Met Museum Presents: Fall 2015 Season by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2015–16 Season

Dear friends,

The Return

Met Museum Presents, the Met’s performance and talk series, is extraordinarily

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privileged. For starters, our home—the wellspring of our creative investigation—is one of

Created by Reid Farrington

York Times said: “There’s probably no frame wide enough to encompass the creative

The Return celebrates the groundbreaking restoration of Tullio Lombardo’s Adam (ca. 1490–95), one of the greatest sculptures of the Venetian Renaissance, which was recently completed by the Met’s conservators. This revolutionary interactive work invites visitors to investigate aspects of the decade-long research and reconstruction dynamically, while considering the statue’s fall from its pedestal in parallel to Biblical Adam’s fall from grace. Hidden cameras, speakers, and microphones bring the statue to life, leading visitors through the work’s extraordinary story, and a digital “window” displays the restored Adam. In this unique setting, guests can speak directly to the figure and pose questions about his creation, travels, and return to the gallery.

output of the pianist Vijay Iyer.” I would argue that the Metropolitan Museum is that

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wide‑enough frame.

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the world’s most dazzling museums, offering an endless font of historical, cultural, and creative grounding and inspiration. And because the Met is our home, we are free from the models and constraints of traditional performing arts venues: we can reinvent our series each season by inviting artists from a broad range of approaches to create work specifically for our spaces. And speaking of our spaces, since the Met is our home, our programs are not defined by, or limited to, a static performance venue: you will experience the live arts in our galleries, in our various iconic buildings, and even in the connective spaces in between. A highlight of each season is our annual Artist Residency: a yearlong, multidisciplinary opportunity for a visionary artist to inhabit the Met creatively. In 2015–16, the brilliant jazz pianist Vijay Iyer will step into the residency and bring his encyclopedic practice and signature collaborative style to a residency, redefined. In a recent review, the New

We kick off this season with the second edition of TEDxMet, featuring extraordinary thought-leaders, Met curators, and performers, all exploring “The In-Between,” a daylong celebration of what isn’t. Yet. Also this season we present world premieres, original commissions, site-specific durational performances, and a celebration of one hundred years of Asian art at the Met. Join us and bring your curiosity. Limor Tomer General Manager Concerts & Lectures

Above: Video capture from The Return, photo © Reid Farrington

Limor Tomer © Stephanie Berger

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Right: Tullio Lombardo (Italian, ca. 1455–1532). Adam (detail), ca. 1490–95. Marble; overall: 6 ft. 31/2 in., 770 lb. (191.8 cm, 349.2697 kg). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1936 (36.163)

Artist in Residence

Vijay Iyer

One man, many worlds. Vijay Iyer has an encyclopedic range of diverse and impressive talents—composer, pianist, Harvard professor, MacArthur Fellow—although he prefers the description “collaborator.”

“There’s probably no frame wide enough to encompass the creative output of the pianist Vijay Iyer.” —NEW YORK TIMES

“I think of myself as a professional listener. Even as a musician, I think of what I do as primarily about listening. It’s not about playing, per se, I mean that’s obviously a big part of it, but listening is at the center of it.”

—VIJAY IYER

“I make music,” Iyer says. “That means a lot of things. It means that I listen to people. I create experiences. And those experiences are very collaborative, they’re collective, and they’re process driven. They have a lot of detail in them but they’re also very subject to the moment, which means they’re not fixed.” What Iyer “makes” will be on exhibition throughout the 2015–16 season. Highlights of his intense, immersive year as our Artist in Residence include his “provocative and honorable” (New York Times) “Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project,” a multimedia collaboration with poet Mike Ladd about minority veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; performances in the Musical Instruments galleries; and more to come.

Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 7:00 P.M. “A triumph of a genre that doesn’t yet exist.” —BOSTON GLOBE “It’s dense, intense, provocative and honorable.” —NEW YORK TIMES A compelling multimedia work of voice, video, and music, Holding It Down is mined straight from the words of minority veterans of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tickets start at $40 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Vijay Iyer © Stephanie Berger

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Music : Theater Wave Movements U.S. PREMIERE Composed by Richard Reed Parry and Bryce Dessner Film by Hiroshi Sugimoto CONTACT!, The New York Philharmonic’s New-Music Series Conducted by André de Ridder FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 7:00 P.M. Richard Reed Parry and Bryce Dessner’s new collaborative work for chamber orchestra and film takes as its inspiration the wave cycles of the world’s oceans. Composers of diverse backgrounds with a history in experimental art music, Parry and Dessner also are members of the popular rock bands Arcade Fire and The National, respectively. The music, composed directly to the actual rhythms of waves, is performed in synch with a film made by photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, who created an iconic series of seascapes in the 1980s. Also on the program is Thomas Adès’s imaginative Chamber Symphony, one of the contemporary British composer’s earliest works. Tickets start at $50 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Co-commissioned by Met Museum Presents, and the Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Cork Opera House, Sydney Festival, and Saint-Denis Festival. Presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic.

