A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Park Avenue Armory strives to engage audiences with eclectic, immersive, and thought-provoking works that are in direct dialogue with the vast sweep of the Armory’s unique spaces, whether it is the soaring Wade Thompson Drill Hall or the intimate period rooms. And with its pristine acoustic 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 2017 season marks the fifth year for the recital series, which continues to showcase both classical and contemporary repertoire performed by world class artists at the height of their craft. We are thrilled to introduce to the U.S. an international star in the making – Sabine Devieihle. One of the most talented French sopranos to emerge in recent years, she makes her North American recital debut at the Armory, after dazzling audiences at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera, and other opera houses throughout Europe. Barbara Hannigan, one of the world’s leading performers of contemporary opera, makes her U.S. recital debut with programs that showcase her extraordinary versatility, with an exploration of the Second Viennese School as well as the work of iconic French composer Erik Satie. Paired with our ongoing partnership with the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the series will be featuring exciting new voices not seen elsewhere in New York. We continue to explore new directions with the acclaimed Wu Man and the esteemed Shanghai Quartet, who together perform new works by contemporary Chinese composers. And by using both the Board of Officers and Veterans Rooms for one recital, we are invited to enjoy the vocal artistry and multiple facets of musicianship of tenor Lawrence Brownlee in a progressive concert that presents his classical repertoire from lieder and opera to jazz songs and American spirituals, teaming up for the second part with pianist Jason Moran. In a program of works by Copland, Berlioz, Schuman, and Poulenc, we are thrilled to welcome for the first time to the Armory, the distinguished British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly. Finally, the electrifying violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, one of the most dynamic and original classical music soloists in the world, works with cellist Jay Campbell in a program of duets. 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. I hope you will join in my excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music. Pierre Audi Artistic Director
2017 RECITAL SERIES IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
tuesday, june 20 at 8:00pm wednesday, june 21 at 8:00pm
WU MAN, pipa SHANGHAI QUARTET WEIGANG LI, violin
YI-WEN JIANG, violin HONGGANG LI, viola NICHOLAS TZAVARAS, cello
The Recital Series is supported in part by The Reed Foundation. The Recital Series is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Altman Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Kaplen Brothers Fund, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation.
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PROGRAM Traditional Pipa solo Traditional, Yi-Wen Jiang (arr.) Selections from Chinasong Reflection of the Moon in the Er-Quan Spring Morning of Miao Mountain Shepherd’s Song Harvest Celebration Intermission Yi-Wen Jiang (arr.) Chinese Folk Song Suite Gang Chen and Zhanhao He Selections from “Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto” Mao Yuan & Liu Tie-Shan Yao Dance Zhou Long Song of the Ch’in for string quartet Tan Dun Concerto for String Quartet and Pipa This performance is approximately one hour and forty-five minutes in length, performed with intermission.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM Reflection of the Moon in the Er-Quan Spring
Shepherd’s Song
This masterwork, originally written by Yan-Jun Ha (18931950), is regarded as one of the best compositions ever written for Erhu, an ancient two-stringed instrument. Ha, who played Erhu and Pipa as well as other instruments, is a legendary musician who significantly reveals the beauty of Chinese traditional instruments. This was one of only six pieces played by Yan-Jun Ha that the Chinese Government could record and archive; he died right after the only recording session in 1950. The melody of this piece is lyrical and fluent, but under the gentle surface lies the strength and depth of tragedy and bitterness—a sense of the original spirit of this stubborn, obstinate street musician known as “Blind Ah Bing”. There are more than half-a-dozen arrangements of this work: for violin and piano, versions for both Chinese traditional instruments and Western orchestra, and even a choral rendition. This piece has been called the Chinese version of Barber’s “Adagio”. The only version that did not exist until now, is for string quartet. The quartet version of the piece not only demonstrates all of the natural beauty of the Erhu playing, but also heightens the dramatic details and melodic contrasts of the work. It allows for richer textures, enhancing expressive tension and the strong artistic appeal of the music. This arrangement is based on a wonderful string orchestra version by a famous Chinese composer, former dean of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Zu-Qiang Wu (1927-).
Shepherd’s Song was originally a very popular folk song stemming from the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. It was also often played on a traditional Mongolian instrument with two strings-called a “Horse-Head Qin,” because there is a hand-carved horse's head on the top of the Qin instead of a scroll. There are several versions of this piece, including one by the famous Chinese composer Han-Kun Sha, who rearranged “Shepherd's Song” for violin solo with piano accompaniment. As the shepherd put his cattle out to graze, the surroundings inspire him to express his love for nature and his feelings of nostalgia for his homeland. He sings, “White clouds are floating in the blue sky. Under the clouds there is a flock of snow-white sheep.” The melody is extremely lyrical and brims with deep emotion. The free rhythm and Dvorakian harmony in the lower strings’ arpeggio figure create a quiet, misty atmosphere, suggesting patches of soft clouds floating over the meadows. The music reaches to a passionate climax before subsiding again into an atmosphere of tranquility and peace. We in the Shanghai Quartet were very lucky and honored that Mr. Han-Kun Sha was in the audience for our performance of this piece in Shanghai in November 2001. He was deeply moved and happy to hear his piece in a brand new form.
