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WELCOME Park Avenue Armory strives to engage audiences with eclectic, immersive, and thought-provoking works that are in direct dialogue with the Armory’s unconventional spaces, whether it is the soaring Wade Thompson Drill Hall or the intimate period rooms. And with its pristine acoustics and austere elegance, the Board of Officers Room is like no other in offering the chance to enjoy the art of the recital and music-making in the most personal of settings. The 2023 season marks the tenth year of the Armory’s celebrated Recital Series. Over the past ten years, we have held over 100 intimate performances by 230 internationally renowned musicians, including important North American, US, and New York debuts like the North American recital debut of pianist Igor Legit and the US recital debut of soprano Barbara Hannigan. We have also been proud to serve as the locale for 15 premieres by contemporary composers, including works by Michael Hersch, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, John Zorn, Dai Fujikura, Michael Gordon, Jake Heggie, and others. The 2023 Recital Series continues the tradition of offering the chance to hear internationally renowned vocalists in a close and personal setting. Tenor Allan Clayton returns to New York after his appearance in the title role of Peter Grimes at the Met last fall for his North American recital debut at the Armory performing with pianist James Baillieu. American soprano Julia Bullock showcases her versatile artistry and probing intellect in recitals this September, returning to the Armory following her critically acclaimed performance in Michel van der Aa’s Upload. Other vocal recitals include an intimate evening with baritone Stéphane Degout and pianist Cédric Tiberghien and performances by mezzo soprano Kate Lindsey with pianist Justina Lee. “Poet of the piano” Pavel Kolesnikov appears in a two-program residency this May. He opens the residency with Bach’s towering classical keyboard masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations, and follows with a program inspired by artist Joseph Cornell’s orrery Celestial Navigation. Finally, leading contemporary percussion ensemble Sandbox Percussion take the Recital Series to the Veterans Room in October for a spirited program that vibrantly showcases their solid technique, rhythmical musicality, and lively showmanship, including the world premiere of Chris Cerrone’s Ode to Joy—commissioned by Park Avenue Armory—and the New York premiere of Viet Cuong’s Next Week’s Trees. This year’s lineup offers audiences even more chances to enjoy the intimacy of a beautiful range of chamber music experiences performed by artists with a highly distinctive international profile, in one of the only spaces that could provide such a personal encounter—the Board of Officers Room. We hope you join in our excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music. Rebecca Robertson Adam R. Flatto Founding President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director
2023 RECITAL SERIES IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
KATE LINDSEY, mezzo soprano JUSTINA LEE, piano monday, october 16, 2023 at 7:30pm tuesday, october 17, 2023 at 7:30pm Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory
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PUBLIC SUPPORT
Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Thompson Family Foundation, Charina Endowment Fund, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Reed Foundation, Wescustogo Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. The Recital Series is supported in part by the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.
PROGRAM Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und Leben, op. 42 1. Seit ich in gesehen 2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen 3. Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben 4. Du Ring an meinem Finger 5. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern 6. Süsser Freund, du blickest 7. An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust 8. Nun hast du mir den esten Schmerz getan
Intermission Gabriel Fauré La chanson d’Ève, op. 95 1. Paradis 2. Prima verba 3. Roses ardentes 4. Comme Dieu rayonne 5. L’aube blanche 6. Eau vivante 7. Veilles-tu, ma senteur de soleil ? 8. Dans un parfum de roses blanches 9. Crépuscule 10. Ô mort poussière d’étoiles Stephen Sondheim “Take Me to the World” “Losing My Mind” “Being Alive” This performance is approximately 90 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.
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WOMEN’S LIVES AND LOVES It is only relatively recently that women composers have begun to receive the attention they have long deserved, after many years of unjust neglect. At a time when women’s creative voices were less often heard, their lives were often portrayed in music and literature by men, and it is for the ladies in the audience to say how truthful those portrayals were. Many will agree that great poets and composers could say important and profound things about women even if they were of the opposite sex. Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) was a German poet of French birth whose aristocratic family had fled to Germany in the wake of the French revolution. (He was also an important botanist; a small island is named after him in Alaska.) Chamisso was a real trailblazer when, in his 1830 cycle of poems Frauen-Liebe und Leben, he represented the main events in a woman’s life—love, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, and widowhood—in the woman’s voice. Setting eight of the nine poems to music in 1840, Robert Schumann (1810-56) gave each word an emotional depth that makes them unforgettable. The bold leap on tiefstem Dunkel (“deep darkness”) in the first song, the pulsating accompaniment in the second, or the expressive tempo changes in the third, alternating between extreme passion and moments of reflection, are only a few of the masterstrokes that can be found in every bar of this music. In the sixth song Schumann alludes to Beethoven’s To the Distant Beloved, a work that held particular meaning for him and his fiancée Clara Wieck, whose father had long barred his daughter from having any contact with the composer. (They were finally able to marry in 1840, the same year these songs, and many others, were written.) One of Schumann’s distinctive fingerprints is the pensive piano postlude that appears at the end of several of the songs, making the singer (and the listener) take a step back and reflect on what has just been said. At the end of the cycle, the postlude is expanded to a self-contained piano piece, repeating the melody of the first song. As the heroine’s life has been shattered by the death of the man she loved, she turns to her memories, reliving them in her mind, in a realm that is manifestly beyond words.
out God’s command to name all things in the garden. It is she who sings of the beauty of nature: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the water and even the fragrance of her own body. And it is she who finally confronts and embraces the end of her life. The songs, written between 1906 and 1910, are lightyears removed from such popular early Fauré works as Au bord de l’eau or Clair de lune. As the composer approached his mid-sixties, his writing was becoming more harmonically adventurous, while at the same time favoring sparser piano textures and vocal lines that sometimes sounded almost like recitatives. Yet the music suddenly becomes more animated when Eve, having received God’s command, starts singing joyfully about, and to, the world surrounding her. The mood turns tragic in the ninth song, “Crépuscule” (“Twilight”), where an intense cry of pain pierces through the happiness of Paradise. (This is a reworking of Mélisande’s song from Fauré’s incidental music to Maeterlinck’s play, written in 1898.) The cycle ends on a mournful yet resigned note as Eve willingly accepts the inevitability of death. To brighten the mood, the recital will end with three songs by Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), a giant of American musical theater. “Take me to the world” comes from the 1966 TV show Evening Primrose; “Losing my mind” and “Being Alive” are from the musicals Follies (1971) and Company (1970), respectively. What all three have in common is a yearning for true love in an ideal world—the only way we humans can hope to find fulfillment on earth. — Peter Laki
While Chamisso and Schumann depicted a real-life German woman (presumably from the middle class), Charles van Lerberghe (1861-1907) and Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) approached the “Eternal Feminine” from a symbolist angle some seventy years later. Van Lerberghe, a native of Ghent, Belgium, was a classmate and friend of Maurice Maeterlinck, the poet of Pelléas and Mélisande. In 1904, he published a volume with the title La chanson d’Ève, containing 96 poems, from which Fauré selected ten for his song cycle, the longest he ever wrote. In van Lerberghe’s vision of the Garden of Eden, Adam is conspicuously absent. Instead, it is Eve who carries armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS KATE LINDSEY, MEZZO SOPRANO
Mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey is one of the most exciting voices of her generation and appears regularly in the world’s most prestigious opera houses and orchestras, with many of the most distinguished conductors. Highlights of the 2022-23 season includes Idamante in the Metropolitan Opera’s Idomeneo, Dido in Dido and Aeneas at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and returning to the Wiener Staatsoper to perform Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Penelope in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Career highlights include a Kurt Weill double bill of Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden at Teatro alla Scala, and multiple productions at the Wiener Staatsoper, where she premiered the title role in Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando and completed the company’s Monteverdi opera triptych. A dditional premieres include the lead role in the English National Opera premiere of Paul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the title role of Miranda in the Katie Mitchell production at Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique in Paris. At the Metropolitan Opera, she has sung over 100 performances in over a dozen roles, including Cherubino, Hänsel, Annio, Zerlina, Idamante, Nicklausse, and Nerone.
