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We are proud to continue our tradition of fostering rising talent by hosting the North American solo recital debuts of tenor Michael Spyres and mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo. One of the most sought-after tenors of his generation, Spyres showcases his brilliant artistry with a program of art songs by Beethoven, Berlioz, and Liszt with pianist Mathieu Pordoy. D’Angelo partners with pianist Sophia Muñoz to perform works from her debut album enargeia (Deutsche Grammophon), including songs by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Missy Mazzoli, and Hildegard von Bingen.
Rebecca Robertson Founding President and Executive Producer
The Recital Series opens the season with performances by two notable ensembles performing repertoire from opposite ends of the musical spectrum. New music ensemble Alarm Will Sound take over the Drill Hall to perform Grammy and Pulitzer Prizewinning composer John Luther Adams’ Ten Thousand Birds, walking through the space as they play while the audience follows.
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Park Avenue Armory strives to engage audiences with eclectic, immersive, and thought-provoking works that are in direct dialogue with the Armory’s unconventional spaces to gain new sonic perspectives. Our celebrated Recital Series expands during the 2022 Season to include performances of classical and contemporary music not only in the intimate setting of the Board of Officers Room, but also in other spaces including the Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
This year’s lineup offers audiences even more chances to enjoy a beautiful range of chamber music experiences performed by artists with a highly distinctive international profile. We hope you join in our excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music.
Celebrated baritone Justin Austin comes to the Board of Officers Room for an intimate program with pianist Howard Watkins, featuring art songs by Ricky Ian Gordon set to the poems of Langston Hughes as well as works by American composers Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill, Damien Sneed, and more. And after appearing on some of the world’s most important opera stages, soprano Ying Fang comes to the austerely elegant space with pianist Ken Noda to showcase her unique sensibility and operatic range.
A major force in the 17th-century French repertory Ensemble Correspondances under the direction of founder Sébastien Daucé presents Plaisirs du Louvre, music from the Chamber of Louis XIII including works by Couperin, Boësset, de Chancy, and others performed on period instruments.
Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director
The Recital Series is supported in part by The Reed Foundation and the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.
EMILY D’ANGELO, mezzo soprano SOPHIA MUÑOZ, piano
Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, 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 Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Park Avenue Armory is deeply grateful for Senator Charles E. Schumer’s visionary leadership of the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.
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2022 RECITAL SERIES IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
“Night”
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Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 4 “I’ve Heard an Organ Talk”
Florence Price
This performance is approximately 75 minutes including a 10-minute intermission.
Rebecca Clarke
PROGRAM
Aaron Copland
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 4 “The World Feels Dusty” Rebecca Clarke “Down By the Salley Gardens”
Aaron Copland
Cecilia Livingston Penelope Sarah Kirkland-Snider “Dead “Nausicaa”Friend”
“The Seal Man” Clara Schumann “Lorelei”
“Wandering Boy”
Intermission
Vier Lieder, op. 2 no. 1 “Erwarting” no. 2 “Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm” Missy Mazzoli “Hello Lord” from Vespers for a New Dark Age Song from the Uproar, no. 12 “You are the dust”
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 3 “Why Do They Shut Me Out Of Heaven?” Rebecca Clarke “The Cloths of Heaven”
O frondens virga (arr. Mazzoli/Muñoz) Arnold Schönberg
Aaron Copland
Cecilia Livingston Moon for solo piano Fanny Mendelssohn Sechs Lieder, op. 7 no. 1 “Nachtwanderer” Rebecca Clarke “Wanderers Lachtlied”
Randy Newman
Hildegard von Bingen
In the early 20th century, two American women, Londonborn Rebecca Clarke and Arkansas native Florence Price, enriched the art-song repertoire with works that built on their respective cultural backgrounds but transcended them. Whether they were setting the words of the great Irish poet W. B. Yeats (Clarke) or the little-known African American Louise C. Wallace (Price), each composer found her way to the genuine expression of some deep feelings. Like their 19thcentury predecessors, both Price and Clarke, born just one year apart, suffered from discrimination against women composers (further aggravated by racism in Price’s case). During their lifetime, they were better known as performers (Clarke was a violist and Price a pianist); their music was long neglected and only revived years after their death.
