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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 acoustic and austere elegance, the Board of Officers Room is like no other in offering the chance to enjoy the art of the recital and music-making in the most personal of settings. The 2019 season marks the seventh year of the recital series, which continues to showcase both classical and contemporary repertoire performed by world-class artists at the height of their craft. We were thrilled to introduce to North American audiences the esteemed baritone Benjamin Appl, who made his North American recital debut in January with a unique residency exploring the extraordinary emotional depths of the human psyche found in the three published song cycles of Franz Schubert. And before making his U.S. operatic debut at Santa Fe Opera in summer 2019, Austrian tenor Ilker Arcayürek made his North American recital debut in February with a program of Schubert Lieder after emerging as one of the most exciting and versatile vocal artists in recent years following impressive debuts on opera and recital stages throughout Europe. September brought the esteemed ensemble, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, to the Armory for their New York debut, with two programs focusing on works by Haydn and Ligeti that artfully showcased their versatility and superb musicianship. Most recently, soprano Barbara Hannigan returned to the Recital Series to give the New York premiere of John Zorn’s Jumalatteret with pianist Stephen Gosling and a Schoenberg program with the famed Emerson String Quartet, which The New York Times referred to as an “astonishing performance.” On deck for the start of the 2020 Season: Italian soprano Rosa Feola, who made her Met Opera debut this spring as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, partners with pianist Iain Burnside in January for a program of works by Martucci, Liszt, Resphighi, and Pinsuti; and soprano Gabriella Reyes and mezzo-soprano Megan Esther Grey will be featured on the Metropolitan Opera’s “The Lindemann Recital,” slated for February. For the final recital of 2019, violin virtuoso and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Leila Josefowicz curates an inventive program of modern music paired with pieces by 20th-century masters that have never sounded so contemporary in performances that will be breathtaking in their daring and excitement. This year’s lineup offered audiences even more chances to enjoy the intimacy of a beautiful range of chamber music experiences performed by artists with a highly distinctive international profile, in one of the only spaces that could provide such a personal encounter — the Board of Officers Room. We hope you will join in our excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music. Rebecca Robertson Founding President & Executive Producer Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director
2019 RECITAL SERIES
LEILA JOSEFOWICZ, violin JOHN NOVACEK, piano thursday, november 21 at 7:30pm friday, november 22 at 8:00pm Board of Officers Room
The Recital Series is supported in part by The Reed 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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council.
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PROGRAM Stravinsky DUO CONCERTANTE (1932) Cantilène Eclogue 1 Eclogue 2 Gigue Dithyrambe Janáček DUMKA (1880) VIOLIN SONATA (1921) Con moto Ballada Allegretto Adagio Intermission Knussen REFLECTION, Op. 31a (2016) Kurtág TRE PEZZI, Op. 14e (1979) Öd und traurig Vivo …aus der Ferne… Ravel VIOLIN SONATA NO. 2 IN G MAJOR, M. 77 (1927) Allegretto Blues. Moderato Perpetuum mobile. Allegro This performance is approximately 90 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM Stravinsky composed his Duo Concertante (1932) shortly after the Violin Concerto. Both works were written for the same violinist, Samuel Dushkin. Dushkin and Stravinsky premiered the Duo in Berlin on October 28, 1932. The virtuosic opening “Cantilène” is followed by two “eclogues” (alluding to ancient Greek pastoral poetry), the first of which (movement 2) echoes of the musettes from Bach's suites, while the second (movement 3) is expansively melodic. After an exciting Gigue, the final dithyrambe (song of jubilant praise) is characterized by an almost romantic lyricism that is very rare in Stravinsky. Of the Janáček works on our program, the Dumka (1880) is a product of the period when, after working for years as a teacher and choral conductor in Brno, Janáček decided to embark on a serious study of composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. The title Dumka references a type of wistful Slavic folk melody that was dear to Janáček's older contemporary Antonín Dvořák. Janáček re-imagined the dumka as a glorified salon piece; however, the work surprises by some sophisticated rhythmic and harmonic turns, and some unexpected emotional outbursts. The Violin Sonata (completed 1921) is a work of Janáček's mature years, and shows the hallmarks of the composer's unmistakable personal style in which short motifs, repeated over and over again in an unchanged form, play an important part. The sonata was premiered in Brno in 1922, by violinist František Kudláček and pianist Jaroslav Kvapil. The sonata, composed over many years, is in four movements: a terse and dramatic opening; a lyrical and expressive “Ballad” (possibly composed as early as 1908); a scherzo, punctuated by violent trills and harsh dissonances; and a complex finale whose elegiac first theme is, once again (but not quite like before), inspired by the dumka. Reflection (Op. 31a, 2016) is Knussen's penultimate work, which he described in these words: This lyrical “morceau de salon”— written for Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins and dedicated to them — is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion; a six-note mode reflected in its complement; and between the three main parts of the piece, which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water, too: the main melody began as a response to Gauguin’s painting of a Breton woman swimming; and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely underwater world of an ondine, eventually breaking the surface at the end of the piece.
