Last summer, Lincoln Center bid farewell to the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a fixture of the city’s cultural scene since 1973, saying it was time to reimagine the ensemble for a modern and more inclusive age.
On Monday, the center offered a preview of its plans.
The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, as the ensemble is now called, will convene in July for its first season under the rising conductor Jonathon Heyward, as part of the center’s Summer for the City festival.
Heyward said in an interview that he wanted to maintain the orchestra’s innovative spirit.
“We’re just continuing in a way that is very much in line with a previous legacy of the orchestra.”
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