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WELCOME Park Avenue Armory strives to engage audiences with eclectic, immersive, and thought-provoking works that are in direct dialogue with the Armory’s unconventional spaces, whether it is the soaring Wade Thompson Drill Hall or the intimate period rooms. And with its pristine acoustics and austere elegance, the Board of Officers Room is like no other in offering the chance to enjoy the art of the recital and music-making in the most personal of settings. Our celebrated Recital Series returns this fall with a slate of virtuosic performances by world-class artists and musicians. We opened the series with a program by “essentially lyric” (Opera News) tenor Paul Appleby and “brilliant” (The New York Times) pianist Conor Hanick, who made their Armory debuts with a program of German lieder. Admired for his interpretive depth, vocal strength, and range of expressivity, Appleby showcased his strong commitment to the repertoire with songs by Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, and Berg. Baritone Will Liverman brings his “velvet voice” (NPR) and “nuanced, heartfelt storytelling” (The Guardian) to the Armory for tonight’s program alongside pianist Myra Huang for a program highlighting Black composers and writers as well as works from the traditional classical music canon. Liverman will perform songs by Black composers Brian McKnight, Damien Sneed, Margaret Bonds, and H. Leslie Adams. The program also includes works by Ravel, Rachmaninoff, and Strauss. Charismatic American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton partners with the incomparable Jake Heggie on a program of Brahms, Schubert, and Heggie, with special attention to female composers on November 19 and 21. Recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award, Richard Tucker Award, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (both Main and Song Prizes), and a Grammy nomination, Barton is navigating a huge career on the opera and recital stage. “Leader of a new generation of opera stars” (The New York Times), Barton brings this leadership to what promises to be stirring and engaging performances. After a challenging year and a half, it will be special to once again fill the Armory’s resplendent Board of Officers Room with music, art, and life. We hope you enjoy these magical moments in music. Rebecca Robertson Founding President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director
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2021 RECITAL SERIES IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
WILL LIVERMAN, baritone MYRA HUANG, piano sunday, october 10, 2021 at 3:00pm monday, october 11, 2021 at 7:30pm Board of Officers Room
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.
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PROGRAM Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe
3 Balladen, op. 1, no. 3 “Erlkönig”
Richard Strauss
“Wir sollten wir geheim die halten,” op. 19, no. 4 “Traum durch die Dämmerung,” op. 29, no. 1 “Zueignung,” op. 10, no. 1
Maurice Ravel
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée 1. Chanson romanesque 2. Chanson épique 3. Chanson à boire
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Twelve Romances, op. 21 “Sud’ba”
Intermission Margaret Bonds
Three Dream Portraits “Minstrel Man” “Dream Variation” “I, Too”
H. Leslie Adams
Selections from Nightsongs “Prayer” “The Heart of a Woman” “Sence You Went Away”
Brian McKnight
Medley, arranged by Will Liverman “One Last Cry” “Back at One”
Damien Sneed
“Great is Thy Faithfulness”
This performance is approximately 75 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM BY DR. ALISHA LOLA JONES
Since the standard was set by lyric tenor recitalist Roland Hayes (1887 – 1977), a former Fisk Jubilee Singer, African American recitalists have traditionally programmed multi-genre performances. Through this format, musically versatile recitalists interweave oral and written traditions of popular and concert musics. And what we will experience in this recital is a vibrant array of highly acclaimed composers whose music has been the soundtrack to our lives as they prompt us to fancifully celebrate the themes of youth, love, fate, and provision. North German singer, conductor, and composer of 400 lieder Carl Loewe (1796 – 1869) set German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Erlkönig, perhaps his most famous poem about the Elf King (king of the fairies). Loewe’s Erlkönig (1899) is the third song in a set of three from 3 Balladen, op. 1. Set at night, a father carries his child on horseback as the boy claims to see the Elf King. However, his father claims he does not perceive the king and assures his son that he must be conflating the Elf King with threads of mist, swirling leaves, and glistening willows. The Elf King persists in trying to entice the son with promises of entertainment, fine clothes, and his daughters’ attention. Eventually, the aggressive Elf King decides to take the boy and then he yells about the attack. The son’s audible distress prods his father to ride faster to the Hof. By the time they arrive, the child has already died. The German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist Richard Georg Strauss (1864 – 1949) is famous for his operas, lieder, and tone poems. This set of songs by Strauss continues an exploration of youth and love that fills up the senses with the 1888 song “Wie sollten wir geheim” (How could we keep it secret) with poetry by Adolf Friedrich von Schack. Although Strauss sought Otto Julius Bierbaum to be a potential librettist for an opera, he eventually selected and revised this text, which is the first of three love poems by Bierbaum entitled “Traum durch die Dämmerung” (Dream through the Twilight), to be Strauss’ 1895 through-composed work reflecting on walking at night. Completing this set is “Zueignung” (Dedication) with text by Herman von Gilm that was penned as one of eight songs in opus 10 (1885). This lied is one of Strauss’ most famous compositions marked by the refrain “habe Dank” (“take” or “have” thanks). French composer, pianist, and conductor Maurice Ravel’s (1875 – 1937) musical style has been described as impressionist even though he explored various styles. Initially commissioned by film director G.W. Pabst, the song cycle Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (1933) encompasses three songs by Ravel and poetry by Paul Morand. In “Chanson romanesque” translated “Romantic Song,” Don Quixote begins the cycle with a dance-like musical lilt between the piano and voice, exploring the lengths a lover would go to win their beloved’s heart. Using the zortziko dance rhythm, “Chanson épique” or “Epic song” is a valiant lover’s prayer to St. Michael about their beloved. Perhaps the most famous of the three songs in the cycle, “Chanson à boire” or “drinking song” embraces the flamenco vocally and the triple meter castanets are heard in the accompaniment as a drunken Don Quixote imaginatively muses and scoffs at other potential suitors. This cycle is Ravel’s last composition.
Russian composer Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff’s (1873 – 1943) song cycle “Sud’ba” (Fate) from the Twelve Romances (op. 21, no 1) with poetry by Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin. As the protagonist describes the “knock, knock, knock” of fate, this song cycle bursts forth in the accompaniment echoing a variation on a famous chord progression evocative of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in C minor motif. Chicagoan composer and pianist Margaret Bonds (1913 – 1972) is one of several 20th century women composer-musicians – such as Florence B. Price and Mary Lou Williams – experiencing a renaissance of their musical works. Highlighting beloved poems by Langston Hughes, the Three Dream Portraits (1959) song collection centers the multiple consciousness of the African American experience. “Minstrel Man” explores the tensions of Black socio-cultural performance in which one’s humanity is disregarded. Famously opening with the phrase “To fling my arms wide,” “Dream Variation” engages the imagination savoring carefree enjoyment of both day and night indicative of liberty. Probably the most well-known of the set, “I, Too” offers us another perspective of what it means to be patriotic as “the darker brother” who is a disinherited citizen in “the land of the free.” Known as a composer of voice works in African American music idioms, Ohioan H. Leslie Adams (1932 – ) penned Nightsongs (1961) as a group of six songs that have also been referred to as Six Afro-American Songs. Within the set, Adams features lyrics by five poets for voice and piano: Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Clarissa Scott Delany, and Leslie Morgan Collins. In this recital, three selections are programmed: “Prayer,” “The Heart of a Woman,” and “Sence You Went Away.” We will have a special treat with Will Liverman’s medley of music recorded by Grammy Award-winning African-American composer, falsettist, and multi-instrumentalist Brian McKnight (1969 – ) who hails from Buffalo, New York. Exemplifying the very best of 1990s R&B with its many covers, “One Last Cry” (1993) was an original break out hit by McKnight that was co-written by Brandon Barnes, Melanie Barnes, and McKnight. “Back at One” (2005) is the title track of McKnight’s fifth album. Today, we will enjoy an “unplugged” or acoustic interpretation of these R&B ballads. Originally composed by Thomas Obadiah Chisholm (1866 – 1960) and William H. Runyan (1870 – 1957), “Great is Thy Faithfulness” (1923) is a standard hymn in US Protestant worship. However, this rendition arranged-composed by Dove Awardwinning African-American composer, pianist, and singer Damien L. Sneed is an apropos selection to round off the program. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Sneed resembles Liverman’s multi-genre and multi-instrument music formation. Sneed illustrates where the US music scene is headed, erasing the boundaries between the everydayness of the “Black Church” worship experience and the grandeur of concert performance one might find at Jazz at the Lincoln Center – two traditions that he fuses together in his many commissioned collaborations with fellow multi-genre artists.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS WILL LIVERMAN
Called “a voice for this historic moment” (The Washington Post), baritone Will Liverman stars in the Met Opera’s reopening production of Fire Shut Up In My Bones in fall 2021. Liverman is the recipient of the 2020 Marian Anderson Vocal Award, 2019 Richard Tucker Career Grant, and Sphinx Medal of Excellence. Following a summer at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Aspen Music Festival, highlights of Will Liverman’s 2021-2022 season include Fire Shut Up In My Bones with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Spanish Inspirations with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Florence Price’s Song to the Dark Virgin with Chicago Sinfonietta, Jonathan Dove’s Flight with Dallas Opera, Leonard Bernstein’s Mass at The Kennedy Center, and Akhnaten (Horemhab) and The Magic Flute (Papageno) at the Met. His new opera The Factotum, written together with DJ/ recording artist K. Rico, is in process with Lyric Opera of Chicago. In February 2021, Cedille released Liverman’s Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical chart. Whither Must I Wander (Odradek), with pianist Jonathan King, was named one of the Chicago Tribune’s “best classical recordings of 2020.” Performance highlights include starring as the first ever Black Papageno in the Metropolitan Opera’s holiday production of The Magic Flute, in addition to its premiere of Akhnaten (Horemhab); Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) with Seattle Opera, Virginia Opera, and Madison Opera; The Love of Three Oranges (Pantalone) with Opera Philadelphia; Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (Dizzy Gillespie) with Opera Philadelphia and English National Opera; and La bohème (Schaunard) with Opera Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, and Dallas Opera.
MYRA HUANG
Acclaimed by Opera News as being “among the top accompanists of her generation,” and “...a colouristic tour de force” by The New York Times, Grammy Awardnominated pianist Myra Huang is highly sought after for her interpretation of lieder and art song as well as her depth of musicianship and impeccable technique. Huang has performed in recitals throughout the U.S., including Carnegie Hall, The Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center, Symphony Center, and The 92 St Y. Huang was chosen as the recipient of The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award for 2019 by The Classical Recording Foundation for her consummate artistry. Regular collaborations include recitals with Lawrence Brownlee, Sasha Cooke, Joshua Hopkins, Anthony McGill, Will Liverman, Eric Owens, Nicholas Phan, and Susanna Phillips. Huang is an avid recitalist and recording artist. Her album Gods and Monsters with tenor Nicholas Phan was nominated for “Best Classical Vocal Solo Album” at the 2018 Grammy Awards. Her most recent album with Phan, Clairières, was nominated in the same category for the 63rd Grammy Awards in 2021. She becomes the Head of Music for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera this season, mentoring and sculpting the highest talent in the upcoming generations. Huang is also on staff at The Aspen Music Festival, as well as faculty of the Collaborative Piano department at The Manhattan School of Music. Huang is a Steinway Artist.
Will Liverman appears on this program courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
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TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS CARL LOEWE (1796-1869) 3 Balladen, op. 1, no. 3 “Erlkönig” (1889) Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3 Ballads, op. 1, no. 3 “The Erlking” Translation by Richard Wigmore
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind: Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er fasst ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.
Who rides so late through the night and wind? It is the father with his child. He has the boy in his arms; he holds him safely, he keeps him warm.
„Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht?“ „Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht? Den Erlenkönig mit Kron’ und Schweif?“ „Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif.“
‘My son, why do you hide your face in fear?’ ‘Father, can you not see the Erlking? The Erlking with his crown and tail?’ ‘My son, it is a streak of mist.’
„Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir! Gar schöne Spiele spiel’ ich mit dir; Manch’ bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand, Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand.“
‘Sweet child, come with me. I’ll play wonderful games with you. Many a pretty flower grows on the shore; my mother has many a golden robe.’
„Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht, Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht?“ „Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind: In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind.“
‘Father, father, do you not hear what the Erlking softly promises me?’ ‘Calm, be calm, my child: the wind is rustling in the withered leaves.’
„Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn? Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön; Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Rein Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein.“
‘Won’t you come with me, my fine lad? My daughters shall wait upon you; my daughters lead the nightly dance, and will rock you, and dance, and sing you to sleep.’
„Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort?“ „Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau: Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau.“
‘Father, father, can you not see Erlking’s daughters there in the darkness?’ ‘My son, my son, I can see clearly: it is the old grey willows gleaming.’
„Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt; Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt.“ „Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt fasst er mich an! Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan!“
‘I love you, your fair form allures me, and if you don’t come willingly, I’ll use force.’ ‘Father, father, now he’s seizing me! The Erlking has hurt me!’
Dem Vater grausets, er reitet geschwind, Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind, Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not: In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.
The father shudders, he rides swiftly, he holds the moaning child in his arms; with one last effort he reaches home; the child lay dead in his arms.
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RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949) “Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten,” op. 19, no. 4 (1888) How could we keep it secret Text by Adolf Friedrich von Schack Translation by Richard Stokes Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten, Die Seligkeit, die uns erfüllt? Nein, bis in seine tiefsten Falten Sei allen unser Herz enthüllt!
How could we keep it secret, This bliss with which we’re filled? No, into its deepest recesses Our hearts must be revealed to all!
Wenn zwei in Liebe sich gefunden, Geht Jubel hin durch die Natur, In längern wonnevollen Stunden Legt sich der Tag auf Wald und Flur.
When two souls have fallen in love, Nature’s filled with exultation, And daylight lingers on wood and meadow In longer hours of rapture.
Selbst aus der Eiche morschem Stamm, Die ein Jahrtausend überlebt, Steigt neu des Wipfels grüne Flamme Und rauscht von Jugendlust durchbebt.
Even the oak tree’s rotten trunk, That has survived a thousand years, Sends fresh flaming green to its crown And rustles with the thrill of youth.
Zu höherm Glanz und Dufte brechen Die Knospen auf beim Glück der Zwei, Und süßer rauscht es in den Bächen Und reicher blüht und reicher glänzt der Mai.
The buds, seeing the lovers’ bliss, Flower more brightly and fragrantly, And the brooks babble more sweetly, And May gleams and blooms more lavishly.
“Traum durch die Dämmerung,” op. 29, no. 1 (1895) Text by Otto Julius Bierbaum
Dream into dusk Translation by Richard Stokes
Weite Wiesen im Dämmergrau; Die Sonne verglomm, die Sterne ziehn; Nun geh’ ich hin zu der schönsten Frau, Weit über Wiesen im Dämmergrau, Tief in den Busch von Jasmin.
Broad meadows in grey dusk; The sun has set, the stars come out, I go now to the loveliest woman, Far across meadows in grey dusk, Deep into the jasmine grove.
Durch Dämmergrau in der Liebe Land; Ich gehe nicht schnell, ich eile nicht; Mich zieht ein weiches, sammtenes Band Durch Dämmergrau in der Liebe Land, In ein blaues, mildes Licht.
Through grey dusk into the land of love; I do not go fast, I do not hurry; I am drawn by a soft velvet ribbon Through grey dusk into the land of love, Into a gentle blue light.
“Zueignung,” op. 10, no. 1 (1885) Text by Hermann von Gilm
Dedication Translation by Richard Stokes
Ja, du weißt es, teure Seele, Daß ich fern von dir mich quäle, Liebe macht die Herzen krank, Habe Dank.
Yes, dear soul, you know That I’m in torment far from you, Love makes hearts sick – Be thanked.
Einst hielt ich, der Freiheit Zecher, Hoch den Amethysten-Becher, Und du segnetest den Trank, Habe Dank.
Once, revelling in freedom, I held the amethyst cup aloft And you blessed that draught – Be thanked.
Und beschworst darin die Bösen, Bis ich, was ich nie gewesen, Heilig, heilig an’s Herz dir sank, Habe Dank!
And you banished the evil spirits, Till I, as never before, Holy, sank holy upon your heart – Be thanked.
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MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (1933) Text by Paul Morand
Don Quixote to Dulcinea Translation by Richard Stokes
1. Chanson romanesque Si vous me disiez que la terre À tant tourner vous offensa, Je lui dépêcherais Pança: Vous la verriez fixe et se taire.
1. Romantic song Were you to tell that the earth Offended you with so much turning, I’d dispatch Panza to deal with it: You’d see it still and silenced.
Si vous me disiez que l’ennui Vous vient du ciel trop fleuri d’astres, Déchirant les divins cadastres, Je faucherais d’un coup la nuit.
Were you to tell me that you are wearied By a sky too studded with stars – Tearing the divine order asunder, I’d scythe the night with a single blow.
Si vous me disiez que l’espace Ainsi vidé ne vous plaît point, Chevalier dieu, la lance au poing. J’étoilerais le vent qui passe.
Were you to tell me that space itself, Thus denuded was not to your taste – As a god-like knight, with lance in hand, I’d sow the fleeting wind with stars.
Mais si vous disiez que mon sang Est plus à moi qu’à vous, ma Dame, Je blêmirais dessous le blâme Et je mourrais, vous bénissant.
But were you to tell me that my blood Is more mine, my Lady, than your own, I’d pale at the admonishment And, blessing you, would die.
Ô Dulcinée.
O Dulcinea.
2. Chanson épique Bon Saint Michel qui me donnez loisir De voir ma Dame et de l’entendre, Bon Saint Michel qui me daignez choisir Pour lui complaire et la défendre, Bon Saint Michel veuillez descendre Avec Saint Georges sur l’autel De la Madone au bleu mantel.
2. Epic song Good Saint Michael who gives me leave To behold and hear my Lady, Good Saint Michael who deigns to elect me To please her and defend her, Good Saint Michael, descend, I pray, With Saint George onto the altar Of the Madonna robed in blue.
D’un rayon du ciel bénissez ma lame Et son égale en pureté Et son égale en piété Comme en pudeur et chasteté: Ma Dame.
With a heavenly beam bless my blade And its equal in purity And its equal in piety As in modesty and chastity: My Lady.
(Ô grands Saint Georges et Saint Michel) L'ange qui veille sur ma veille, Ma douce Dame si pareille À Vous, Madone au bleu mantel! Amen.
(O great Saint George and great Saint Michael) Bless the angel watching over my vigil, My sweet Lady, so like unto Thee, O Madonna robed in blue! Amen.
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3. Chanson à boire Foin du bâtard, illustre Dame, Qui pour me perdre à vos doux yeux Dit que l’amour et le vin vieux Mettent en deuill mon coeur, mon âme!
3. Drinking song A pox on the bastard, illustrious Lady, Who to discredit me in your sweet eyes, Says that love and old wine Are saddening my heart and soul!
Je bois À la joie! La joie est le seul but Où je vais droit... lorsque j’ai bu!
I drink To joy! Joy is the only goal To which I go straight... when I’m... drunk!
Foin du jaloux, brune maîtresse, Qui geint, qui pleure et fait serment D’être toujours ce pâle amant Qui met de l'eau dans son ivresse!
A pox on the jealous wretch, O dusky mistress, Who whines and weeps and vows Always to be this lily-livered lover Who dilutes his drunkenness!
Je bois À la joie! La joie est le seul but Où je vais droit... Lorsque j'ai bu!
I drink To joy! Joy is the only goal To which I go straight... when I’m... drunk!
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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943) Twelve Romances, op. 21 “Sub’da” (1902) Text by Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin
Fate Translation by Philip Ross Bullock
S svoej poxodnoyu klyukoj, S svoimi mrachny’mi ochami Sud’ba, kak grozny’j chasovoj, Povsyudu sleduet za nami. Bedoj liczo eya grozit, Ona v ugrozax posedela, Ona uzh mnogix odolela, I vse stuchit, i vse stuchit: Stuk, stuk, stuk... Polno, drug, Bros’ za schastiem gonyat’sya! Stuk, stuk, stuk... Bednyak sovsem obzhilsya s nej: Ruka s rukoj oni gulyayut, Sbirayut vmeste xleb s polej, V nagradu vmeste golodayut. Den` cely'j dozhd` ego kropit, Po vecheram laskaet v`yuga, A noch`yu s gorya, da s ispuga Sud`ba skvoz son emu stuchit: Stuk, stuk, stuk... Glyan`-ka, drug, Kak drugie pozhivayut. Stuk, stuk, stuk... Drugie prazdnovat` soshlis` Bogatstvo, molodost` i slavu, Ix pesni radostno neslis`, Vino smenilos` im v zabavu: Davno uzh pir u nix shumit. No smolkli vdrug bledneya gosti... Rukoj, drozhashheyu ot zlosti, Sud`ba v okoshko k nim stuchit: Stuk, stuk, stuk... Novy’j drug k vam prishyol, Gotov`te mesto! Stuk, stuk, stuk... No est` zhe schast`e na zemle! Odnazhdy’, polny’j ozhidan`ya, S vostorgom yuny'm na chele, Prishyol schastlivecz na svidan`e. Eshhyo odin on, vse molchit, Zarya za roshhej potuxaet, I solovej uzh zatixaet A serdce b`yotsya i stuchit: Stuk, stuk, stuk... Mily'j drug, Ty' pridyosh`-li na svidan`e? Stuk, stuk, stuk... No vot idyot ona, I v mig lyubov`, trevoga, ozhidan`e, Blazhenstvo, vse slilos` u nix V odno bezumnoe lobzan`e! Nemaya noch` na nix glyadit, Vsyo nebo zalito ognyami. A kto-to tixo za kustami Klyukoj dokuchnoyu stuchit: Stuk, stuk, stuk... Stary’j drug K vam prishyol, dovol`no schast`ya! Stuk, stuk, stuk...
With her walking stick And her gloomy eyes, Fate, like some grim sentry, Pursues us everywhere. Her face threatens us with woe, Her threats have turned her hair all grey, She has already prevailed over so many of us, And still she keeps on knocking: Knock, knock, knock… Your time is up, my friend, Enough of chasing after happiness! Knock, knock, knock… The poor man has come to know her well: Hand in hand they walk, Together they gather bread from the fields, Yet their reward is to starve together. Rain soaks him throughout the day, In the evening, a blizzard caresses him, And at night, in his woe and in his fear, Fate comes knocking in his dreams: Knock, knock, knock… Just take a look, my friend, How other people live. Knock, knock, knock… Other people gather to celebrate Wealth, youth and fame, Their joyful songs ring out, Wine is poured for their delight: Their noisy feast has gone on long. When suddenly the guests fall silent and turn pale… Quivering with malice, Fate’s hand knocks at the window: Knock, knock, knock… A new friend has arrived, Set a place for her! Knock, knock, knock… Yet there is some happiness on earth! Once upon a time, full of anticipation, With youthful rapture across his face, A lucky lad came to meet his sweetheart. He’s still alone, in the silence, Twilight falls beyond the grove, And the nightingale stills its song, And his heart beats and pounds: Knock, knock, knock… Dear friend, Will you come and meet me then? Knock, knock, knock… But here she comes, And in an instance, love, anxiety, anticipation And bliss all merge together for them In a single frenzied kiss! Night looks on in silence, And the whole sky is flooded with lights. Then quietly behind the bushes, Someone knocks tiresomely with her stick: Knock, knock, knock… An old friend Has come to see you. Enough of happiness! Knock, knock, knock... Please turn page quietly. armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory
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MARGARET BONDS (1913-1972) Three Dream Portraits (1959) Texts by Langston Hughes Minstrel Man Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long?
I, Too I, too, sing America.
Because my mouth Is wide with laughter, You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing, You do not know I die?
Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then.
Dream Variation To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently, Dark like me— That is my dream!
I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed– I, too, am America.
To fling my arms wide In the face of the sun, Dance! Whirl! Whirl! Till the quick day is done. Rest at pale evening… A tall, slim tree… Night coming tenderly Black like me.