Morning of Miao Mountain
This is an original piece by violinist and composer JingPing Zhang. He composed this piece for violin with piano accompaniment while he was a professor at the Nanjing Arts Institute. For centuries the majority of the Chinese population has lived off the land, so the harvest celebration, coming after a year of hard plowing and weeding, has always been one of the great events in people’s lives. Based on four short, concentrated musical phrases, the violin tries to imitate the sound of the Suona—a double reed wind instrument with a very loud and high pitch, similar to an oboe—while drums, cymbals and gongs (suggested by the lower strings) are beaten boisterously. The rapid switches of meter and rhythm suggest the competitive improvisations, a typical style in traditional Chinese celebrations. The music evokes images of the peasants singing and dancing with boundless joy, reflecting their happiness and excitement at the wild celebration.
In Chinese folk music, there is a long tradition of imitating sounds from nature. Like many of China’s minority nationalities, the Miao people have lived in the mountains south of the Yangtze River for most of their history, far from the noise and pollution of modern urban life. This piece provides a strong local flavor with a cheerful melody and lively imitation of birdsongs. In the beginning, the first violin imitates the sound of a traditional Miao instrument, the mouth flute, while the other strings play a soft tremolo. This suggests early morning sunshine penetrating the forest, and each player uses very distinctive techniques—trills, harmonics and slides—to represent a multitude of different kinds of bird sounds. The main theme and the rhythm are of typical of a Miao dance, full of life and energy. The sharp contrast between the first and the middle section reflects a variety of personalities among a group of vigorous Miao dancers. The work was written by Chen Gang during the Cultural Revolution. This imaginative piece has been of great appeal to both refined and popular tastes in China since the 1970s.
Harvest Celebration
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Butterfly Lovers
Yao Dance
One of the most famous violin pieces in China—The Butterfly Lovers; was composed in 1959. At that time the two composers were still students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, He Zhanhao and Chen Gang. Zhanhao was familiar with the violin and opera music, and Chen Gang with a more comprehensive grasp of compositional techniques.
The use of folk materials of China's minority nationalities was extremely popular among Chinese composers during 19601980. The Yao Dance was originally written by Mao Yuan and Tie-Shan Liu, based on a folk song of Yao, a mountain village in Guizhou, in the southwest region of China. The work has three large sections, and within each section there are two themes. In the opening, the viola and cello, playing a soft pizzicato, hint at the arrival of nightfall. Some Yao dancers, dressed in floating, colorful garments, gather in the moonlight. The second violin then plays a simple but expressive melody as a beautiful young girl starts to dance. The rest of the dancers join her soon thereafter. The theme suddenly takes on an ardent and rough character, suggesting a group of young men that cannot refrain from dashing into the group of dancing young girls. The strong contrast in the music depicts the striking personalities of the Yao people. The middle section is in 3/4 time, and its melody moves back and forth between a singing quality and a rhythmic dancing figure, as if two young lovers are expressing their adoration for each other. In the recapitulation the viola starts the first theme before being joined by the other strings. The second theme is more vivid and passionate, with each voice alternating its entrance until the whole quartet comes together in a loud and fast coda, suggesting the climax of the evening celebration.
The Butterfly Lovers uses a famous love story as a theme, adopting a wealth of our opera music performance practices, combined with the western genre of the concerto. The use of charming melodies, lively music images, strong ethnic style, and distinctive local characteristics, made this work deeply rooted in people's hearts. It has been affectionately referred to as our own symphonic music. It has been performed in the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France and other countries, and has been highly appreciated internationally. The arrangement for this formation of pipa and string quartet uses the final section of the concerto and is called “Transformation into the Butterfly”. With the peaceful atmosphere, the pipa again plays the opening cadenza like an introduction. At this time, muted strings play the lyrical and slow love theme, adding hazy fairyland colors. Here, the composers used a romantic expression, showing the good ideal of the people, as if winter were over, the bright spring had come back to earth, and a pair of butterflies were flying as partners, dancing in the millions of flowers. This is the Butterfly Lovers’ incarnation. They cannot be married before his death. Only the tragic death could free them to fly together. Finally, the full ensemble joins the love theme, which represents the deep feeling pouring out from the hearts of the people, expressing their deep sympathy and sorrow towards the Lovers’ tragic fate and praying for their better life in their next lives.
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Song of the Ch’in This work is intended for the string quartet. The Ch’in is a traditional Chinese seven-stringed, plucked zither, which was associated with sages and scholars. The sophisticated technique of Ch’in playing involves various ways of plucking the strings, as well as range, timbre and the use of ornaments. In this composition for string quartet, Zhou captures the essence of these special musical gestures frequently found in Ch’in music.
