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Last week, the Kennedy Center marked its golden anniversary with a grand spectacle in the Concert Hall, a live event full of several thousand masked guests that also doubled as the center’s public reopening after 18 months of the pandemic.“The 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert,” directed and choreographed by Emmy-winner and Tony-nominee Joshua Bergasse, featured a parade of performing artists of the highest caliber that lasted for over two and a half hours.

Season Opening Gala Concert in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall will be capped by a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s tour-de-force Scheherazade that will put the rich colors and majesty of the symphony on full display.All told, it will be a full September to remember at the NSO, as the organization gears up for its return to live, in-person performances with several concerts paying tribute to anniversaries, both celebratory and somber.

Pussy Noir is no stranger to the Kennedy Center. “I went to Duke Ellington School of the Arts for high school, so we sang there quite often,” says the D.C.

Joe Biden spent Thursday morning in a star-studded meeting with this year’s Kennedy Center honorees.The president met at the White House with the recipients of the lifetime artistic achievement awards: country music legend Garth Brooks, dancer and actress Debbie Allen, violin virtuoso Midori, folk music icon Joan Baez and actor Dick Van Dyke.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning theater and television director-producer and overall queen Kamilah Forbes has signed

threatening to boycott in 2017 if Trump were involved. Trump and first lady Melania Trump generally stayed away from Kennedy Center events, but Rutter hopes to get President-elect Joe Biden involved this year.Baez said this year’s ceremony could represent the closing of two dark historical chapters.

President Donald Trump is balking at the massive $2.3 trillion Covid-19 relief and government funding bills that overwhelming passed Congress and has asked lawmakers to return to amend the bill to increase “ridiculously low” direct payments of $600 per person.

In a new series amid the coronavirus pandemic, Billboard is asking individuals from all sectors of the music business to share stories of how they work now, with much of the world quarantined at home and unable to take in-person meetings, attend conferences or even go into the office. Submissions for the series can be sent to [email protected]. Read the full series here.

By Ted Johnson

Jesus Christ, Superstar at the Kennedy Center

Dulcé Sloan — Photo courtesy of Loshak

Dan Roberge — Photo: Procopio Photography

Roger and Me: Michael Moore (right)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Moscow, Monday — Photo: AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev