LIVE from Lincoln Center!
Our exciting Gratitude event is live 2:30 PM EST Saturday, January 4. Watch the live stream here!
NEW YORK — Read650 and Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will present an engaging program of five-minute, 650-word true-life stories of gratitude from a cast of eight talented essayists, memoirists, and novelists. The reading will be followed with a performance by the New York Classical Players (NYCP) who will play Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, Opus 32, of which the central movement is a “holy song of gratitude.”
The free event, on January 4 at 2:30 p.m., is part of Carnegie Hall’s Beethoven Celebration, which marks the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. It is the first literary/musical collaboration for Read650, a nonprofit literary forum promoting established and emerging writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word five minutes—and 650 words—at a time.
Among those performing their original literary works on gratitude are Jamie Bernstein, daughter of musical legend Leonard Bernstein. Ms. Bernstein is a writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, and concert narrator who travels extensively to speak about music and her father. Other writer/performers include Irish-American actor, writer, and politician Malachy McCourt; playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier; and novelist, magazine editor, and television producer Janice Kaplan, whose best-selling book, The Gratitude Diaries, continues to inspire readers about how to achieve and recognize gratitude.
