Alice Tully Hall

This hall is adjacent to the main Lincoln Center Plaza, but it’s just as beautiful. The front lobby is all glass with a small bar and sitting area. Anyone can sit here and it’s also where you get tickets. There is another glass wall that allows you into the ticketed area. There is only one concert hall here, so it’s pretty straightforward how you get to your seats.
I heard it was newly renovated, and it certainly feels that way. There is curved modern wood that lines the walls, with some weird spikes coming from behind the stage and lit up in red the night I came.
In any case, I was here for the Brandenburg concertos 1 – 6. The acoustics were phenomenal. Obviously, your experience here depends on the concert, but it’s an intimate setting with great acoustics.

Great venue, well run.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but here goes.
I am a classical musician. Classical music has played a tremendous role in my life– since childhood. I have seen hundreds of classical music performances and recitals in my lifetime. Came to Alice Tully Hall for a fabulous violinist last night, and yes– the space is incredible– the acoustics are amazing, the seating is comfortable (and nice that they planned for enough space in the seating for people to walk by you without having to move!), and it’s gorgeous.
However, their late seating policy is RIDICULOUS. This is New York– trains get messed up all the time. Yes, yes, leave home earlier… but listen. Shit happens– We all have jobs, we’re coming in from great distances to see performances, we’re doing the best we can.
Last night, was 5 minutes late to a 7:30PM show, and wasn’t allowed in at all during the first half of the program. The violinist played two different pieces. There was plenty of time in between the first piece and the second– my friend who was inside said that she definitely left the stage in between pieces. And yet, we were not allowed in during that break for applause, and when the artist herself had left the stage.
I understand completely not seating people while a musician is playing, but not to be seated until intermission is extreme and severe. I spent $ 110 on my ticket, and missed half of the program. I felt like I was being punished– and I was (along with ~30 other poor souls) — in the gleaming and stuffy Morgan Stanley lobby.
Music is FOR THE PEOPLE. I believe this strongly. Classical music is FOR EVERYONE — and it’s so important that the classical music world embraces inclusion so that it lives on. But when fine arts institutions enforce ridiculous policies like this, it makes people cringe at what we do, and stereotype the music as pretentious, rigid, and stuffy. For the record, all of the older patrons hawking up a lung between movements is way more offensive than patrons quietly coming into find their seats during applause. Also, I couldn’t help but notice that out of the nearly sold out concert hall, I saw no people of color. I wish I was exaggerating, but it’s true. That speaks volumes.
Really disappointed. This isn’t what music is about.

I saw the American Classical Orchestra perform Bach’s Mass in B Minor last Saturday and the hall was wonderful. In addition to amazing acoustics, the seats were comfortable and had ample leg space, the hall was spacious and the temperature was perfect. The space was so comfortable and the music so crisp, that I fell asleep in the second part of the first half. Thank you Alice Tully Hall and I am sorry American Classical Orchestra.

I was here attending the ICN International Music Festival. What a stellar night of East meets West in classical music!
1^st and foremost, I feel they couldn’t have picked a better venue than Alice Tully hall. The place was amazing! Beautiful interior wood panels adorned the walls of the concert hall and the acoustics were warm and surrounded you with pure musical energy!
Like I said the acoustics were perfect and ICN did not disappoint with the talent. Beautiful piano playing by Diyi Tang, Miao Hou, Hao Shen, and Yue Chu. Dongling Gao gave a beautiful rendition of habanera from «Carmen» William Knuth was awesome on the violin. The highlight of the night for me was to watch and listen to Zuill Bailey play his amazing cello.
The 2^nd half of the concert showcased the talented children. It looked like the kids ranged from 6 to 13 years old. The kids have some serious skills!
Overall a wonderful night! Big Thank you to fellow Unilocaler Linny F. for hooking me up with the tickets!

Alice Tully Hall is just magnificent! The building is just gorgeous.

This is quite simply an amazing space. The arrangement, the color, everything about it feels grand and majestic. Saw the Danish string quartet here and the acoustics were astounding. The prices seemed very reasonable. This is a great venue to go experience classical music.

One of NYFF (New York Film Festival) main venues. I’m happy for any excuse to hang out there it’s too beautiful. all the events I attended are mostly film related, many Q&As. Love their lobby café too.

Came for the New York Film Festival 2013 to see The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki.
This theatre is clean and offers many seats with good view, it is not fancy theatre with antique decoration but has nice sound quality for film.
More like modern than classic.
The film was just amazing, five stars plus. (though it was funny how people reacts to the film that tells this film in this nation is still for entertaining.)

