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The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [3]
The Kennedy Center chose Twain in recognition of his role as a controversial social commentator and his "uncompromising perspective of social injustice and personal folly." [ 2 ] A copy of Karl Gerhardt 's 1884 bust of Twain is presented in a ceremony usually in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, during which the recipient is celebrated by his or ...
NASA Ames Visitor Center: Ames Research Center: Moffett Field, California Goddard Visitor Center: Goddard Space Flight Center: Greenbelt, Maryland Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex: Kennedy Space Center: Merritt Island, Florida WFF Visitor Center: Wallops Flight Facility: Wallops Island, Virginia U.S. Space & Rocket Center: Marshall Space ...
Next at the Kennedy Center is a new PBS television series which produces episodes that present and contextualize performances at The Kennedy Center. These episodes spotlight "cultural leaders from the worlds of hip hop, jazz, folk, comedy, modern dance and more." [1] It is produced by the Kennedy Center.
Actress Sally Field, singer Linda Ronstadt and the disco-funk band Earth Wind and Fire shared the spotlight Sunday night as part of the latest group of recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors for ...
www.kennedy-center.org /nso The National Symphony Orchestra ( NSO ) is an American symphony orchestra based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1930 by cellist Hans Kindler, its principal performing venue is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts .
The idea for the Kennedy Center Honors began in 1977, after that year's 10th-anniversary White House reception and Kennedy Center program for the American Film Institute (AFI). Roger L. Stevens , the founding chairman of the Kennedy Center, asked George Stevens Jr. (no relation), the founding director of the AFI, to hold an event for the center.
Trump most recently tapped environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late Democratic U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the Health and Human Services Cabinet position.