This recital will begin by an invocation by Hildegard von Bingen, who was not only the first female composer in the Western world, but also the first composer personality known by name, predating such famous men as Léonin and Pérotin from the Notre Dame school. Hildegard, a German abbess who was also a poet, a philosopher, and a healer, was canonized as a saint in 2012. It may seem like a surprising choice to follow one or her sacred pieces, arranged by Missy Mazzoli and Sophia Muñoz, with two early songs by Arnold Schönberg, but the way the opening phrase of “Erwartung” circles around a single note uncannily recalls the ending of O frondens virga. (The “Erwartung” song should not be confused with Schönberg’s later one-act opera of the same name.) Schönberg’s late Romantic harmonies, on verses by his contemporary, the modernist poet Richard Dehmel, reflect the subtle eroticism of the poems, in which we even hear Jesus sing a love song to Mary Magdalene.
All three living female composers on the program—Sarah Kirkland Snider, Cecilia Livingston, and Missy Mazzoli, all born in the 1970s and ‘80s—have been devoting most of their energies to vocal music, which they approach from exciting new angles. It seems that to them, the main artistic issue is no longer “modernism” vs. “traditionalism” as it often was to earlier generations. Rather, they often grab the listener by simple, understated melodic and harmonic means, freely drawing on a multiplicity of styles as they take fresh looks at age-old topics that remain eternally new. Mazzoli’s “Hello Lord” is part of the composer’s Vespers for a New Dark Age, in which she, as her website puts it, “reimagines the traditional vespers prayer service” with the help of poet Matthew Zapruder, not so much addressing as rather challenging God. Mazzoli’s use of electronics enhances the eerie, supernatural feel of this imaginary (and one-sided) conversation. The two selections by Kirkland Snider also come from a larger work, in this case the song cycle Penelope on words by playwright Ellen McLaughlin. This work has been described on the composer’s website as “a meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to come home.” Its musical style is “suspended somewhere between art song, indie rock and chamber folk.” The figure of Penelope, Odysseus’s longsuffering wife who awaits her husband’s return from the Trojan War for twenty years (another Erwartung!), was completely reimagined—to use that word again—by the contemporary creators. Interestingly enough, the same Homeric character also inspired Cecilia Livingston, whose own Penelope, using words by the composer herself, presents yet another aspect of the heroine: her erotic feelings for her sorely missed husband. More than an art song, this is a dramatic scene in miniature, in which the expressive piano preludes and interludes amplify the protagonist’s emotions.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
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Schumann's and Mendelssohn's younger American contemporary, Emily Dickinson will speak to us through the voice of Aaron Copland, who was inspired by her unique combination of great philosophical depth and an almost childlike naïveté to make his most important contribution to the solo vocal literature. Randy Newman's haunting Wandering Boy will serve as a poignant prelude to the Copland-Dickinson set.
—Peter Laki
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Wieck Schumann were long overshadowed by their more celebrated male family members (Fanny’s brother Felix and Clara’s husband Robert), yet they possessed powerful voices of their own. In particular, Clara Schumann’s “Lorelei,” which will close the program, takes a rather radical approach to the familiar Heinrich Heine poem about the beautiful witch who entices the boatmen on the Rhine. Unlike the popular setting by Friedrich Silcher which practically became a German folksong, we get a dramatic story here, with a Lorelei who appears before us almost like a female Erlkönig
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A sought-after concert performer, Emily D’Angelo returned to Prague for a Rossini-Donizetti program and performed a recital at the Stockholm Filharmoni. With the English Concert Orchestra, Emily D’Angelo toured through the US and Europe presenting Handel’s Serse in concert. She further presented a concert in Oviedo and at Peralada Music Festival.
Pianist Sophia Muñoz has been a member of the music staff at the Komische Oper Berlin since the 2017-18 season, assisting in musical preparation of operas such as Enescu’s Oedipe (2021), Shostakovich’s Die Nase (2018, 2021), and Henze’s The Bassarids under Vladimir Jurowski (2019). A graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera (2016), past seasons include Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for L’Italiana in Algieri under Maestro James Levine; music staff at the Dallas Opera for La Traviata (2017) under Carlo Montanaro; Der Ring of Polykrates by Korngold (2018) and Norma, both under Emmanuel Villaume (2017); and the International Women’s Conducting Institute (2016, 2017). Recent concert performances include the Auditorio National in Madrid with Hera Hyesang Park (2021); VocalArts DC and Novoměstská Radnice in Prague with Emily D’Angelo (2021); Deutsche Grammophon’s Yellowlounge celebrating International Women’s Day with Nadine Sierra, Hera Hyesang Park, and Bomsori Kim (2021); and a feature on Hope@Home broadcast on ARTE (2020). She is a frequent guest artist at the LacMus Festival in Tremezzina, Lago di Como. In addition, Muñoz has performed recitals with artists including Jakub Józef Orliński, René Barbera, Rihab Chaieb, Ewa Plonka, and Szymon Komasa. She was staff pianist at the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (2017, 2016, 2015, 2013) and Eppaner Liedsommer (2016). Muñoz received her MM (2014) and BM (2012) from Mannes College, The New School for Music where she studied with Cristina Stanescu, Vlad Iftinca, and Pavlina Dokovska, who continued the training she received from her formative teacher, Jura Margulis. She speaks English, German, French, Italian, and is studying Polish.
