Carnegie Hall’s 2007–08 season will include a 17-day festival called Berlin in Lights, featuring a residency by the Berliner Philharmoniker and two evenings of New York City public school students dancing to the BPO’s performance of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” Carnegie Hall’s executive and artistic director, Clive Gillinson, announced yesterday. Berlin in Lights, which will run from November 2–18, is the first fruit of a Carnegie Hall initiative to present large-scale festivals that include collaborations with other New York City arts institutions. “It is amazing to see how Berlin has reinvented itself just during our lifetime,” Mr. Gillinson said. Berlin in Lights will set the BPO’s performances in context by addressing many aspects of Berlin’s cultural life. Events will include a screening of the 1927 silent film “Berlin: Symphony of a City,” with a live performance of Edmund Meisel’s score; talks or panels on Berlin’s literature and politics; an exhibit on Berlin’s architecture at the Center for Architecture; films at the Museum of Modern Art; dance parties at the Guggenheim Museum, and cabaret nights at the Neue Galerie.

Other highlights of the season include the first North American appearance of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Perspectives series with the conductor Valery Gergiev, 10-time Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin, and pianist Yefim Bronfman. The 35-year-old composer Thomas Adès will occupy the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair. The three previous occupants have held this chair for four years; the position has been shortened to one year, Mr. Gillinson said, in order to allow Carnegie to work with a wider range of people, including nonclassical composers and young composers, such as Mr. Adès, who don’t already have a large body of work.

The coming season will be the first full session for the Academy, Carnegie Hall’s collaboration with the Juilliard School and the New York City Department of Education. The Academy is a fellowship for postgraduate musicians, who receive a stipend to perform and to teach in New York City public schools. The Academy launched the first phase of its pilot program earlier this month with 16 fellows; in the fall, the number of fellows will more than double to 34.

Mr. Gillinson acknowledged that these new initiatives are ambitious. “I’ve always believed that you go for the extraordinary ideas, and then you figure out the means to make them happen,” he said.