Opening night at the new Alice Tully Hall

Tonight is opening night for the renovated Alice Tully Hall, kicking off an inaugural festival that features free concerts and others at less than $25/ticket. The renovations, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, are part of Lincoln Center’s huge 50th anniversary renovation project. The architects have taken pains to integrate public space and links between interior and exterior spaces into the design. From Nicolai Ourousoff in the New York Times:

This sensitivity to history is coupled with a blunt social mission. Only a delicate glass wall separates the lobby from an outdoor sunken plaza, so that the interior seems to bleed out onto the sidewalk. An unusual concrete seating area anchors the corner of Broadway and 65th Street, giving both the lobby and the plaza the feel of an outdoor meeting space. It’s a clear-cut defense of the public realm, something we could use more of in this age of corporate privatization.

WNYC will broadcast tonight’s program from the new concert hall.

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