Emily D’Angelo is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist. Her debut album enargeia with music from the 12th and 21st centuries by the composers Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli, and Sarah Kirkland Snider is described by the artist herself as a “a soundworld, bound together by the multisensory ancient concept of energeia.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
A 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, Emily D’Angelo is the first and only vocalist to have been presented with the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig Holstein Festival. One of Canada’s “Top 30 Under 30” Classical Musicians, and WQXR NYC Public Radio’s “40 Under 40” singers to watch, D’Angelo has won first prize in numerous international competitions including the Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, George London, Gerda Lissner, Innsbruck Baroque, and Operalia competitions, the latter of which included a historic win of the First, Zarzuela, Birgit Nilsson, and Audience prizes. D’Angelo made her stage debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, where she was awarded the 2016 Monini Prize.
EMILY D’ANGELO, MEZZO SOPRANO
The 2021-22 season marked numerous exciting role and house debuts for Emily D’Angelo. She kicked off the season with her role debut as Ottavia (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) at Zurich Opera, before making a house and role debut as Angelina in a new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Semperoper Dresden. At the Metropolitan Opera, Emily D’Angelo starred as Prince Charming in Cinderella before returning to Teatro alla Scala in Milano for yet another role debut, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. She gave her house debut at Paris Opera taking on the role of Siebel in Gounod’s Faust and Rosina in Ill Barbiere di Siviglia (both role debuts). The mezzo-soprano closed her opera season with her role debut of Orphée (Orfeo and Euridice) at Festival d’Aix en Provence.
SOPHIA MUÑOZ, PIANO
TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
Aus dem meergrünen Teiche neben der roten Villa unter der toten Eiche scheint der Mond.
Translation by Richard Stokes
From the red villa near the dead oak, a woman’s pale hand waves to him.
Wo ihr dunkles Abbild durch das Wasser greift, steht ein Mann und streift einen Ring von seiner Hand.
1. Erwartung
Text by Richard Dehmel (1863-1920)
Four Songs
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (1098-1179)
Aus der roten Villa neben der toten Eiche winkt ihm eine bleiche Frauenhand.
Where her dark image gleams through the water, a man stands, and draws a ring from his hand.
1. Expectation
Three opals glimmer; among the pale stones float red and green sparks and sink.
From the sea-green pond near the red villa beneath the dead oak the moon is shining.
O blooming branch
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O frondens virga, in tua nobilitate stans sicut aurora procedit: nunc gaude et letare et nos debiles dignare a mala consuetudine liberare atque manum tuam porrige ad erigendum nos.
Und er küßt sie, und seine Augen leuchten wie der meergrüne Grund: ein Fenster tut sich auf.
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And he kisses her, and his eyes gleam like the sea-green depths: a window opens.
Drei Opale blinken; durch die bleichen Steine schwimmen rot und grüne funken und versinken.
O frondens virga (12th century)
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG (1874-1951)
Vier Lieder, op. 2 (1899)
O blooming branch, you stand upright in your nobility, as breaks the dawn on high: Rejoice now and be glad, and deign to free us, frail and weakened, from the wicked habits of our age; stretch forth your hand to lift us up aright.
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MISSY MAZZOLI (b. 1980)
Text by Matthew Zapruder (b. 1967)
Give me your golden comb; every morning shall remind you that you kissed my hair. Give me your silken sponge; every evening I want to sense for whom you prepared yourself in the bathoh, GiveMaria!meeverything you have; my soul is not vain, proudly I receive your blessing. Give me your heavy burden: will you not lay on my head your heart too, your heartMagdalena?
Hello Lord, hello Lord. Are you sorry, you woke me with your tree, your birds and wind? Were you lonely? Was your wife not beside you, slowly breathing? Were you lonely? Was your wife not beside you? Did she get up and go off? Did she get up and go off with night like every thing, every thing, every… Did she get up and go off with night like every thing you made?