La Dolce Morte WORLD PREMIERE A monodrama for chamber ensemble and countertenor Suzanne Farrin, composer / Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 7:00 P.M. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2:00 P.M. & 7:00 P.M. “I see in your beautiful face, my lord, what in this life words cannot well describe…he who loves you faithfully rises to God above and holds death sweet.” —SONNET FOR TOMMASO DEI CAVALIERI, CA. 1534 One of the most gifted artists who ever lived, Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect—and poet. Written some five hundred years ago, his highly physical, sensual love letters form the libretto for a new work by the “appealingly tart” (New York Times) Suzanne Farrin, in deep collaboration with the pioneering International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and the sizzling countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. Commissioned by Met Museum Presents, this monodrama in the voice of Michelangelo was designed for our sixteenth-century Vélez Blanco Patio. Hear the passion of the great master’s highly visual, physical world. Tickets start at $95 Vélez Blanco Patio

Salzburg Marionette Theatre SATURDAY, MARCH 5: 1:00, 3:30 & 6:00 P.M. Straight from Europe’s musical mecca, the Salzburg Marionette Theatre has been delighting audiences for more than a century. Now is your chance to see this celebrated troupe in a new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf (1936) plus Little Red Riding Hood. Tickets start at $40 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Bring the Kids tickets are not available for these performances (see page 25).

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. 1948). Boden Sea, Uttwil, 1993. Gelatin silver print; 42.3 x 54.2 cm (16 5/8 x 21 5/16 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1994 (1994.144.8). © Hiroshi Sugimoto

Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli) (Italian, 1509–1566). Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) (detail), probably ca. 1544. Oil on wood; 34 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (88.3 x 64.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, Gift of Clarence Dillon, 1977 (1977.384.1)

Quartet in Residence

Chiara String Quartet

Brahms by Heart FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 7:00 P.M. Delve “inside the music, indivisible from the beauty of the playing” (Strings magazine), when Chiara performs all three string quartets by Brahms from memory—the musician’s equivalent of working without a net.

Piano Quintets: Brahms and Friedman

with pianist Simone Dinnerstein FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 7:00 P.M.

“[Simone Dinnerstein] can make you catch your breath at the beauty of this or that phrase.” —WASHINGTON POST Chiara has been championing composer Jefferson Friedman’s music since its earliest days, developing a deep and symbiotic creative collaboration. In this performance, the group is joined by the celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein, for the New York premiere of Friedman’s Piano Quintet, paired with the Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor.

“highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing” —BOSTON GLOBE

Bartók and Frank FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 7:00 P.M. “[A] luminous work that translates Andean folk music to the string quartet medium. [Gabriela Lena Frank] has a highly refined ear, which results in string writing that is exceptionally smooth and idiomatic yet that in its imitation of panpipes and other indigenous instruments bursts with color and fresh individuality.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES Composer Gabriela Lena Frank draws on her Peruvian roots for Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, written for Chiara. The group contrasts the piece with works by Bartók (Quartet No. 4 and piano transcriptions arranged for string quartet by Frank), who greatly influenced Frank in her passion for ethnomusicology.

Full of great ideas, the energetic musicians of the “truly breathtaking” (Washington Post) Chiara String Quartet have established themselves

Death and the Maiden

as one of the most powerful and passionate practitioners of the string

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 7:00 P.M.

quartet genre. For their Met residency, they mine their strengths

Two awe-inspiring meditations on death by two great masters: Schubert grappled with his own mortality in the haunting and dramatic String Quartet No. 14; Beethoven composed his String Quartet No. 12—the first of his groundbreaking “late” quartets— when he was utterly deaf and near the end of his life.

and stretch beyond them: as the “go-to” ensemble for the music of the “vigorous and inventive” composer (New York Times) Jefferson Friedman, they will perform his piano quintet, juxtapose Gabriela Lena Frank with Béla Bartók, and explore the far reaches of Schubert

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Chiara String Quartet © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Single tickets start at $50 / Series of four concerts: $170

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Chamber Music Salomé Chamber Orchestra FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 7:00 P.M. “One of New York’s top young groups, a polished and spirited ensemble…” —NEW YORK TIMES

The exciting, virtuosic, and sexy Salomé Chamber Orchestra looks as spectacular as it sounds. Led by the founding Carpenter siblings—violinists Sean and Lauren, and violist David—this program includes Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, arranged for string orchestra and viola solo; the Paganini Grand Sonata; and the Kraus Viola Concerto, only recently discovered and recorded by Salomé’s superb David Aaron Carpenter. Tickets start at $45 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Julia Bullock Surface Tension WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 7:00 P.M. The Met is both setting and springboard for this concert. The “magnificently energetic” (New York Times) Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy has created Surface Tension, a new work written for and inspired by the Museum’s percussion collection. The performance is by Third Coast Percussion, the Chicago-based ensemble known for its groundbreaking collaborations and hard-driving style. The musicians return to the Met for what’s sure to be a vibrant evening of superb music. Tickets start at $30

Naumburg Foundation Recital TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 7:00 P.M. Hailed as “an impressive, fast-rising soprano” (New York Times) and “opulent and glorious” (Opera News), Julia Bullock won the 2014 Naumburg Vocal Award. She dazzles in repertoire ranging from Susanna in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro to Josephine Baker. Tickets start at $25 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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Quartet for the End of Time SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2:00 P.M. New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert is the violinist alongside Carter Brey, principal cello; Anthony McGill, principal clarinet; and pianist Inon Barnatan, the Philharmonic’s Artist-in-Association, in Olivier Messiaen’s poignant Quartet for the End of Time. Inspired by texts from the Book of Revelation, the work was composed during Messiaen’s internment in a German prisoner-of-war camp and premiered in 1941, performed by and for fellow prisoners. The Met’s Temple of Dendur provides the solemn setting for the work the New Yorker calls “the most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century.” Tickets start at $65 The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing Presented in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic.

