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Transcrevo notícia desta data publicada no The New York Times, sobre a futura programação jazzística do Lincoln Center, em NYC. Se algum outro editor puder traduzir o texto, seria uma beleza. Infelizmente, estou sem tempo para tanto. Aí vai, como copiado do NYT, com grifos meus:

"Jazz at Lincoln Center will dedicate its next season to exploring jazz as it is played around the world. The season, called "Jazz Is Spoken Here," begins in September and will include jazz from Russia, Brazil, France and Britain. Jazz at Lincoln Center is to announce the schedule of performances and educational events today. The organization will also expand the scope of its new Afro-Latin Big Band and continue a series of concerts reinterpreting the music of major jazz figures, among them Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.
The international program will emphasize the links between the world's different kinds of jazz. It will start with a collaboration between the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Igor Butman Big Band from Russia. In October the Algerian-French pianist Martial Solal, one of the best jazz pianists in the world and still largely unknown in the United States, will be honored with a concert featuring commissioned work.
The French harmonica virtuoso Toots Theilemans will explore Brazilian jazz in a concert with the guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves and the percussionist Airto Moreira in April next year; in January, for a show at Alice Tully Hall called "European Themes," the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, will play an entire program of Europe-inspired jazz, as composed by John Lewis, Gil Evans and others.
Monk's music will be the subject of solo interpretations by the celebrated tenor saxophonist Chris Potter and the Chinese pipa-player Min Xiao-Fen, among others. The concerts will be at the Kaplan Penthouse in December; in the same space and also in December, Miles Davis will be the theme in a concert featuring young and veteran trumpeters. Other Kaplan shows will focus on Dexter Gordon, Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson.
Larger concerts, at Alice Tully Hall, are to include evenings built around the work of Count Basie in January, Mary Lou Williams in May and Ornette Coleman in February. The Coleman concert will feature the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Dewey Redman as guest soloist. Dave Brubeck will appear at Avery Fisher Hall in March with an octet, a rare format for his playing or arranging since the late 1940's.
The nightclub-style "Singers Over Manhattan" series of double-bills at the Kaplan Penthouse will include the vocalists Carla Cook, Lucky Peterson, Sheila Jordan, Ian Shaw, Paula West and Mose Allison; there will also be solo-piano performances there by Brad Mehldau, Kenny Barron, Cesar Camargo Mariano and Hilton Ruiz. A Valentine's-eve concert at Avery Fisher Hall will present a double bill of Ahmad Jamal and Shirley Horn. And the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Big Band, led by the pianist Arturo O'Farrill, will perform in an evening of Latin-jazz repertory in March at Alice Tully Hall.
Educational events now make up two-thirds of Jazz at Lincoln Center's schedule. Next year they will include the ninth annual "Essentially Ellington" high-school jazz band competition, on May 23 and 24 and a second season for the "Jazz for Young People" jazz-appreciation curriculum for middle schools.
The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra will play more than 60 dates on the road, including a four-day performance and educational residency in Mexico City. In December it will go to Boston for a brief residency with the Boston Symphony Orchestra to perform Mr. Marsalis's extended work "All Rise," conducted by Kurt Masur.
Todd Barkan, the organization's artistic administrator, said that Jazz at Lincoln Center was still planning to open its new Columbus Circle home in the fall of 2004."