“Hello Lord” from Vespers for a New Dark Age (2014, arr. 2021)
Alles, was du hast; meine Seele ist nicht eitel, stolz empfang ich deinen Segen. Schenk mir deine schwerste Last: willst du nicht auf meinen Scheitel auch dein Herz, dein Herz noch legen, Magdalena?
2. Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm
2. Give me your golden comb
Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm; jeder Morgen soll dich mahnen, daß du mir die Haare küßtest. Schenk mir deinen seidenen Schwamm; jeden Abend will ich ahnen, wem du dich im Bade rüstest, o SchenkMaria!mir
When they see the boats from the headland they’ll strike up the band!
CECILIA LIVINGSTON
Penelope for mezzo and piano (2020) Text by Cecilia Livingston (on Homer’s Odyssey)
What is it to be movingIsloving?Iswanting?IsfortoWhatwaiting?isitbewaitingyou?itititthrough me like a fire? lonelinessIsDesire?it in empty rooms? Old-fashionedStillness… lovers kiss did they ever miss each Whenother?willyou come home to me? When will I bloom again?
Darling boy will you ever again hold my hand while we’re sleeping?
REBECCA CLARKE (1886-1979)
Down by the Salley Gardens (1924) Text by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Cloths of Heaven (1912) Text by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
What is it to be lonelinessIsloving?IsfortoWhatwaiting?isitbewaitingyou?ititinempty rooms?
Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree.
In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths Enwrought with golden and silver light The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light,
Darling boy, I breathe the same salt air, the same sun on my hair.
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Dead friend
Turn your back on me Let me go I’ve forgotten you Forget me I’ve forgotten you Forget me.
Nausicaa (2010)
SARAH KIRKLAND-SNIDER (b. 1973)
Dead Friend (2010)
Don’t be afraid, Stranger I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid of you.
Wandering Boy (2003)
Text by Randy Newman
Text by Ellen McLaughlin
Dead friend
Where is my wandering boy tonight? Where is my wandering boy? If you see him push him toward the light Where is my wandering boy?
RANDY NEWMAN (b. 1943)
He went off of that high board there When he was five years old Laughing like a maniac Shining in the Sun like gold He was afraid of nothin’ then He was loved by everyone I see it clear as I see you That day there in the sun
I hope he’s warm and I hope he’s dry And that a stranger’s eye is a friendly eye And I hope he has someone Close by his side And I hope that he’ll come home
You look so lost, Stranger But you’re not lost, ‘Cause I’ve just found you.
Turn your back on me I beg you Do not look at me With those eyes
Just take my hand, Stranger Just take my hand And I will lead you home.
Thank you for the party We’re always glad we came I’m the only one from the family tonight But I know they’d say the same I came here with my father Then I brought my wife Three sons, a daughter Then the last baby boy The little caboose we called him The light of her life And that's who I’m waiting for
Where is my wandering boy tonight? Where is my wandering boy? If you see him tell him everything’s alright Push him toward the light Where is my wandering boy?
Dead friend I must leave you here I can’t stay You can’t follow me Where I go
Text by Ellen McLaughlin
Wouldn’t the Angels try me Just once more Just see if I troubled them But don’t shut the door!
Mine be the Ministry When they Thirst comes Dews of Thyself to fetch And Holy Balms
10. I’ve Heard an Organ Talk Sometimes I’ve heard an Organ talk, sometimes In a Cathedral Aisle, And understood no word it said Yet held my breath, the while And risen up and gone away, A more Berdardine Girl Yet know not what was done to me In that old Hallowed Aisle.
Text by Ellen McLaughlin
Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (1950) Texts by Emily Dickinson
AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)
[Why do they shut Me out of Heaven? Did I sing too loud?]
Flags vex a Dying face But the least Fan Stirred by a friend’s Hand Cools like the Rain
Night (1946)
3. Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? Why do they shut Me out of Heaven? Did I sing too loud? But I can say a little “Minor” Timid as a Bird!
Oh, if I were the Gentleman In the “White Robe” And they were the little Hand that knocked Would I forbid?
Night comes, a Madonna clad in scented blue. Rose red her mouth and deep her eyes, She lights her stars, and turns to where, Beneath her silver lamp the moon, Upon a couch of shadow lies A dreamy child, The wearied Day.
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4. The World Feels Dusty The World feels Dusty When We stop to Die We want the Dew then Honors taste dry
FLORENCE PRICE (1887-1953)
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Then they went down into the sea together, and the moon made a track on the sea, and they walked down it; it was like a flame before them. There was no fear at all on her; only a great love like the love of the Old Ones, that was stronger than the touch of the fool.
