LINCOLN CENTER, First Part

Hi, my name’s Marcy, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Commonly known as the Lincoln Center, it is the city’s most important cultural venue, and the first to be set up in the center of a large city in the USA.

Its origins date back to the second half of the 20th century, when a group of illustrious figures, led by John D. Rockefeller III, grandson of the famous tycoon and head of one of the richest families in the world, decided to create this impressive complex as part of the Lincoln Square renewal project.

The area chosen, at the time inhabited mainly by African American families, thus became a huge construction site, and once this pioneering project to group the most important institutions in the fields of dance, theatre, music and cinema under one roof was completed, it was the object of harsh criticism....