Recital Series: Ying Fang

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 to gain new sonic perspectives. Our celebrated Recital Series expands during the 2022 Season to include performances of classical and contemporary music not only in the intimate setting of the Board of Officers Room, but also in other spaces including the Wade Thompson Drill Hall.

The Recital Series opens the season with performances by two notable ensembles performing repertoire from opposite ends of the musical spectrum. New music ensemble Alarm Will Sound take over the Drill Hall to perform Grammy and Pulitzer Prizewinning composer John Luther Adams’ Ten Thousand Birds, walking through the space as they play while the audience follows. A major force in the 17th-century French repertory Ensemble Correspondances under the direction of founder Sébastien Daucé presents Plaisirs du Louvre: Music from the Chamber of Louis XIII including works by Couperin, Boësset, de Chancy, and others performed on period instruments.

Celebrated baritone Justin Austin comes to the Board of Officers Room for an intimate program with pianist Howard Watkins, featuring art songs by Ricky Ian Gordon set to the poems of Langston Hughes as well as works by American composers Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill, Damien Sneed, and more. And after appearing on some of the world’s most important opera stages, soprano Ying Fang comes to the austerely elegant space with pianist Ken Noda to showcase her unique sensibility and operatic range.

We are proud to continue our tradition of fostering rising talent by hosting the North American solo recital debuts of tenor Michael Spyres and mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo. One of the most sought-after tenors of his generation, Spyres showcases his brilliant artistry with a program of art songs by Beethoven, Berlioz, and Liszt with pianist Mathieu Pordoy. D’Angelo partners with pianist Sophia Muñoz to perform works from her debut album enargeia (Deutsche Grammophon), including songs by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Missy Mazzoli, and Hildegard von Bingen.

This year’s lineup offers audiences even more chances to enjoy a beautiful range of chamber music experiences performed by artists with a highly distinctive international profile. I hope you join in my excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music.

Rebecca Robertson Founding President and Executive Producer

Pierre Audi

Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

2022 RECITAL SERIES

IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM

YING FANG, soprano KEN NODA, piano

saturday, november 19, 2022 at 8:00pm sunday, november 20, 2022 at 3:00pm

The Recital Series is supported in part by The Reed Foundation and the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.

Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, 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 Shubert Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. The artistic season is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Park Avenue Armory is deeply grateful for Senator Charles E. Schumer’s visionary leadership of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.

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PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach

Franz Schubert

Richard Strauss

Intermission

Reynaldo Hahn

“Zerfliesse mein Herze,” from St. John Passion, BWV 245

“Ganymed,” D. 544 “Im Abendrot,” D. 799 “Im Frühling,” D. 822 “Nacht und Träume,” D. 827

“Die Nacht,” op. 10, no. 3 “Allerseelen,” op. 10, no. 8 “Morgen,” op. 27, no. 4

“A Chloris”

Claude Debussy “Nuit d’étoiles”

Ernest Chausson “Le Colibri,” op. 2, no. 7

Dominick Argento

Yuanren Zhang

Six Elizabethan Songs 1. Spring 2. Sleep 3. Winter 4. Dirge 5. Diaphenia 6. Hymn

“Listening to the Rain”

Rui Zhang “The Joy of the Snowflake”

Yi Zhou “Phoenix Hairpin”

Zaiyi Lu “The Bridge”

Qing Liu “Yue People’s Song”

This performance is approximately 90 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This recital will take us to three continents in four languages, but as we shall see, there are certain topics that unify the songs across all distances in time and space. Again and again, we shall encounter images of the night, the seasons, nature, love, and our relationship with divinity.

To start with the latter, in the two excerpts from Bach’s largescale sacred works that open the program, the worship of God is inseparable from the expression of love on a very human level. In a moving aria from St. John Passion, Bach emphasizes the need for the soloist (who represents the faithful) to internalize the story and give personal expression to the grief over Jesus’ death.

In the first of the four Schubert songs that follow, we see a very different way love and the divine may intersect. The devotion of Ganymed, Zeus’ young cup-bearer, to the chief of the gods has definite erotic overtones in the interpretation of Goethe and Schubert. And the contemplation of the sunset, in “Im Abendrot” (after the North German Carl Lappe), assumes a sacred dimension as the poet praises God for bestowing all this beauty on the earth. Likewise, both “Im Frühling” (after Ernst Schulze, another North German who had an even shorter life than Schubert) and especially the enchanting “Nacht und Träume” (after the Viennese Matthäus von Collin) reveal the transcendence behind such experiences as a lost love or the dreams we never want to end.

Born thirty-six years after Schubert’s death, Richard Strauss stands near the end of the golden age of the German Lied. The three songs we will hear by him revisit the same borderline regions of the earthly and the otherworldly, but one may tell from the shapes of the melodies and the harmonic writing one may feel that seven decades had passed since the days of Schubert. All three songs achieve their magic by a certain understatement in the expression. The first two were written when Strauss was not yet twenty: “Die Nacht” (after Hermann Gilm, a minor Austrian poet from the early 19th century), is tender and mysterious. And “Allerseelen,” after the same poet, sounds like two old lovers reconnecting—until we realize that the visit is taking place at the cemetery. “Morgen” was written some years later on a poem by John Henry Mackay who, despite his Scottish name, was a German poet. It is one of the most famous Strauss songs, in which two lovers reach a stage in their happiness that can be expressed only by silence.

All three French mélodies on the program are by composers who were contemporaries of Strauss. Yet stylistically they are very different from Strauss, and also quite different from one another. Reynaldo Hahn’s “À Chloris” is written an archaic

neo-Baroque style (the poem is by Théophile de Viau, who lived in the 17th century). The 18-year-old Debussy’s “Nuit d’étoiles,” after his older contemporary Théodore de Banville, is a light-hearted parlor piece, while Chausson’s “Colibri” is Romanticism at its most extravagant. The poem is by Leconte de Lisle, a leading member of the Parnassian movement, and compares an exotic bird that can never have enough nectar to the poet who can never have enough of his love, both dying of an excess of desire.

In the 20th century, the art song no longer enjoyed the privileged status it could claim in the 19th. Yet it found new life, particularly in the English-speaking world which became the new center for this time-honored genre. American composer Dominick Argento combined his Italian heritage with his love of the English language. His Six Elizabethan Songs run an emotional gamut from playful to mournful to passionate: the joys of spring and those of the winter are juxtaposed with images of sleep and death (the second song calls sleep “brother to Death...”). A love song addressed to a “sweet virgin” is followed by an invocation of a deity—a pagan one, namely Diana (also called Cynthia in England), a Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon, “chaste and fair.” Two of the poems (Nos. 3 and 4) are by Shakespeare (from Love’s Labor’s Lost and Twelfth Night, respectively), the others by his contemporaries Thomas Nashe, Samuel Daniel, Henry Constable and Ben Jonson.

The program will end with five Chinese songs. The genre known as Yishu Gequ (art song) emerged over a hundred years ago, adopting the piano as the accompanying instrument. The first two songs, “Listening to the Rain” and “The Joy of the Snowflake,” are settings of poems by the early 20th-century poets Bannong Liu and Zhimo Xu. Like other composers of Chinese art songs, Yuanren Zhang and Rui Zhang often use traditional motifs in the vocal lines, but their piano parts show a strong Western influence. The other three songs feature classic texts in modern arrangements. Whether the topic is lost love (“Phoenix Hairpin”), nostalgia (“Bridge”), or a simple person’s admiration for a prince (“Yue People’s Song,” also known as “Song of the Yue Boatman”), the feelings are timeless.

— Peter Laki

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

YING FANG

Chinese soprano Ying Fang has been praised by the Financial Times for “a voice that can stop time, pure and rich and open and consummately expressive.” In the 2021-2022 season, she made her house debut at Opéra national de Paris as Susanna in Le nozze de Figaro and returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. In concert, she joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a special season-opening performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 Resurrection, a work she reprised later in the season with the National Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition, she went on tour with Ensemble Pygmalion under the direction of Raphaël Pichon, performed at Opernhaus Zürich with Orchestra La Scintilla led by Riccardo Minasi, and returned to the Verbier Festival both as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem led by Andras Schiff and as Oscar in Un ballo in Maschera led by Gianandrea Noseda.

Fang has previously appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and Alice Tully Hall, as well as with the Salzburger Festspiele, Verbier Festival, and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Fang has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opernhaus Zürich, and Opéra de Lille, among others. She has sung under distinguished conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Jaap van Zweden, Franz Welser-Möst, Andris Nelsons, James Levine, Sir Andrew Davis, Bernard Labadie, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Manfred Honeck. A native of Ningbo, China, Fang holds degrees from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School. She is a former member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

KEN NODA

Ken Noda is Musical Advisor to the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. After a 28-year tenure, he retired from his full-time Met position as a coach and teacher in July 2019. He is a regular guest coach at the Carnegie Hall/Weill Music Institute, Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Marlboro Music Festival, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. From 2020-2023, he is coaching a Mozart/da Ponte opera cycle in Salzburg conducted by András Schiff. He studied piano with Daniel Barenboim and in his first career as a piano soloist, played with the Berlin, Vienna, Israel, Rotterdam, New York, and Los Angeles philharmonics; the London, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, and Montreal symphonies; the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Cleveland Orchestra; and L’Orchestre de Paris under Abbado, Barenboim, Chailly, Kubelik, Leinsdorf, Levine, Mehta, Ozawa, and Previn. He has collaborated in chamber music with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Nigel Kennedy, and the Emerson String Quartet, and as vocal accompanist to Kathleen Battle, Hildegard Behrens, Maria Ewing, Aprile Millo, James Morris, Kurt Moll, Jessye Norman, Matthew Polenzani, Dawn Upshaw, and Deborah Voigt.

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TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 – 1750)

“Zerfliesse mein Herze” from St. John Passion, BWV 245 (1724)

Text by Picander (1700-1764)

Zerfleiße, mein Herze, in Fluten der Zähren Dem Höchsten zu Ehren! Erzähle der Welt und dem Himmel die Not: Dein Jesus ist tot!

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 – 1828)

“Ganymed,” D. 544 (1891) Text by Johann von Goethe (1749-1832)

Wie im Morgenglanze Du rings mich anglühst, Frühling, Geliebter!

Mit tausendfacher Liebeswonne Sich an mein Herz drängt Deiner ewigen Wärme Heilig Gefühl, Unendliche Schöne! Dass ich dich fassen möcht’ In diesen Arm!

Ach, an deinem Busen Lieg’ ich, schmachte, Und deine Blumen, dein Gras Drängen sich an mein Herz. Du kühlst den brennenden Durst meines Busens, Lieblicher Morgenwind!

Ruft drein die Nachtigall Liebend mach mir aus dem Nebeltal. Ich komm’, ich komme! Wohin? Ach wohin?

Hinauf! Hinauf strebt’s. Es schweben die Wolken Abwärts, die Wolken Neigen sich der sehnenden Liebe. Mir! Mir!

In euerm Schosse Aufwärts!