Kurtág's Tre Pezzi (“Three Pieces,” Op. 14e, 1979) are arrangements of a set of short pieces originally inspired by a visit to a Waldorf school in Herdecke, Germany, where music teacher Gerhard Beilharz had the eurhythmics classes accompanied by a small lyre. Kurtág wrote a total of three sets of short pieces collectively called Herdecker-Eurythmie, in remembrance of this experience. We will hear the second of the three sets, with movements titled “Öd und traurig” [“Desolate and Sad”]; “Vivo”; and “...aus der Ferne...” [“... from a distance...”]). In the original version with lyre, the second set bore the subtitle Small Edifying Concertos for Theo and Gerhard. Kurtág isolates small rhythmic figures that might be used in eurhythmics and takes a deep look inside them, either by greatly slowing them down, as in the first and the last movements or speeding them up, as in the middle movement. The violin-piano version was dedicated to two Hungarian musicians, Judit Hevesi and István Kerekes. Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano (1927) was written for George Enescu, the great Romanian composer-violinist who had been Ravel's fellow student at the Paris Conservatoire. It became universally famous (and, in some quarters, infamous) for its central movement, “Blues.” Ravel had been fascinated by jazz for the better part of a decade and, unlike some conservative critics, did not think that jazz was incompatible with European classical music. His “Blues” is a perfect rendition of the typical melodic and harmonic turns of the genre, albeit with a slight French twist. The American influence is by no means restricted to this movement. In the opening “Allegretto,” there is a motif consisting of a single note and repeated in a striking rhythmic pattern: one recent commentator described it as “a mischievously percussive little figure from the same ragtime background as Debussy’s Minstrels.” The development of these two distinct musical ideas is kept fairly simple throughout. Towards the end of the movement a soaring violin melody is superimposed on the materials heard previously, to restore the music to the idyllic state of the beginning. On the other side of the “Blues” movement is a finale in perpetual motion that brings back some motifs from earlier movements such as the ragtime-like figure from the “Allegretto” and one of the characteristic licks from the “Blues.” The uninterrupted sixteenth-notes of the violin start in a restricted melodic range, but they soon expand to include wider and wider arpeggios and higher and higher positions on the instrument. The energy constantly increases, all the way to the end. — Peter Laki
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS LEILA JOSEFOWICZ
An outstanding champion of contemporary music, Leila Josefowicz is the chosen interpreter of several leading composers including the late Oliver Knussen, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steven Mackey, Matthias Pintscher, and Luca Francesconi. Highlights of Josefowicz’s 2019/20 season include opening the London Symphony Orchestra’s season with Sir Simon Rattle and returning to San Francisco Symphony with the incoming Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen to perform his Violin Concerto. Further engagements include concerts with Los Angeles Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras, where she will be working with conductors at the highest level, including Susanna Mälkki, Matthias Pintscher, and John Adams. Alongside pianist John Novacek, with whom she has enjoyed a close collaboration since 1985, Josefowicz has performed recitals at world-renowned venues such as New York’s Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, and London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as in Reykjavik, Chicago, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara. This season, they appear together at Washington's Library of Congress, New York’s Park Avenue Armory, and Amherst College. She will also join Thomas Adès in recital to perform the world premiere of his new violin and piano work at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and the Japanese premiere at the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation. Recent highlights include engagements with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, TonhalleOrchester Zürich, and Boston and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras. In summer 2017, Josefowicz appeared at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
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JOHN NOVACEK
