The Summer of My German Epic
interview by TOM SELLAR for the Village Voice
published: July 10, 2007

Why was the festival founded in 1996? What do you think it means to hold an international arts festival in the middle of New York City? The idea was to animate the campus in summer. Most of Lincoln Center's companies have roots in 19th-century Western European forms: opera, ballet, symphonic music. This place has an obligation to classicism. But if you look around the world, other classical forms exist in the same way...