And he came by her cabin to the west of the road, calling. There was a strong love came up in her at that, and she put down her sewing on the table, and “Mother,” she “There’ssays, no lock, and no key, and no bolt, and no door. There’s no iron, nor no stone, nor anything at all will keep me this night from the man I love.”
O wunderbarer Nachtgesang, von fern im Land der Ströme Gang leis Schauern in den dunkeln Bäumen, irrst die Gedanken mir, mein wirres Singen heir, ist wie ein Rufen nur aus Träumen mein Singen ist ein Rufen ein Rufen nur aus Träumen.
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Six songs, op. 7 no. 1 “Night wanderer”
She had a little white throat, and little cheeks like flowers, and she went down into the sea with her man, who wasn’t a man at all. She was drowned, of course. It’s like he never thought that she wouldn't bear the sea like Shehimself.was drowned, drowned.
Text by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
O wonderful night-song from distant parts – the rushing of a stream and the soft shuddering in the dark trees confuse my thoughts. My clamorous singing here is only like a cry from my dreams. My singing is like a cry a cry from my dreams.
Translation by Emily Ezust
“The Seal Man” (1922)
Text by John Masefield
Ich wander durch die stille Nacht, da schleicht der Mond so Heimlich sacht oft aus der dunkeln Wolkenhülle Und hin und her im Thal, erwacht die Nachtigall dann wieder Alles grau, Alles grau und stille
And she went out into the moonlight to him, there by the bush where the flow’rs is pretty, beyond the river. And he says to her: “You are all of the beauty of the world, will you come where I go, over the waves of the sea?”
Sechs Lieder, op. 7 no. 1 “Nachtwanderer” (1847)
REBECCA CLARKE (1886-1979)
FANNY MENDELSSOHN (1805-1847)
I wander through the quiet night; the moon floats so secretly and gently, often emerging from a dark cover of clouds. and here and there in the valley a nightingale awakens but then all is gray, all is gray and still again.
And she says to him: “My treasure and my strength,” she says, “I would follow you on the frozen hills, my feet bleeding.”
Im
It seizes the boatman in his skiff With wildly aching pain; He does not see the rocky reefs, He only looks up to the heights.
Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten, Daß ich so traurig bin; Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten, Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
She combs it with a golden comb And sings a song the while; It has an awe-inspiring, Powerful melody.
The fairest maiden is sitting In wondrous beauty up there, Her golden jewels are sparkling, She combs her golden hair.
Text by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
I do not know what it means That I should feel so sad; There is a tale from olden times I cannot get out of my mind.
I think at last the waves swallow The boatman and his boat; And that, with her singing, The Loreley has done.
DieUndAmIchErErErgreiftDenGewalt’geDasUndSieSieIhrDortDieAbendsonnenschein.schönsteJungfrausitzetobenwunderbar,goldnesGeschmeideblitzet,kämmtihrgoldenesHaar.kämmtesmitgoldenemKammesingteinLieddabei,hateinewundersame,Melodei.SchifferimkleinenSchiffeesmitwildemWeh;schautnichtdieFelsenriffe,schautnurhinaufindieHöh’.glaube,dieWellenverschlingenEndeSchifferundKahn;dashatmitihremSingenLoreleigetan.
Lorelei (1843)
Die Luft ist kühl und es dunkelt, Und ruhig fließt der Rhein; Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt
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The air is cool, and twilight falls, And the Rhine flows quietly by; The summit of the mountains glitters In the evening sun.
Translations for Arnold Schoenberg’s Vier Lieder and Clara Schumann’s “Lorelei” by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, Translation2005). for Fanny Mendelssohn’s Sechs Lieder, op. 7 no. 1 “Nachtwanderer” copyright © by Emily Ezust, from the LiederNet Archive -- https://www.lieder.net/.
Loreley Translation by Richard Stokes
CLARA SCHUMANN (1819-1896)
MISSY MAZZOLI (b. 1980)
TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
You are the dust, you are the sand, you are the breathing earth, you are the breathing earth, you are the flood, you are the road, you are the flood, you are the dust, you are the one, the one most loved when left behind.
Text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Text by Royce Vavrek and Missy Mazzoli
Wandrers Nachtlied (1903)
Wanderer’s Nightsong Translation by Richard Stokes
Over every mountain-top Lies peace, In every tree-top You scarcely feel A breath of wind; The little birds are hushed in the wood. Wait, soon you too Will be at peace.