Umfangend umfangen! Aufwärts an deinen Busen, Alliebender Vater!

Dissolve my heart English translation from the Vocal Music Instrumentation Index

Dissolve, my heart, in floods of tears to honor the Highest! Tell the world and heaven the anguish: Your Jesus is dead!

Ganymede English translation by Richard Wigmore

How your glow envelops me in the morning radiance, spring, my beloved! With love’s thousandfold joy the hallowed sensation of your eternal warmth floods my heart, infinite beauty! O that I might clasp you in my arms!

Ah, on your breast

I lie languishing, and your flowers, your grass press close to my heart. You cool the burning thirst within my breast, sweet morning breeze, as the nightingale calls tenderly to me from the misty valley. I come, I come! But whither? Ah, whither?

Upwards! Strive upwards! The clouds drift down, yielding to yearning love, to me, to me!

In your lap, upwards, embracing and embraced! Upwards to your bosom, all-loving Father!

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“Im Abendrot,” D. 799 (1825)

Text by Karl Lappe (1773-1843)

O wie schön ist deine Welt, Vater, wenn sie golden strahlet! Wenn dein Glanz herniederfällt, Und den Staub mit Schimmer malet; Wenn das Rot, das in der Wolke blinkt, In mein stilles Fenster sinkt!

Könnt’ ich klagen, könnt’ ich zagen? Irre sein an dir und mir? Nein, ich will im Busen tragen Deinen Himmel schon allhier. Und dies Herz, eh’ es zusammenbricht, Trinkt noch Glut und schlürft noch Licht.

“Im Frühling,” D. 822 (1826)

Text by Ernst Schulze (1789-1817)

Still sitz ich an des Hügels Hang, Der Himmel ist so klar, Das Lüftchen spielt im grünen Tal, Wo ich beim ersten Frühlingsstrahl Einst, ach, so glücklich war.

Wo ich an ihrer Seite ging So traulich und so nah, Und tief im dunkeln Felsenquell Den schönen Himmel blau und hell, Und sie im Himmel sah.

Sieh, wie der bunte Frühling schon Aus Knosp’ und Blüte blickt! Nicht alle Blüten sind mir gleich, Am liebsten pflückt’ ich von dem Zweig, Von welchem sie gepflückt.

Denn alles ist wie damals noch, Die Blumen, das Gefild; Die Sonne scheint nicht minder hell, Nicht minder freundlich schwimmt im Quell Das blaue Himmelsbild.

Es wandeln nur sich Will und Wahn, Es wechseln Lust und Streit, Vorüber flieht der Liebe Glück, Und nur die Liebe bleibt zurück, Die Lieb’ und ach, das Leid!

O wär ich doch ein Vöglein nur Dort an dem Wiesenhang! Dann blieb’ ich auf den Zweigen hier, Und säng ein süsses Lied von ihr, Den ganzen Sommer lang.

In

the glow of evening English translation by Richard Wigmore

How lovely is your world, Father, in its golden radiance when your glory descends and paints the dust with glitter; when the red light that shines from the clouds falls silently upon my window.

Could I complain? Could I be apprehensive? Could I lose faith in you and in myself? No, I already bear your heaven here within my heart. And this heart, before it breaks, still drinks in the fire and savours the light.

In Spring English translation by Richard Wigmore

I sit silently on the hillside. The sky is so clear, the breezes play in the green valley where once, in the first rays of spring, I was, oh, so happy.

Where I walked by her side, so tender, so close, and saw deep in the dark rocky stream the fair sky, blue and bright, and her reflected in that sky.

See how the colourful spring already peeps from bud and blossom. Not all the blossoms are the same to me: I like most of all to pluck them from the branch from which she has plucked.

For all is still as it was then, the flowers, the fields; the sun shines no less brightly, and no less cheerfully, the sky’s blue image bathes in the stream.

Only will and delusion change, and joy alternates with strife; the happiness of love flies past, and only love remains; love and, alas, sorrow.

Oh, if only I were a bird, there on the sloping meadow! Then I would stay on these branches here, and sing a sweet song about her all summer long.

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“Nacht und Träume,” D. 827 (1823)

Text by Matthäus von Collin (1779-1824)

Heil’ge Nacht, du sinkest nieder; Nieder wallen auch die Träume, Wie dein Mondlicht durch die Räume, Durch der Menschen stille Brust.

Die belauschen sie mit Lust; Rufen, wenn der Tag erwacht: Kehre wieder, heil’ge Nacht! Holde Träume, kehret wieder!

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864 – 1949)

“Die Nacht,” op. 10, no. 3 (1885)

Text by Hermann von Gilm (1812-1864)

Aus dem Walde tritt die Nacht, Aus den Bäumen schleicht sie leise, Schaut sich um in weitem Kreise, Nun gib Acht!

Alle Lichter dieser Welt, Alle Blumen, alle Farben Löscht sie aus und stiehlt die Garben Weg vom Feld.

Alles nimmt sie, was nur hold, Nimmt das Silber weg des Stroms Nimmt vom Kupferdach des Doms Weg das Gold.

Ausgeplündert steht der Strauch: Rücke näher, Seel’ an Seele, O die Nacht, mir bangt, sie stehle Dich mir auch.

“Allerseelen,” op. 10, no. 8 (1885)

Text by Hermann von Gilm (1812-1864)

Stell auf den Tisch die duftenden Reseden, Die letzten roten Astern trag herbei, Und laß uns wieder von der Liebe reden, Wie einst im Mai.

Gib mir die Hand, daß ich sie heimlich drücke, Und wenn man’s sieht, mir ist es einerlei, Gib mir nur einen deiner süßen Blicke, Wie einst im Mai.