Pianist John Novacek regularly tours the Americas, Europe, and Asia as solo recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist; in the latter capacity he has presented over thirty concerti with dozens of orchestras. Following a summer filled with re-engagements at major festivals throughout the United States and Canada, his current season is highlighted by his debut with Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony Orchestra and returns to Massachusetts’ Springfield Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Kevin Rhodes, and Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, conducted by Scott Yoo. Novacek continues his collaborative work with violinist Leila Josefowicz, performing at Amherst College, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York City’s Park Avenue Armory, and Washington’s Library of Congress and Phillips Collection. John Novacek’s major American performances have been heard in New York City’s Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Merkin Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Symphony Space; Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Boston’s Symphony Hall; Chicago’s Symphony Center; and Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Hollywood Bowl, and Royce Hall. International venues include Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Salle Gaveau, and Musée du Louvre; London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre; as well as most of the major concert halls of Japan. He is also a frequent guest artist at festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including New York City’s Mostly Mozart Festival, California’s Festival Mozaic, and those of Aspen, Cape Cod, Caramoor, Chautauqua, Colorado College, Great Lakes, Mendocino, Mimir, Ravinia, Seattle, SummerFest La Jolla, Wolf Trap, BBC Proms (England), Braunschweig (Germany), Lucerne, Menuhin and Verbier (Switzerland), Majorca (Spain), Sorrento (Italy), Stavanger (Norway), Toulouse (France), and Sapporo (Japan). He has also made his debut with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México.
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Novacek has recorded over 30 CDs, encompassing solo and chamber music by most major composers from Bach to Bartók, as well as many contemporary and original scores. He records for Philips, Nonesuch, Arabesque, Warner Classics, Sony/BMG, Koch International, Universal Classics, Ambassador, Pony Canyon, Four Winds, Arkay, Virtuoso, and EMI Classics. CD titles include Road Movies (2004 GRAMMY nomination as “Best Chamber Music Performance”), Great Mozart Piano Works, Spanish Rhapsody, Novarags (original ragtime compositions), Classic Romance, Hungarian Sketches, Intersection, and Romances et Meditations; with Leila Josefowicz, he has released Americana (GRAMOPHONE: “Editor’s Choice”), For the End of Time, Shostakovich, and Recital (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE: 5 stars/ June 2005's chamber choice). John Novacek is a Steinway Artist.
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ABOUT THE ARMORY Part American palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory is dedicated to supporting unconventional works in the visual and performing arts that need non-traditional spaces for their full realization, enabling artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to enjoy epic and adventurous presentations that cannot be mounted elsewhere in New York City. Among the extraordinary outside-the-box productions that have been offered at the Armory since it began in 2007 are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved “through the music”; Ernesto Neto’s sprawling and gauzy Anthropodino; the event of a thread, a site-specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath with Kenneth Branagh; Bach’s St. Matthew Passion staged by Peter Sellars and performed by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker; Heiner Goebbels’ De Materie with floating zeppelins and a flock of 100 sheep; an acclaimed The Hairy Ape, directed by Richard Jones and starring Bobby Cannavale; Pierre Boulez’s masterwork Répons, performed by Ensemble intercontemporain under the baton of Matthias Pintscher; Simon Stone’s award-winning Yerma, starring Billie Piper; Nick Cave’s The Let Go, an immersive, multi-sensory dance-based town hall; Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of Visconti’s The Damned, starring Comedie-Française; William Kentridge’s massive and devastating music/ theater work, The Head and The Load; Sam Mendes’ The Lehman Trilogy; and Satoshi Miyagi’s brilliant production on water of Antigone. The Armory also offers a substantial arts education program to over 5,000 students a year from underserved New York City public schools at no cost. The components include Production-based Programming, in which students attend major productions of music, theater, dance, and visual art, and participate in pre- and post-visit workshops with the Armory’s talented corps of teaching artists; the School Partnership Initiative, in which deeper relationships with underserved public schools are created through attendance at productions, in-school residencies, workshops, and end-of-term events in the Armory’s historic rooms; and the Armory Youth Corps, a paid and closely mentored internship program focusing on at-risk high school students. Park Avenue Armory is one of the City’s most important landmarks. Built between 1877 and 1881, the Armory has been called “the single most important collection of 19th-century interiors to survive intact in one building” by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, with an 80-foot-high barrel-vaulted roof, is one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York City. The Armory’s magnificent reception rooms were designed by leaders of the American Aesthetic Movement, among them Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, and Herter Brothers. The building is being restored and renovated by a design team led by Pritzker Prize–winning architects Herzog & de Meuron with Platt Byard Dovell White Architects as executive architects.
