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Urban Festivals
When you’re programming a festival in your own backyard, how do you make it special and unique from your year-round programming? And how, amid the sweltering summer heat and busy city landscape, how do urban programmers make their presentations truly escapist and “festive”? Today we’ll hear from Nigel Redden, director of the Lincoln Center Festival about how this annual event has managed to attract New Yorkers and tourists alike to hear forward-looking programs in the middle of summer. We also speak with Richard Demarco, an Edinburgh-based impresario, about how the Scottish city has faced commercialization even as it maintains a reputation as one the most eclectic and progressive festivals on the international scene. Rounding out the show, we speak with Billboard columnist Anastasia Tscioulcas about the Fès Festival of World Sacred Music which takes place in Morocco's spiritual capital.
» Edinburgh Festival Web site
» Lincoln Center Web site
» Richard Demarco on Edinburgh
» Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
» WNYC's "Sounds of Summer" 2004
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