Es blüht und duftet heut auf jedem Grabe, Ein Tag im Jahr ist ja den Toten frei, Komm am mein Herz, daß ich dich wieder habe, Wie einst im Mai.

Night and Dreams English translation by Richard Wigmore

Holy night, you sink down; dreams, too, float down, like your moonlight through space, through the silent hearts of men. They listen with delight, crying out when day awakes: come back, holy night! Fair dreams, return!

Night English translation by Richard Stokes

Night steps from the woods, Slips softly from the trees, Gazes about her in a wide arc, Now beware!

All the lights of this world, All the flowers, all the colours She extinguishes and steals the sheaves From the field.

She takes all that is fair, Takes the silver from the stream, Takes from the cathedral’s copper roof The gold.

The bush stands plundered: Draw closer, soul to soul, Ah the night, I fear, will steal You too from me.

All Souls Day English translation by Richard Stokes

Set on the table the fragrant mignonettes, Bring in the last red asters, And let us talk of love again As once in May.

Give me your hand to press in secret, And if people see, I do not care, Give me but one of your sweet glances As once in May.

Each grave today has flowers and is fragrant, One day each year is devoted to the dead; Come to my heart and so be mine again, As once in May.

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“Morgen!” op. 27, no. 4 (1894)

Text by John Henry MacKay (1864-1933)

Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen Und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde, Wird uns, die Glücklichen, sie wieder einen Inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde ...

Und zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen, Werden wir still und langsam niedersteigen, Stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen, Und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen...

REYNALDO HAHN (1873 –

“A Chloris” (1913)

1947)

Text by Théophile de Viau (1590-1626)

S’il est vrai, Chloris, que tu m’aimes, Mais j’entends, que tu m’aimes bien, Je ne crois point que les rois mêmes Aient un bonheur pareil au mien. Que la mort serait importune De venir changer ma fortune A la félicité des cieux! Tout ce qu’on dit de l’ambroisie Ne touche point ma fantaisie Au prix des grâces de tes yeux.

DOMINICK ARGENTO (1927 – 2019)

Tomorrow! English translation by Richard Stokes

And tomorrow the sun will shine again And on the path that I shall take, It will unite us, happy ones, again, Amid this same sun-breathing earth ...

And to the shore, broad, blue-waved, We shall quietly and slowly descend, Speechless we shall gaze into each other’s eyes, And the speechless silence of bliss shall fall on us ...

1. Spring

Text by Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year’s pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

The palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes our ears do greet, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! Spring! The sweet Spring!

To Chloris English translation by Richard Stokes

If it be true, Chloris, that you love me, (And I’m told you love me dearly), I do not believe that even kings Can match the happiness I know. Even death would be powerless To alter my fortune With the promise of heavenly bliss! All that they say of ambrosia Does not stir my imagination Like the favour of your eyes!

2. Sleep

Text by Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light, With dark forgetting of my cares, return; And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill-adventur’d youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn, Without the torment of the night's untruth. Cease, dreams, th’ imagery of our day-desires To model forth the passions of the morrow; Never let rising sun approve you liars, To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow. Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain; And never wake to feel the day’s disdain.

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Six Elizabethan Songs (1962)

3. Winter

Text by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipt and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl: Tu-who!

Tu-whit! Tu-who! – A merry note! While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian’s nose looks red and raw; When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl Then nightly sings the staring owl: Tu-who!

Tu-whit! Tu-who! – A merry note! While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

4. Dirge

Text by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O prepare it!

My part of death, no one so true Did share it.

Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown: A thousand, thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there!

5. Diaphenia

Text by Henry Constable (1562-1613)

Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly, White as the sun, fair as the lily, Heigh ho, how I do love thee! I do love thee as my lambs Are belovèd of their dams: How blest were I if thou would’st prove me.

Diaphenia, like the spreading roses, That in thy sweets all sweets incloses, Fair sweet, how I do love thee! I do love thee as each flower Loves the sun’s life-giving power; For dead, thy breath to life might move me.

Diaphenia, like to all things blessèd, When all thy praises are expressèd, Dear joy, how I do love thee!

As the birds do love the spring, Or the bees their careful king, –Then in requite, sweet virgin, love me!

6. Hymn

Text by Ben Johnson (1572-1637)

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright.

Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia’s shining orb was made Heav’n to clear when day did close; Bless us then with wishèd sight, Goddess excellently bright.

Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short so-ever: Thou that mak’st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.

Listening to the Rain Poem by Bannong Liu (1891-1934)

I have been in the North for half a year, and I heard a night of rain today for the first time. If this rain travels south of the Yangtze River, how many new bamboo shoots will sprout in my hometown?

RUI ZHANG

雪花的快乐

词：徐志摩

假如我是一朵雪花，

翩翩的在半空里潇洒，

我一定认清我的方向——

飞扬，飞扬，飞扬——

这地面上有我的方向。

不去那冷寞的幽谷，

不去那凄清的山麓，

也不上荒街去惆怅——

飞扬，飞扬，飞扬——

你看，我有我的方向！

在半空里娟娟地飞舞，

认明了那清幽的住处，

等着她来花园里探望——

飞扬，飞扬，飞扬——

啊，她身上有朱砂梅的清香！

那时我凭借我的身轻，

盈盈地，沾住了她的衣襟，

贴近她柔波似的心胸——

消溶，消溶，消溶——

溶入了她柔波似的心胸！

YI ZHOU (b. 1943)