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF Rebecca Robertson, Founding President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi, Marina Kellen French Artistic Director Lissa Frenkel, Managing Director Susan Neiman, Chief Financial and Administration Officer Artistic Planning and Programming Michael Lonergan, Producing Director Avery Willis Hoffman, Program Director Seth Shepsle, General Manager, Programming Darian Suggs, Associate Director, Public Programs Jessica Wasilewski, Senior Producer Jenni Bowman, Producer Andreas Yung-Chih Huang, Production Coordinator
Facilities and Operations Wayne Lowery, Director of External Operations Joseph Sanders, Facilities Manager Marc Von Braunsberg, Security Manager Darrell Thimoleon, Office Manager William Say, Superintendent Reginald Hunter, Chief Engineer Chris Sperry, Assistant Building Engineer Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Mario Esquilin, Olga Cruz, Cristina Moreira, Carlos Goris, Wayne Gillyard, Robert Rodriguez, Ruben Morales, Ron Schrouder Porters
Design and Collections Kirsten Reoch, Director of Design and Construction David Burnhauser, Collection Manager Development Melanie Forman, Chief Development Officer Charmaine Portis, Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer Matthew Bird, Senior Director of Development Allison Kline, Director of Institutional Giving Rachel Cappy Risso-Gill, Director of Individual Giving Melissa Stone, Associate Director of Special Events Kaitlin Overton, Manager of Institutional Giving Jennifer Ramon, Manager of Individual Giving Anthony Merced, Database and Website Development Manager Surina Gangwani, Senior Coordinator Special Events Katie Burke, Individual Giving Coordinator Education Cassidy L. Jones, Chief Education Officer Monica Weigel McCarthy, Director of Education Aarti Ogirala, Associate Director of Education Chelsea Emelie Kelly, Associate Director of Youth Corps Pip Gengenbach, Education Manager Drew Petersen, Education Special Projects Manager Sharlyn Galarza, Education Coordinator Executive Office Lori Nelson, Executive Assistant to the President Nathalie Etienne, Administrative Assistant, President’s Office
Finance Khemraj Dat, Accountant Information Technology Dion Bullock, Chief Information Officer Oku Okoko, Network Engineer Marketing and Communications Lesley Alpert-Schuldenfrei, Director of Marketing Allison Abbott, Press & Editorial Manager Nick Yarbrough, Digital Marketing Manager Production Paul King, Director of Production Claire Marberg, Production Manager Nicholas Lazzaro, Technical Director Lars Nelson, Technical Director Brandon Walker, Technical Director Ticketing and Event Management Cheyanne Clarke, Box Office Manager Monica Diaz, Box Office Supervisor Turna Mete, Box Office Supervisor Stephanie Mesquita, Rentals Associate Terrelle Jones, Jonatan Amaya and Daniel George, House Managers Production Acknowledgments
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Nicole Brancato, Page Turner
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NEXT IN THE RECITAL SERIES ROSA FEOLA, SOPRANO IAIN BURNSIDE, PIANO january 13 & 15, 2020
Established as a rising star throughout Europe, young Italian soprano Rosa Feola has won over audiences in the United States through acclaimed appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as a soloist with the 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival, and in her Metropolitan Opera debut in the spring of 2019 as Gilda in Rigoletto. Feola partners with Scottish pianist Iain Burnside, who has appeared with the world’s leading singers, to present a varied program that includes works by Giuseppe Martucci, Franz Liszt, Ottorino Respighi, and Ciro Pinsuti.
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METROPOLITAN OPERA’S THE LINDEMANN RECITAL
GABRIELLA REYES, SOPRANO MEGAN ESTHER GREY, MEZZO-SOPRANO NATE RASKIN, PIANO
february 18 & 20, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program was established to nurture and develop extraordinarily talented young artists in the realm of opera. The program has trained a new generation of celebrated American and international opera singers. Notable alumni include Dawn Upshaw, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Christine Goerke, Mariusz Kwiecień, and Sondra Radvanovsky. In this program, soprano Gabriella Reyes and mezzo-soprano Megan Esther Grey will perform selections from Mahler, Rossini, and more. Nate Raskin returns as accompanist.