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Global Museum Memoria Antigua: Flamenco WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 7:00 P.M. Fiery and primal, flamenco conjures the most passionate of emotions. Straight from the heart of the dance form’s birthplace, award-winning dancer/choreographers Patricia Ibáñez and Abel Harana perform Memoria Antigua (“Ancient Memory”). Exploring the vivid and seductive music and dance from Andalusia and the farreaching corners of Spain through authentic and rarely performed flamenco styles, Memoria Antigua is steeped in mystery and rich in cultural relevance. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Kassé Mady Diabaté

featuring Ballaké Sissoko THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7:00 P.M. This is truly “roots” music at its finest: majestic Malian vocalist Kassé Mady Diabaté, backed by his supergroup of Malian traditional acoustic musicians (Ballaké Sissoko on kora, Lansiné Kouyaté on balafon, and Badjé Tounkara on ngoni). As a griot (tradition keeper), Kassé Mady Diabaté is called upon to arbitrate community disputes by channeling their emotions into song. The result? Music with a “palpable, almost touchable beauty” (Arts Desk, London). Tickets start at $35 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Presented in collaboration with World Music Institute.

Acoustic Africa: Habib Koité & Vusi Mahlasela WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 7:00 P.M. “…the rhythm of my feet and my heartbeat say Africa, say Africa, say Africa.” —FROM VUSI MAHLASELA’S “SAY AFRICA” Two top artists collaborate on a riveting evening celebrating their African roots. Rolling Stone calls Habib Koité “Mali’s biggest pop star”; full of wit and wisdom, the composer and guitarist is a modern troubadour. Vusi Mahlasela—known in South Africa simply as “The Voice”—is a singer-songwriter, poet, and activist who performed at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration. Together, they recall rich traditions of voice and song. Tickets start at $35 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Cash Bar Enjoy a pre-performance drink in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at select performances. Wine, prosecco, and water will be available for purchase. Cash Only. Doors will open approximately one hour prior to the event and you may purchase a drink and relax in your seat prior to the show.

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Masters at the Met

TEDxMet

Arvo Pärt at Eighty

The In-Between

with a special performance of Christopher Wheeldon’s Liturgy FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 7:00 P.M. On the occasion of Arvo Pärt’s eightieth birthday, the Met toasts the composer’s health and long life with a concert of his music led by Joel Sachs—world-renowned advocate for the newest of music, who originally introduced Pärt’s indelible voice to the West—directing the New Juilliard Ensemble. The program culminates with New York City Ballet Principals Amar Ramasar and Rebecca Krohn performing Christopher Wheeldon’s “wondrous” (New York Times) Liturgy, set to Pärt’s Fratres. Tickets start at $75 The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing

A daylong celebration of what isn’t. Yet. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 9:30 A.M. TO 6:00 P.M.

Hosted by Met Director and CEO Thomas P. Campbell Marcel Breuer’s architectural masterpiece at 75th and Madison becomes The Met Breuer on September 1, 2015. The transitional raw space of the building provides the backdrop for an unprecedented daylong celebration of gray areas and liminal spaces. From buildings in transition to lives in flux, ties that bind to connections that go unnoticed, singular stories from artists, writers, scientists, performers, and Met curators are presented in the signature full-throttle TED style. Tickets for the main stage at The Met Breuer start at $100

Tan Dun’s Water Passion SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 7:00 P.M. “[Water Passion’s] images are unlike anything that the average Western audience will have encountered in a concert hall before…it transcends language, cultural and religious divides.” —TIMES, LONDON Tan Dun’s work isn’t just heard and seen, it is experienced—and his powerful Water Passion is experienced as never before when the Grammy- and Academy Award– winning Chinese composer stages the piece in the shadow of The Temple of Dendur. Originally written as a response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, this astonishing work begins and ends with the sound of water emanating from seventeen illuminated, transparent bowls.

Tickets for the live HD transmission in the Met’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, including signature live performances, start at $40 All seats are general admission. Made possible by Adrienne Arsht. This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED.

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Tickets start at $75 The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing

Lincoln’s Favorite Shakespeare THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 6:30 P.M.

Harold Holzer, historian “I think nothing equals Macbeth,” wrote Abraham Lincoln. Growing up on the prairie, Lincoln memorized Shakespeare to learn reading, writing, and oratory. Decades later, serving as President during the bloodiest war in American history, Lincoln turned to Shakespeare repeatedly—in both books and at the theater—for solace and inspiration. This evening, actors perform the soliloquies that once comforted him, including his own perennial favorite, Macbeth. Historian Harold Holzer adds to the drama with anecdotes about Lincoln’s love of actors, stabs at theatrical criticism, and impromptu Shakespearian recitation. Tickets start at $45 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Right: Bill T. Jones at TEDxMet © Stephanie Berger Background: The Temple of Dendur, ca. 15 B.C. Roman Period. Aeolian Sandstone; L. from gate to rear of temple 24 m, 60 cm (82 ft.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Given to the United States by Egypt in 1965, awarded to 14 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1967, and installed in The Sackler Wing in 1978 (68.154)