钗头凤

词：陆游

红酥手，

黄縢酒， 满城春色宫墙柳。

东风恶，

欢情薄， 一怀愁绪， 几年离索。 错错错！

春如旧， 人空瘦， 泪痕红浥鲛绡透。

桃花落， 闲池阁。 山盟虽在， 锦书难托。 莫莫莫！

The Joy of the Snowflake Poem by Zhimo Xu (1897-1931)

If I were a snowflake, Dancing mid-air in joy and excitement, I would know exactly where I’m going –Flying, flying, flying –Somewhere on the ground would be my direction. I wouldn’t go to the cold valleys, Nor to the hills in desolation, Nor to the empty streets for melancholy –Flying, flying, flying –You see, I would have my direction in mind! Flying elegantly in mid-air, I would seek out that quiet residence and wait in the garden for her to visit –Flying, flying, flying –Ah, how sweet aroma of plums her body would emit! Then, with my light weight flake, I would land on her lappet gently, Close to her soft breast –Melting, melting, melting –Melting into the soft wave of her mind!

Phoenix Hairpin Poem

by You Lu (1125-1210)

Your soft apple-red hands, holding onto yellow-vine wine, Spring is here, but you are distant, like a willow inside a palace wall.

The east wind is heartless, feelings are worn thin, a sorrow-filled cup, I have been alone for years since separation. Wrong, so wrong, so very wrong!

Spring is as always, you have slimmed, tears run down through rouge and soak a handkerchief.

Peach flowers drop, the pond side pavilion is quiet. A pledge of love remains, it is hard to put into words. Don’t, so don’t, so please don’t!

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ZAIYU LU (b. 1943)

桥 The Bridge

水乡的小桥姿态多 石板缝里长藤罗 三步两桥连水港啊

条条玉带映碧波

姑娘挑藕桥头歇

老汉送粮桥下过

离家千年也恋水乡啊

愿做人间桥一座

离家千年也恋水乡啊

愿做人间桥一座

QING LIU (b. 1956)

越人歌

词：先秦

今夕何夕兮， 搴舟中流。 今日何日兮， 得与王子同舟。 蒙羞被好兮， 不訾诟耻。 心几顽而不绝兮， 得知王子。 山有木兮木有枝， 心说君兮君不知。

The bridges of the water town have so many different shapes, between the stone bricks there are green vines.

Within three steps you find two bridges. The reflections of them are on the streams across the town. The young lady who carries the lotus root is resting on the bridge, the old man who sends bags of grains is passing under the bridge.

Even if I left my home for a thousand years, I would still love my water town, If I left my home for a thousand years, I would wish to be a bridge in this world.

Yue People’s Song Poem from the Pre-Qin Period

O what night is tonight? All through the waves I row. O what day is today? I share with Your Highness the same canoe O ashamed, ashamed am I, In status so low O disturbed, disturbed am I, Your Highness I come to know O uphill grow trees, On the trees boughs grow O my heart goes to you, But you don’t know.

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ABOUT PARK AVENUE ARMORY

Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of New York, supporting 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 and an array of exuberant period rooms, 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.

When the pandemic set in, the Armory dedicated itself to continue to provide support to the artistic community. By taking advantage of vast expanse of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the Armory created a very safe Social Distance Hall, for which it commissioned four new works by Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; David Byrne, Christine Jones, and Steven Hoggett; Jason Moran and Laurie Anderson; and Robert Icke. The works were presented between March and July 2021 and provided thousands of hours of creativity and employment to a devastated cultural sector, which had lost 70% of its job base.

Programmatic highlights from the Wade Thompson Drill Hall include Ernesto Neto’s anthropodino, a magical labyrinth extended across the Drill Hall; Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved “through the music”; the event of a thread, a site-specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on three separate stages; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath with Kenneth Branagh; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a radically inclusive staging of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion staged by Peter Sellars and performed by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker; eight-time Drama Desk-nominated play The Hairy Ape, directed by Richard Jones and starring Bobby Cannavale; Hansel & Gretel, a new commission by Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron that explored publicly shared space in the era of surveillance; FLEXN and FLEXN Evolution, two Armory-commissioned presentations of the Brooklyn-born dance-activists group the D.R.E.A.M. Ring, created by Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and director Peter Sellars; Simon Stone’s heralded production of Yerma starring Billie Piper in her North American debut; The Let Go, a site-specific immersive dance celebration by Nick Cave; Satoshi Miyagi’s stunning production of Antigone set in a lake; Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy; the Black Artists Retreat hosted by Theaster Gates, which included public talks and performances, private sessions for the 300 attending artists, and a roller skating rink; Deep Blue Sea by Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Companies; The Shape of Things, a multi-work installation, convening, and performance series by Carrie Mae Weems; Rashaad Newsome’s Assembly; the North American premiere of Michel van der Aa’s Upload featuring Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams; the North American premieres of Robert Icke’s Hamlet and Oresteia, played in repertory and starring Alex Lawther, Jennifer Ehle, and Anastasia Hille; and Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), created in collaboration with visionary director Peter Sellars, visual artist Julie Mehretu, and flex pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray. Productions in the Armory’s Social Distance Hall included works by Bill T. Jones; David Byrne, Christine Jones, and Steven Hoggett; Laurie Anderson and Jason Moran; and Robert Icke.

In its historic period rooms, the Armory presents more intimate performances and programs, including its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe within the intimate salon setting of the Board of Officers Room; the Artists Studio series curated by MacArthur “Genius” and jazz phenom Jason Moran in the newly restored Veterans Room, which features a diverse array of innovative artists and artistic pairings that reflect the imaginative improvisation of the young designers and artists who originally conceived the space; a Public Programming series that brings diverse artists and cultural thought-leaders together for discussion and performance around the important issues of our time viewed through an artistic lens; and the Malkin Lecture Series that presents scholars and writers on topics related to the social, political, and aesthetic history of the building.

