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A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Armory strives to provide its audiences with the opportunity to experience masterful and thought-provoking works that are in dialogue with the sweep of the Armory’s unique spaces. And there is no better setting than the Board of Officers Room, with its pristine acoustics and austere elegance, to offer audiences the chance to enjoy the intimacy of recitals and music-making.

Now in its fourth year, the recital series showcases more maverick musicians than ever before with an even greater breadth of works spanning more than six centuries. Building on our commitment to the art form that unites song and poetry, we feature the dynamic soprano Lisette Oropesa for an artfully-curated series of Spanish, German, and French art songs and the expressive countertenor Andreas Scholl, who performs a program of English Renaissance and Baroque gems.

We take the art form in exciting new directions with the Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth in a performance exploring vocal music of the 21st century, a recital by the JACK Quartet performing the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynold’s FLiGHT, and an interpretation of Nina Simone’s iconic voice through the cello of the intriguing Sonia Wieder-Atherton.

We also welcome burnished baritone Roderick Williams as well as Andreas Ottensamer, principal clarinettist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, for their thrilling North American recital debuts. Together with a program of Beethoven’s wondrous violin sonatas by Kristof Baráti, a poignant and heartfelt evening of lieder and art song performed by lyric soprano Kate Royal, and our ongoing partnership with the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program that spotlights the next generation of opera greats, this year’s lineup allows even more opportunities than ever before to witness major talent in the most personal of settings.

Pierre Audi Artistic Director

2016 RECITAL SERIES IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM sunday, october 30 at 3:00pm monday, october 31 at 7:30pm

JACK QUARTET CHRISTOPHER OTTO, violin AUSTIN WULLIMAN, violin JOHN PICKFORD RICHARDS, viola JAY CAMPBELL, cello ROGER REYNOLDS, concept, music, and text compilation ROSS KARRE, production design PAUL HEMBREE, sound design ROBERT CASTRO, voiceover and stage direction EVA BARNES, CARLA HARTING, LOWEL CASPAR, JACK MIKESELL, voiceovers FLiGHT (2016, World Premiere) IMAGINING PREPARING EXPERIENCING PERSPECTIVE This performance is approximately one hour and twenty minutes in length, performed without intermission.

FLiGHT is commissioned by the JACK Quartet with the National Gallery of Art. Project Partners include the James Madison University, The Phillips Collection, Mount Tremper Arts, the University of California, the Dean of Arts and Humanities at UCSD, the Department of Music at UCSD, the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Park Avenue Armory, the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the San Diego Air and Space Museum, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

The Recital Series is supported in part by a generous grant from Gwen Norton on behalf of the IKBS, and by The Reed Foundation. The Recital Series is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Altman Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Kaplen Brothers Fund, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation.

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ABOUT THE WORK FLiGHT (2016) by Roger Reynolds (b. Detroit, 1934) “The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods,” observes Socrates in the Phaedrus, one of the greatest of Plato’s dialogues. “More than any other thing that pertains to the body [the wing] partakes of the nature of the divine.”

FLiGHT as a dream, a metaphor, and—within a mere blip of the span of human history—a reality: this embodies a fundamental human aspiration that has inspired visionaries across the spectrum, from scientists and philosophers to poets, painters, and, of course, musicians.

Conceived by the pioneering American composer Roger Reynolds, the project titled FLiGHT involves a multidimensional reflection on and engagement with this topic in the form of a full-length immersive artistic experience. It is an ambitious work-in-process. FLiGHT, according to Reynolds “responds to the varieties of human experience with FLiGHT: gods, angels and demons, dreams, birds, kites, balloons, gliders, powered FLiGHT, and space exploration.”