JUSTINA LEE, PIANO
American collaborative artist Justina Lee has served as assistant conductor, pianist, and coach for such companies as the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Castleton Festival, and Wolf Trap Opera Company. She is a frequent collaborator with acclaimed tenor Lawrence Brownlee and has appeared with him on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Recital highlights include collaborations with Alyson Cambridge, Gordon Hawkins, Linda Mabbs, Lisette Oropesa, Dimitri Pittas, and Tamara Wilson. Lee has appeared under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation residency program and on recital series that include On Wings of Song at Carnegie Hall, the Harriman-Jewell Series, the Washington Performing Arts Series at the Kennedy Center, and on Renée Fleming’s VOICES recital series. She can also be seen on Medici.tv as pianist for Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute master classes with Joyce DiDonato. Lee is an alumna of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera and holds degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Manhattan School of Music. She joined the University of Maryland, College Park faculty in 2008 and currently serves as principal coach of the Maryland Opera Studio.
Lindsey’s first solo album, Thousands of Miles, with pianist Baptiste Trotignon, includes works by Weill, Korngold, and Zemlinsky. Her second album, Arianna, features the Arcangelo orchestra conducted by Jonathan Cohen. Lindsey’s most recent album, Tiranno, focuses on the character of Nero, and features world premiere recordings of cantatas by Scarlatti and Bartolomeo Monari. She records exclusively with Outhere Music / Alpha.
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TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856) Frauenliebe und Leben (1840) Poems by Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838)
A Woman’s Love and Life English translations by Richard Wigmore
1. Seit ich ihn gesehen Seit ich ihn gesehen, Glaub ich blind zu sein; Wo ich hin nur blicke, Seh ich ihn allein; Wie im wachen Traume Schwebt sein Bild mir vor, Taucht aus tiefstem Dunkel, Heller nur empor.
1. Since first seeing him Since first seeing him, I think I am blind, Wherever I look, Him only I see; As in a waking dream His image hovers before me, Rising out of deepest darkness Ever more brightly.
Sonst ist licht- und farblos Alles um mich her, Nach der Schwestern Spiele Nicht begehr ich mehr, Möchte lieber weinen, Still im Kämmerlein; Seit ich ihn gesehen, Glaub ich blind zu sein.
All else is dark and pale Around me, My sisters’ games I no more long to share, I would rather weep Quietly in my room; Since first seeing him, I think I am blind.
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2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen Er, der Herrlichste von allen, Wie so milde, wie so gut! Holde Lippen, klares Auge, Heller Sinn und fester Mut.
2. He, the most wonderful of all He, the most wonderful of all, How gentle and loving he is! Sweet lips, bright eyes, A clear mind and firm resolve.
So wie dort in blauer Tiefe, Hell und herrlich, jener Stern, Also er an meinem Himmel, Hell und herrlich, hehr und fern.
Just as there in the deep-blue distance That star gleams bright and brilliant, So does he shine in my sky, Bright and brilliant, distant and sublime.
Wandle, wandle deine Bahnen; Nur betrachten deinen Schein, Nur in Demut ihn betrachten, Selig nur und traurig sein!
Wander, wander on your way, Just to gaze on your radiance, Just to gaze on in humility, To be but blissful and sad!
Höre nicht mein stilles Beten, Deinem Glücke nur geweiht; Darfst mich niedre Magd nicht kennen, Hoher Stern der Herrlichkeit!
Do not heed my silent prayer, Uttered for your happiness alone, You shall never know me, lowly as I am, You noble star of splendour!
Nur die Würdigste von allen Darf beglücken deine Wahl, Und ich will die Hohe segnen, Viele tausendmal.
Only the worthiest woman of all May your choice elate, And I shall bless that exalted one Many thousands of times.
Will mich freuen dann und weinen, Selig, selig bin ich dann; Sollte mir das Herz auch brechen, Brich, o Herz, was liegt daran?
Then shall I rejoice and weep, Blissful, blissful shall I be, Even if my heart should break, Break, O heart, what does it matter?
3. Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben, Es hat ein Traum mich berückt; Wie hätt er doch unter allen Mich Arme erhöht und beglückt?
3. I cannot grasp it, believe it I cannot grasp it, believe it, A dream has beguiled me; How, from all women, could he Have exalted and favoured poor me?
Mir war’s, er habe gesprochen: „Ich bin auf ewig dein“— Mir war’s—ich träume noch immer, Es kann ja nimmer so sein.
He said, I thought, ‘I am yours forever’, I was, I thought, still dreaming, After all, it can never be.
O lass im Traume mich sterben, Gewieget an seiner Brust, Den seligen Tod mich schlürfen In Tränen unendlicher Lust.
O let me, dreaming, die, Cradled on his breast; Let me savour blissful death In tears of endless joy.
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4. Du Ring an meinem Finger Du Ring an meinem Finger, Mein goldenes Ringelein, Ich drücke dich fromm an die Lippen, Dich fromm an das Herze mein.
4. You ring on my finger You ring on my finger, My golden little ring, I press you devoutly to my lips, To my heart.
Ich hatt ihn ausgeträumet, Der Kindheit friedlich schönen Traum, Ich fand allein mich, verloren Im öden, unendlichen Raum.
I had finished dreaming Childhood’s peaceful dream, I found myself alone, forlorn In boundless desolation.
Du Ring an meinem Finger Da hast du mich erst belehrt, Hast meinem Blick erschlossen Des Lebens unendlichen, tiefen Wert.
You ring on my finger, You first taught me, Opened my eyes To life’s deep eternal worth.
Ich will ihm dienen, ihm leben, Ihm angehören ganz, Hin selber mich geben und finden Verklärt mich in seinem Glanz.
I shall serve him, live for him, Belong to him wholly, Yield to him and find Myself transfigured in his light.
Du Ring an meinem Finger, Mein goldenes Ringelein, Ich drücke dich fromm an die Lippen, Dich fromm an das Herze mein.
You ring on my finger, My golden little ring, I press you devoutly to my lips, To my heart.
5. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern Helft mir, ihr Schwestern, Freundlich mich schmücken, Dient der Glücklichen heute mir, Windet geschäftig Mir um die Stirne Noch der blühenden Myrte Zier.
5. Help me, my sisters Help me, my sisters, With my bridal attire, Serve me today in my joy, Busily braid About my brow The wreath of blossoming myrtle.