Among the performers who have appeared in the Recital Series and the Artists Studio in the Armory’s restored Veterans Room or the Board of Officers Rooms are: Christian Gerhaher; Ian Bostridge; Jason Moran; Lawrence Brownlee; Barbara Hannigan; Lisette

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Oropesa; Roscoe Mitchell; Conrad Tao and Tyshawn Sorey; Rashaad Newsome; and Krency Garcia (“El Prodigio”). Highlights from the Public Programming series include: symposiums such as Carrie Mae Weems’ day-long event called The Shape of Things, whose participants included Elizabeth Alexander, Theaster Gates, Elizabeth Diller, and Nona Hendryx; a day-long Lenape Pow Wow and Standing Ground Symposium held in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the first congregation of Lenape Leaders on Manhattan Island since the 1700s; salons such as the Literature Salon hosted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose participants included Lynn Nottage, Suzan Lori-Parks, and Jeremy O. Harris, and a Spoken Word Salon co-hosted with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; and most recently, 100 Years | 100 Women, a multi-organization commissioning project that invited 100 women artists and cultural creators to respond to women’s suffrage.

Current Artists-in-Residence at the Armory include two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage; Obie winner and Pulitzer short-listed playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Carmelita Tropicana; Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and the D.R.E.A.M. Ring; singer and composer Sara Serpa; Tony Award-winning set designer and director Christine Jones and choreographer Steven Hoggett; and Mimi Lien, the first set designer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. The Armory also supports artists through an active commissioning program including such artists as Bill T. Jones, Lynn Nottage, Carrie Mae Weems, Michel van der Aa, Tyshawn Sorey, Rashaad Newsome, Julian Rosefeldt, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and others.

The Armory also offers creativity-based arts education programs at no cost 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. Annually, more than 5,000 young adults from 50+ under-resourced public schools attend a dedicated student matinee of each Armory production with workshops by Master Teaching Artists provided in the classroom and at the site. In seven partner schools, Teaching Artists facilitate in-depth semester- or year-long residencies that support the schools’ curriculum. Youth Corps, the Armory’s year-round paid, monitored internship program, begins in high school and continues into the critical post-high school years, providing interns with over 14,000 hours per year of 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 has undertaken an ongoing $215-million renovation and restoration of its historic building designed 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

Vice Presidents

David Fox Ken Kuchin

Pablo Legorreta Emanuel Stern

Treasurer Emanuel Stern

Marina Abramović

Sir David Adjaye OBE

Abigail Baratta

Joyce F. Brown

Cora Cahan

Hélène Comfort

Paul Cronson

Tina R. Davis

Marc de La Bruyère

Jessie Ding

Sanford B. Ehrenkranz

Roberta Garza

Andrew Gundlach

Marjorie L. Hart

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Samhita Jayanti

Edward G. Klein, Brigadier General NYNG (Ret.)

Ralph Lemon

Jason Moran

Janet C. Ross

Joan Steinberg

Peter Zhou

Directors Emeriti

Harrison M. Bains, Jr. Angela E. Thompson

Founding Chairman, 2000–2009

Wade F.B. Thompson

Pierre Audi, Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

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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. Launched in 2013 with the revitalization of the Board of Officers Room, 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 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; Rosa Feola with pianist Iain Burnside; cellist Nicolas Altstaedt; tenor Paul Appleby with pianist Conor Hanick; baritone Will Liverman with pianist Myra Huang; and mezzo soprano Jamie Barton with pianist and composer Jake Heggie.

NEXT AT THE ARMORY

EUPHORIA

november 29, 2022 – january 8, 2023

Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt continues his examination of the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an allegory for societal and individual behaviors with the multi-channel film installation Euphoria, which explores capitalism, colonialism, and the influential effects of unlimited economic growth in society. This immersive new work, commissioned by the Armory, is presented in an arena-like setting, fully surrounding the viewer with life-size projections of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and acclaimed jazz drummers Terri Lynne Carrington, Peter Erskine, Yissy Garcia, Eric Harland, and Antonio Sanchez, featuring a stereophonic score by composer Samy Moussa. Thoughts and musings from a variety of sources from economists, business magnates, and celebrities take on new meaning as they are reinterpreted as poetic monologues in real and imagined scenes of euphoric production and consumption. The result is a searing monument to the history of greed that raises seminal questions around the success and enduring legacy of entrepreneurship.

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PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF

Rebecca Robertson, Founding President and Executive Producer

Pierre Audi, Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

ARTISTIC PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING

Michael Lonergan, Chief Artistic Producer

Kevin Condardo, General Manager

Melanie Milton, Producer

Rachel Rosado, Producer

Darian Suggs, Associate Director, Public Programming

Samantha Cortez, Associate Producer/Company Manager

Oscar Peña, Programming Coordinator

ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

Paul King, Director of Production

Claire Marberg, Deputy Director of Production

Nicholas Lazzaro, Technical Director

Lars 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 Coordinator

Drew Petersen, Education Special Projects Manager

Kate Bell, 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

Wilson Castro, Shar Galarza, Daniel Gomez, Nancy K. Gomez, Maxim Ibadov, Stephanie Mesquita, Paola Ocampo, Amo Ortiz, Teaching Associates

Arabia Elliot Currence, Victoria Fernandez, Sebastian Harris, Melissa Velasquez, Teaching Apprentices