Holidays at the Met The Little Match Girl Passion WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 7:00 P.M. “Perfect for Christmas.... I cannot imagine a more appropriate occasion and setting to hear this poignant and, by the end, consoling piece.” —NEW YORK TIMES

A new holiday tradition: experience the “tender and mysterious atmosphere” (New York Times) of David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize–winning choral parable, The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the powerful eponymous story by Hans Christian Andersen. Conductor Julian Wachner leads the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street in a performance that also includes Benjamin Britten’s popular A Ceremony of Carols, a euphoric welcome for “this little Babe” of Christmas. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

A Charlie Brown Christmas SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19: 11:00 A.M. & 1:30 P.M. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20: 1:00 & 3:00 P.M. For fifty years, A Charlie Brown Christmas, with its gentle reminder of the true spirit of the season, has been delighting audiences young and old. In this screening of the timeless classic, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, and the rest of Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” family once again bring tidings of great joy, this time accompanied live by the delightful Rob Schwimmer Trio. The performance also includes a festive holiday sing-along. Tickets start at $45 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Children under four are not admitted. Bring the Kids tickets are not available for these performances.

Byzantine Pop-Ups FRIDAYS, DECEMBER 11 & 18: 4:00, 6:00 & 8:00 P.M. It’s the perfect holiday soundtrack for the Met’s Medieval Sculpture Hall: a halfdozen pop-up concerts featuring hymns and carols of the Byzantine Empire. In these antiphonal works, performed by master cantors of the Eastern Orthodox community, the musicians alternate parts in multiple languages (ranging from Russian to Armenian to Greek to Arabic), weaving an evocative sonic tapestry from an exotic past. Free with Museum admission Medieval Sculpture Hall

American Boychoir WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 7:00 P.M. The matchless American Boychoir presents a cheerful program of holiday hymns and Christmas carols: a heavenly evocation of Christmases past, present, and future in a not-to-be-missed December event. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche (detail), Italian (Naples) 18th–19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964 (64.164.1–.167)

Holidays at the Met Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers

Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 7:00 P.M.

Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Meredith Hall, soprano with Ensemble La Nef and Sylvain Bergeron Praised internationally for “superlative music-making” (Telegraph, London), Apollo’s Fire returns to the Met with its beloved Christmas program, which is now a bestselling CD on the Billboard classical chart. This celebration of Celtic artistic traditions interweaves Scottish Gregorian chant with ancient pagan carols, Celtic fiddle tunes, and joyous dances—featuring highlights from the thirteenth-century Vespers of St. Kentigern, Patron Saint of Glasgow. A colorful band of bagpipes, flutes, strings, and Celtic harp joins the group’s exquisite singers. Chosen by BBC Music Magazine as one of the “Top 20 Concerts in North America” in 2012 and 2014. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Anonymous 4: The Final Concert TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22: 6:30 & 8:30 P.M. After nearly thirty years of international touring and recording, Anonymous 4 has chosen the Metropolitan Museum as the location for its final performances, ever. Don’t miss this last chance to hear the bewitching, all-female a cappella ensemble sing its signature mix of ancient, traditional, and modern music in the Medieval Sculpture Hall, in front of the Met’s glorious Christmas tree. Tickets start at $75 Medieval Sculpture Hall

Tiempo Libre FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 7:00 P.M. Ring in the holidays in spectacular, multicultural style with Tiempo Libre. Based in melting pot Miami, the ensemble originally hails from Cuba, and blends R&B, pop, jazz, and Cuban son music, with guest appearances on the set list by J. S. Bach. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Judy Collins FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 7:00 P.M. Bursting onto the music scene at the height of the folk revival, Judy Collins has never stopped exploring and expanding her repertoire, applying her distinctive voice to everything from “Both Sides Now” to “Send in the Clowns,” and a catalogue of songwriters from Jacques Brel to Kurt Weill. If it’s been a while since you’ve heard this peerless interpreter, this is the perfect opportunity to reacquaint yourself with Collins’s matchless way with song. Tickets start at $75 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Left: Apollo’s Fire © Martins Daukks Above: Anonymous 4 © Dario Acosta

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Baroque Masters

New York Baroque Incorporated with Monica Huggett FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 7:00 P.M. The enterprising young musicians of New York Baroque Incorporated bring a special vitality to this exquisitely old-school and rare program of cantatas by J. S. Bach, J. C. Bach, and Telemann, plus J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6. They’re joined by the preeminent British violinist Monica Huggett, a fervent champion of the baroque violin and an unparalleled expert in historical performance. Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Il Pomo d’Oro

with Max Emanuel Cencic, countertenor FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 7:00 P.M. “The sheer beauty of [Cencic’s] singing was consistently breathtaking and, at times, seemed almost like an end in itself.” —THE GUARDIAN

The emergent chamber ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro is a hot ticket in its native Italy and throughout Europe. In this New York premiere, founder and violinist Riccardo Minasi, “communicating his joy in music-making to us and to his ensemble…bringing the house down with his virtuosity” (The Guardian), leads the group in an exuberant program of Neapolitan baroque music, accompanied by the phenomenal Croatian countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Shakespeare and Cervantes Juilliard415 with Jordi Savall SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 7:00 P.M. Juilliard’s flagship early music ensemble, led here by Catalan viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall, performs music from around the time of the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Spanish War to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the deaths of two literary giants: William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Tickets start at $75 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Venice Baroque Orchestra Performs Vivaldi SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 7:00 P.M. Celebrate a striking eighteenth-century collaboration: the close ties between the virtuoso court orchestra of 1700s Dresden and the legendary Red Priest of Venice, Antonio Vivaldi. Dresden concertmaster Johann Georg Pisendel studied composition with Vivaldi, who, in turn, wrote numerous rich, vibrant pieces for Pisendel and his bandmates. Hear these Concerti con molti strumenti performed by the brilliant Venice Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Andrea Marcon. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Special offer for Il Pomo d’Oro and Venice Baroque Orchestra Single tickets start at $65 / Series of both concerts: $110 Jordi Savall © Stephanie Berger