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Concerto for Pipa and String Quartet Concerto for Pipa and String Quartet is a five-movement work for string quartet and pipa based on Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera. The composer describes this work as a reflection on human spirituality, which is too often buried in the bombardment of urban culture and the rapid advances of technology. It is a cross-temporal, cross-cultural, and cross-media dialogue that touches on the past, present, future, and the eternal; employs elements from Chinese, Tibetan, English, and American cultures; and combines performance traditions of the European classical concert, Chinese shadow puppet theater, visual art installations, folk music, dramatic theater, and shamanistic ritual. In composing Ghost Opera, Tan was inspired by childhood memories of the shamanistic “ghost operas” of Chinese peasant culture. In this tradition, which is over 4,000 years old, humans and spirits of the future, the past, and nature communicate with each other. Tan’s Ghost Opera embraces this tradition, calling on the spirits of Bach (in the form of a quotation from the Prelude in C-sharp minor from Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier), Shakespeare (a brief excerpt from The Tempest), ancient folk traditions, and earth/nature (represented by the Chinese folk song “Little Cabbage”). The Bach excerpt acts, the composer says, as “a seed from which grows a new counterpoint of different ages, different sound worlds, and different cultures.” In the final movement, the gradual transformation of the counterpoint brings the spirits of Bach and Shakespeare, the civilized world, and the rational mind, “this insubstantial pageant,” into the eternal earth.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Recognized as the world’s premier pipa virtuoso and leading ambassador of Chinese music, Grammy Award-nominated musician Wu Man has carved out a career as a soloist, educator and composer giving her lute-like instrument—which has a history of over 2,000 years in China—a new role in both traditional and contemporary music. Through numerous concert tours, Wu Man has premiered hundreds of new works for the pipa, while spearheading multimedia projects to both preserve and create awareness of China’s ancient musical traditions. Her adventurous spirit and virtuosity have led to collaborations across artistic disciplines allowing Wu Man to reach wider audiences as she works to break through cultural and musical borders. Wu Man’s efforts were recognized when she was named Musical America’s 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year, marking the first time this prestigious award has been bestowed on a player of a non-Western instrument. Having been brought up in the Pudong School of pipa playing, one of the most prestigious classical styles of Imperial China, Wu Man is now recognized as an outstanding exponent of the traditional repertoire as well as a leading interpreter of contemporary pipa music by today’s most prominent composers. She was the first Chinese traditional musician to receive The United States Artist Fellowship in 2008 and was awarded the Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University in 1998. She is the first artist from China to perform at the White House. Her discography of more than 40 albums includes the Grammy-nominated recordings Our World in Song, Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of the Silk Road Chicago, her recording of Tan Dun’s Pipa Concerto with Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists, and You’ve Stolen My Heart featuring Wu Man and the Kronos Quartet. Wu Man frequently collaborates with the Kronos and Shanghai Quartets, the Knights, and the Silk Road Ensemble (SRE). She is a featured artist in the documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as on the companion recording, Sing Me Home, released by Sony in April 2016.
collaborator singer Sanubar Tursen in Basel Rajoub’s Soriano Project that celebrates the musical heritage of diverse artists as part of the Aga Khan Music Initiative, and tours Europe as soloist with The Knights. Born in Hangzhou, China, Wu Man studied with Lin Shicheng, Kuang Yuzhong, Chen Zemin, and Liu Dehai at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she became the first recipient of a master's degree in pipa. Accepted into the conservatory at age 13, Wu Man’s audition was covered by national newspapers and she was hailed as a child prodigy, becoming a nationally recognized role model for young pipa players. She subsequently received first prize in the First National Music Performance Competition among many other awards, and she participated in many premieres of works by a new generation of Chinese composers. Wu Man’s first exposure to western classical music came in 1979 when she saw Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing in Beijing. In 1980 she participated in an open master class with violinist Isaac Stern and in 1985 she made her first visit to the United States as a member of the China Youth Arts Troupe. Wu Man moved to the U.S. in 1990 and currently resides with her husband and son in California.