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NEXT AT THE ARMORY JUDGMENT DAY
december 5, 2019–january 10, 2020
After dazzling Armory audiences in 2017, visionary director Richard Jones returns with a new adaptation of Ödön von Horváth's seldom-performed, penultimate play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award-winning playwright Christopher Shinn, which explores the tension between responsibility, conscience, and guilt.
THE GOSPEL ELECTRIC
december 14, 2019 at 11:00am december 15, 2019 at 11:00am & 1:30pm
As part of its educational programming, the Armory will premiere its next commission for young audiences from The Electric Doyenne trilogy by Trusty Sidekick Theater Company. The Gospel Electric, intended for families and children ages 10 and up, explores the musical coming of age of renowned female gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and her navigation of a segregated, male driven, and spiritually overbearing society. In 1939, evangelical Christians and gospel music listeners had decided Tharpe had lost her way: her music was too risqué and her sound was too cavalier. Yet, somehow, this young woman from Cotton Plant, Arkansas, stitched together a musical palette of Mississippi Delta, Chicago blues, Philadelphia church music, and New York swing to create an entirely new sound, and in the process, became the most renowned musician of the day and is considered by many to be the “Godmother of Rock’ n’ Roll.” Combining original songs as well as motifs and songs from Tharpe herself, The Gospel Electric asks the question, “who decides what ‘holy’ sounds like?”
MONTEVERDI’S MARIA VESPERS march 21–29, 2020
The magnificent Marian Vespers are one of Claudio Monteverdi’s greatest musical achievements. Monteverdi, the first composer to develop opera to its full dramatic and musical potential, breathed new life into the religious music of his day, combining traditional composition style with a modern, free way of setting words to music that led to the creation of musical theater. This monumental work written in 1610 will be performed in the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, directed by the Armory’s Marina Kellen French Artistic Director, Pierre Audi, in a fresh visual and spatial interpretation, first presented by the Dutch National Opera at the Holland Festival in 2017. The production was developed in collaboration with Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere with her massive, haunting Cripplewood sculpture that suggests vulnerability and fragility of man, as the central visual element. Conductor Raphaël Pichon
leads the world-renowned orchestra and choral ensemble, Pygmalion as it performs this ambitious and inspiring tour de force, using period instruments, to create a sonic kaleidoscope set in a spellbinding ritualistic gathering. A Park Avenue Armory, Dutch National Opera, and Holland Festival Production.
INTERROGATIONS OF FORM “[it was]…a massive convening…filling the gilded, schizo-baroque rooms and halls with a dazzling mix of artists, thinkers, and impresarios…I felt lucky to be in attendance.” —Artforum Held in our historic period rooms, these insightful conversations throughout the year feature artists, scholars, cultural leaders, and social trailblazers who gather to offer new points of view and unique perspectives on Armory productions, explore a range of themes and relevant topics, and encourage audiences to think beyond conventional interpretations and perspectives of art. UPCOMING EVENTS:
ARTIST TALK: JUDGMENT DAY
thursday, december 12, 2019 at 6:00pm
Director Richard Jones and his fellow creative team members discuss adapting Ödön von Horváth’s play for the stage and mounting it in an unconventional space.
SUNDAY SALON: DANCE
sunday, december 15, 2019 at 3:00pm
With ballet at a crossroads, a new generation of pioneering artistic directors gather for an afternoon salon to explore what 21st-century beauty looks like in a field that has often looked backward for inspiration. The salon includes conversations, a demonstration, and the seeds of future collaborations. This salon is presented in partnership with the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
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OTHER HAPPENINGS AT THE ARMORY ARMORY AFTER HOURS
Salon culture has enlivened art since the 19th century, when friends gathered in elegant chambers to hear intimate performances and share artistic insights. Join us following select performances for libations with fellow attendees as we revive this tradition in our historic period rooms.
HISTORIC INTERIORS TOURS
Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided walking tour of the building with our staff historian. Explore from the soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall to the extraordinary interiors designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Herter Brothers, and others, and learn about the design plans by acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron.
MALKIN LECTURE SERIES
Each fall, the popular Malkin Lecture Series presents scholars and experts on topics relating to the Armory and the civic, cultural, and aesthetic life of New York City in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lecture topics have ranged from history makers like Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt to Gilded Age society’s favorite restaurants and the Hudson River painters.