Kenny Amesquita, Abdoul Ba, Darling Batista, Eden Battice, Victoria Braga Dos Santos Casey, Issbel Collado, LadiRoyale Davis, Aya Elfatihi, Deborah Figueroa, Annalisa Fortune, Nataly Hurtado, Sheena Luke, Alan Munoz, Mattius Palacios, Nemanja Prokic, Naomi Santos, Youth Corps, High School

Habib Apo-Oyin, Janneurys Colon, Oscar Montenegro, Hillary Ramirez Perez, Angela Reynoso, Angela Sosa, Lucille Vasquez, Youth Corps, Advanced Interns

BUILDING AND MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS

Jenni Kim, Chief Operating Officer

Ashlee Willaman, Director of Human Resources

Marc Von Braunsberg, Director of Operations and Security

Chris Sperry, Facilities Manager

Williams Say, Superintendent

Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Mario Esquilin, Jeferson Avila, Olga Cruz, Justin DeLeon Nieto, Jazmin Dominguez, Cristina Moreira, Tyrell Shannon Castillo, Joshua Rosa, Cindy Fabara, Maintenance Staff

Jason Moran, Curator, Artists Studio Tavia Nyong’o, Curator, Public Programming

Oku Okoko, Director of IT

Ethan Cohen, IT Administrator

Bobby Wolf, Senior House Manager

Daniel George, House Manager Alejandra Ortiz, Assistant 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

CAPITAL PROJECTS AND ARCHIVES

Kirsten Reoch, Director of Capital Planning, Preservation, and Institutional Relations David Burnhauser, Collection Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Melanie Forman, Chief Development Officer Charmaine Portis, Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer Sam Cole, Director of Development Rachel Risso-Gill, Senior Director of Individual Giving Jennifer Ramon, Associate Director of Individual Giving Adithya Pratama, Individual Giving Coordinator

Billy Fidler, Director of Institutional Giving Angel Genares, Manager of Institutional Giving Michael Buffer, Database Manager Rose Cole-Cohen, Special Events Coordinator

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Lori Nelson, Executive Assistant to the President Nathalie Etienne, Administrative Assistant, President’s Office Simone Elhart, Project Manager

FINANCE

Jim McGlynn, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Christy Kidd, Controller Khemraj Dat, Senior Staff Accountant Zeinebou Dia, Junior Accountant

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

Ashley Brooks, John Hooper, Box Office Leads

Andi Floyd, Antonio Irizarry, Cal Lane, Mary McDonnell, Elisabeth Oliveri, Sienna Sherman, Malynne Smith, Laura Rizzo, Box Office Associates

Resnicow + Associates, Inc., Press Representatives

PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Matthew Epstein, Artistic Consultants for Vocal Recitals

Steinway & Sons

Translation assistance by Churui Ellen Li

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JOIN THE ARMORY

Support Park Avenue Armory as a member and join us in our mission to enable diverse artists to create, students to experience, and audiences to consume epic and adventurous presentations that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery.

FRIEND $100 $64 is tax deductible

» Members-only pre-sale or preferred access for performance tickets

» Free admission for you and a guest to visual art installations

» Invitations to visual art VIP preview parties, plus admission to installations for two

» Discount on Armory Historic Interiors Tours***

» Discounts at local partnered restaurants

» 20% discount on Members Subscription Packages*

SUPPORTER $250 $194 is tax deductible

All benefits of the Friend membership plus:

» Fees waived on ticket exchanges*

» Two free tickets to Historic Interiors Tours ***

» Discount on tickets to the Malkin Lecture Series, Artist Talks, and Public Programs*

ASSOCIATE $500 $348 is tax deductible

All benefits of the Supporter membership plus:

» Access to concierge ticket service

» Free admission for two additional guests (a party of four) to Armory visual art installations

» Two free passes to an art fair**

BENEFACTOR

$1,000 $824 is tax deductible

All benefits of the Associate membership plus:

» Recognition in Armory printed programs

» No wait, no line 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 popular Malkin Lecture Series*

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE starting at $2,500

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 receive unique and exclusive opportunities to experience the Armory and interact with our world-class artists.

AVANT-GARDE starting at $350

The Avant-Garde is a group for individuals from their 20s to 40s. An Avant-Garde membership offers a deeper, more intimate connection to the unique and creative concepts behind the Armory’s mission.

Each membership applies to one household, and one membership card is mailed upon membership activation.

For more information about membership, please contact the Membership Office at (212) 616-3958 or members@armoryonpark.org.

For information on ticketing, or to purchase tickets, please contact the Box Office at (212) 933-5812 or visit us at armoryonpark.org.

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PARK AVENUE ARMORY ARTISTIC COUNCIL

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Anne-Victoire Auriault/ Goldman Sachs Gives Abigail and Joseph Baratta

Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick

Sonja and Martin J. Brand Noreen Buckfire

Elizabeth Coleman Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Caroline and Paul Cronson