Als ich befriedigt, Freudigen Herzens, Sonst dem Geliebten im Arme lag, Immer noch rief er, Sehnsucht im Herzen, Ungeduldig den heutigen Tag.
When with contentment And joy in my heart I lay in my beloved’s arms, He still called, With longing heart, Impatiently for this day.
Helft mir, ihr Schwestern, Helft mir verscheuchen Eine törichte Bangigkeit, Dass ich mit klarem Aug ihn empfange, Ihn, die Quelle der Freudigkeit.
Help me, my sisters, Help me banish A foolish fearfulness; So that I with bright eyes May receive him, The source of all my joy.
Bist, mein Geliebter, Du mir erschienen, Giebst du mir, Sonne, deinen Schein? Lass mich in Andacht, Lass mich in Demut, Lass mich verneigen dem Herren mein.
Have you, my love, Really entered my life, Do you, O sun, give me your glow? Let me in reverence, Let me in humility Bow before my lord.
Streuet ihm, Schwestern, Streuet ihm Blumen, Bringet ihm knospende Rosen dar, Aber euch, Schwestern, Grüss ich mit Wehmut, Freudig scheidend aus eurer Schar.
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6. Süsser Freund, du blickest Süsser Freund, du blickest Mich verwundert an, Kannst es nicht begreifen, Wie ich weinen kann; Lass der feuchten Perlen Ungewohnte Zier Freudig hell erzittern In dem Auge mir!
6. Sweet friend, you look Sweet friend, you look At me in wonder, You cannot understand How I can weep; Let the unfamiliar beauty Of these moist pearls Tremble joyfully bright In my eyes!
Wie so bang mein Busen, Wie so wonnevoll! Wüsst ich nur mit Worten, Wie ich’s sagen soll; Komm und birg dein Antlitz Hier an meiner Brust, Will in’s Ohr dir flüstern Alle meine Lust.
How anxious my heart is, How full of bliss! If only I knew How to say it in words; Come and hide your face Here against my breast, For me to whisper you All my joy.
Weisst du nun die Tränen, Die ich weinen kann, Sollst du nicht sie sehen, Du geliebter Mann? Bleib an meinem Herzen, Fühle dessen Schlag, Dass ich fest und fester Nur dich drücken mag.
Do you now understand the tears That I can weep, Should you not see them, Beloved husband? Stay by my heart, Feel how it beats, That I may press you Closer and closer.
Hier an meinem Bette Hat die Wiege Raum, Wo sie still verberge Meinen holden Traum; Kommen wird der Morgen, Wo der Traum erwacht, Und daraus dein Bildnis Mir entgegen lacht.
Here by my bed There is room for the cradle, Silently hiding My blissful dream; The morning shall come When the dream awakens, And your likeness Laughs up at me.
7. An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust, Du meine Wonne, du meine Lust! Das Glück ist die Liebe, die Lieb ist das Glück, Ich hab’s gesagt und nehm’s nicht zurück. Hab überschwenglich mich geschätzt, Bin überglücklich aber jetzt. Nur die da säugt, nur die da liebt Das Kind, dem sie die Nahrung giebt; Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, Was lieben heisst und glücklich sein. O, wie bedaur’ ich doch den Mann, Der Mutterglück nicht fühlen kann! Du lieber, lieber Engel, Du Du schauest mich an und lächelst dazu! An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust, Du meine Wonne, du meine Lust!
7. On my heart, at my breast On my heart, at my breast, You my delight, my joy! Happiness is love, love is happiness, I’ve always said and say so still. I thought myself rapturous, But now am delirious with joy. Only she who suckles, only she who loves The child that she nourishes; Only a mother knows What it means to love and be happy. Ah, how I pity the man Who cannot feel a mother’s bliss! You dear, dear angel, you, You look at me and you smile! On my heart, at my breast, You my delight, my joy!
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8. Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan, Der aber traf. Du schläfst, du harter, unbarmherz’ger Mann, Den Todesschlaf.
8. Now you have caused me my first pain Now you have caused me my first pain, But it struck hard, You sleep, you harsh and pitiless man, The sleep of death.
Es blicket die Verlassne vor sich hin, Die Welt ist leer. Geliebet hab ich und gelebt, ich bin Nicht lebend mehr.
The deserted one stares ahead, The world is void. I have loved and I have lived, And now my life is done.
Ich zieh’ mich in mein Innres still zurück, Der Schleier fällt, Da hab ich dich und mein verlornes Glück, Du meine Welt!
Silently I withdraw into myself, The veil falls, There I have you and my lost happiness, You, my world!
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GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845 – 1924) La chanson d’Ève, op. 95 (1906)
The Song of Eve
1. Paradis C’est le premier matin du monde. Comme une fleur confuse exhalée de la nuit, Au souffle nouveau qui se lève des ondes, Un jardin bleu s’épanouit.
1. Paradise It is the first morning of creation. Like an abashed flower breathed on the night air, With the pristine whisperings that rise from the waves, A blue garden blooms.
Tout s’y confond encore et tout s’y mêle, Frissons de feuilles, chants d’oiseaux, Glissements d’ailes, Sources qui sourdent, voix des airs, voix des eaux, Murmure immense; Et qui pourtant est du silence.
Everything is still blurred and indistinct, Trembling leaves, singing birds, Gliding wings, Springs that rise, voices of air and water, An immense murmuring; Which yet is silence.
Ouvrant à la clarté ses doux et vagues yeux La jeune et divine Ève S’est éveillée de Dieu.
Opening to the light her soft and vacant eyes, Young, heaven-born Eve Is awakened by God.
Et le monde à ses pieds s’étend comme un beau rêve.
And the world lies at her feet like a lovely dream.
Or Dieu lui dit: Va, fille humaine, Et donne à tous les êtres Que j’ai crées, une parole de tes lèvres, Un son pour les connaître.
Now God says to her: Go, daughter of man, And bestow on all beings That I have created a word from your lips, A sound that we might know them by.
Et Ève s’en alla, docile à son seigneur, En son bosquet de roses, Donnant à toutes choses Une parole, un son de ses lèvres de fleur:
And Eve went, obedient to her Lord, Into her rose grove, Bestowing on all things A word, a sound from her flower-like lips:
Chose qui fuit, chose qui souffle, chose qui vole …
On all that runs, that breathes, that flies …
Cependant le jour passe, et vague, comme à l’aube, Au crépuscule, peu à peu, L’Éden s’endort et se dérobe Dans le silence d’un songe bleu.
Day meanwhile passes, and hazy, as at dawn, Eden sinks slowly to sleep In the twilight and steals away In the silence of a blue dream.
La voix s’est tue, mais tout l’écoute encore, Tout demeure en attente; Lorsque avec le lever de l’étoile du soir, Ève chante.
The voice is hushed, but everything still hearkens, Waiting in expectation; When with the rising of the evening star, Eve sings.
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2. Prima verba Comme elle chante Dans ma voix, L’âme longtemps murmurante Des fontaines et des bois!