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ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Launched in 2010, the Armory’s artist-in-residence program supports artists across genres in the creation and development of new work. Each artist sets up a studio in one of the Armory’s period rooms, providing a unique backdrop that can serve as both inspiration and as a collaborator in their project development. Residencies also include participation in the Armory’s arts education program with artists working closely with the Armory’s Youth Corps interns. Current artists-inresidence include playwright and screenwriter Lynn Nottage; vocalist and composer Sara Serpa; set designer Mimi Lien; set designer and director Christine Jones and choreographer Steven Hoggett; playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; social practice artist Theaster Gates; and choreographer and Flexn dance pioneer Reggie “Regg Roc” Gray. Previous Armory artists-in-residence have included inventive theatre company 600 Highwaymen; theater artists Taylor Mac and Machine Dazzle; writer, director, and production designer Andrew Ondrejcak; vocalist, composer, and cultural worker Imani Uzuri; dancer and choreographer Wally Cardona; visual artist and choreographer Jason Akira Somma; soprano Lauren Flanigan; writer Sasha Frere-Jones; Trusty Sidekick Theatre Company; vocalist-songwriter Somi; multidisciplinary performer Okwui Okpokwasili; choreographer Faye Driscoll; artist Ralph Lemon; visual artist Alex Dolan; musician Meredith Monk; sound artist Marina Rosenfeld; string quartet ETHEL; playwright and director Young Jean Lee; and Shen Wei Dance arts, among others.
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman Emeritus Elihu Rose, PhD
Vice Presidents Ken Kuchin Pablo Legorreta Emanuel Stern
Co-Chairs Adam R. Flatto Amanda J.T. Riegel
Marina Abramović Abigail Baratta Martin Brand Cora Cahan Hélène Comfort Paul Cronson Tina R. Davis Marc de La Bruyère Emme Levin Deland Thomas J. DeRosa Sanford B. Ehrenkranz David Fox Andrew Gundlach Marjorie L. Hart
Edward G. Klein, Major General NYNG (Ret.) Mary T. Kush Ralph Lemon Heidi McWilliams Joel Press Genie H. Rice Janet C. Ross Joan Steinberg Mimi Klein Sternlicht Deborah C. van Eck Peter Zhou
Benigno Aguilar and Gerald Erickson Abigail and Joseph Baratta Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Sonja and Martin J. Brand Emy Cohenca Elizabeth Coleman Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Mary Cronson Emme and Jonathan Deland Leslie and Thomas DeRosa Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer Krystyna Doerfler Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Caryl S. Englander
Adam R. Flatto Kim and Jeff Greenberg Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Janet Halvorson Anita K. Hersh Wendy Keys Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan Mary T. Kush Almudena and Pablo Legorreta Christina and Alan MacDonald Jennifer Manocherian Kim Manocherian Gwen and Peter Norton Lily O’Boyle Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker
Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Susan and Elihu Rose Janet C. Ross Sana H. Sabbagh Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère Diane and Tom Smith Sanford L. Smith Brian S. Snyder Joan and Michael Steinberg Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht Deborah C. van Eck Robert Vila and Diana Barrett Mary Wallach Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee
Co-Chairs Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Marjorie and Gurnee Hart
Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Emme and Jonathan Deland Adam Flatto Ken Kuchin Heidi McWilliams
Gwen Norton Amanda Thompson Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief Susan and Elihu Rose Joan and Michael Steinberg
Secretary Gwendolyn Adams Norton
President Rebecca Robertson
Treasurer Harrison M. Bains
Vice Chair Wendy Belzberg Founding Chairman, 2000–2009 Wade F.B. Thompson
Director Emerita Angela E. Thompson
PARK AVENUE ARMORY ARTISTIC COUNCIL Co-Chairs Noreen Buckfire Michael Field Caryn Schacht and David Fox Heidi and Tom McWilliams
LEGACY CIRCLE Founding Members Angela & Wade F.B. Thompson
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SUPPORTERS Park Avenue Armory expresses its deep appreciation to the individuals and organizations listed here for their generous support for its annual and capital campaigns. $1,000,000 + Charina Endowment Fund Citi Empire State Local Development Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc. Richard and Ronay Menschel New York City Council and Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly The Pershing Square Foundation Susan and Elihu Rose The Arthur Ross Foundation and J & AR Foundation Joan 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 Marina Kellen French Almudena and Pablo Legorreta The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan Donna and Marvin Schwartz Emanuel Stern