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H. LESLIE ADAMS (1932-) Nightsongs (1961) “Prayer” Text by Langston Hughes I ask you this: Which way to go? I ask you this: Which sin to bear? Which crown to put Upon my hair? I do not know, Lord God, I do not know. “The Heart of a Woman” Text by Georgia Douglas Johnson The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, As a long bird, soft winging, so restlessly on, Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam, In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home. The heart of a woman falls back with the high, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars. “Sence You Went Away” Text by James Weldon Johnson Seems lak to me de stars don’t shine so bright, Seems lak to me de sun done loss his light, Seems lak to me der’s nothin’ goin’ right, Sence you went away. Seems lak to me de sky ain’t half so blue, Seems lak to me dat ev’rything wants you, Seems lak to me I don’t know what to do, Sence you went away. Oh ev’ything is wrong, De day’s jes twice as long, De bird’s forgot his song Sence you went away. Seems lak to me I jes can’t he’p but sigh, Seems lak to me ma th’oat keeps gittin dry, Seems lak to me a tear stays in my eye Sence you went away.
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BRIAN MCKNIGHT (1969-) Medley, arranged by Will Liverman “One Last Cry” (1993) My shattered dreams and broken heart Are mending on the shelf I saw you holding hands Standing close to someone else Now I sit all alone Wishing all my feeling was gone I gave my best to you Nothing for me to do But have one last cry One last cry Before I leave it all behind I’ve gotta put you out of my mind this time Stop living a lie I guess I’m down to my last cry I was here, you were there Guess we never could agree While the sun shines on you I need some love to rain on me Still I sit all alone Wishing all my feeling was gone Gotta get over you Nothing for me to do But have one last cry One last cry Before I leave it all behind I’ve gotta put you out of my mind this time Stop living a lie I know I gotta be strong ‘Cause round me life goes on and on and on and on I’m gonna dry my eyes Right after I end my one last cry One last cry Before I leave it all behind I’ve gotta put you out of my mind for the very last time Been living a lie I guess I’m down I guess I’m down I guess I’m down To my last cry
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“Back at One” (2005) It’s undeniable That we should be together It’s unbelievable how I used to say that I’d fall never The basis is need to know, if you don’t know just how I feel Then let me show you now that I’m for real If all things in time, time will reveal One, you’re like a dream come true Two, just wanna be with you Three, girl, it’s plain to see That you’re the only one for me, and Four, repeat steps one through three Five, make you fall in love with me If ever I believe my work is done Then I start back at one It’s so incredible the way things work themselves out And all emotional, once you know what it’s all about, babe And undesirable for us to be apart Never would’ve made it very far ‘Cause you know you've got the keys to my heart One, you’re like a dream come true Two, just wanna be with you Three, girl it’s plain to see That you’re the only one for me, and Four, repeat steps one through three Five, make you fall in love with me If ever I believe my work is done Then I start back at one Say farewell to the dark of night, I see the coming of the sun I feel like a little child whose life has just begun You came and breathed new life into this lonely heart of mine You threw out the life-line just in the nick of time One, you’re like a dream come true Two, just wanna be with you Three, girl it’s plain to see That you’re the only one for me, and Four, repeat steps one through three Five, make you fall in love with me If ever I believe my work is done Then I start back at one
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DAMIEN SNEED Great is Thy Faithfulness Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father, There is no shadow or turning with Thee; Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be. Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed Thy hand hath provided— Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me! Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. Pardon for sin and a piece that endureth. Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!
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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 the 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 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 Armorycommissioned presentations of the Brooklyn-born dance-activist 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; and 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. 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; and Interrogations of Form, a public talks program that brings diverse artists and thoughtleaders together for discussion and performance around the important issues of our time. Among the performers who have appeared in the Recital Series and the Artists Studio in the Armory’s restored Veterans Room and the Board of Officers Room are: Christian Gerhaher; Ian Bostridge; Jason Moran; Lawrence Brownlee; Barbara Hannigan; Lisette Oropesa; Roscoe Mitchell; Conrad Tao and Tyshawn Sorey; Rashaad Newsome; and Krency Garcia (“El Prodigio”). Highlights from the public programs include: symposiums such as Carrie Mae Weems’ daylong event called The Shape of Things, whose participants included Elizabeth Alexander, Theaster Gates, Elizabeth Diller, and Nona Hendryx; a daylong Lenape Pow Wow and Standing Ground Symposium held in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the first congregation of Lenape Elders 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 multiorganization commissioning project that invited 100 women artists and cultural creators to respond to women’s suffrage.
