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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts



Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York City, complex of buildings (constructed 1959–72) designed by leading modern architects including Eero Saarinen and Philip Johnson, to accommodate a number of vital performing arts institutions, which today include the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York City Opera, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Also at Lincoln Center is a branch of the New York Public Library devoted to the performing arts; a prominent school of music, dance, and theater, the Juilliard School; and other institutions devoted to film and jazz.



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