2. The first words How it sings In my voice, The constantly murmuring soul Of the springs and woods!
Air limpide du paradis, Avec tes grappes de rubis, Avec tes gerbes de lumière, Avec tes roses et tes fruits;
Clear air of paradise With your ruby grape-clusters, With your sheafs of light, With your roses and your fruits;
Quelle merveille en nous à cette heure! Des paroles depuis des âges endormies En des sons, en des fleurs, Sur mes lèvres enfin prennent vie.
How we marvel at such a moment! Words that had slumbered for aeons Finally come to life on my lips As sounds, as flowers.
Depuis que mon souffle a dit leur chanson, Depuis que ma voix les a créées, Quel silence heureux et profond Naît de leurs âmes allégées!
Since my breath uttered their song, Since my voice created them, What deep and blissful silence Is born from their unburdened souls!
3. Roses ardentes Roses ardentes Dans l’immobile nuit, C’est en vous que je chante, Et que je suis.
3. Fiery roses Fiery roses In the motionless night, It is in you that I sing And have my being.
En vous, étincelles, À la cime des bois, Que je suis éternelle, Et que je vois.
It is in you, gleaming stars High in the forests, That I am eternal And given sight.
Ô mer profonde, C’est en toi que mon sang Renaît vague blonde, Et flot dansant.
O deep sea, It is in you that my blood Is reborn, white wave And dancing tide.
Et c’est en toi, force suprême, Soleil radieux, Que mon âme elle-même Atteint son dieu!
And it is in you, supreme force, Radiant sun, That my very soul Reaches its god!
4. Comme Dieu rayonne Comme Dieu rayonne aujourd’hui, Comme il exulte, comme il fleurit Parmi ces roses et ces fruits!
4. How radiant is god How radiant is God today, How he exults and blossoms Among these roses and fruits!
Comme il murmure en cette fontaine! Ah! comme il chante en ces oiseaux … Qu’elle est suave son haleine Dans l’odorant printemps nouveau!
How he murmurs in this fountain! Ah! how he sings in these birds … How sweet is his breath In the new fragrant spring!
Comme il se baigne dans la lumière Avec amour, mon jeune dieu! Toutes les choses de la terre Sont ses vêtements radieux.
How he bathes in light With love, my young god! All earthly things Are his dazzling raiments.
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5. L’aube blanche L’aube blanche dit à mon rêve: Éveille-toi, le soleil luit. Mon âme écoute, et je soulève Un peu mes paupières vers lui.
5. The white dawn The white dawn says to my dream: Awake, the sun is shining. My soul listens, and I raise My eyes a little towards it.
Un rayon de lumière touche La pâle fleur de mes yeux bleus; Une flamme éveille ma bouche, Un souffle éveille mes cheveux.
A ray of light touches The pale flower of my blue eyes; A flame awakens my mouth, A breeze awakens my hair.
Et mon âme, comme une rose Tremblante, lente, tout le jour, S’éveille à la beauté des choses, Comme mon cœur à leur amour.
And my soul, like a rose That is trembling and listless all day, Awakens to the beauty of things, As my heart awakens to their love.
6. Eau vivante Que tu es simple et claire, Eau vivante, Qui, du sein de la terre, Jaillis en ces bassins et chantes!
6. Spring water How simple and clear you are, Spring water, Who, from the heart of the earth, Surges into these pools and sings!
Ô fontaine divine et pure, Les plantes aspirent Ta liquide clarté; La biche et la colombe en toi se désaltèrent.
O divine, pure fountain, The plants breathe in Your liquid limpidity; The doe and the dove quench in you their thirst.
Et tu descends par des pentes douces De fleurs et de mousses, Vers l’océan originel, Toi qui passes et vas, sans cesse, et jamais lasse De la terre à la mer et de la mer au ciel.
And you descend by the gentle banks Of flowers and moss Towards the primeval ocean, You who come and go, without cease or fatigue, From the land to the sea and from the sea to the sky.
7. Veilles-tu, ma senteur de soleil? Veilles-tu, ma senteur de soleil, Mon arôme d’abeilles blondes, Flottes-tu sur le monde, Mon doux parfum de miel?
7. Are you awake, my fragrant sun? Are you awake, my fragrant sun, My scent of bright-coloured bees, Do you drift across the world, My sweet aroma of honey?
La nuit, lorsque mes pas Dans le silence rôdent, M’annonces-tu, senteur de mes lilas, Et de mes roses chaudes?
At night, while my steps Prowl in the silence, Do you, who scent my lilacs And vivid roses, proclaim me?
Suis-je comme une grappe de fruits Cachés dans les feuilles, Et que rien ne décèle, Mais qu’on odore dans la nuit?
Am I like a bunch of fruit Hidden in the foliage, That nothing reveals But whose fragrance is felt at night?
Sait-il, à cette heure, Que j’entr’ouvre ma chevelure, Et qu’elle respire; Le sent-il sur la terre?
Does he know at this hour That I am loosening my tresses And that they are breathing; Does he sense it on earth?
Sent-il que j’étends les bras, Et que des lys de mes vallées Ma voix qu’il n’entend pas Est embaumée?
Does he sense that I reach out my arms, And that my voice – which he cannot hear – Is fragrant With lilies from my valleys?
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8. Dans un parfum de roses blanches Dans un parfum de roses blanches Elle est assise et songe; Et l’ombre est belle comme s’il s’y mirait un ange.
8. Amid the scent of white roses Amid the scent of white roses She sits and dreams; And the shade is fair, as if an angel were mirrored there.
L’ombre descend, le bosquet dort; Entre les feuilles et les branches, Sur le paradis bleu s’ouvre un paradis d’or.
Darkness falls, the grove sleeps; Among the leaves and branches, A golden paradise opens out over the blue.
Une voix qui chantait, tout à l’heure, murmure. Un murmure s’exhale en haleine, et s’éteint.
A voice which sang but now, now murmurs. A murmur is breathed, and dies away.
Dans le silence il tombe des pétales …
In the silence petals fall …
9. Crépuscule Ce soir, à travers le bonheur, Qui donc soupire, qu’est-ce qui pleure? Qu’est-ce qui vient palpiter sur mon cœur, Comme un oiseau blessé?
9. Twilight This evening, amid the happiness, Who is it that sighs and what is it that weeps? What comes to flutter in my heart, Like a wounded bird?
Est-ce une voix future, Une voix du passé? J’écoute, jusqu’à la souffrance, Ce son dans le silence.
Is it a premonition, A voice from the past? I listen, till it hurts, To that sound in the silence.
Île d’oubli, ô Paradis! Quel cri déchire, dans la nuit, Ta voix qui me berce?
Isle of oblivion, O paradise! What cry in the night cracks Your voice that cradles me?
Quel cri traverse Ta ceinture de fleurs, Et ton beau voile d’allégresse?
What cry pierces Your girdle of flowers, And your lovely veil of happiness?
10. Ô mort, poussière d'étoiles Ô mort, poussière d’étoiles, Lève-toi sous mes pas!
10. O death, starry dust O death, starry dust, Rise up where I tread!
Viens, ô douce vague qui brille Dans les ténèbres; Emporte-moi dans ton néant!
Come, gentle wave that shines In the darkness: Bear me off into your void!
Viens, souffle sombre où je vacille, Comme une flamme ivre de vent!
Come, dark sigh in which I tremble, Like a wind-intoxicated flame!