Highlights of Wu Man’s 2016-17 season include the world premiere of a new pipa concerto by Canadian composer Vincent Ho with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Long Yu and performances of Tan Dun’s Pipa Concerto with the NCPA Orchestra, Reno Chamber Orchestra, and Sinfonieorchester Aachen. She is joined by the Shanghai Quartet for the New York premiere of Zhao Jiping’s multimedia work Red Lantern on a program that includes music by Bright Sheng, Ye Xiaogang, and Zhou Long, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; returns to Wigmore Hall to perform with frequent 6
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Renowned for its passionate musicality, impressive technique and multicultural innovations, the Shanghai Quartet has become one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles. Its elegant style melds the delicacy of Eastern music with the emotional breadth of Western repertoire, allowing it to traverse musical genres including traditional Chinese folk music, masterpieces of Western music and cutting-edge contemporary works. Formed at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Quartet has worked with the world’s most distinguished artists and regularly tours the major music centers of Europe, North America and Asia. Recent festival performances range from the International Music Festivals of Seoul and Beijing to the Festival Pablo Casals in France, Beethoven Festival in Poland, Yerevan Festival in Armenia and Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia, as well as numerous concerts in all regions of North America. The Quartet has appeared at Carnegie Hall in chamber performances and with orchestra; in 2006 they gave the premiere of Takuma Itoh’s Concerto for Quartet and Orchestra in Isaac Stern Auditorium there. Among innumerable collaborations with noted artists, they have performed with the Tokyo, Juilliard and Guarneri Quartets, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell, pianists Menahem Pressler, Yuja Wang, Peter Serkin and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pipa virtuosa Wu Man and the male vocal ensemble Chanticleer. The Shanghai Quartet has been regular performers at many of North America’s leading chamber music festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamberfest Ottawa and Maverick Concerts where they recently made their 26th consecutive annual appearance. The Quartet has a long history of championing new music and juxtaposing traditions of Eastern and Western music. The Quartet’s 30th Anniversary season brought five new commissions; Bullycide, for piano, string quartet and bass by David Del Tredici; Fantasie, a piano quintet by Australian composer Carl Vine; a concerto for string quartet and symphony orchestra by Jeajoon Ryu; Verge Quartet by Lei Liang and Scherzo by Robert Aldridge, commissioned by Yu Long and the Beijing Music Festival. Their 25th anniversary season featured Penderecki’s String Quartet No. 3: Leaves from an Unwritten Diary, Chen Yi’s From the Path of Beauty, String Quartet No. 2 by Vivian Fung and jazz pianist Dick Hyman’s String Quartet. The Penderecki premiered at a special 75th birthday concert in Poland honoring the composer, followed by U.S. premieres at Peak Performances, Montclair State University and the Modlin Center, University of Richmond and numerous performances worldwide. It was featured again at the composer’s 80th Birthday celebration in November
2013. Chen Yi’s From the Path of Beauty, co-commissioned with Chanticleer, premiered in San Francisco, followed by performances at Tanglewood and Ravinia, Beijing and Shanghai. Other important commissions and premieres include works by Bright Sheng, Lowell Lieberman, Sebastian Currier, Marc Neikrug and Zhou Long. Bright Sheng’s Dance Capriccio had its premiere in spring 2012 with pianist Peter Serkin. Dan Welcher’s Museon Polemos for double quartet premiered in September 2012 with the Miro Quartet at the University of Texas at Austin, Du Yun’s Tattooed in Snow in 2015 and Zhao Lin’s Red Lantern for pipa, based on the music of his father, Zhao Ji-Ping, China’s most renowned film composer. The tradition continues with String Quartet No. 12, Fantasia notturna by William Bolcom to be premiered in spring 2017. The Shanghai Quartet has an extensive discography of more than 30 recordings, ranging from the Schumann and Dvorak piano quintets with Rudolf Buchbinder to Zhou Long’s Poems from Tang for string quartet and orchestra with the Singapore Symphony (BIS). Delos released the Quartet’s most popular disc, Chinasong: a collection of Chinese folk songs arranged by Yi-Wen Jiang reflecting on his childhood memories of the Cultural Revolution in China. The complete Beethoven String Quartets, a highly praised, seven-disc project, can be heard on Camerata’s set, released in 2009. A diverse and interesting array of media projects include a cameo appearance playing Bartok’s String Quartet No. 4 in Woody Allen’s film Melinda and Melinda to PBS television’s Great Performances series. Violinist Weigang Li appeared in the documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, and the family of cellist Nicholas Tzavaras was the subject of the film Music of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep. The Shanghai Quartet is the subject of a documentary film, Behind the Strings, currently in production, to be released this year. The Shanghai Quartet currently serves as Quartet-inResidence at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University, New Jersey, Ensemble-in-Residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and visiting guest professors of the Shanghai Conservatory and the Central Conservatory in Beijing. They are proudly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld Strings.
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ABOUT THE ARMORY Part American palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory is dedicated to supporting unconventional works in the visual and performing arts that need non-traditional spaces for their full realization, enabling artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to consume epic and adventurous presentations that can not be mounted elsewhere in New York City. Since its first production in September 2007, the Armory has organized and commissioned immersive performances, installations, and cross-disciplinary collaborations by visionary artists, directors, and impresarios in its vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall that defy traditional categorization and to push the boundaries of their practice. In its historic period rooms, the Armory presents small-scale performances and programs, including its acclaimed Recital Series in the intimate salon setting of the Board of Officers Room and the Artists Studio series in the newly restored Veterans Room. The Armory also offers robust arts education programs at no cost to underserved New York City public school students, engaging them with the institution’s artistic programming and the building’s history and architecture. Built between 1877 and 1881, Park Avenue Armory has been hailed as containing “the single most important collection of nineteenth century interiors to survive intact in one building” by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, with an 80-foot-high barrel vaulted roof, is one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York City. The Armory’s magnificent reception rooms were designed by leaders of the American Aesthetic Movement, among them Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, and Herter Brothers. The building is currently undergoing a $210-million renovation designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Platt Byard Dovell White Architects as Executive Architects.
PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF Rebecca Robertson, President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi, Artistic Director Matthew Bird, Deputy Director of Development Jenni Bowman, Producer Hanna Brody, Development Assistant David Burnhauser, Collection Manager Courtney Caldwell, Venue Events Manager Leandro Dasso, Porter Khemraj Dat, Accountant John Davis, Facilities Director Jordana De La Cruz, Program Manager Mayra DeLeon, Porter Sam DeRubeis, Building Engineer Marcia Ebaugh-Pallán, Manager of Special Events Alexander Frenkel, Controller Lissa Frenkel, Managing Director Melanie Forman, Chief Development Officer Sharlyn Galarza, Education Assistant Pip Gengenbach, Education Coordinator Carlie Guevara, Administrative Assistant, President’s Office Jennie Herreid, Ticket Services Manager Reginald Hunter, Building Mechanic Cassidy Jones, Education Director Chelsea Emelie Kelly, Youth Corps Manager Paul King, Director of Production Allison Kline, Director of Foundation and Government Relations Nicholas Lazzaro, Technical Director Jennifer Levine, Director of Special Events Michael Lonergan, Producing Director Wayne Lowery, Security Director Jason Lujan, Operations Manager
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Lori Nelson, Executive Assistant to the President Timothy Nim, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Drew Petersen, Education Special Projects Manager Maxine Petry, Director of Major Gifts Anna Pillow, Office Manager Charmaine Portis, Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer Morgan Powell, Membership Coordinator Kirsten Reoch, Director of Design and Construction Rachel Risso-Gill, Individual Giving Manager Erik Rogers, Production Coordinator Matthew Rymkiewicz, Tessitura Database Manager William Say, Superintendent Jennifer Smith, Associate Director of Corporate Relations Tom Trayer, Director of Marketing Brandon Walker, Technical Director Jessica Wasilewski, Producer Monica Weigel McCarthy, Associate Director of Education Avery Willis Hoffman, Program Director Nick Yarbrough, Digital Marketing Manager Joshua Zajdman, Press and Editorial Manager Olga Cruz, Mario Esquilin, Carlos Goris, Victor Lora, Josthen Noboa, Candice Rushin, Antonio Sanders, Porters Jonatan Amaya, House Manager Kara Kaufman, Erik Olson, Box Office Managers Summer 2017 Youth Corps Fatima Bah, Mosammat Jannat Begum, Eliana Boyd, Alyssa Carde, Chanse Catlyn, Koralys De La Cruz, Zeinebou Dia, Saran Diawara, Luis González, Chamonte Greenfield, Rabia Khan Laraib, Oyon Lotif, Alexa Maldonado, Cindy Mendoza, Christian Montan, Anai Ortiz
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NEXT IN THE RECITAL SERIES LAWRENCE BROWNLEE, tenor MYRA HUANG AND JASON MORAN, piano
PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA, violin JAY CAMPBELL, cello
“He sang with agility, elegance, and Rossinian style, tossing off high notes and roulades…this was a winning performance for an increasingly important artist.” —The New York Times
“…there is astonishing artistry to complement her creativity. She plays most of the time barefoot onstage. Her body and her instrument and the music she makes all seem one. She is ever thrilling alive to the moment.” — Los Angeles Times
august 9–11
Known as one of the world’s leading bel canto tenors, American-born Lawrence Brownlee has captivated audiences and critics alike with a wide range of roles from opera to contemporary music and jazz. The acclaimed singer comes to the Armory for a progressive concert that bridges multiple historic period rooms. The evening begins in the Board of Officers Room with a recital of lieder and art songs and continues in the Veterans Room with jazz standards and American spirituals, both designed to showcase his unique vocal artistry as well as the ambience of the spaces in which it is showcased.
SABINE DEVIEIHLE, soprano ANNA LE BOZEC, piano
october 9–10
Born into a Moldavian family of musicians, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a bundle of energy known as much for the passion and virtuosity of her playing as for the fact that she often performs barefoot. The natural phenomenon comes to the Board of Officers Room with cellist Jay Campbell to perform duos from a wide ranging repertoire that perfectly showcases the pair’s extreme styles of music making, from the early music of Gibbons to classical works by Ravel and contemporary compositions by Xenakis, Ligeti, and a world premiere by Michael Hersch.
BARBARA HANNIGAN, soprano REINBERT DE LEEUW, piano
october 1–3
november 16–18
“irresistibly good…expressive and incisive, Devieilhe is in command of everything…” —The Guardian (UK) Coloratura soprano Sabine Devieilhe is quickly making a name for herself as one of the most exciting young voices around, making lauded debuts at opera houses throughout Europe including Dutch National Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the Glyndebourne Festival. She makes her North American recital debut with a program of French art songs that perfectly showcases the sheer beauty of her vocal virtuosity in one of the most elegant and intimate spaces—the Board of Officers Room.
