(Posted this afternoon on the TONY Blog)

Further to our post from this morning
regarding the passing of beloved opera singer Beverly Sills, we’re
posting verbatim a late-breaking press release from Lincoln Center
regarding its own plans to remember her:

In response to the news today of the death of opera star
and Lincoln Center leader Beverly Sills, a number of the constituents
at Lincoln Center will pay tribute tonight, Tuesday, July 3, to her.

At 7:30 PM the thousands of dancers who gather on Josie
Robertson Plaza for Midsummer Night Swing will be asked to observe a
minute of silence.

At the same time, inside Avery Fisher Hall, the New York
Philharmonic will begin its concert with a performance of Bernstein’s
Overture to Candide. In a tradition that began with the death
of Bernstein, it will be performed without a conductor. Zarin Mehta
will speak from the stage. The Philharmonic chose the music because its
celebratory nature matched Miss Sills’s zest for life.

At the same time, the house lights at Avery Fisher Hall and at the New York State Theater will be shut off for one minute.

The Metropolitan Opera on Sirius Satellite Radio
(Channel 85) will broadcast tribute performances this week, beginning
tonight (July 3) at 9 p.m. with a broadcast of The Siege of Corinth
by Rossini, from Sills’s debut season (1975). Host Margaret Juntwait
will give a special introduction about Sills. The tribute continues on
Thursday night (July 5) at 9 p.m. with Sills’s Met broadcast of
Massenet’s Thais, and again on Friday night (July 6) at 8 p.m. with a repeat of The Siege of Corinth.