C’est en toi que je veux m’étendre, M’éteindre et me dissoudre, Mort, où mon âme aspire!
It is in you that I wish to be absorbed, To be extinguished and dissolved, Death, to which my soul aspires!
Viens, brise-moi comme une fleur d’écume. Une fleur de soleil à la cime Des eaux,
Come, break me like a flower of foam, A speck of sun in the crest Of the waves,
Et comme d’une amphore d’or Un vin de flamme et d’arome divin, Épanche mon âme En ton abîme, pour qu’elle embaume La terre sombre et le souffle des morts.
And like a golden amphora’s Flaming wine of heavenly fragrance, Pour my soul Into your abyss, that it might perfume The dark earth and the breath of the dead.
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM (1930 – 2021) “Take Me to the World” from Evening Primrose (1966) Let me see the world with clouds Take me to the world Out where I can push through crowds Take me to the world
“Losing My Mind” from Follies (1971) Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim The sun comes up, I think about you. The coffee cup, I think about you. I want you so, it’s like I’m losing my mind.
A world that smiles With streets instead of aisles Where I can walk for miles With you
The morning ends, I think about you. I talk to friends, and think about you, And do they know, it’s like I’m losing my mind.
Take me to the world that’s real Show me how it’s done Teach me how to laugh, to feel Move me to the sun
All afternoon, doing every little chore The thought of you stays bright. Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor Not going left, not going right.
Just hold my hand Whenever we arrive Take me to the world Where I can be alive Let me see the world that smiles Take me to the world Out where I can walk for miles Take me to the world
I dim the lights, and think about you. Spend sleepless nights, and think about you. You said you loved me, or were you just being kind? Or am I losing my mind?
With all around Things growing in the ground Where birds that make a sound Are birds We shall have the world come true We shall have the world I won’t be afraid with you We shall have the world
I want you so, it’s like I’m losing my mind. Does no one know, it’s like I’m losing my mind. All afternoon, doing every little chore The thought of you stays bright. Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor, Not going left, not going right. I dim the lights and think about you. Spend sleepless nights to dream about you. You said you loved me, or were you just being kind? Or am I losing my mind? It’s like I’m losing my mind.
I’ll hold your hand And know when I’m alone We shall have the world to keep Such a lovely world we’ll reap We shall have the world forever For our own
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“Being Alive” from Company (1970) Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Someone to hold you too close Someone to hurt you too deep Someone to sit in your chair To ruin your sleep Someone to need you too much Someone to know you too well Someone to pull you up short To put you through hell Someone you have to let in Someone whose feelings you spare Someone who, like it or not Will want you to share A little a lot Someone to crowd you with love Someone to force you to care Someone to make you come through Who’ll always be there As frightened as you Of being alive Being alive Somebody hold me too close Somebody hurt me too deep Somebody sit in my chair And ruin my sleep And make me aware Of being alive Being alive
Somebody need me too much Somebody know me too well Somebody pull me up short And put me through hell And give me support For being alive Make me alive Make me confused Mock me with praise Let me be used Vary my days But alone Is alone Not alive Somebody crowd me with love Somebody force me to care Somebody let come through I’ll always be there As frightened as you To help us survive Being alive
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ABOUT THE RECITAL SERIES Park Avenue Armory presents more intimate performances and programs in its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe in an intimate salon setting. Now celebrating its tenth season, the series has held the debuts of many world-class artists, including: the North American recital debuts of pianist Igor Levit, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, tenor Ilker Arcayürek, baritones Benjamin Appl and Roderick Williams, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, and cellist István Várdai; the North American solo recital debuts of tenor Michael Spyres and mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo; the US Recital debuts of sopranos Barbara Hannigan and Anna Lucia Richter and baritone Thomas Oliemans; and the New York debut of pianist Severin von Eckardstein and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam. The Recital Series has programmed the world premieres of Roger Reynolds’ FLiGHT performed by the JACK Quartet and Michael Hersch’s “…das Rückgrat berstend” performed by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Jay Campbell. Actor Charlotte Rampling and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton gave the US premiere of The Night Dances on the series in 2015, which brought together Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo cello and poetry by Sylvia Plath; Wieder-Atherton returned to the Armory in 2017 for the North American premiere of Little Girl Blue, a program that reimagined the music of Nina Simone. New York premieres include: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air and Shades of Silence performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble; Dai Kujikura’s Minina, John Zorn’s Baudelaires, and a new arrangement of Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel, also performed by ICE; Michael Gordon’s Rushes performed by the Rushes Ensemble; Michael Harrison’s Just Constellations performed by Roomful of Teeth; David Lang’s depart, Gabriel Jackson’s Our flags are wafting in hope and grief and Rigwreck, Kile Smith’s “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames A Word, Louis Andriessen’s Ahania Weeping, Suzanne Giraud’s Johannisbaum, David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet, Benjamin CS Boyle’s Empire of Crystal, and Ted Hearne’s Animals (commissioned by Park Avenue Armory), all performed by The Crossing under conductor Donald Nally; and John Zorn’s Jumalatteret sung by soprano Barbara Hannigan with pianist Stephen Gosling. Additional notable programs include performances by: baritone Christian Gerhaher with pianist Gerold Huber; the Flux Quartet; tenor Ian Bostridge with pianist Wenwen Du; pianist David Fray; soprano Lisette Oropesa with pianist John Churchwell countertenor Andreas Scholl with harpsichordist Tamar Halperin; soprano Kate Royal with pianist Joseph Middleton; pipa player Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet; tenor Lawrence Brownlee with pianists Myra Huang and Jason Moran; mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard with pianist Ted Sperling; soprano Nadine Sierra with pianist Brian Wagorn; soprano Rosa Feola with pianist Iain Burnside; cellist Nicolas Altstaedt; tenor Paul Appleby with pianist Conor Hanick; baritone Will Liverman with pianist Myra Huang; mezzo soprano Jamie Barton with pianist and composer Jake Heggie; new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound; French period choir and chamber orchestra Ensemble Correspondances under the direction of harpsichordist and organist Sébastien Daucé; baritone Justin Austin and pianist Howard Watkins; and soprano Ying Fang with pianist Ken Noda.
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NEXT AT THE ARMORY ARTISTS STUDIO THE AACM: POWER STRONGER THAN ITSELF, A TALK BY GEORGE E. LEWIS november 18 at 3pm
Founded on the virtually all-Black South Side of Chicago in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians has played an unusually prominent role in the development of American experimental music, exploring an unprecedented range of methodologies, processes, and media. Scholar-composer George E. Lewis, Professor of Music at Columbia University and an AACM member since 1971, presents an historical overview of the works of the famed collective.
THE REGGIE NICHOLSON PERCUSSION CONCEPT november 18 at 7pm & 9pm
Reggie Nicholson’s signature style and sound have made him one of the most inventive and inspirational drummer/ percussionists of his generation, composing and improvising original music that showcases his formidable technique and considerable skill. He performs some of his recent works and world premieres for percussion ensemble, displaying his “exquisite splashes of color and unmetered cascades on the drums” (Chicago Tribune) with his ensemble, the Reggie Nicholson Percussion Concept.