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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, Michael van der Aa, Tyshawn Sorey, Raashad 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. 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 Chair Wendy Belzberg Founding Chairman, 2000–2009 Wade F.B. Thompson
Vice Presidents Ken Kuchin Pablo Legorreta Emanuel Stern Treasurer Gwendolyn Adams Norton
Marina Abramović Sir David Adjaye OBE Abigail Baratta Martin Brand Joyce F. Brown Cora Cahan Hélène Comfort Paul Cronson Tina R. Davis Marc de La Bruyère Emme Levin Deland Sanford B. Ehrenkranz David Fox Andrew Gundlach Marjorie L. Hart Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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Edward G. Klein, Major General NYNG (Ret.) Mary T. Kush Ralph Lemon Heidi McWilliams Jason Moran Joel Press Janet C. Ross Joan Steinberg Mimi Klein Sternlicht Deborah C. van Eck Peter Zhou Directors Emeriti Harrison M. Bains, Jr. Angela E. Thompson
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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, Producing Director Seth Shepsle, General Manager, Programming Jessica Wasilewski, Senior Producer Jenni Bowman, Producer Samantha Cortez, Program Coordinator ARTISTIC PRODUCTION Paul King, Director of Production Claire Marberg, Deputy Director of Production Nicholas Lazzaro, Technical Director Lars Nelson, Technical Director ARTS EDUCATION Cassidy L. Jones, Chief Education Officer Monica Weigel McCarthy, Director of Education Aarti Ogirala, Associate Director of Education, School Programs Chelsea Emelie Kelly, Director of Youth Corps Pip Gengenbach, Education Manager, Youth Corps Sharlyn Galarza, Special Projects Coordinator Drew Petersen, Education Special Projects Manager Kate Bell, 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 Emily Bruner, Nancy Gomez, Stephanie Mesquita, Ashley Ortiz, Biviana Sanchez, Catherine Talton; and Teaching Assistants, Rosemarie Albanese, Wilson Castro, Daniel Gomez, Maxim Ibadov, Cynthia Lopez, Paola Ocampo, Teaching Associates Anai Ortiz, Ashley Guerrero Soriano, Brian Espinal, Brianna Trivino, Dorsen Sween, Hillary Ramirez Perez, Janneurys Colon, Jason Quizhpi, Jo(anne) Melo, Mariama Bah, Melina Jorge, Mohamed Adesumbo, Nassim White, Raven Garcia, Taylor Maheia, Terry Beaupierre, Widlany Ferol, Yao Adja, Youth Corps BUILDING AND MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS Jenni Kim, Chief Operating Officer Marc Von Braunsberg, Director of Operations Aurelio Roman, Director of Facilities Patricia English, Security Director Darrell Thimoleon, Office Manager William Say, Superintendent Chris Sperry, Assistant Building Engineer Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Mario Esquilin, Jeferson Avila, Olga Cruz, Jazmin Dominguez, Howard Johnson, Kariema Levy, Cristina Moreira, Maintenance Staff Oku Okoko, Director of IT Bobby Wolf, Senior House Manager Daniel George, House Manager Zipporah Aguasvivas, Jacqueline Babek, Emma Buford, Catie Carlisle, Stephanie Cobb, Sarah Gallick, Daniel Gomez, Eboni Green, Nariah Green, Kevin Joyce, Saygin Karadurak, Sandra Kitt, Christine Lemme, Beth Miller, Drew O'Bryan, Katy O'Connor, Regina Pearsall, Kedesia Robinson, Eileen Rourke, Heather Sandler, Jessica Sandler, Kin Tam, Kathleen White, Ushers
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Liz Bickley, Sheree Campbell, Ryan Chapman, James Clements, Matt Crastree, Wednesday Derrico, Lauren Graneto, Kristi Hess, Lisa Lamothe, Patricia Roques, Bleu Santiago, Julie Tadlock, Covid Compliance Team CAPITAL PROJECTS AND COLLECTIONS 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 Allison Kline, Senior Director of Institutional Giving Rachel Risso-Gill, Director of Individual Giving Michael Buffer, Database Manager Kaitlin Overton, Manager of Institutional Giving Jennifer Ramon, Manager of Individual Giving Yejin Kim, Special Events Coordinator Adithya Pratama, Individual Giving Coordinator EXECUTIVE OFFICE Lori Nelson, Executive Assistant to the President Nathalie Etienne, Administrative Assistant, President’s Office Simone Elhart, Project Manager FINANCE Susan Neiman, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Christy Kidd, Controller Khemraj Dat, Accountant MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS and BOX OFFICE Lesley Alpert-Schuldenfrei, Director of Marketing 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 Sara Salt, Box Office Lead Nicolas Maggio, Alex Allwine, Janel Ridley, Mary McDonnell, Sienna Sherman, Anne Amundson, Box Office Associates PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Tavia Nyong’o, Curator, Public Programming Darian Suggs, Associate Director, Public Programming PRESS REPRESENTATIVES Resnicow + Associates, Inc. PRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Matthew Epstein, Artistic Consultants for Vocal Recitals Steinway & Sons Brian Hanshaw, PA
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NEXT IN THE RECITAL SERIES JAMIE BARTON, MEZZO-SOPRANO JAKE HEGGIE, PIANO november 19 & 21
Charismatic American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton partners with the incomparable Jake Heggie on a program of Brahms, Schubert, and Heggie, with special attention to female composers. Recipient of the Beverly Sills Artist Award, Richard Tucker Award, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition (both Main and Song Prizes), and a Grammy nomination, Barton is navigating a huge career on the opera and recital stage. “Leader of a new generation of opera stars” (The New York Times), Barton brings this leadership to what promises to be stirring and engaging performances. Barton will showcase the sheer beauty of her voice in the intimate Board of Officers Room.
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“And in a sense, the Veterans Room, of all the Armory’s opulent reception rooms, has the deepest spiritual kinship with a work of contemporary art, the feel of an installation by a young collective whose members were reacting to one another and making it all up as they went along.” —The New York Times UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
CAROL SZYMANSKI & JAIMIE BRANCH october 13
One of today’s outstanding avant-garde trumpeters, jaimie branch, and Rome Prize-winning sculptor Carol Szymanski team up for the first time to present the Phonemophonic Alphabet Brass Band. Szymanski and her obsession with the shape of sound will fill the intricate architecture of the Veterans Room with a collection of instrument sculptures consisting of 26 brass horns whose shapes are based on the alphabet. The aural animation of this installation will be led by branch and joined with a large ensemble of fellow brass musicians. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit armoryonpark.org armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY ARTISTIC COUNCIL Co-Chairs Noreen Buckfire Caryn Schacht and David Fox Heidi and Tom McWilliams