Barbara Hannigan has made a name for herself as a muse and collaborator with a number of legendary composers, creating roles on leading opera stages around the world by adding a kind of virtuosity that contemporary music has rarely seen before. The soprano comes to the Board of Officers Room to make her U.S. recital debut with programs that showcase her versatility and superb musicianship. She opens her residency with an artfully curated look at the Second Viennese School, where new musical language was developed through the extraordinary collaboration between composers, painters, writers, and other artists in the city’s salons and cafes at the turn of the century. She then looks to Paris to explore the work of Erik Satie, from art songs written in his early career to his magnum opus Socrate, in a unique program performed with renowned Satie interpreter Reinbert de Leeuw. Second Viennese School (November 16): Program to include works by Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler, Wolf All-Erik Satie (November 18): Program to include art songs, solo piano works, and Socrate
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NEXT AT THE ARMORY HANSEL & GRETEL
RÉPONS
“[Herzog & de Meuron] are always dedicated to enlarging experience where others would flatten it, and heightening the specifics of a place when there are pressures to erase them. They are champions of nuance” —Architectural Review
“It’s gritty and rigorous, but also sumptuous and fanciful– the sheer visceral excitement of being caught in the middle was like nothing else in music.” — The New York Times
october 6–7
june 7–august 6
“ …it is the essence of Ai’s activism: …work that unleashes the political power of art.” —The Guardian (UK) In a new commission that is both object and environment, Pritzker Prize-winning architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron with artist/activist Ai Weiwei explore the meaning of public space in our surveillance-laden world, referencing the story of Hansel and Gretel in which the children lose their way and feel a sense of menace in a space they know and trust. The artists create a 21st century public place in which the environment is disconcerting, the entrance is unexpected, and every movement is tracked and surveyed by drones and communicated to an unknown public.
Rarely staged in concert halls given its unconventional configuration of the space, Pierre Boulez’s spatial masterwork is written for and realized at the Armory by Ensemble intercontemporain and conductor Matthias Pintscher, who perform this emblematic work twice in succession each evening, with the audience changing seats in between to gain a new sonic perspective. This remarkable presentation marks the first performance in New York of a major work by Boulez since his death in early 2016.
ARTISTS STUDIO
september 21–27
Curated by jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Jason Moran, these performances explore the culture of sound that can be visibly seen in the newly reopened Veterans Room, while allowing these creative thinkers to actively explore bold new directions of global influence in contemporary music.
“A wonderfully fluent and effective piece of music theatre” —The Guardian (UK)
Upcoming Performances:
BLANK OUT
Based on the life and work of South African poet Ingrid Jonker, this groundbreaking work by innovative composer and creator Michel van der Aa combines live action, innovative techniques of interactive film, and inventive music to consider the ways in which we reconstruct and deal with traumatic life events. Soprano Miah Persson sings live, combined with replayed loops of herself and the voice of baritone Roderick Williams in 3D film to create haunting musical passages and ensembles, and in the process, an entirely new form of opera.
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RASHAAD NEWSOME november 7 JO LAWRY & KAVITA SHAH november 21
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OTHER HAPPENINGS AT THE ARMORY INTERROGATIONS OF FORM: CONVERSATION SERIES
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Held in our historic period rooms, these insightful conversations throughout the year feature artists, scholars, cultural leaders, and social trailblazers who gather to offer new points of view and unique perspectives on Armory productions, explore a range of themes and relevant topics, and encourage audiences to think beyond conventional interpretations and perspectives of art.
MALKIN LECTURE SERIES
Each fall, the popular Malkin Lecture Series presents scholars and experts on topics relating to the Armory and the civic, cultural, and aesthetic life of New York City in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lecture topics have ranged from history makers like Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt to Gilded Age society’s favorite restaurants and the Hudson River painters.
ARMORY AFTER HOURS
Salon culture has enlivened art since the 19th century, when friends gathered in elegant chambers to hear intimate performances and share artistic insights. Join us following select performances for libations with fellow attendees as we revive this tradition in our historic period rooms. You may also get to talk with the evening’s artists, who often greet friends and audience members following their performances.
Launched in 2010, the Armory’s artist-in-residence program supports artists across genres in the creation and development of new work. Each artist sets up a studio in one of the Armory’s period rooms, providing a unique backdrop that can serve as both inspiration and as a collaborator in their project development. Residencies also include participation in the Armory’s arts education program with artists working closely with the Armory’s Youth Corps interns. This season’s artists-inresidence include playwright and screenwriter Lynn Nottage, Cuban installation and performace artist Tania Bruguera, composer and guitarist Marvin Sewell, choreographer and flexn dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and his company the D.R.E.A.M. Ring, and photographer and visual artist Carrie Mae Weems. Previous Armory artists-in-residence have included inventive theater company 600 Highwaymen; theater artists Taylor Mac and Machine Dazzle; writer, director, and production designer Andrew Ondrejcak; vocalist, composer, and cultural worker Imani Uzuri; dancer and choreographer Wally Cardona; visual artist and choreographer Jason Akira Somma; soprano Lauren Flanigan; writer Sasha Frere-Jones; Trusty Sidekick Theater company; vocalist-songwriter Somi; multidisciplinary performer Okwui Okpokwasili; choreographer Faye Driscoll; artist Ralph Lemon; visual artist Alex Dolan; Musician Meredith Monk; sound artist Marina Rosenfeld; string quartet ETHEL; playwright and director Young Jean Lee; and Shen Wei Dance Arts; among others.
