June 3, 1999 Academy Of Music, Brooklyn, NY

[Welcome] / by Bruce C. Ratner, chairman of the board of BAM -- [Presentation of citation to Harvey Lichtenstein] / by Libby Pataki, First Lady of the State of New York -- [Speech] / by Karen Brooks Hopkins, president-designate of BAM, and Joseph V. Melillo, executive-producer designate of BAM -- [Songs] / by Paul Simon and band -- [Video interview:] Peter Brook -- A monologue for Harvey Lichtenstein / by Erland Josephson -- [Video interview:] William Christie -- "Dido's lament" from Dido and Aeneas / music, Henry Purcell ; sung by Jennifer Lane with the New York Collegium -- [Video interview:] Jonathan Miller. [Proclamation by the Council of the City of New York] / presented by the Honorable Councilman Herbert F. Berman and the Honorable Councilwoman Mary Pinkett -- [Video interview:] Merce Cunningham -- Scherzo, especially for Harvey Lichtenstein / choreography and performance, Trisha Brown ; choreographic assistant, Carolyn Lucas ; music, Dave Douglas ; costume, Terry Winters ; music performed by the Dave Douglas Quartet -- Zwei Harveytänze / choreography and performance, Mark Morris ; music: Raskin ("Laura"), arr. by Ethan Iverson, Iverson ("Flatbush stomp") ; music performed by Iverson -- [Video interview:] Pina Bausch -- Two etudes for piano / composition and performance, Philip Glass ; also plays excerpt from Satyagraha -- [Video interview:] Robert Wilson -- [Presentation to Harvey Lichtenstein] / by Thomas Paulucci, BAM crew chief, on behalf of IATSE Local 4 Stagehands -- [Speech] / by Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs ; includes reading of a letter from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani -- [Songs] / by Lou Reed and band. [Video interview:] Laurie Anderson -- [Video interviews:] Phyllis, Saul, John and Dune [Harvey Lichtenstein's family] -- Hear the movement, see the rhythm / performed by Chuck Davis and the BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble ; includes audience participation number -- [Video:] Harvey (in one word) / by the video interviewees. [Video:] Parting shots / by the video interviewees -- Poem / read by Pernilla August -- [Speech] / by Howard Golden, the Honorable President of the Borough of Brooklyn -- [Video:] The Majestic [Theater] / with narration by Joseph Melillo -- [Announcements: portrait of Harvey Lichtenstein to be painted by Chuck Close ; Majestic Theater renamed Harvey Lichtenstein Theater] -- [Speech] / by Harvey Lichtenstein. Responsibility: presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music ; directed by Rhoda Levine ; written by Robert Boyd.