$250,000 to $499,999 American Express Michael Field Adam R. Flatto Ford Foundation The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan Leonard and Judy Lauder Fund The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Marshall Rose Family Foundation
$100,000 to $249,999 The Achelis and Bodman Foundations R. Mark Adams Linda and Earle Altman Abigail and Joseph Baratta Lisa Belzberg Booth Ferris Foundation Sonja and Martin J. Brand Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Emme and Jonathan Deland Leslie and Tom DeRosa Howard Gilman Foundation Barbara and Andrew Gundlach Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Inc. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Mary T. Kush Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse 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 The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Caryn Schacht and David Fox Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère Hope and Robert F. Smith Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation Mr. William C. Tomson Deborah C. van Eck Edward Jay Wohlgemuth Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee
$25,000 to $99,999 Arthur R. and Alice E. Adams Foundation AECOM Tishman Benigno Aguilar and Gerald Erickson Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Jamie Alter and Michael Lynton The Avenue Association Harrison and Leslie Bains Ginette Becker Emma Bloomberg The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Aryeh Bourkoff Brunello Cucinelli Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Buckfire Cartier Betsy and Edward Cohen Joyce B. Cowin The Cowles Charitable Trust Paul and Caroline Cronson Krystyna Doerfler Peggy and Millard Drexler Andrew L. Farkas, Island Capital Group & C-III Capital Partners Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy The Garcia Family Foundation Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Givenchy Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Deborah and Allen Grubman Gucci Janet Halvorson Anita K. Hersh Karen Herskovitz Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Hospital For Special Surgery JS Capital Management LLC Jennie A. Kassanoff and Daniel H. Schulman The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation Lili Lynton and Michael Ryan The Lynton Foundation Christine and Richard Mack Scott and Laura Malkin Marc Haas Foundation Moncler Cindy and David Moross National Endowment for the Arts Pershing Square Capital Management, LP Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Genie and Donald Rice Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief Sana H. Sabbagh Paul Schnell Shizuoka Prefecture Showtime The Shubert Foundation Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman
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Amy and Jeffrey Silverman Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Diane and Tom Smith Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation Joan and Michael Steinberg Debbie and Jeffrey Stevenson Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelovic´ TEFAF NY Tishman Speyer Barbara and Donald Tober Robert and Jane Toll Toyota Mary Wallach David and Cynthia Wassong Welltower Charitable Foundation Yanghyun Foundation Anonymous (2)
$10,000 to $24,999 BDO Canada LLP Allen Adler and Frances Beatty Bennett Jones The Boston Consulting Group Frank and Deenie Brosens Foundation Marian and Russell Burke Lyor Cohen Elizabeth Coleman Dr. Tony Coles and Robyn Coles Con Edison Mary Cronson / Evelyn Sharp Foundation Jim Daras and Mary Quick Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer William F. Draper Cheryl and Blair Effron Caryl S. Englander Gail Flatto Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Flug Amandine Freidheim Mary Ann Fribourg / The Fribourg Family Barbara and Peter Georgescu Kiendl and John Gordon Kim and Jeff Greenberg Leo M. Greenberg Cecilia Greene and Paul Verbinnen Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hite Rachel and Mike Jacobellis Kekst Suzie and Bruce Kovner Leon Levy Foundation Christina and Alan MacDonald The Honorable and Mrs. Earle I Mack Kim Manocherian Sylvia and Leonard Marx, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Prakash Melwani Abby and Howard P. Milstein Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Achim and Colette Moeller Morgan Stanley Nardello & Co. Beth and Joshua Nash Marie Nugent-Head and James Marlas Patty Newburger and Bradley Wechsler Lily O'Boyle PBDW Architects Gabriela Peréz Rocchiette Michael Peterson Joan and Joel I. Picket Mr. and Mrs. Richard Plepler