REBECCA CLARKE (1886-1979)
Translation for Rebecca Clarke’s “Wandrers Nachtlied” by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005).
Song from the Uproar, no. 12 “You are the dust” (2012)
Über allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh’, In allen Wipfeln Spürest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur, balde Ruhest du auch.
ABOUT THE RECITAL SERIES
october 26 & 27
YING FANG & KEN NODA
“Star in the making” (The New York Times) soprano Ying Fang is cultivating a burgeoning international career on some of the world’s most important opera stages. The New York Times praised her performance at The Metropolitan Opera as “a source of pure joy and light…sung with a soprano of succulent sweetness.”
The Recital Series has programmed the world premieres of Roger Reynolds’ FLiGHT performed by the JACK Quartet and Michael Hersch’s “…das Rückgrat berstend” performed by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Jay Campbell. Actor Charlotte Rampling and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton gave the US premiere of The Night Dances on the series in 2015, which brought together Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo cello and poetry by Sylvia Plath; Wieder-Atherton returned to the Armory in 2017 for the North American premiere of Little Girl Blue, a program that reimagined the music of Nina Simone. New York premieres include: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air and Shades of Silence performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble; Dai Kujikura’s Minina, John Zorn’s Baudelaires, and a new arrangement of Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel, also performed by ICE; Michael Gordon’s Rushes performed by the Rushes Ensemble; Michael Harrison’s Just Constellations performed by Roomful of Teeth; David Lang’s depart, Gabriel Jackson’s Our flags are wafting in hope and grief and Rigwreck, Kile Smith’s “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames A Word, Louis Andriessen’s Ahania Weeping, Suzanne Giraud’s Johannisbaum, David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet, Benjamin CS Boyle’s Empire of Crystal, and Ted Hearne’s Animals (commissioned by Park Avenue Armory), all performed by The Crossing under conductor Donald Nally; and John Zorn’s Jumalatteret sung by soprano Barbara Hannigan with pianist Stephen Gosling.
Park Avenue Armory presents more intimate performances and programs in its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe in an intimate salon setting. Launched in 2013 with the revitalization of the Board of Officers Room, the series has held the debuts of many world-class artists, including: the North American recital debuts of pianist Igor Levit, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, tenor Ilker Arcayürek, baritones Benjamin Appl and Roderick Williams, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, and cellist István Várdai; the US Recital debuts of sopranos Barbara Hannigan and Anna Lucia Richter and baritone Thomas Oliemans; and the New York debut of pianist Severin von Eckardstein and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
Additional notable programs include performances by: baritone Christian Gerhaher with pianist Gerold Huber; the Flux Quartet; tenor Ian Bostridge with pianist Wenwen Du; pianist David Fray; soprano Lisette Oropesa with pianist John Churchwell; countertenor Andreas Scholl with harpsichordist Tamar Halperin; soprano Kate Royal with pianist Joseph Middleton; pipa player Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet; tenor Lawrence Brownlee with pianists Myra Huang and Jason Moran; mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard with pianist Ted Sperling; soprano Nadine Sierra with pianist Brian Wagorn; Rosa Feola with pianist Iain Burnside; cellist Nicolas Altstaedt; tenor Paul Appleby with pianist Conor Hanick; baritone Will Liverman with pianist Myra Huang; and mezzo soprano Jamie Barton with pianist and composer Jake Heggie.
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november 29, 2022 – january 8, 2023
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Pianist, composer, and electronic musician Craig Taborn is joined by multimedia artist Camille Norment as they return to the Armory after their debut in 2016. Using the physical elements of automobiles to launch in their exploration of space and sound, these two mavericks explore what is known and unknown in the world of sonic play.
SYMPOSIUM: ART AT WATER’S EDGE october 9
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MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT (AFTERLIFE)
Conceptual artist, writer, and performer Rodney McMillian’s Hanging with Clarence combines text from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ polarizing 1985 commencement address at Savannah State University—rich with conservative views on social programs and race—with funk-rock songs written by the artist, George Clinton, and Fuzzy Haskins, and others. Performed by McMillian and two talented back-up singers, the resulting happening is part musical theater salon, part rock concert, and part spiritual testimony that all perfectly intertwine to further the artist’s ongoing exploration of history, race, and identity politics.