THE RITE OF SPRING / COMMON GROUND[S] november 29 – december 14
New York Premiere Faithful to Stravinsky’s visceral score, Pina Bausch’s monumental choreography is given a thrilling new life by a specially assembled company of 36 dancers from 14 African countries. Danced on a peat-covered stage, they clash and engage in a wild and poetic struggle of life, ritual, and sacrifice that pays tribute to her unparalleled genius. Rite is paired with a new work created, performed, and inspired by the lives of two remarkable choreographers, professors, and grandmothers: Germaine Acogny, the founder of the Senegalese École des Sables who is widely considered to be “the mother of contemporary African dance,” and Malou Airuado, who performed leading roles in many of Bausch’s early works as a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. This poetic and tender antidote to Rite reflects their shared histories, emotional experiences, and common ground.
MAKING SPACE AT THE ARMORY SEASONS OF DANCE december 3
Thomas F. DeFrantz moderates a consideration of the living legacy of Pina Bausch and a celebration of the diversity of contemporary dance flourishing in Africa today. He is joined by Jorge Puerta Armenta, Germaine Acogny, Malou Airuado, dancers from the company of The Rite of Spring, and others.
ARMORY PUBLIC TOURS various times
Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided walking tour of the building. Explore from the soaring 55,000-squarefoot Wade Thompson Drill Hall to the extraordinary interiors designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Herter Brothers, and others, and learn about the design plans by acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron.
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ABOUT PARK AVENUE ARMORY Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory supports unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall—reminiscent of 19th-century European train stations—and an array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory provides a platform for artists to push the boundaries of their practice, collaborate across disciplines, and create new work in dialogue with the historic building. Across its grand and intimate spaces, the Armory enables a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in New York. The Armory both commissions and presents performances and installations in the grand Drill Hall and offers more intimate programming through its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe within the salon setting of the Board of Officers Room; its Artists Studio series curated by Jason Moran in the restored Veterans Room; Making Space at the Armory, a public programming series that brings together a discipline-spanning group of artists and cultural thought-leaders around the important issues of our time; and the Malkin Lecture Series that features presentations by scholars and writers on topics related to Park Avenue Armory and its history. In addition, the Armory also has a year-round Artists-in-Residence program, providing space and support for artists to create new work and expand their practices. The Armory’s creativity-based arts education programs provide access to the arts to thousands of students from underserved New York City public schools, engaging them with the institution’s artistic programming and outside-the-box creative processes. Through its education initiatives, the Armory provides access to all Drill Hall performances, workshops taught by Master Teaching Artists, and in-depth residencies that support the schools’ curriculum. Youth Corps, the Armory’s year-round paid internship program, begins in high school and continues into the critical post-high school years, providing interns with mentored employment, job training, and skill development, as well as a network of peers and mentors to support their individual college and career goals. The Armory is undergoing a multi-phase renovation and restoration of its historic building led by architects Herzog & de Meuron, with Platt Byard Dovell White as Executive Architects.
PARK AVENUE ARMORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman Emeritus Elihu Rose, PhD Co-Chairs Adam R. Flatto Amanda J.T. Riegel President Rebecca Robertson
Founding Chairman, 2000–2009 Wade F.B. Thompson 18
Vice Presidents David Fox Pablo Legorreta Emanuel Stern Treasurer Emanuel Stern
Marina Abramović Abigail Baratta Joyce F. Brown Cora Cahan Hélène Comfort Paul Cronson Jonathan Davis Tina R. Davis Jessie Ding Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Roberta Garza Kim Greenberg
Andrew Gundlach Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Samhita Jayanti Edward G. Klein, Brigadier General NYNG (Ret.) Ralph Lemon Jason Moran Janet C. Ross Joan Steinberg Peter Zhou
Pierre Audi, Marina Kellen French Artistic Director
Avant-Garde Chair Adrienne Katz
Directors Emeriti Harrison M. Bains, Jr. Angela E. Thompson
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF Rebecca Robertson Adam R. Flatto Founding President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director
Jason Moran Curator, Artists Studio Tavia Nyong’o Curator, Public Programming
ARTISTIC PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING Michael Lonergan Chief Artistic Producer Kevin Condardo General Manager Rachel Rosado Producer Samantha Cortez Producer Darian Suggs Associate Director, Public Programming Kanako Morita Associate Producer/Company Manager Oscar Peña Programming Coordinator
Oku Okoko Director of IT Ethan Cohen IT Administrator Natasha Michele Norton Director of House Management Alejandra Ortiz House Manager Jacqueline Babek, Emma Buford, Sarah Gallick, Daniel Gomez, Eboni Green, Nariah Green, Maxim Ibadov, Sandra Kitt, Christine Lemme, Beth Miller, Drew O’Bryan, Jon Ovadia, Regina Pearsall, Shimel Purnell, Eileen Rourke, Michael Simon, Kin Tam, Kathleen White Ushers
ARTISTIC PRODUCTION Paul King Director of Production Claire Marberg Deputy Director of Production Nicholas Lazzaro Technical Director Lars Nelson Technical Director Aidan Nelson Technical Director Rachel Baumann Production Coordinator ARTS EDUCATION Cassidy L. Jones Chief Education Officer Monica Weigel McCarthy Director of Education Aarti Ogirala Associate Director of Education, School Programs Nadia Parfait School Programs Coordinator Ciara Ward Youth Corps Manager Bev Vega Youth Corps Manager Drew Petersen Education Special Projects Manager
DEVELOPMENT Melanie Forman Chief Development Officer Charmaine Portis Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer Sarah Rodriguez Director of Development Chiara Bosco Individual Giving Coordinator Angel Genares Director of Institutional Giving Kelly Carr Associate Director of Special Events Séverine Kaufman Special Events Manager Michael Buffer Database Manager EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Nelson Executive Assistant to the President Nathalie Etienne Administrative Assistant, President’s Office Simone Elhart Rentals and Project Manager
Emily Bruner, Donna Costello, Alexander Davis, Asma Feyijinmi, Hawley Hussey, Larry Jackson, Hector Morales, Peter Musante, Drew Petersen, Leigh Poulos, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Vickie Tanner Teaching Artists
FINANCE Tejal Patel Controller Khemraj Dat Accounting Manager Zeinebou Dia Junior Accountant
Wilson Castro, Shar Galarza, Daniel Gomez, Nancy K. Gomez, Maxim Ibadov, Amo Ortiz Teaching Associates
MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS and BOX OFFICE Tom Trayer Chief Marketing Officer Nick Yarbrough Senior Digital Marketing Manager Allison Abbott Press and Editorial Manager Joe Petrowski Director of Ticketing and Customer Relations Monica Diaz Box Office Manager John Hooper Assistant Box Office Manager Victor Daniel Ayala, Isabelle Graham, Sarah Jack, Max Komisar, Mary McDonnell, Michelle Meged, Maeghan Suzik Box Office Associates Resnicow + Associates, Inc. Press Representatives
Arabia Elliot Currence, Victoria Fernandez, Sebastian Harris, Melissa Velasquez Teaching Apprentices Kenny Amesquita, Nat Banaszek, Eden Battice, Adwoa Boateng, Vicky Braga Dos Santos Casey, Wildany Ferol, Adonai FletcherJones, Lolo Iberle, Mia Kokilashvili, Sheena Luke, Sofia Maza, Oscar Montenegro, Kelsy Padilla, Silas Rodriguez, Fahmida Rimpa, Denivia Rivera, Arley Suarez, AJ Volkov Youth Corps BUILDING AND MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS Jenni Kim Chief Operating Officer Ashlee Willaman Director of Human Resources Marc Von Braunsberg Director of Operations and Security Paul Sutter Director of Facilities and Capital Projects David Burnhauser Collection Manager Frank Duda Facilities Manager Emma Paton Administrative and Office Coordinator Williams Say Superintendent
PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Matthew Epstein, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon Artistic Consultants for Vocal Recitals Steinway & Sons
Olga Cruz, Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Mario Esquilin, Jeferson Avila, Branden Fell, Jacob Garrity, Joshua Rosa, Tyrell Shannon Castillo Maintenance Staff
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JOIN THE ARMORY
Become a Park Avenue Armory member and join us in our mission to present unconventional works that cannot be fully realized elsewhere in New York City. Members play an important role in helping us push the boundaries of creativity and expression.
