(Tommasini) YO-YO MA, ITZHAK PERLMAN AND EMANUEL AX (Tuesday) The pianist Emanuel Ax, the violinist Itzhak Perlman and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform an all-Mendelssohn program, part of celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.
A detailed program of the celebration will soon be posted, in English and Russian, on www.maslenitsa.com.
The party has taken every opportunity to drive home their support for the program, from lengthy celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Social Security to attack ads blasting Republicans for talk of privatization.
The decision by SeaWorld to end its captive breeding program is worthy of celebration.
The catalog of the New York Public Library lists a dozen other works of fiction about him, and among the library's nonfiction holdings is a touching bit of ephemera: a 1940 program for a celebration of the 500th anniversary of his invention, held at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum by a branch of the International Typographical Union.
Cronkite was a passionate chronicler of the space program and anniversary celebrations of Apollo 11 have featured frequent rebroadcasts of his coverage of the historic moon landing.
The Camp Meeting Association, the local Christian organization that offers what its Web site calls a "vibrant program of preaching, teaching and celebration throughout the summer months," also organizes events that have nothing to do with religion.
The idea for the "Sweeney Todd" performances by the Philharmonic was conceived in November 1997, says Welz Kaufman, the orchestra's former artistic administrator, as a coda to the Philharmonic's four-year American Classics program, a celebration of the works of 20th-century composers.
Along with three of Mr. Hakoshima's mime works, the program, a celebration of Indian and Asian music as well as movement, included marvelously nimble accompaniment and interludes by Samir Chatterjee on the tabla, Min Xiao-Fen on the pipa and Masayo Ishigure on the koto.
On Sunday night (repeated on Monday night), the series presents "Stanley Kunitz: A Celebration," a program of premieres of songs and vocal works inspired by the words of the United States poet laureate.
Katie Mitchell, the director of "Mountain Language" and "Ashes to Ashes," the seemingly disparate one-acts that made up the final theatrical program of Lincoln Center Festival's celebration of Harold Pinter, tied the plays together with a snowstorm.