Anne-Victoire Auriault/ Goldman Sachs Gives Abigail and Joseph Baratta Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Sonja and Martin J. Brand Elizabeth Coleman Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Caroline and Paul Cronson Emme and Jonathan Deland Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer Krystyna Doerfler Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz The Lehoczky Escobar Family Adam R. Flatto Kim and Jeff Greenberg Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Anita K. Hersh Wendy Keys Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan
Almudena and Pablo Legorreta Christina and Alan MacDonald Jennifer Manocherian Kim Manocherian Gwen and Peter Norton Lily O’Boyle Valerie Pels Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Susan and Elihu Rose Janet C. Ross Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère Diane and Tom Smith Joan and Michael Steinberg Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović Deborah C. van Eck Mary Wallach Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee
Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Emme and Jonathan Deland Adam R. Flatto Ken Kuchin Heidi McWilliams Gwen Norton
Amanda Thompson Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief Susan and Elihu Rose Francesca Schwartz Joan and Michael Steinberg
LEGACY CIRCLE Founding Members Angela & Wade F.B. Thompson Co-Chairs Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Marjorie and Gurnee Hart
SUPPORTERS Park Avenue Armory expresses its deep appreciation to the individuals and organizations listed here for their generous support for its annual and capital campaigns. $1,000,000 + Charina Endowment Fund Citi Empire State Local Development Corporation 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
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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 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
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$250,000 to $499,999 American Express Michael Field and Doug Hamilton Adam R. Flatto Ford Foundation 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 Howard Gilman Foundation Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Kirkland & Ellis LLP Mary T. Kush Leonard & Judy Lauder Fund Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse National Endowment for the Arts New York State Assembly New York State Council on the Arts Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gwendolyn Adams Norton and Peter Norton Donald Pels Charitable Trust Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Mrs. Arthur Ross Caryn Schacht and David Fox Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Joan and Michael Steinberg M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation Mr. William C. Tomson Deborah C. van Eck The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
$25,000 to $99,999 The Avenue Association Emma Bloomberg The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation Noreen and Ken Buckfire The Cowles Charitable Trust Caroline and Paul Cronson Emme and Jonathan Deland Krystyna Doerfler The Lehoczky Escobar Family
Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Andrew L. Farkas, Island Capital Group & C-III Capital Partners Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Janet Halvorson Anita K. Hersh Kaplen Brothers Fund The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation Christine and Richard Mack Marc Haas Foundation Andrea Markezin Press and Joel Press NewYork-Presbyterian Lily O'Boyle Katharine Rayner Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Genie and Donald Rice Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation The Shubert Foundation Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman Amy and Jeffrey Silverman Sanford L. Smith Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović TEFAF NY Tishman Speyer Robert and Jane Toll Mary Wallach Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee Anonymous (5)
$10,000 to $24,999 AECOM Tishman Anne-Victoire Auriault / Goldman Sachs Gives Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Harrison and Leslie Bains Marian and Russell Burke Elizabeth Coleman Con Edison Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer William F. Draper Teri Friedman and Babak Yaghmaie Barbara and Peter Georgescu Kiendl and John Gordon Kim and Jeff Greenberg Karen Herskovitz Lawrence and Sharon Hite The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation Suzie and Bruce Kovner
Leon Levy Foundation George S. Loening Christina and Alan MacDonald Steve and Sue Mandel Kim Manocherian Danny and Audrey Meyer Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation The Donald R. Mullen Family Foundation, Inc. Nardello & Co. Michael Peterson Joan and Joel I. Picket Fiona and Eric Rudin May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Mrs. William H. Sandholm Lise Scott and D. Ronald Daniel Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco Brian S. Snyder Michael and Veronica Stubbs Barbara Tober and Donald Tober* Anonymous (4)
$5,000 to $9,999 Jody and John Arnhold Franklin and Marsha Berger Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand Nicholas Brawer Catherine and Robert Brawer Arthur and Linda Carter Mayree Clarke and Jeff Williams Betsy Cohn Jessie Ding Jeanne Donovan Fisher Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation Leland and Jane Englebardt Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff Mike and Beth Fascitelli The Felicia Fund Andrew and Theresa Fenster Mary Ann Fribourg Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein The Georgetown Company George and Patty Grunebaum Agnes Gund Molly Butler Hart and Michael D. Griffin Bill Lambert Fernand and Nicole Lamesch Chad A. Leat Denise Lefrak Robert Lehman Foundation Gail and Alan Levenstein Shelly and Tony Malkin James C. Marlas and Marie Nugent-Head Marlas Moncler USA Inc. Beth and Joshua Nash Enid Nemy, Dorothy Strelsin Foundation
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Jesse and Stéphanie Newhouse Michael and Elyse Newhouse David Orentreich, MD / Orentreich Family Foundation PBDW Architects Susan Porter Anne and Skip Pratt Preserve New York, a grant program of Preservation League of New York The Ripple Foundation Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation Chuck and Stacy Rosenzweig Deborah and Chuck Royce Reed Rubin and Jane Gregory Rubin Seymour and Robyn Sammell Eva Sanchez-Ampudia and Cyrille Walter Susan and Charles Sawyers Claude Shaw and Lara MeilandShaw Lea Simonds Ted Snowdon Patricia Brown Specter Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Stark, Jr. Beatrice Stern The Jay and Kelly Sugarman Foundation Allen and Meghan Thorpe Michael Tuch Foundation L.F. Turner Ronald and Christie Ulrich Mr. and Mrs. Jan F. van Eck Anastasia Vournas and J. William Uhrig Saundra Whitney Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc. Gary and Nina Wexler Francis H. Williams and Keris A. Salmon W. Weldon and Elaine Wilson Maria Wirth Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt Judy Francis Zankel Bruce and Lois Zenkel Anonymous
$2,500 to $4,999 Abigail Kirsch Catering David and Amy Abrams Allen Adler and Frances Beatty Susan Heller Anderson Jonathan and Marjaleena Berger Stephanie Bernheim Carolyn S. Brody Amanda M. Burden Mary and Brad Burnham Marissa Cascarilla Sommer Chatwin Dominick Coyne and Michael Phillips Ellie and Edgar Cullman