Emme and Jonathan Deland Leslie and Thomas DeRosa

Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer

Krystyna Doerfler

Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz

The Lehoczky Escobar Family

LEGACY CIRCLE

Adam R. Flatto

Roberta Garza

Barbara and Peter Georgescu Kim and Jeff Greenberg Barbara and Andrew Gundlach

Anita K. Hersh

Wendy Keys

Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan

Fernand Lamesch

Almudena and Pablo Legorreta Christina and Alan MacDonald Kim Manocherian

Heidi and Tom McWilliams Gwen and Peter Norton

Lily O’Boyle Valerie Pels

Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel

Susan and Elihu Rose

Janet C. Ross

Caryn Schacht and David Fox

Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère

Brian S. Snyder

Joan and Michael Steinberg

Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht

Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović Merryl and James Tisch

Deborah C. van Eck

Bob Vila and Diana Barrett

Mary Wallach

Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee

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

SUPPORTERS

Members

Estate of Ginette Becker

Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick

Emme and Jonathan Deland Adam R. Flatto

Roberta Garza

Ken Kuchin

Heidi McWilliams

Michelle Perr

Amanda Thompson Riegel

Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief

Susan and Elihu Rose

Francesca Schwartz

Joan and Michael Steinberg

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

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

$250,000 to $499,999

American Express Michael Field

Adam R. Flatto

Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan

The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation

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

Abigail and Joseph Baratta

Booth Ferris Foundation

Sonja and Martin J. Brand Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort

Jessie Ding and Ning Jin

Roberta Garza

Howard Gilman Foundation

Marjorie and Gurnee Hart

The Hearst Foundations

Samhita and Ignacio Jayanti

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Mary T. Kush Leonard & Judy Lauder Fund

Meta Open Arts

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse

New York State Assembly

New York State Council on the Arts

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Daniel and Joanna S. Rose

Mrs. Janet C. Ross

Caryn Schacht and David Fox

Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère

Sanford L. Smith

Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

Joan and Michael Steinberg

Mimi Klein Sternlicht

Mr. William C. Tomson Deborah C. van Eck

Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee

$25,000 to $99,999

Arthur R. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation

The Avenue Association

Christine and Turner Batty

The Cowles Charitable Trust

Caroline and Paul Cronson

Emme and Jonathan Deland

Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer

Krystyna Doerfler

Andrew L. Farkas & Island Capital Group LLC

Ford Foundation

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

Anita K. Hersh

Kaplen Brothers Fund

Jill and Peter Kraus

The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation

Fernand Lamesch

The Lehoczky Escobar Family

George S. Loening

Marc Haas Foundation

Andrea Markezin Press and Joel Press

Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker

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

TEFAF NY

Tishman Speyer

Jane Toll and Robert Toll* VIA Art Fund

Bob Vila and Diana Barrett Anonymous (4)

$10,000 to $24,999

AECOM Tishman

Judy Hart Angelo Jody and John Arnhold

Anne-Victoire Auriault / Goldman Sachs Gives

Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Harrison and Leslie Bains

Sara and Mark Bloom

Emma Bloomberg

The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation

Noreen and Ken Buckfire

Marian and Russell Burke

Tim Cameron Coach

Ania Coffey Con Edison

Jonathan L Davis

Luis y Cora Delgado

DHR Global William F. Draper Caryl S. Englander

James Fingeroth

Teri Friedman and Babak Yaghmaie

Martin and Lauren Geller

Sylvia Golden and Warren Friedman

Kiendl and John Gordon

Ralph and Cornelia Heins

Karen Herskovitz

Herzog & de Meuron

Lawrence and Sharon Hite

Peter Huntsman

Jack Shainman Gallery

Kekst

Suzie and Bruce Kovner

Julia Ledda and Hassan Taher

Leon Levy Foundation

Christina and Alan MacDonald Christine and Richard Mack Steve and Sue Mandel

James Marlas and Marie NugentHead Marlas

Joyce F. Menschel

Danny and Audrey Meyer

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Nardello & Co.

Elyse and Michael Newhouse

Gwendolyn Adams Norton and Peter Norton

Lily O'Boyle

PBDW Architects

Michael Peterson

Joan and Joel I. Picket

Anne and Skip Pratt

The Prospect Hill Foundation Richenthal Foundation

Esther Rosenberg Fiona and Eric Rudin May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.

Mrs. William H. Sandholm

Philip Schmerbeck/Herzog & de Meuron USA

Lise Scott and D. Ronald Daniel Cynthia and Tom Sculco

Brian S. Snyder

Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation

Patricia Brown Specter Jean and Gene Stark Beatrice Stern

Michael and Veronica Stubbs Allen and Meghan Thorpe Merryl and James Tisch Barbara D. Tober

Purva and Andrew Tsai Susan Unterberg

Cristina von Bargen and Jonathan McHardy Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg Samuel and Kathryn Weinhoff Michael Weinstein Wescustogo Foundation Maria Wirth Anonymous (6) $5,000 to $9,999

Amy and David Abrams Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Louis and Gabrielle Bacon Jay Badame Candace and Rick Beinecke Fabrizio and Enrica Bentivoglio D’arengi

Franklin and Marsha Berger Mortimer Berkowitz III Nicholas Brawer

Catherine and Robert Brawer James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach

Dr. Joyce F. Brown, President, Fashion Institute of Technology Annabel Buckfire Mary and Brad Burnham

Street 18

Betsy Cohn

Consulate General Of The Kingdom Of The Netherlands

Sissel Cooper and Peter Bos

Joyce B. Cowin

David Schwartz Foundation, Inc. Jeanne Donovan Fisher

Peggy and Millard Drexler Family Foundation

Douglas and Susanne Durst J. Christopher and Violet Eagan Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation

Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein

Leland and Jane Englebardt

Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff

The Felicia Fund Andrew and Theresa Fenster Candia Fisher

Diane Fogg Jill and Michael J. Franco

Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein

Heather & Andrew Georges

The Georgetown Company

Elizabeth Granville-Smith

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Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory | 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street

ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM

—The New York Times

The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important his toric 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 ar chitects 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 contem porary 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.

Park Avenue Armory acknowledges that the Lenape Nation is the original owner of the land on which we stand.

The renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation. Cover photo by James Ewing.

“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.”