HISTORIC INTERIORS TOURS
Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided walking tour of the building with our staff historian. From the soaring 55,000-square-foot 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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JOIN THE ARMORY JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP Support Park Avenue Armory as a member and enjoy insider access to what The New York Times has called “the most important new cultural institution in New York City.” For more information about membership, please email members@armoryonpark.org or call (212) 616-3958. We are pleased to recognize the generous support of our members with these special benefits, updated as of April 25, 2016:
FRIEND $100 »» Members only pre-sale access for Armory performances »» Invitation to the opening night preview for visual art installations »» Free admission for you and a guest to Armory visual arts installations »» Discounts at local partnered restaurants and hotels »» 10% discount on merchandise sold during Armory performances
AVANT-GARDE
$200 is tax deductible
All benefits of the Friend membership plus: »» Fees waived on ticket exchanges* »» Free admission for you and a guest to guided tours of the Armory*** »» Discount on tickets to the Malkin Lecture Series* »» Discount on tickets to Artist Talks and Public Programs*
All benefits of the Supporter membership plus: »» Members concierge ticket service »» Free admission for two additional guests to visual art installations »» Access to VIP lounge during performance intermissions »» Two complimentary passes to an art fair**
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 to a private Chairman’s Circle event for you and a guest »» Two complimentary tickets to the Under Construction Series, Recital Series, or Artists Studio*
Members of this exclusive group are offered unique and intimate opportunities to experience the Armory, including invitations to private tours and VIP receptions with world-class artists, access to priority seating and the Armory’s concierge ticket service.
SUPPORTER $250
$370 is tax deductible
$780 is tax deductible
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE STARTING AT $2,500
$70 is tax deductible
ASSOCIATE $500
BENEFACTOR $1,000
The Avant-Garde is a new membership group designed for supporters in their 20s and 30s, providing exclusive access to the Armory and its artists through events designed specifically for this group. Each membership applies to one household, and one membership card is mailed upon membership activation.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
The Armory’s arts education program reaches thousands of public school students each year, immersing them in the creative process of exceptional visual and performing artists and teaching them to explore their own creative instincts. Education Committee members are invited to special events, meetings, and workshops that allow them to witness the students’ progress and contribute to the growth of the program. For more information about membership, please call (212) 616-3958 e-mail members@armoryonpark.org. For information on ticketing, or to purchase tickets, please call the Box Office at (212) 933-5812 *Subject to ticket availability **Certain restrictions apply ***Reservations required
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Co-Chairman Elihu Rose, PhD. Co-Chairman Adam R. Flatto President and Executive Producer Rebecca Robertson
Marina Abramović Harrison M. Bains Wendy Belzberg Emma Bloomberg Martin Brand Cora Cahan Peter C. Charrington Hélène Comfort Paul Cronson Emme Levin Deland Sanford B. Ehrenkranz David Fox Marjorie L. Hart Edward G. Klein, Major General NYNG (Ret.) Ken Kuchin Mary T. Kush
Pablo Legorreta Ralph Lemon Heidi McWilliams David S. Moross Gwendolyn Adams Norton Joel Press Genie H. Rice Amanda J.T. Riegel Janet C. Ross Joan Steinberg Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht Angela E. Thompson Deborah C. van Eck Founding Chairman, 2000-2009 Wade F.B. Thompson
PARK AVENUE ARMORY ARTISTIC COUNCIL Co-Chairs Noreen Buckfire Michael Field Caryn Schacht and David Fox Heidi and Tom McWilliams
Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Sonja and Martin J. Brand A. Cary Brown and Steven Epstein Elizabeth Coleman Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Emme and Jonathan Deland Krystyna Doerfler Olivia and Adam Flatto Janet and Mikel Halvorson Anita K. Hersh Wendy Keys Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan Almudena and Pablo Legorreta Chad A. Leat Aaron Lieber and Bruce Horten
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Christina and Alan MacDonald Elizabeth and Frank Newman Janet and David P. Nolan Gwen and Peter Norton Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker Richard and Amanda J.T. Riegel Susan and Elihu Rose Janet C. Ross Susan Rudin Joan and Michael Steinberg Liz and Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht Deborah C. van Eck Mary Wallach
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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 Empire State Local Development Corporation Richard and Ronay Menschel New York City Council and Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick New York City Department of Cultural Affairs The Pershing Square Foundation Susan and Elihu Rose The Arthur Ross Foundation and J & AR Foundation Joan and Joel Smilow The Thompson Family Foundation Wade F.B. Thompson* The Zelnick/Belzberg Charitable Trust Anonymous $500,000 to $999,999 Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Almudena and Pablo Legorreta The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan Donna and Marvin Schwartz Liz and Emanuel Stern $250,000 to $499,999 American Express Bloomberg Philanthropies Citi Michael Field and Doug Hamilton Olivia and Adam 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 Adams Altman Foundation Linda and Earle S. Altman Booth Ferris Foundation Sonja and Martin J. Brand The W. L. Lyons Brown Jr. Charitable Foundation Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Emme and Jonathan Deland Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Kirkland & Ellis LLP Mary T. Kush Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse, Jr. David P. Nolan Foundation Gwen and Peter Norton 14