FRIEND $100
$64 is tax deductible » 10% discount on tickets to all Armory tours and performances* » 20% discount on member subscription packages* » Invitations to member preview party for visual art installations » Complimentary admission for two to visual art installations » Access to the Membership Hotline for ticket assistance » Discounts at local partnered restaurants
BENEFACTOR $1,000
$824 is tax deductible All benefits of the Associate membership plus: » Recognition in the Armory printed programs » No-wait ticket pick up at the patron desk » Handling fees waived on ticket purchases* » Invitation for you and a guest to a private Chairman’s Circle event » Two complimentary tickets to the Malkin Lecture Series*
SUPPORTER $250
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE starting at $2,500
$194 is tax deductible All benefits of the Friend membership plus: » Fees waived on ticket exchanges* » Two free tickets to Armory Public Tours*** » Invitation to annual Member event
Chairman’s Circle members provide vital support for the Armory’s immersive arts and education programming and the restoration of our landmark building. In grateful appreciation of their support, they are provided unique and exclusive opportunities to experience the Armory and interact with our world-class artists.
ASSOCIATE $500
AVANT-GARDE starting at $350
$348 is tax deductible All benefits of the Supporter membership plus: » Complimentary admission for two additional guests (total of four) to visual art installations and member preview party » Two free passes to annual fairs held at the Armory, such as TEFAF, The Art Show, Salon Art + Design, etc.** » Access to the Patron Lounge at select productions
The Avant-Garde is a group for adventurous art enthusiasts in their 20s to early 40s. Members enjoy an intimate look at Armory productions, as well as invitations to forward-thinking art events around New York City.
For information on ticketing, or to purchase tickets, please contact the Box Office at (212) 933-5812 or visit us at armoryonpark.org. For more information about membership, please contact the Membership Office at (212) 616-3958 or members@armoryonpark.org.
Each membership applies to one household, and one membership card is mailed upon membership activation. *Subject to ticket availability **Certain restrictions apply ***Reservations required
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY ARTISTIC COUNCIL The Artistic Council is a leadership group that champions and supports groundbreaking “only at the Armory” productions.
Co-Chairs Noreen Buckfire Lisa Miller Anonymous (2) Anne-Victoire Auriault/Goldman Sachs Gives Abigail and Joseph Baratta Ken and Noreen Buckfire Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Caroline and Paul Cronson Jessie Ding and Ning JIn Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz The Lehoczky Escobar Family Adam R. Flatto Roberta Garza
Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy Barbara and Peter Georgescu Kim and Jeff Greenberg Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Anita K. Hersh* Lawrence and Sharon Hite Samhita and Ignacio Jayanti Wendy Keys Kameron Kordestani Fernand Lamesch Almudena and Pablo Legorreta Christina and Alan MacDonald John and Lisa Miller Lily O’Boyle Valerie Pels Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel
Susan and Elihu Rose Janet C. Ross Caryn Schacht and David Fox Brian S. Snyder Joan and Michael Steinberg Emanuel Stern Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović Merryl and James Tisch Saundra Whitney Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee
LEGACY CIRCLE The Armory’s Legacy Circle is a group of individuals who support Park Avenue Armory through a vitally important source of future funding, a planned gift. These gifts will help support the Armory’s outside-the-box artistic programming, Arts Education Programs, and historic preservation into the future.
Founding Members Angela and Wade F.B. Thompson Co-Chairs Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Marjorie and Gurnee Hart
Members The Estate of Ginette Becker Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Emme and Jonathan Deland Adam R. Flatto Roberta Garza Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Ken Kuchin
Heidi McWilliams Michelle Perr Amanda Thompson Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief Susan and Elihu Rose Francesca Schwartz Joan and Michael Steinberg Angela and Wade F. B. Thompson
SUPPORTERS Park Avenue Armory expresses its deep appreciation to the individuals and organizations listed here for their generous support for its annual and capital campaigns. $1,000,000 + Charina Endowment Fund Citi Empire State Local Development Corporation Adam R. Flatto Marina Kellen French Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc. Richard and Ronay Menschel New York City Council and Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly The Pershing Square Foundation
Susan and Elihu Rose The Arthur Ross Foundation and J & AR Foundation Joan Smilow and Joel Smilow* The Thompson Family Foundation Wade F.B. Thompson* The Zelnick/Belzberg Charitable Trust Anonymous
$500,000 to $999,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Almudena and Pablo Legorreta The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan Donna and Marvin Schwartz Emanuel Stern Anonymous armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory
$250,000 to $499,999 American Express Abigail and Joseph Baratta Michael Field Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan The Rockefeller Foundation Marshall Rose Family Foundation
$100,000 to $249,999 The Achelis and Bodman Foundations R. Mark and Wendy Adams Linda and Earle Altman Booth Ferris Foundation Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Courtney and Jonathan Davis
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Jessie Ding and Ning Jin Roberta Garza Howard Gilman Foundation Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Anita K. Hersh* Samhita and Ignacio Jayanti Kirkland & Ellis LLP Leonard & Judy Lauder Fund Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse New York State Assembly New York State Council on the Arts Stavros Niarchos Foundation Donald Pels Charitable Trust Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Mrs. Janet C. Ross Caryn Schacht and David Fox Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Joan and Michael Steinberg Mr. William C. Tomson Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee
Katharine Rayner The Reed Foundation Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Genie and Donald Rice Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation The Shubert Foundation Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman Amy and Jeffrey Silverman Sanford L. Smith Brian S. Snyder Mimi Klein Sternlicht TEFAF NY Tishman Speyer Barbara D. Tober Jane Toll and Robert Toll* Deborah C. van Eck Wescustogo Foundation Winston & Strawn LLP Anonymous (3)
$25,000 to $99,999
AECOM Tishman Jody and John Arnhold Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Harrison and Leslie Bains Mercedes Bass Debra and Leon Black Sergey G Butkevich Tim Cameron Coach Ania Coffey Betsy and Edward Cohen Con Edison Antoinette Delruelle and Joshua L. Steiner William F. Draper Sarah Jane and Trevor Gibbons Kiendl and John Gordon Herzog & de Meuron Lawrence and Sharon Hite Kameron Kordestani Suzie and Bruce Kovner Leon Levy Foundation James Marlas and Marie NugentHead Marlas Danny and Audrey Meyer John and Lisa Miller Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Helen Nash Lily O’Boyle Michael Peterson Joan and Joel I. Picket Anne and Skip Pratt Esther Rosenberg Valerie Rubsamen and Cedomir Crnkovic Fiona and Eric Rudin
