Lincoln Center Gets New Jazz Director. Another nail in the coffin of Great American Music, in line with Ken Burns’ and Wynton Marsalis’ treatment of the genre as a museum piece. What in the world would an ex-dean of Juilliard and the Boston University School of the Arts (where no jazz programming exists), a classical composer, a former v.p. of G. Schirmer the music publisher, want with the position? Should we worry that he wants to “propel jazz into the center of the culture” and thinks putting up a new building for Lincoln Center in Columbus Circle will do it? New York Times