall on March 5.