Exhibitions Amplified John Singer Sargent and Decoda SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 7:00 P.M. “A new collective of some of the brightest young classical musicians in the world…” —TIME OUT NEW YORK Throughout his career, John Singer Sargent painted other artists, writers, actors, and musicians, many of whom were his close friends. Inspired by the Met’s exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends (on view June 30–October 4, 2015), the brilliant young performers of Decoda—an Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall—curate a fascinating program of musical portraits by Britten, Lang, Rorem, Ravel, and others. Tickets start at $40 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

In the Salon of Vigée Le Brun Jory Vinikour with Jolle Greenleaf and Robert Mealy FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 7:00 P.M. The most important woman artist of her time, eighteenth-century French painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a favorite of Marie Antoinette and a contemporary of many famous composers. Her letters and diaries refer to musicians she knew personally, and others she met on travels through Vienna, Russia, and London. The mesmerizing harpsichordist Jory Vinikour presents a program of their music—including works by Haydn, Beethoven, Grétry, and Gluck—accompanied by the delicate vocals of soprano Jolle Greenleaf, in a performance coinciding with the Met’s exhibition Vigée Le Brun, opening February 9, 2016. Violinist Robert Mealy rounds out the program. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Pergamon: The Romantic Obsession

with Brian Zeger, Susanna Phillips, and Shenyang FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 7:00 P.M.

Soprano Susanna Phillips and bass-baritone Shenyang join pianist and program curator Brian Zeger for an evening exploring the high Romantic imagination’s obsession with the historical and imagined ancient city of Pergamon. This concert is presented in conjunction with Pergamon and the Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms, opening April 12, 2016. Tickets start at $65 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755–1842) Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Verlée, 1761–1835), 1783. Oil on canvas, oval,

22 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (92.1 x 72.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Edward S. Harkness, 1940 (50.135.2)

Sight and Sound

Bring the Kids

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now

Now in its third year, the

Conductor and music historian Leon Botstein and

Bring the Kids program

The Orchestra Now explore the places where musical and visual expression meet, pairing orchestral works with masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection. Botstein discusses the works, conducts a performance of the music, and answers your questions.

Met’s wildly successful and much imitated encourages families to attend performances together by allowing you to purchase up to three kids tickets for $1 each

Beethoven, Boilly, and the Heroic Style

with one full-price adult

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” and Boilly’s The Public Viewing David’s “Coronation” at the Louvre

ticket. Turn your kids on

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2:00 P.M. Beethoven dedicated his “Eroica” (“heroic”) symphony to Napoleon, but tore up the dedication page once the French leader declared himself emperor. Boilly’s work depicts a crowd observing David’s famous painting of the very coronation that sent Beethoven into a rage.

Strauss, Watteau, and Nostalgia Strauss’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme and Watteau’s The French Comedians SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2:00 P.M. Old-fashioned characters take the stage in Watteau’s ca. 1720 painting of a theater scene. Strauss, who was obsessed with the past, wrote music for a 1912 update of Molière’s play Le bourgeois gentilhomme, which he later formed into an orchestral suite.

Mendelssohn, Turner, and Romantic Imagination Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 and a Work by J. M. W. Turner SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2:00 P.M. The work of legendary British artist J. M. W. Turner, who was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film Mr. Turner (2014), could easily have inspired the composer Mendelssohn, who began work on his “Scottish” Symphony after an 1829 trip to Britain.

Tickets start at $30 / Series: $75 Your ticket includes Museum admission—come early and view the paintings that inspired these performances.

to the power and passion of the live arts: music, theater, and opera. You will give your child the gift of a lifelong passion for and curiosity about the arts. And with $1 tickets, it’s cheaper than leaving them home! This year, Bring the Kids has been expanded to include all performances (except as noted). For children ages 7–16. Please note that Bring the Kids tickets are not available for A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Salzburg Marionette Theatre, or Talks and Lectures.

Have you been to MetFridays? There’s something new happening at the Museum every Friday until 9:00 p.m. It’s where your weekend begins. See an exhibition, enjoy a concert, drop into a drawing class, or simply have a drink with friends. Every week, you can count on the Met for a Friday night unlike any other.

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Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721). The French Comedians (detail), ca. 1720. Oil on canvas; 22 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (57.2 x 73 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Jules Bache 24 Collection, 1949 (49.7.54)

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The Met Asian Art Centennial 2015 Presented in celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Department of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art #AsianArt100

Half the World and All of Time: Asian Art at the Met FOUR THURSDAYS AT 11:00 A.M.: OCTOBER 1 & 8, NOVEMBER 19, DECEMBER 3 Discover Asia through the eyes of the Met’s incomparable curatorial staff. This series of talks delves into the remarkable diversity and richness of the continent’s cultural traditions as reflected in one of the finest and most comprehensive art collections in the world. See page 29 for the full program description.