Currently completing its journey, FLiGHT will culminate in a performance event lasting about 80 minutes and synthesizing a wide span of performance components: an acoustical musical composition (a four-movement string quartet), other sound material, the interactive involvement of four actors voicing texts drawn from several millennia and several different cultures on the subject of FLiGHT, and a web of visual imagery that will be projected onto 30 2 x 2 foot boxes that are reoriented by the quartet members as the performance develops. The process of creation has lasted some three years. FLiGHT is an undertaking that in a sense updates the Gesamtkunstwerk for the hypertechnical 21st century.

At the core of FLiGHT is Reynolds’s ongoing collaboration with the JACK Quartet: a meeting of minds that brings together some of the most extraordinarily innovative musical thinkers from two distinct generations. That collaboration got off the ground several years ago, when Reynolds invited the ensemble to play new compositions by some of his students at the University of California, Washington Center. The JACKs went on to perform his string quartet titled not forgotten (composed between 2007 and 2010) at the National Gallery of Art, and have also recorded the piece, to be released at a future date. not forgotten is cast as a six-movement quartet, each of the movements of which pays homage to a specific composer (such as Toru Takemitsu or Elliott Carter) or a memorable locale (such as Giverny or Ryoanji); the final movement fuses these impulses into a synthesis titled “Now.” (The JACK Quartet also performed not forgotten at the Contemporary Music Festival at James Madison University on February 18, 2015, and, later, at the University of California, San Diego.)

“We’ve known about Roger and his music since we were in school,” says John Pickford Richards, the JACK’s violist. In 2

fact, violinist Christopher Otto studied at the University of California in San Diego, where Reynolds has long been a major presence and where he established the Center for Music Experiment and Related Research. “And we really hit it off working together as a group and have developed a family of sorts,” Richards adds, singling out the composer’s “inventiveness and imagination, along with his experience” as inspiring motivators.

In working together on not forgotten, for example, Richards observes how he came to appreciate the unorthodox ways in which Reynolds conveys his musical thoughts. “A lot of times the music is in the score, and the art of notation says it all.

Roger’s notation is steeped in Western history, but there is this whole other element of imagery and character to his work. I can’t imagine playing his music without actively working with him.”

The collaborative process for FLiGHT went through its first extended phase starting last summer, when the JACKs began rehearsing the first acoustic movement to be completed from the string quartet composition that will serve as the spine of FLiGHT. Since then, JACK has publically performed the first three movements—IMAGINING, PREPARING, and EXPERIENCING. When fully realized, the quartet will be integral to the completed FLiGHT work. It should not be approached with the clichés of 19th-century program music in mind, as if the piece were merely interested in “illustration” through sound effects. Reynolds’s conception of FLiGHT—and of similarly ambitious projects—is far bolder and more original.

A little background on Reynolds and his aesthetic context is helpful at this point. Born in Detroit in 1934, he commands a reputation as a bold explorer of what he likes to describe as the multilayered character of experience. For example, Reynolds’s works are known for engaging listeners with the spatial dimension of music and with a revelatory, complexly theatrical approach to text and voice. An excellent example can be found with george WASHINGTON, which has many parallels with the artistic parameters Reynolds has established for FLiGHT. At the beginning of its season in September 2013, the National Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach gave the world premiere of george WASHINGTON, a work commissioned in conjunction with the recent opening of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.

Collaborating with such colleagues as the intermedia artist Ross Karre and others, Reynolds designed george WASHINGTON as a continuous work in five interconnected sections that create a complex, nuanced portrait of the first president through an amalgam of musical score, narrators portraying Washington (in his own words) from three stages in his life, and continually morphing visuals projected onto three screens. The work dramatizes an ongoing and overlapping dialogue among different aspects of Washington’s personality over the course of his life, across time.

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Reynolds got a relatively late start on his career as a composer, having graduated with a degree in engineering physics and after working briefly in the missile industry in the 1950s. The choice to devote himself to music at a later stage, he recalls, gave Reynolds a unique perspective — one that prompted him to approach composition as “an encounter with life and its content that is shaped less by words and more by the direct experience of sound.”