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Richard and Barbara Debs Antoinette Delruelle and Joshua L. Steiner Anne Delaney Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Deborah and Ronald Eisenberg Foundation Edmée and Nicholas Firth Megan Flanigan Ella M. Foshay and Michael B. Rothfeld Gwen and Austin Fragomen Eleanor Friedman and Jonathan J. Cohen Emanuel E. Geduld Martin and Lauren Geller Sylvia Golden and Warren Friedman Robert S. Gregory Ian and Lea Highet Johanna Hudgens and Matthew Wilson Judith Jadow Ann Jones Jeanne Kanders Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Nancy Kestenbaum and David Klafter The David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation Kameron Kordestani Douglas and Judith Krupp George & Lizbeth Krupp John Lambert and Ramona Boston Barbara and Richard Lane Lazarus Charitable Trust Phyllis Levin Gina Giumarra MacArthur Charles and Georgette Mallory Iris Z Marden Judith and Michael Margulies Marian Goodman Gallery Joanie Martinez-Rudkovsky Bonnie Maslin Nina B. Matis Diane and Adam E. Max* Peter and Leni May Constance and H. Roemer McPhee Robert and Stacey Morse Saleem and Jane Muqaddam Nancy Newcomb and John Hargraves Peter and Susan Nitze Kathleen O'Grady Robert Ouimette and Lee Hirsch Madison J. Papp Lee and Lori Parks Richard and Rose Petrocelli Phyllis Posnick and Paul Cohen Diana and Charles Revson Richenthal Foundation Alexandra Robertson Marisa Rose and Robin van Bokhorst Marjorie P. Rosenthal
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Bonnie J. Sacerdote Jane Fearer Safer Susan Savitsky Paul H. Scarbrough, Akustiks, LLC. Louisa Serene Schneider Benjamin Schor & Isabel Wilkinson Schor Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch Sara Lee and Axel Schupf Stephanie and Fred Shuman Denise Simon and Paulo Vieiradacunha Laura Skoler Shelley Sonenberg Daisy M. Soros Stephen and Constance Spahn Michael and Marjorie Stern Leila Maw Straus Studio Institute Ellen and Bill Taubman Thomas and Diane Tuft Union Square Events Christine van Itallie Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel* and Mrs. Melinda vanden Heuvel Kate Whitney and Franklin Thomas Toni Young Zubatkin Owner Representation, LLC Anonymous (4)
$1,000 to $2,499 Marina Abramović Katie Adams Schaeffer Eric Altmann Diane Archer and Stephen Presser John and Jennifer Argenti Assouline-Lichten Foundation Jenny & Michael Baldock Diana Barco Stephen Berger and Cynthia Wainwright Judy and Howard Berkowitz Richard Berndt and MarieCamille Havard Elaine S. Bernstein Katherine and Marco Birch Hana and Michael Bitton Boehm Family Foundation Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Richard and Susan Braddock Mark and Anne Brennan John and Elaine Brouillard Dr. Joyce F. Brown and Mr. H. Carl McCall Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Brown Spencer Brownstone Cora Cahan Thomas and Ann Charters Alexandre and Lori Chemla Orla Coleman and Rikki Tahta Alexander Cooper Krista and James Corl
Sophie Coumantaros Mimi Ritzen Crawford Andrew and Abby Crisses Charles and Norris Daniels John Charles and Nathalie Danilovich Richard and Peggy Danziger Luis y Cora Delgado Linda L Dennery David desJardins and Nancy Blachman Thomas and Elizabeth Dubbs Christopher Duda David and Frances Eberhart Foundation Inger McCabe Elliott Patricia Ellis Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo Dasha Epstein Femenella & Associates Robert and Kimia Finnerty Walter and Judith Flamenbaum Gail Flatto Barbara G. Fleischman Kristin Gamble Flood Michael and Jill Franco Betsy Frank Peter Frey and Carrie Shapiro Bruce and Alice Geismar Heather Hoyt Georges Sarah Jane and Trevor Gibbons Ryan Gillum Gregory Gilmartin Steven and Jan Golann Carol Gold Nina DeKay Grauer Jan M. Guifarro Frances and Gerard Guillemot Kathleen and Harvey Guion Nohra Haime Lana and Steve Harber In memory of Maria E. Hidrobo Kaufman William T. Hillman Bruce Hoffman Lily and Joel Hoffman Mr. Joseph C. Hoopes, Jr. Peter Hunt William and Weslie Janeway Morton and Linda Janklow Alan K. Jones Christopher and Hilda Jones Hon. Bruce M. Kaplan and Janet Yaseen Kaplan Adrienne Katz Jordan Katz Peter Kendall and Lisa Kelland Kay Kimpton Walker and Sandy Walker Claire King Jana and Gerold Klauer Major General Edward G. Klein, NYNG (Ret.) Phyllis L. Kossoff Kate Krauss Barbara Landau Judith Langer Christopher and Alida Latham
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Ralph Lemon John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Match65 Larry and Mary McCaffrey Rebecca Gold Milikowsky Naveen and Courtney Nataraj Stephanie Neville and Alan Beller Deborah Nevins Lisbeth Oliver Dr. Catherine Orentreich Peter and Beverly Orthwein Katherine Peabody Sally Peterson and Michael Carlisle Brian and Emilia Pfeifler Geri and Lester Pollack Natalya Poniatowski David and Leslie Puth Martin and Anna Rabinowitz Jennifer Reardon Jill Reiter and Eric Riha Anthony and Susan Roberts David and Meg Roth Susan Rudin Nathalie Solange Regnault Jonathan and Rachel Schmerin Pat Schoenfeld Amy Schulman Laura Schwartz and Arthur Jussel Stephen and Amy Shapiro Gil Shiva Chia-jen Siao Sheree Silvey Bonnie Simon Albert Simons III Richard Smith Squadron A Foundation Stacy, Passionate about the Arts Colleen Stenzler Tricia Stevenson Bonnie and Tom Strauss Stella Strazdas and Henry Forrest Elizabeth Stribling and Guy Robinson Jos Stumpe and Karen van Bergen Maria Vecchiotti Alexander and Ashley von Perfall Caroline Wamsler and DeWayne Phillips Michael Weinstein Lauren and Andrew Weisenfeld Katherine Wenning and Michael Dennis Henrietta Whitcomb Shelby White Anonymous (6) List as of August 31, 2021 *Deceased
ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM “The restoration of the Park Avenue Armory seems destined to set a new standard, not so much for its scale, but for its level of respect and imagination.” —The New York Times The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important historic rooms in America and one of the few remaining interiors by Herter Brothers. After decades of progressive damage and neglect, the room completed a revitalization in 2013 by the architecture team at Herzog & de Meuron and executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White Architects to transform the space into a state-of-the-art salon for intimate performances and other contemporary art programming. The Board of Officers Room is the third period room at the Armory completed (out of 18) and represents the full range of design tools utilized by the team including the removal of accumulated layers on the surfaces, the addition of contemporary lighting to the 1897 chandeliers, new interpretations of the stencil patterns on areas of loss, the addition of metallic finishes on new materials, new programming infrastructure, and custom-designed furniture.
The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $215-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise—and hand—of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout. 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. Please turn page quietly. armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory
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