Arthur R. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation Anne-Victoire Auriault / Goldman Sachs Gives The Avenue Association Christine and Turner Batty Sonja and Martin J. Brand Noreen and Ken Buckfire The Cowles Charitable Trust Caroline and Paul Cronson Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Emme and Jonathan Deland Andrew L. Farkas & Island Capital Group LLC Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Barbara and Peter Georgescu Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Kim and Jeff Greenberg Agnes Gund Janet Halvorson The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation Fernand Lamesch The Lehoczky Escobar Family George S. Loening Christina and Alan MacDonald Christine and Richard Mack Marc Haas Foundation The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation National Endowment for the Arts
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$10,000 to $24,999
May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Mrs. William H. Sandholm Philip Schmerbeck/Herzog & de Meuron USA Cynthia and Tom Sculco Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation Jean and Gene Stark Beatrice Stern The Polonsky Foundation Merryl and James Tisch Andrew and Purva Tsai Susan Unterberg Saundra Whitney George Wang Michael Weinstein Maria Wirth Samiah Zafar and Minhaj Patel Anonymous (5)
$5,000 to $9,999 Amy and David Abrams Donald Allison and Sumiko Ito Judy Hart Angelo Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Mortimer Berkowitz III Sara and Mark Bloom The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation Nicholas Brawer Catherine and Robert Brawer Dr. Joyce F. Brown and Mr. H. Carl McCall Amanda M. Burden Mary and Brad Burnham Michael Clifford and Robert Levy Ben Cohen Orla Coleman and Rikki Tahta Joyce B. Cowin Irene Danilovich David Schwartz Foundation, Inc. Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer Jeanne Donovan Fisher Peggy and Millard Drexler Family Foundation Douglas and Susanne Durst Caryl S. Englander Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff The Felicia Fund Andrew and Theresa Fenster Jill and Michael J. Franco Amandine Freidheim Mary Ann Fribourg Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein Martin and Lauren Geller Heather & Andrew Georges The Georgetown Company Elizabeth and David GranvilleSmith Dedrea and Paul Gray Great Performances
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Guenther Greiner Allen and Deborah Grubman George and Patty Grunebaum Tania Higgins Adrienne Katz Claire King The David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation Jill and Peter Kraus Sheila and Bill Lambert Kate Lauprete Julia Ledda and Hassan Taher Gail and Alan Levenstein The Honorable and Mrs. Earle I Mack Shelly and Tony Malkin Marian Goodman Gallery Joyce F. Menschel James and Margo Nederlander Jesse and Stéphanie Newhouse Elyse and Michael Newhouse Anna Nikolayevsky Lynn Nottage and Tony Gerber Arlena Olsten David Orentreich, MD / Orentreich Family Foundation PBDW Architects Susan Porter Preserve New York, a grant program of Preservation League of New York Frances A. Resheske Frank Richardson and Kimbra Wood Richenthal Foundation Robert Rosen and Dr. Dale Atkins Rosen Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation Jane Fearer Safer Robyn and Seymour Sammell Susan Savitsky Sara Lee and Axel Schupf David Schwartz Foundation Inc. Matthew and Stephanie Sharp Denise Simon and Paulo Vieira da Cunha Lea Simonds Patricia Brown Specter Doug C. Steiner Michael & Allison Stillman Michael and Veronica Stubbs Michael Tuch Foundation L.F. Turner Cynthia and Jan van Eck Alyssa Varadhan Theodora Velys Bob Vila and Diana Barrett Cristina von Bargen and Jonathan McHardy Anastasia Vournas and J. William Uhrig Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Warshawsky Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc.
Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg Gary and Nina Wexler Valda Witt and Jay Hatfield Lisa and David Wolf Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt Toni Young Elham Yousefi Judy Francis Zankel Kiddy Zhou and Lu Li Zubatkin Owner Representation, LLC Anonymous (3)
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Eleanor Friedman and Jonathan J. Cohen Julie Geden Buzzy Geduld Rosalind and Eugene Glaser Sylvia Golden and Warren Friedman Robert and Trudy Gottesman Robert S. Gregory Phillip Gulley Ian and Lea Highet Andrea Hirsch Johanna Hudgens and Matthew Wilson Phyllis Hyde Laura Isenberg Kamila Islam Shujaat Islam and Fay Sardjono Judith Jadow Anu Jayanti Tianyue Jiang Jim and Leslie Johnson Jeanne Kanders Jennie A. Kassanoff and Daniel H. Schulman Lee Kern Timothy and Jessica Kisling Jana and Gerold Klauer Meghan Klopp Douglas and Judith Krupp Lizbeth & George Krupp Theodore and Adeline Kurz Jerome and Sara Lande Lazarus Charitable Trust Les Yeux Art Foundation Inc. Stephen Ludwig Lili Lynton and Michael Ryan Gina Giumarra MacArthur Charles and Georgette Mallory Joanie Martinez-Rudkovsky Bonnie Maslin Nina B. Matis Peter and Leni May Claudia and Eduardo Mazzi Peter D. McCann, MD Ryan McNaughton and Anastasia Antoniev Constance and H. Roemer McPhee Israel Meir & Steve Rivera Saleem and Jane Muqaddam Leslie and Curt Myers Susan and Peter* Nitze Stephen Novick Susan Numeroff Kathleen O’Grady Patsy Orlofsky Peter and Beverly Orthwein Robert Ouimette and Lee Hirsch Claudia and Gunnar Overstrom Lee and Lori Parks The Pass Family Sanjay and Leslie Patel Louis and Barbara Perlmutter Richard and Rose Petrocelli Marnie Pillsbury Natalya and Nicolas Poniatowski
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ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM “The restoration of the Park Avenue Armory seems destined to set a new standard, not so much for its scale, but for its level of respect and imagination.” —The New York Times The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important historic rooms in America and one of the few remaining interiors by Herter Brothers. After decades of progressive damage and neglect, the room completed a revitalization in 2013 by the architecture team at Herzog & de Meuron and executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White Architects to transform the space into a state-of-the-art salon for intimate performances and other contemporary art programming. The Board of Officers Room is the third period room at the Armory completed (out of 18) and represents the full range of design tools utilized by the team including the removal of accumulated layers on the surfaces, the addition of contemporary lighting to the 1897 chandeliers, new interpretations of the stencil patterns on areas of loss, the addition of metallic finishes on new materials, new programming infrastructure, and custom-designed furniture.
The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $215-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise—and hand—of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout.
The restoration and renovation of the Veterans Room was made possible The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc., Susan and Elihu Rose, the Charina Endowment Fund, Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz, Almudena and Pablo Legorreta, Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly, Emanuel Stern, Adam R. Flatto, Olivia Tournay Flatto, Kenneth S. Kuchin, R. Mark and Wendy Adams, American Express, Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief, Amy and Jeffrey Silverman, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Anonymous (2). Cover photo by James Ewing. armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory
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