The scope of the composer’s catalogue indicates how that engagement has played out: his works range from instrumental compositions in the familiar formats of chamber and orchestral music to complex dramatic collaborations wedding elaborate technology with traditional art. (Whispers Out of Time, a work for string orchestra composed in response to a poem by John Ashbery, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1989.)

Reynolds first came to attention with his music-theater rendering of the Wallace Stevens poem The Emperor of Ice Cream (1961-62). He earned a following through his involvement with the avant-garde ONCE festivals and his experimentation with analog and digital electronic sound. Deeply influenced by a period living abroad in Europe and Japan (including residencies at IRCAM, the Paris-based center for musical research founded

by Pierre Boulez), Reynolds had earlier created a North American predecessor, the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts. (Incidentally, to mark the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez this year, the JACKs participated last August in a remarkable Boulez marathon at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, whose Boulez-founded Academy helped shape the Quartet’s aesthetic.)

From his position as an influential teacher and researcher at the University of California, Reynolds has pursued a vast spectrum of interests spanning technology, sound as a spatially experienced phenomenon, literature, the visual arts, and mythology. All of these interests join together in his plan for FLiGHT. The whole project, as Reynolds summarizes it, “entails a text, montaged from historical sources, a multimovement musical composition for string quartet, real-time computer sound transformation and spatialization, and the assemblage of an image-bank (drawings, paintings, sculptures, photos, and film clips) to be projected upon a constantly shifting array of box-like modules.”

This concept again underscores Reynolds’ ongoing fascination with “experiential layering whereby differing dimensionality can be invoked, depending upon the particular occasion.”

He furthermore envisions that, in other contexts, elements of FLiGHT might be abstracted as independent performance pieces: the string quartet, for example, as a stand-alone acoustic composition, perhaps alone, or perhaps with “its movements framed and inflected by computer-derived sound, by readings, and by projections.” Regarding the sonic dimension of the piece not provided by the JACKs, Paul Hembree collaborates as the programmer and computer musician for FLiGHT. In all of its contexts, Reynolds conceives of FLiGHT overall as “a tribute to the string quartet medium.” He adds: “Everything

in FLiGHT comes out of the quartet idea. The four JACK players are in a fluid conversation with each other all the time.”

Hence the predominance of four across the work’s dimensions and architecture. Along with the four string quartet movements the larger framework comprises four sections: IMAGINING, PREPARING, EXPERIENCING, and PERSPECTIVE. Reynolds explains that “the first involves speculation and dreaming before the fact, the second, the pragmatics of attempts to achieve FLiGHT, the third, reports of those who actually experienced or observed FLiGHT in its different forms, and the last, reflections upon how FLiGHT alters what, and how we see, spanning fear and exaltation.”

These in turn serve as the categories for four kinds of texts, which Reynolds clarifies as follows: “IMAGES (comprising brief vignettes), STATEMENTS (thoughtful, more compact pronouncements), DREAMS (particularly vivid and poetic descriptions), and STORIES (more extended, and personal descriptions).” Recorded by four actors who represent four aspects of humanity (youth, man, woman, and sage), these texts come from the treasury of world thought and literature and from pathbreaking aeronauts: Plato (as quoted above), the Bible, Qu Yuan, Ovid, Virgil, the Ramayana, the ancient Chinese “Nine Songs”, Shelley, Benjamin Franklin, the Wright Brothers, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Ralph Ellison — among many others. Reynolds characterizes his unusual libretto as “an armature around which the various medial dimensions of the FLiGHT project will be wound (acoustic music, realtime computer sonic and visual manipulations, projected imagery and texts, dramatic readings, etc.).”

In addition, the visual dimension will project onto multiple, shifting surfaces a repertoire of images “drawn from ancient times to the present and from varied cultures.” Ross Karre collaborates as videographer and projection designer. Reynolds points out that just as the JACKs and the four actors “respond to each other, pass ideas along to each other, sometimes speak at the same time” in their respective ensembles, “the same kind of thing happens with the imagery. It starts out with a singular thread and little by little develops into separate strands of images, from cave paintings to the Curiosity Mars lander.”