Sonic Blossom FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30–SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 During Museum Hours “May I give you a song?” This question is at the heart of artist Lee Mingwei’s interactive performance work, Sonic Blossom (2015). In the Met’s Modern/Contemporary and Asia galleries, singers will approach Museum visitors at random with the query. If your answer is “yes,” the vocalist will perform a Schubert lied. Mingwei compares the sporadic performances to “the folding and unfolding of a ‘Sonic Blossom.’” Free with Museum admission The Blanche and A. L. Levine Court (October 30–31; November 6–8) Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (November 1–5)

Presented in collaboration with Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW).

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The Grand Tour: Asia

Half the World and All of Time: Celebrating One Hundred Years of Asian Art at the Met FRIDAY EVENINGS AT 6:00 P.M. & 7:30 P.M.: NOVEMBER 20 & 27, DECEMBER 4 & 11 “[T]he portraits seemed to stop and listen.” —NEW YORK TIMES The New York Times calls the Met’s Grand Tour “the most perfect realization yet of the mission of Met Museum Presents.” Sold out in previous years, this must-attend event is a passport to the cultural treasures of multiple countries, allowing “travelers” to experience intimate performances in multiple spaces, as they journey from gallery to gallery. This season, we offer The Grand Tour: Asia, a wholly original exploration of performance art from India to China, with dance and musical performances throughout the Asian Wing. Free with Museum admission The Florence and Herbert Irving Asian Wing

Tan Dun’s Water Passion SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 7:00 P.M. Tan Dun’s work isn’t just heard and seen, it is experienced—and his powerful Water Passion is experienced as never before when the Grammy- and Academy Award– winning Chinese composer stages the piece in the shadow of the Met’s Temple of Dendur. See page 14 for the full program description. Tickets start at $75 The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing

Buddha, Probably Amitabha. Chinese, Tang dynasty (618–907), early 7th century. Hollow dry lacquer with traces of gilt and polychrome pigments; H. 38 in. (96.5 cm); W. 27 in. (68.6 cm); D. 22 1/2 in. (57.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 26 26 York. Rogers Fund, 1919 (19.186)

Daytime Lectures

Half the World and All of Time: Asian Art at the Met 4 THURSDAYS AT 11:00 A.M.: OCTOBER 1 & 8, NOVEMBER 19, DECEMBER 3 Discover Asia through the eyes of the Met’s incomparable curatorial staff. This series examines the remarkable diversity and richness of the continent’s cultural traditions as reflected in one of the finest and most comprehensive art collections in the world. OCTOBER 1

How New Yorkers Brought Asia to the Met: A Brief History Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman, Department of Asian Art, MMA

Treasures from the Roof of the World: Rereading the Arts of Nepal and Tibet John Guy, Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia, Department of Asian Art, MMA OCTOBER 8

Gotham’s Korea: New Yorkers Envision the Former Hermit Kingdom Soyoung Lee, Associate Curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA

Harder Than Steel: China’s Enduring Passion for Jade Jason Sun, Curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA NOVEMBER 19

Pilgrims Along the Silk Road: Buddhist Art Across East Asia Denise Leidy, Curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA

Life and Times

Gods and Goddesses: The Hindu Pantheon of South and Southeast Asia Kurt Behrendt, Associate Curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA

2 TUESDAYS AT 11:00 A.M.: DECEMBER 1 & 8 Rebecca Rabinow, Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art, Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, MMA Each lecture in this ongoing series delves into the unique and fascinating life of one particular masterpiece within the Metropolitan Museum’s collection. Explore the unique personalities who created, contributed to, and cherished these extraordinary works of art. DECEMBER 1: REGENT STREET, LONDON, 1906 This season, the series begins with a study of André Derain’s vibrant depiction of the bustling Regent Street, London (1906).

DECEMBER 3

A Millennium of Masterpieces: Mary Griggs Burke’s Japanese Art John Carpenter, Curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA

A Century of Changing Tastes in Chinese Painting Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art, MMA Tickets start at $30 / Series: $75 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

DECEMBER 8: BIRD IN SPACE The focus of the second lecture is Constantin Brancusi’s iconic Bird in Space (1923), a sleek white marble sculpture that, despite its physical heft, seems to soar off its pedestal. Tickets start at $30 / Series: $50 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Above: André Derain (French, 1880–1954), Regent Street, London, 1906. Oil on canvas, 26 × 39 1/8 in. (66 × 99.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 (1999.363.18) © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Right: Han Gan (Chinese, active ca. 742–756). Night-Shining White (detail), ca. 750. Chinese, Tang dynasty (618–907). Handscroll; ink on paper; image: 12 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (30.8 x 34 cm), overall with mounting: 14 in. x 37 ft. 5 1/8 in. (35.4 cm x 28 11.4 m). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.78)