Fifty years ago, composer Morton Feldman wrote music to commemorate the opening of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. A half-century later, composer, conductor, multiinstrumentalist and MacArthur “Genius” Tyshawn Sorey has created a new piece, commissioned by the Armory, as a tribute to both the deeply contemplative space and the work by this composer that has influenced his creative output. The resulting score provides the listener with the feeling of being enveloped in sound in much the same way that Mark Rothko’s paintings give in that space, revealing ever changing shades of color and texture. Visionary director Peter Sellars returns to the Armory following his unforgettable stagings of St. Matthew Passion (2014) and FLEXN (2015, 2017) to ritualize this deeply moving work. Within the confines of a ceremonial chamber, audiences are immersed in Sorey’s composition, works by celebrated visual artist Julie Mehretu, and choreography by flex pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray to gain new perspectives on time, space, and movement.
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Artists, activists, and designers engage the meeting of land with water. Facing climate change and rising sea levels, this event links New York with communities across the nation and globe that sit at water’s edge. Centering the work of Indigenous water protectors who challenge extractive futures, as well as a generation of youth leaders who are rebelling against climate nihilism, Art at Water’s Edge is an intergenerational forum for the imagination in action.
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Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt continues his examination of the power of language and the conventions of cinema as an allegory for societal and individual behaviors with the multi-channel film installation Euphoria, which explores capitalism, colonialism, and the influential effects of unlimited economic growth in society. This immersive new work, commissioned by the Armory, is presented in an arena-like setting, fully surrounding the viewer with life-size projections of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and acclaimed jazz drummers Terri Lynne Carrington, Peter Erskine, Yissy Garcia, Eric Harland, and Antonio Sanchez, featuring a stereophonic score by composer Samy Moussa. Thoughts and musings from a variety of sources from economists, business magnates, and celebrities take on new meaning as they are reinterpreted as poetic monologues in real and imagined scenes of euphoric production and consumption. The result is a searing monument to the history of greed that raises seminal questions around the success and enduring legacy of entrepreneurship.
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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.
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Programmatic highlights from the Wade Thompson Drill Hall include Ernesto Neto’s anthropodino, a magical labyrinth extended across the Drill Hall; Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved “through the music”; the event of a thread, a site-specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on three separate stages; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath with Kenneth Branagh; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a radically inclusive staging of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion staged by Peter Sellars and performed by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker; eight-time Drama Desk-nominated play The Hairy Ape, directed by Richard Jones and starring Bobby Cannavale; Hansel & Gretel, a new commission by Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron that explored publicly shared space in the era of surveillance; FLEXN and FLEXN Evolution, two Armory-commissioned presentations of the Brooklyn-born dance activists group the D.R.E.A.M. Ring, created by Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and Director Peter Sellars; Simon Stone’s heralded production of Yerma starring Billie Piper in her North American debut; The Let Go, a site-specific immersive dance celebration by Nick Cave; Satoshi Miyagi’s stunning production of Antigone set in a lake; Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy; the Black Artists Retreat hosted by Theaster Gates, which included public talks and performances, private sessions for the 300 attending artists, and a roller skating rink; Deep Blue Sea by Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Companies; The Shape of Things, a multi-work installation, convening, and performance series by Carrie Mae Weems; Rashaad Newsome’s Assembly; the North American premiere of Michel van der Aa’s Upload featuring Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams; and the North American premieres of Robert Icke’s Hamlet and Oresteia, played in repertory and starring Alex Lawther, Jennifer Ehle, and Anastasia Hille. Productions in the Armory’s Social Distance Hall included works by Bill T. Jones; David Byrne, Christine Jones, and Steven Hoggett; Laurie Anderson and Jason Moran; and Robert Icke.
Highlights from the public programs include: symposiums such as Carrie Mae Weems’ day-long event called The Shape of Things, whose participants included Elizabeth Alexander, Theaster Gates, Elizabeth Diller, and Nona Hendryx; a day-long Lenape Pow Wow and Standing Ground Symposium held in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the first congregation of Lenape Leaders on Manhattan Island since the 1700s; salons such as the Literature Salon hosted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose participants included Lynn Nottage, Suzan Lori-Parks, and Jeremy O. Harris, and a Spoken Word Salon co-hosted with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; and most recently, 100 Years | 100 Women, a multi-organization commissioning project that invited 100 women artists and cultural creators to respond to women’s suffrage.
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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 a Public Programming series that brings diverse artists and thought-leaders 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 or the Board of Officers Rooms 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”).