FLiGHT is also an innovative project in terms of its genesis and development, which will unfold through a series of “in-process presentations.” Among the workshops already completed that allowed the public to explore FLiGHT were presentations at James Madison University, the Phillips Collection, and the National Gallery of Art. As FLiGHT progresses, the venues— now including the Atlas Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City—will become a crucial part of the immersive experience as well. As Reynolds puts it: “This project needs and uses space—temporal space, physical space, mental space.”

—Thomas May writes about music and theater and blogs at memeteria.com.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Roger Reynolds is acomposer, writer, producer, mentor, and pioneer in sound spatialization, intermedia, and algorithmic concepts. He is a noted writer on the music of his own and others, on compositional methods and ideals, and has for decades been a guiding force in the evolution of University of California, San Diego’s innovative graduate program in music.

He has been an organizer of events such as ONCE (Ann Arbor), A Colloquium on Form and Time (IRCAM), CROSS TALK (Tokyo), Horizons ’84 (New York), The Pacific Ring, and Xenakis @ UCSD festivals (San Diego).

Perhaps Reynolds’s most notorious composition is The Emperor of Ice Cream (1961). It uses graphic notation to depict performer location on a stage, and became an oftenimitated model. In it, eight singers and a jazz trio gloss, while manifesting, a Wallace Stevens poem. In fact, Reynolds’s music often responds to significant texts, for example, Samuel Beckett: from the intermedial PING (1968) through quadraphonic VOICESPACE creations, and culminating in one of his three large-scale IRCAM commissions, Odyssey (1989-93). Reynolds’s Pulitzer prize-winning composition, Whispers Out of Time, for string orchestra reflects on an Ashbery poem. This body of work – in effect, they are virtual collaborations – demonstrates how seamlessly text, electroacoustic resources, and novel presentation strategies can be melded with live instrumental and vocal performance.

Projects with individual performers and ensembles, theater directors, choreographers, and scientists provoked more direct and challenging collaboration. Notable instances include Sanctuary (2003-2007) for percussion quartet and real-time computer processing (intended for non-traditional architectural spaces) and also a recent cycle of three duos for solo instrumentalist and real-time computer musician: Dream Mirror (guitar), MARKed MUSIC (contrabass), and Shifting/ Drifting (violin).

He has received commissions from the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, BBC, and National Symphony Orchestras, as well as from the British Arts Council, the French Ministry of Culture, IRCAM, the Fromm, Rockefeller, and Kousevitzky foundations. He has a decades-long alliance with Irvine Arditti, resulting in four string quartets as well as violin solos and a concerto. Reynolds has been featured on numerous international festivals including Edinburgh and Proms (UK), Agora and Why Note? (France), Musica Viva and Darmstadt (Germany), Music Today and Orchestral Space (Tokyo), Warsaw Autumn, ISCM (Austria, Taiwan, Poland), ONCE (Ann Arbor), Fromm Concerts (Harvard), Monterrey (Mexico), and New Music Concerts (Toronto).

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Current projects include a collaborative book exploring the process that Xenakis followed while designing a Desert House for the Reynolds. He envisions his own path as entailing the principled weaving together of threads from tradition with novel provocations originating outside music. Paul Fraisse’s The Psychology of Time, in combination with extensive reading about and research in psychoacoustics, have affected his outlook. A 10-year collaboration between IRCAM and University of Californoa, San Diego, explored his The Angel of Death in dozens of journal articles and publications. Research in the Sacher Foundation’s Collections resulted in publication of a two-part study of Varèse’s seminal conceptualization of “space”: The Last Word is Imagination: Parts I and II. Reynolds’s long friendships with Cage, Nancarrow, Takemitsu, and Xenakis also inform his outlook. He conceives composition as a process of illumination, a path toward (occasional) clarity in chaotic and turbulent times. He seeks the satisfaction of proposing and experiencing unexpected connections, of bringing the elevating capacity of music into public spaces, of engaging with other arts and artists to discover new amalgamations of sensation and insight that can improve the human experience.