Gorgeous hall– I just went here yesterday to see the American Classical Orchestra perform. The hall itself was beautiful and spacious, the seats were comfortable and wide (I didn’t have to stand up every time somebody needed to get by!), and from where I was sitting at least, the acoustics were great. I think the Orchestra and singers really did a great job of filling up the space and the hall made sure that every note was heard clearly.
Directly outside they have a café where they serve snacks and wine– although we went the cheap route for dinner (food truck on the side of the street!) I want to come back and try that café. We sat outside before the performance with our food on these stone benches they have directly outside of the hall and it was perfect.
I’ve seen a couple of other performances and films at Lincoln Center, but this was my first time in the Alice Tully Hall. It was amazing!

Great venue, it’s smaller than Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall but it is still a fair sized venue. Acoustics were great and I think it’s recently renovated — it didn’t seem that old or anything. And the seating is great. The auditorium is slightly sloped so the people sitting in front of you are not completely obscuring your view. I came here a couple months ago for a chamber music concert and again the acoustics were great. Seating was comfortable. Restrooms were decent.

Great Music Hall: wonderful acoustics modern ambiance and comfortable seats with plenty of leg room. It is probably one of the best music halls on New York City!

I’ve been catching some of the movies on this year’s New York Film Festival slate, and it is a treat to see a film projected onto Alice Tully’s massive screen. The seats are nicely sloped so that you never lose a subtitle behind someone’s head. The theater might be the only one in the city that isn’t freezing. And the gentle bell bongs that sound when you’re dithering in the bathroom and need to get back to your seat – nice touch. I’m not sure I can ever go back to the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, with elderly bouffants obscuring the TV-​sized screens, after an experience like this.

Michael Brown recital appropriate in a space that lends so much gravitas to performances. There’s something immediately dignified about this venue — it is beautifully designed, tasteful, and understated. The acoustics are sharp and it’s hard to have a bad seat. Comfy, just the right temperature, good lighting

This is such a cool music venue and the performance was equally amazing. The acoustics at this venue are amazing as every note reverberates off the beautiful wood walls. Everything abut this venue is nothing less than 5 stars. I happened to be lucky that my best friend couldn’t make the show tonight so he generously gave me his tickets which happened to be two of the best seats in the house. I was lucky enough to see the American Classical Orchestra.
If you get a chance to check out any of the performances here please do so. You won’t be disappointed.

Great views, sound is nice, newly renovated. Went to Xiayin Want, Piano and the Fine Arts Quartets.

I been here before when I was waiting for my concert to come out from watching a concert across the street. Somehow we happen to show up here and everyone was just hanging out at the Alice Tully Hall and enjoy drinking at the bar. We happen to meet a great people there and started to chat with them and drink w/​them too. The only drawback that day was the bathroom situation. There were such a long line for the bathroom and the bathroom was super small. The building is the state of the art but they don’t build bathroom big enough? Come on!!!
Anyway I had a great time here, glad we found this place by accident.

I went here for an NRDC event where Robert Redford spoke with the radio host Bob Edwards about his environmental activism. I was just in NYC for the summer so I didn’t realize this Hall was recently renovated. I would love to see an orchestra perform here so I could really enjoy the acoustics. The interview (or whatever it might be called) was interesting but didn’t really show off the renovations.

in early spring this year, i was fortunate enough to have seen the excellent budapest festival orchestra perform the beethoven symphonies with the great ivan fischer as conductor. it was an interesting concept and twist on the complete cycle: on some days some of the symphonies were played using period instruments (by another orchestra), to approximate how the pieces sounded during beethoven’s time. and on some days, the rest were played by a modern symphony orchestra (the BFO).
but anyway– about the concert hall itself, the not-​so-​new-​anymore starr theater of the alice tully hall is GORGEOUS, and dare i say it– sexy and seductive! the all-​wood paneling makes the entire space feel warm and intimate. the seats are modern and comfortable. plenty of leg room, although that’s also because there is no middle aisle. as for acoustics– perfect for a small hall. on another occasion i saw thomas hampson perform a solo recital of love songs by barber and schumann. just him and a piano onstage. his voice soared, and i could imagine that even if you were seated all the way in the back, you would have heard every note clearly. but then again that was thomas hampson. :-)
i always look forward to attending shows at alice tully hall. a good tip would be to look out for those juilliard student recitals, which are free and are sometimes held in this concert hall.

I suspect the enjoyment of a venue is, in large part, a function of the performance at hand. If so, then Alice Tully Hall is pretty amazing. I came up here with a friend for the NY Film Festival’s showing of Crossroads of Youth, one of the first Korean movies. It is a silent black and white movie dating prior to WWII. The acoustics were such that the three piece band, singers, and incredible narrator could be heard clearly and distinctively, especially since the silent movie had no need for such considerations. The seating was spacious and gently sloped upward so that every cushioned seat had a clear view of the stage.
I could definitely understand why a performance hall was chosen for the viewing of this movie rather than a movie theater. It was more of a movie + theater production than just a movie. I wish there were more movies presented in this format because it was simply too amazing for words.