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Vice Presidents David Fox Pablo EmanuelLegorretaStern Treasurer Emanuel Stern
Founding 2000–2009Chairman, Wade F.B. Thompson
Current Artists-in-Residence at the Armory include two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage; Obie winner and Pulitzer short-listed playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Carmelita Tropicana; Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and the D.R.E.A.M. Ring; singer and composer Sara Serpa; Tony Award-winning set designer and director Christine Jones and choreographer Steven Hoggett; and Mimi Lien, the first set designer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. The Armory also supports artists through an active commissioning program including such artists as Bill T. Jones, Lynn Nottage, Carrie Mae Weems, Michel van der Aa, Tyshawn Sorey, Rashaad Newsome, Julian Rosefeldt, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and others.
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The Armory also offers creativity-based arts education programs at no cost to thousands of underserved New York City public school students, engaging them with the institution’s artistic programming and outside-the-box creative processes.
Directors Emeriti Harrison M. Bains, Jr. Angela E. Thompson
President Rebecca Robertson Vice Chair
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.
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Claire Marberg Deputy Director of Production
Oscar Peña Programming Coordinator
Nadia Parfait School Programs Coordinator
Lars Nelson Technical Director
Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Matthew Epstein Artistic Consultants for Vocal Recitals Steinway & Sons
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Joe Petrowski Director of Ticketing and Customer Relations Monica Diaz Box Office Manager
Jennifer Ramon Associate Director of Individual Giving Adithya Pratama Individual Giving Coordinator
Drew Petersen Education Special Projects Manager
Oku Okoko Director of IT Ethan Cohen IT Administrator Bobby Wolf Senior House Manager Daniel George House Manager Alejandra Ortiz Assistant House Manager
Rachel Rosado Producer
Melanie Forman Chief Development Officer
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Lori Nelson Executive Assistant to the President Nathalie Etienne Administrative Assistant, President’s Office Simone Elhart Project Manager
Wilson Castro, Shar Galarza, Daniel Gomez, Nancy K. Gomez, Maxim Ibadov, Stephanie Mesquita, Paola Ocampo, Amo Ortiz, Catherine Talton Teaching Associates
Melanie Milton Producer
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BUILDING & MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
ARTISTIC PRODUCTION
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Tavia Nyong’o Curator, Public Programming
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ARTS EDUCATION
Sam Cortez Associate Producer/Company Manager
Kate Bell, Emily Bruner, Donna Costello, Alexander Davis, Asma Feyijinmi, Hawley Hussey, Larry Jackson, Hector Morales, Peter Musante, Drew Petersen, Leigh Poulos, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Vickie Tanner Teaching Artists
Darian Suggs Associate Director, Public Programming
Michael Lonergan Chief Artistic Producer
Jenni Kim Chief Operating Officer Ashlee Willaman Director of Human Resources
Aarti Ogirala Associate Director of Education, School Programs
Bev Vega Youth Corps Coordinator
Rachel Risso-Gill Senior Director of Individual Giving Billy Fidler Director of Institutional Giving
Tom Trayer Chief Marketing Officer
Jim McGlynn Chief Financial Officer Christy Kidd Controller Khemraj Dat Senior Staff Accountant Zeinebou Dia Junior Accountant
Sam Cole Director of Development
Cassidy L. Jones Chief Education Officer
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Charmaine Portis Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer
Judith Neuhoff Managing Director, Centre Stage Artist Management
Arabia Elliot Currence, Victoria Fernandez, Sebastian Harris, Melissa Velasquez Teaching Apprentices
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Monica Weigel McCarthy Director of Education
Jason Moran Curator, Artists Studio
CAPITAL PROJECTS & ARCHIVES
David Burnhauser Collection Manager
Kevin Condardo General Manager
Nicholas Lazzaro Technical Director
Kirsten Reoch Director of Capital Planning, Preservation, and Institutional Relations
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Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director
Paul King Director of Production
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PATRONS 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 EmpireCiti State Local Development Corporation Marina Kellen French Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc. Richard and Ronay Menschel New York City Council and Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Assembly member Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly The Pershing Square Foundation Susan and Elihu Rose The Arthur Ross Foundation and J & AR JoanFoundationSmilowand Joel Smilow* The Thompson Family Foundation Wade F.B. Thompson* The Zelnick/Belzberg $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 Founding Members Angela and Wade F.B. Thompson Co-Chairs Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Estate of Ginette Becker Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Emme and Jonathan Deland Adam R. Flatto Roberta Garza Ken Kuchin
The Armory’s Legacy Circle is a group of individuals who support Park Avenue Armory through a vitally important source of future funding, a planned gift. These gifts will help support the Armory’s outside-the-box artistic programming, Arts Education Programs, and historic preservation into the future.
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The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $215-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise and hand of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout.
The 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 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
ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
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 renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation.
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