Daytime Lectures Theme and Variations in Two Paintings by Andrea del Sarto 2 THURSDAYS AT 11:00 A.M.: OCTOBER 22 & 29 Andrea Bayer, Jayne Wrightsman Curator, European Paintings, MMA Michael Gallagher, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Department of Paintings Conservation, MMA Recent technical examination and conservation of Andrea del Sarto’s The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, one of the Metropolitan’s greatest Renaissance paintings, has revealed the work’s original brilliant color and design. Andrea del Sarto’s Borgherini Holy Family, on view through January 2016, allows for a comparison with a closely related painting, Charity (before 1530), now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In these talks, a curator and a conservator, both from the Met, discuss Sarto’s development of the compositions through drawings on paper and directly on the panels. They also examine how historic events—the dramatic circumstances of Florence’s final republican years before the Medici took control again in 1530—shaped the Museum’s painting and its meaning. Tickets start at $30 / Series: $50 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Isabella Stewart Gardner WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2:30 P.M. Marlene Barasch Strauss, art historian Surrounded by scandal and fascination, American arts patron Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) was a vivacious woman endowed with a voracious appetite for life. For years, her salon at Fenway Court was Boston’s liveliest—and she counted the most extraordinary artists of the day as her charges and friends. Art historian Marlene Barasch Strauss explores this captivating woman, who personally built one of the world’s great art collections. Tickets start at $45 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Beyond Face Value: The Portrait from Napoleon to Jackie 5 TUESDAYS AT 11:00 A.M.: OCTOBER 13, 20 & 27, NOVEMBER 10 & 17 Kathryn Calley Galitz, Associate Museum Educator, MMA More than a simple likeness, a portrait can speak volumes about its artist and subject. Featuring iconic works by Ingres, Copley, Courbet, Van Gogh, Sargent, Warhol, and Sherman, this series explores major themes in portraiture since the eighteenth century: from the portrait as a public expression of power; to more intimate portrayals of families; to self-portraits, the original selfies.

Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2:30 P.M. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, MMA The first great American artist based west of the Mississippi River, George Caleb Bingham was also one of the foremost American genre painters of the nineteenth century. His paintings—depicting fur traders and boatmen at work and play— chronicled the transformation of America’s western wilderness at the edge of the frontier: a departure point for explorers, adventurers, and pioneers. Met curator Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser looks at this largely self-trained artist who located his paintings and drawings along the great central north-south axis of the expanding country, the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, creating an indelible image of the American West. This lecture is presented in conjunction with Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, the first major Bingham exhibition in more than twenty-five years, which is on view through September 20, 2015. Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811–1879). Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (detail), 1845. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933 (33.61)

Evening Talks Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger’s Imaginative Drawings Ricky Jay and Michael Kimmelman THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 6:30 P.M. Standing only twenty-nine inches high, and born without hands or thighs, German artist, magician, and musician Matthias Buchinger was a great curiosity in the early eighteenth century. He performed for three successive German emperors, entertained kings, and was a frequent guest at noble houses; yet he was equally celebrated as a calligrapher and micrographer, creating inscriptions that described his physical condition as well as his artistic and personal triumphs. Ricky Jay, one of the world’s greatest illusionists, has spent a lifetime captivated by Buchinger’s life and remarkably delicate drawings. New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman joins Jay for a look at the fascinating “Little Man of Nuremberg.” This talk is in conjunction with Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger’s Imaginative Drawings on view January 5–April 11, 2016. Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Mark Rothko from the Inside Out

A conversation with Christopher Rothko THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 6:30 P.M. Christopher Rothko, artist Mark Rothko’s son, explores the range, meaning, and impact of his father’s oeuvre. Mark Rothko from the Inside Out, Christopher Rothko’s recently published volume of essays, catalogues his gleanings from twenty-five years of work with his father’s art. Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Cuba: A History through Art

Great Cities and Islam From Istanbul to Cairo to Bombay, journey into the fascinating art and culture of some of the world’s greatest cities and their vibrant Muslim populations. Your guides are expert storytellers and Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize–winning authors, poets, and journalists. Great Cities and Islam is part of the Met’s three-year investigation of contemporary Islamic culture. CAIRO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 6:30 P.M Mona Eltahawy, award-winning journalist and author Yasmine El Rashidi, author of The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution, and a contributing editor to the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun In the wake of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, women are “invading” the public spaces long dominated by men, and using art to challenge age-old barriers to free expression. Journalist Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American writer who covered the Arab Spring from the front lines, examines how women street artists, photographers, writers, and videographers are documenting the reality of female lives in the Middle East, while collectively—and creatively—demanding that their voices be heard. Author and editor Yasmine El Rashidi leads this compelling conversation about the power of art in times of conflict. MUMBAI TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 6:30 P.M. Suketu Mehta, author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lorraine Adams, novelist, critic, and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist “What is the city but the people?” Shakespeare asks in the tragedy Coriolanus. It’s a question also posed by Suketu Mehta, the O. Henry Prize-winning author and Pulitzer finalist for his work of narrative nonfiction, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. Born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay (now Mumbai) and New York, Mehta delves into the human experience in the city: from migration and dislocation, to alienation and sadness, to the foundation of community. Mehta is joined by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Lorraine Adams for this thought-provoking look at the role of art—and the museums and institutions that safeguard and foster it—in telling and preserving urban stories.

3 WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30 P.M.: OCTOBER 21, NOVEMBER 4 & 18 Jerrilynn Dodds, Dean, Sarah Lawrence College

ISTANBUL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 6:30 P.M.

Cuba has nurtured vibrant and distinct artistic traditions—some with ties to Europe and North America, others unique to the island nation. Woven into the tapestry of its rich cultural heritage are Precolumbian arts and breathtaking colonial cities, powerful Afro-Cuban imagery, distinctive modernist and vanguard schools of painting and architecture, and a compelling contemporary arts scene recognized throughout the world today. This series provides an introduction to the arts and architecture of Cuba against the backdrop of the country’s complex political and social history.

Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature Lorraine Adams, novelist, critic, and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist

October 21

From Precolumbian Cuba to the Creation of Colonial Havana

November 4 Afro-Cuban Traditions in Art and Society; Independence and the Vanguardia; Cuban Modernism November 18

Art from the Triumph of the Revolution to Cuban Arts Today

“At the heart of the ‘art of the novel’ lies the human capacity to see the world through others’ eyes,” Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk told the New York Times. In this conversation led by Pulitzer-winning journalist Lorraine Adams, we see the world through the eyes of Turkey’s most famous contemporary writer. Pamuk’s novels and his memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City, provide insight into questions of identity and the transformations of modern Turkish society. He is also a painter and museum curator—Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence in Istanbul is based on his 2008 novel of the same name. Tickets start at $30 / Series: $75 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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Background: Unknown. [The Citadel and the Mosque of Mohammed Ali, Cairo] (detail), 1870s. Albumen silver print from glass negative; 20.2 x 26.8 cm (7 15/16 x 10 9/16 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973 (1973.594.38) 33

Evening Talks William Kentridge

in conversation with Andrew Hoyem TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6:30 P.M. Renowned South African artist William Kentridge returns to New York for the premiere of his new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu at the Metropolitan Opera. At the Museum, he joins master printer Andrew Hoyem to discuss the limited-edition letterpress volume of Lulu that the two are creating for Hoyem’s Arion Press of San Francisco. The multitalented artist and the master printer discuss how design and imagery aid human imagination, whether by enhancing words on a page or orchestral sound in a theater. They touch upon the role of time in reading and performance, as well as the difference in the two versions of the Lulu plays by Frank Wedekind—Pandora’s Box (1904) and Earth Spirit (1895). These works were the basis both for the Alban Berg opera, as well as the 1929 silent film masterpiece Pandora’s Box by G. W. Pabst. Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

How Homer Matters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 6:30 P.M. Adam Nicolson, author “An unabashedly passionate evangelist” —NEW YORK TIMES Recognized for his provocative takes on some of the oldest tales known to humankind, Adam Nicolson broaches the profound meaning that Homer’s stories of wandering, war, loss, death, and love hold for us today. A British baron and heir to a distinguished literary family, Nicolson is also a seasoned television and radio presenter who knows how to make the ancient world come to life. Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

The Sartorialist THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 6:30 P.M. Scott Schuman, blogger/photographer “Global fashion takes on new meaning through [Scott Schuman’s] work: as his subjects confirm, compelling personal style knows no boundaries!” —HAROLD KODA, MMA

Blogger/photographer Scott Schuman started thesartorialist.com simply to share photos of people on the street that he thought looked great. Celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2015, the blog now receives more than 14 million page views per month. In his new book, The Sartorialist: X, Schuman continues to pay homage to the innate style found on the sidewalks and streets of traditional fashion capitals—New York, London, Milan—as well as locations off the beaten path, such as Bhutan, Dubai, Bali, and beyond. Schuman’s discussion focuses on his popular publications and wide-ranging collection, which celebrates the cultures of pattern and color found across the world. Tickets start at $30 The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium 34 William Kentridge, Drawing for Lulu, 2015. The Arion Press

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Spring 2015 Season SEPTEMBER Wed, Sep 9 2:30 pm GRR George Caleb Bingham and the River Fri, Sep 11 7 pm TD Arvo Pärt at Eighty Sat, Sep 26 9:30–6 pm MB/GRR TEDxMet: The In-Between Wed, Sep 30 7 pm GRR Memoria Antigua: Flamenco

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Asian Art at the Met Kassé Mady Diabaté featuring Ballaké Sissoko Chiara String Quartet: Brahms by Heart John Singer Sargent and Decoda Asian Art at the Met New York Baroque Incorporated The Portrait from Napoleon to Jackie William Kentridge with Andrew Hoyem Isabella Stewart Gardner Great Cities and Islam The Portrait from Napoleon to Jackie Great Cities and Islam Cuba: A History through Art Two Paintings by Andrea del Sarto Salomé Chamber Orchestra The Portrait from Napoleon to Jackie How Homer Matters Two Paintings by Andrea del Sarto The Sartorialist Sonic Blossom

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Sonic Blossom Cuba: A History through Art Wave Movements Wave Movements Sonic Blossom The Portrait from Napoleon to Jackie Julia Bullock: Naumburg Foundation Recital Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project Chiara String Quartet with Simone Dinnerstein Tan Dun’s Water Passion The Portrait from Napoleon to Jackie Cuba: A History through Art Asian Art at the Met Great Cities and Islam The Grand Tour: Asia Il Pomo d’Oro with Max Emanuel Cencic The Grand Tour: Asia

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Life and Times: Regent Street, London, 1906 Asian Art at the Met Mark Rothko from the Inside Out Judy Collins The Grand Tour: Asia Beethoven, Boilly, and the Heroic Style

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Life and Times: Bird in Space Byzantine Pop-Ups Apollo’s Fire: A Celtic Christmas Vespers The Grand Tour: Asia American Boychoir Byzantine Pop-Ups Tiempo Libre A Charlie Brown Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas A Charlie Brown Christmas Anonymous 4: The Final Concert Anonymous 4: The Final Concert The Little Match Girl Passion

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