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Janet C. Ross Caryn Schacht and David Fox Amy and Jeffrey Silverman Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Joan and Michael Steinberg M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William C. Tomson Deborah C. van Eck $25,000 to $99,999 The Avenue Association Harrison and Leslie Bains Emily and Len Blavatnik Emma Bloomberg BMW of Manhattan Carolyn S. Brody Janna Bullock The Cowles Charitable Trust Mary Cronson / Evelyn Sharp Foundation Caroline and Paul Cronson Ellie and Edgar Cullman Drake / Anderson Stuart J. Ellman and Susan H.B. Ellman The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation Andrew L. Farkas, Island Capital Group & C-III Capital Partners Mr. and Mrs. Martin Geller Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Howard Gilman Foundation Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Golub Captial LLC Agnes Gund Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gundlach The Hearst Foundations Anita K. Hersh Josefin and Paul Hilal Daniel Clay Houghton Rachel and Mike Jacobellis Anna Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation, Inc. and Marina Kellen French La Perla Chad A. Leat Aaron Lieber and Bruce Horten Christina and Alan MacDonald Christine & Richard Mack Marc Haas Foundation National Endowment for the Arts New York State Council on the Arts Stavros Niarchos Foundation Donald Pels Charitable Trust Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker The Reed Foundation Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Genie and Donald Rice Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief Susan Rudin The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch The Shubert Foundation armoryonpark.org
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Oscar S. Schafer Stacy Schiff and Marc de la Bruyere Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation Lea Simonds Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon Sotheby’s Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Stark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Stevenson Elizabeth Stribling and Guy Robinson Michael and Veronica Stubbs Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Tishman Speyer Properties, LP Barbara and Donald Tober Jane and Robert Toll Mary Wallach Mike Weil and Shirley Madhere-Weil William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation Anonymous (2) $5,000 to $9,999 ABS Partners Real Estate, LLC Ark Restaurants Corp. Jody and John Arnhold Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Abigail Baratta Mr. and Mrs. Victor Barnett The David Berg Foundation, Inc. Sara Steinhardt Berman Amy Bermingham and Charles Wilson Debra and Leon Black Nicholas Brawer Catherine and Robert Brawer Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Tom and Meredith Brokaw Amanda M. Burden Marian and Russell Burke CBRE Betsy Cohn Sarah and Ronald Collins Margaret Crotty and Rory Riggs Joshua Dachs / Fisher Dachs Associates Theatre Planning and Design Constance and Gregory Dalvito Diana Davenport and John Bernstein Antoinette Delruelle and Joshua L. Steiner Liz Diller and Ricardo Scofidio Mary Ellen G. Dundon Eagle Capital Management, L.L.C. David and Frances Eberhart Foundation Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz LLP Inger McCabe Elliott Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff Alicia Ernst and John Katzman The Felicia Fund Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc. Amandine and Steve Freidheim Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein Barbara and Peter Georgescu The Georgetown Company Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Gibbons Debbi Gibbs Richard Gilder and Lois Chiles Mr. and Mrs. David Golub Sarah Gould and David Steinhardt Mindy and Jon Gray
Jamee and Peter Gregory Gunther E. Greiner Allen and Deborah Grubman John Hargraves Molly Butler Hart and Michael D. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hite Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hurwitz Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper Max MF Power Jacobellis Nancy Josephson Hon. Bruce M. Kaplan and Janet Yaseen Kaplan Jennie Kassanoff and Dan Schulman Adrienne Katz Mr. and Mrs. Richard Katzman Mr. and Mrs. Fernand Lamesch Sahra T. Lese Gail and Alan Levenstein Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Levine Diane and Adam E. Max Véronique Mazard and Andrew Vogel Joyce F. Menschel Adriana and Robert Mnuchin Christine Moog and Benoit Helluy Mary Kathryn Navab Mr. and Mrs. Michael Newhouse Nancy and Morris W. Offit Peter and Beverly Orthwein Mindy Papp Susan Porter Anne and Skip Pratt Preserve New York, a grant program of Preservation League of New York Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pruzan David J. Remnick and Esther B. Fein Michael D. Rhea Jonathan F.P. and Diana Rose Liz Rosen and Michael Rozen Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation Chuck and Stacy Rosenzweig H.O. Ruding and Renee Ruding-Hekking Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Ruesch Bonnie J. Sacerdote Jeanne Ruesch Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Sagansky Susan and Charles Sawyers Stephanie and Fred Shuman Daisy M. Soros Patricia Brown Specter Diane and Sam Stewart The Jay and Kelly Sugarman Foundation Bill and Ellen Taubman Christopher Tsai and André Stockamp Michael Tuch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ulrich Liliana Vaamonde and Richard Pretsfelder Anastasia Vournas and J. William Uhrig Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Weingarten Kate R. Whitney and Franklin A. Thomas Valda Witt and Jay Hatfield Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt Anonymous (2) $2,500 to $4,999 Patrick Baldoni, Femenella & Associates, Inc. Tony Bechara armoryonpark.org
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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 programing. 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 $210-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 renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation. Cover photo by Da Ping Luo.