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell, the JACK Quartet is focused on new work, leading them to collaborate with composers John Luther Adams, Chaya Czernowin, Simon Steen-Andersen, Caroline Shaw, Helmut Lachenmann, Steve Reich, Matthias Pintscher, and John Zorn.

Upcoming and recent premieres include works by Derek Bermel, Cenk Ergün, Roger Reynolds, Toby Twining, and Georg Friedrich Haas.

The recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA’s Trailblazer Award, and the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, JACK has performed to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall (USA), Wigmore Hall (United Kingdom), Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ (Netherlands), IRCAM (France), Kölner Philharmonie (Germany), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Suntory Hall (Japan), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Festival Internacional Cervatino (Mexico), and Teatro Colón (Argentina).

JACK operates as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the performance, commissioning, and spread of new string quartet music. Dedicated to education, the quartet spends two weeks each summer teaching at New Music on the Point, a contemporary chamber music festival in Vermont for young performers and composers. JACK has a long-standing relationship with the University of Iowa String Quartet

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Residency Program, where they teach and collaborate with students each fall. Additionally, the quartet makes regular visits to schools including Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Washington.

Ross Karre is a percussionist and temporal artist based in New York City. His primary focus is the combination of media selected from classical percussion, electronics, theater, moving image, visual art, and lighting design. After completing his PhD in Music at University of California, San Diego, with Steven Schick, Ross formalized his intermedia studies with a Master of Fine Arts from University of California, San Diego. He is a percussionist and director of production for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and performs regularly with red fish blue fish, Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble.

His projection design work has been presented all over the world in prestigious venues such as the BBC Scotland, the Park Avenue Armory, the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, and the BIMhuis (Amsterdam). Karre is the founder of the crowd-sourced, contemporary music web archive metafields.org and the media collective rKAD (Ross Karre Arts Documentation).

Paul Hembree is active as a composer, creative music technologist, and educator. His recent music includes Cerebral Hyphomycosis (2016), a duo for real and virtual cellists, premiered by T.J. Borden, and Ikarus-Azur (2013), a La Jolla Symphony and Chorus commission. His audiovisual improvisation environment, Apocryphal Chrysopoeia (2016), was featured at National Sawdust on the 2016 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, as part of the New York Philharmonic’s biennial celebrations. As a computer musician, he has collaborated with many prominent performers of new music, including the JACK Quartet, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Signal, and the Callithumpian Consort, on compositions by Pauline Oliveros, Brian Ferneyhough, Kaija Saariaho, and Roger Reynolds, among others. In 2015 he received his PhD in music, specializing in composition and computer music, from the University of California, San Diego, where he also taught music theory, history, composition, and game audio courses.

FLiGHT TEXT SOURCES IMAGINING WINGS: Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus, 370 BC FAMA: Virgil’s Aenid, 18 BC GOD: The Old Testament, Psalm 18, 1019 BC GOD ECHO: Qu Yuan, 329-299 BC,

translation Wai-lim Yip ICARUS: Ovid, Metamorphosis, Book 8, 8 AD ICARUS ECHO: Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 1820 SPHERES: Burkhardt Bilger 2013 [James Salter,

The Hunters, 1956, William H. Rankin, 1959, Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, 1820] GLEAMING: The Ramayana, 6th century AD DISCOVERY: Le Corbusier, 1935; Benjamin Franklin, 1783 SPONTANEITY: Le Corbusier, 1935 BUBBLE: Ralph Ellison, 1944 PREPARING TOSSED: Wilbur and Orville Wright, 1908 DREAMS: Sigmund Freud, 1900 MACHINE: Orville & Wilbur Wright, 1908 DELIVERANCE: Gilbert Seldes, 1927;

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1933 ECCENTRIC: Amelia Earhart, 1928 BEAST: Chuck Yeager, 1947 CONTROL: Gene Kranz, 1968 EXPERIENCING GLOBE: Frédérick-Melchoir Grimm, 1783;

Duc de Polignac, 1783 GLOBE ECHO: J.A.C. Charles, 1783 LEARNING: Wilbur Wright, 1901 FREE: Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1908; G. Brewer, 1912 POSITION: Charles Lindberg, 1927 [Gilbert Seldes, 1927] POSITION ECHO ACT: Amelia Earhart

[text and recorded voice (1930s)] SLAMMED: Chuck Yeager

[text, 1947, recorded voice unknown] PAIRS: James Salter, 1956 SCISSORS: William H. Rankin, 1959 [James Salter, 1956] AWE: Michael Collins

[text, 1974, recorded voice unknown];

Amelia Earhart, 1928; Qu Yuan 329-299 BC PERSPECTIVE PERIL: Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1759 LIMITLESS: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1935 ZENITH: D. H. Lawrence, 1915 MARVELLING: Amelia Earhart, 1928 STILLNESS: Buzz Aldrin, 1969 TWO BIRDS: Vedic Myth via Sthaneshwar Timalsina CURIOSITY: Burkhardt Bilger 2013

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KATE ROYAL, soprano JOSEPH MIDDLETON, piano november 18–20

“Ms. Royal produces an attractive, fully focused sound, but her most compelling quality as an interpreter is an ability to offset the polished surface of a trained voice with the passion and the sense of collective memory, however illusory, that folk singers bring to their art.”

—The New York Times British lyric soprano Kate Royal has generated significant excitement among fans of great singing with appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Paris Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, and the English National Opera.

Equally at home on the recital stage, the “elegant, thoughtful singer” (The New York Times) comes to the Board of Officers Room to perform an artfully-curated selection of lieder and song by Robert and Clara Schumann, Mahler, and Samuel Barber.

“It is both a confirmation of Blanchett’s sheer presence and acumen as an actor and Rosefeldt’s shrewdness and intellect as an artist.” —Sydney Morning Herald Drawing on more than 50 manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers, this highly theatrical film installation by cinematographer and video artist Julian Rosefeldt reinterprets these famous texts as poetic monologues to provoke timeless questions about the gendered, social, and political contexts that shape the artist’s role in society.

Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett connects these artistic declarations to the humanity of everyday characters and actions in a tour-de-force of acting represented on 13 different screens, boldly recapturing the defiant spirit of its source material for a contemporary audience.

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RYAN TRECARTIN & LIZZIE FITCH november 21

“There is nothing else in today’s art world even remotely like Ryan Trecartin‘s videos,” proclaimed Art in America. “It’s a sci-fi theater of the absurd for our manically paced YouTube era.“ Within these fluidly structured and visually commanding works, Trecartin’s groundbreaking sound design—a densely layered mix of rapid-fire dialogue, electronic music and live instrumentation—extends the depth, intensity, and insane hilarity of his art. He is joined by his principal collaborator Lizzie Fitch to present their buoyant, digitally-inflected scores live for the very first time.

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ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM “The restoration of the Park Avenue Armory seems destined to set a new standard, not so much for its scale, but for its level of respect and imagination.”

– The New York Times The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important historic rooms in America and one of the few remaining interiors by Herter Brothers. After decades of progressive damage and neglect, the room completed a revitalization in 2013 by the architecture team at Herzog & de Meuron and executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White Architects to transform the space into a state-of-the- art salon for intimate performances and other contemporary art programing.

The Board of Officers Room is the third period room at the Armory completed (out of 18) and represents the full range of design tools utilized by the team including the removal of accumulated layers on the surfaces, the addition of contemporary lighting to the 1897 chandeliers, new interpretations of the stencil patterns on areas of loss, the addition of metallic finishes on new materials, new programming infrastructure, and custom designed furniture.

The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $200-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise – and hand – of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout.

The renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation.

Cover photo by James Ewing.