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Poses Anne and Skip Pratt Andrea Markezin Press and Joel Press Tracey and Robert Pruzan Katharine Rayner Shari Redstone David Remnick and Esther Fein Deborah Rose Aby and Samantha Rosen Fiona and Eric Rudin May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Ryan Jane Fearer Safer Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sandholm Nancy and Larry Sanitsky Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco Bob and Eva Shaye Sidley Austin LLP Brian S. Snyder Jonathan Sobel Sotheby's Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Stark, Jr. Judy and Michael Steinhardt The Barry S. Sternlicht Foundation Dorothy Strelsin Foundation / Enid Nemy Michael and Veronica Stubbs Frederick O. Terrell and Jonelle Procope Merryl and James Tisch Bob Vila and Diana Barrett Andrew E. Vogel and Véronique Mazard Anastasia Vournas and J. William Uhrig Diane Wege Brian and Jane Williams Lisa and David Wolf Anonymous (5)
$5,000 to $9,999 Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ainslie Mr. and Mrs. Fabrizio Arengi Bentivoglio Arne and Bonnie Arnesen Sarah Arison Jody and John Arnhold Helaine and Victor Barnett Laurel Beebe Barrack Tony Bechara Candace and Rick Beinecke Renée and Robert Belfer Franklin and Marsha Berger Amy Bermingham and Charles Wilson Katherine and Marco Birch Mr. and Mrs. Robert Birnbaum Debra and Leon Black Patricia Blanchet Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bloom Francesca Bodni Nick and Jaime Botta Nicholas Brawer Catherine and Robert Brawer Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Amanda M. Burden Colin and Elizabeth Callender Canard, Inc. Janine Carendi MacMurray CBRE Tia Chapman The Chilton Foundation Michele and Marty Cohen Betsy Cohn Virginia Coleman Chris and Christina Combe Eugenia Comini Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz Sophie Coumantaros Judith Cox Mr. and Mrs. David Dangoor Diana Davenport and John Bernstein
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Cary Davis and John McGinn Jason and Mary Dillow Jessie Ding and Nign Jin Gianfranco Ditadi Jeanne Donovan Fisher Beth Dozoretz David and Frances Eberhart Foundation Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz LLP Andra and John Ehrenkranz Jamshid Ehsani Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff The Lehoczky Escobar Family Lise and Michael Evans The Felicia Fund Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fenster Edmée and Nicholas Firth Fisher Marantz Stone Melanie and Robert Forman Ella M. Foshay and Michael B. Rothfeld Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein Teri Friedman and Babak Yaghmaie Gagosian Heather Hoyt Georges The Georgetown Company Debbi Gibbs Maarit and Tom Glocer Beth and Gary Glynn Sylvia Golden and Warren Friedman Lloyd Goldman Mr. and Mrs. David Golub Patty and George Grunebaum Agnes Gund Mimi and Peter Haas Fund Molly Butler Hart and Michael D. Griffin Herzog & de Meuron Sharon Jacob Carola Jain Adrienne Katz Richard Katzman Cynthia and Stephen Ketchum Mr. and Ms. Douglas Krupp Mr. and Mrs. Fernand Lamesch William Lauder and Lori Tritsch Lazard Chad A. Leat Mr. and Mrs. Richard LeFrak Gail and Alan Levenstein Mr. and Mrs. David Levinson Daniel Lewis David and Janette Liptak George S. Loening Linda Macklowe Shelly and Tony Malkin Charles and Georgette Mallory Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mandel Marian Goodman Gallery Nina B. Matis Diane and Adam E. Max Rick and Dee Mayberry Raymond J. McGuire Joyce F. Menschel Danny and Audrey Meyer Sergio and Malu Millerman Sue Morris The Donald R. Mullen Family Foundation, Inc. Martin H. Nesbitt and Dr. Anita K. Blanchard Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Newhouse Mr. and Mrs. Michael Newhouse Liz and Jeff Peek Marnie Pillsbury Daniel and Susan Pollack Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Preserve New York, a grant program of Preservation League of New York Helaine and Michael Pruzan Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Kalliope Rena Michael D. Rhea
Richenthal Foundation Renee Rockefeller Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation Chuck and Stacy Rosenzweig Deborah and Chuck Royce Reed Rubin and Jane Gregory Rubin Valerie Rubsamen and Cedomir Crnkovic Jane Fearer Safer Saks Fifth Avenue Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sambuco Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Sammell Erica Samuels Eva Sanchez-Ampudia and Cyrille Walter Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sarnoff Susan and Charles Sawyers Victoria Schorsch Steve Schroko and Frank Webb Sara Lee and Axel Schupf Lise Scott and D. Ronald Daniel Marshall Sebring and Pepper Binkley James Seger Claude Shaw and Lara Meiland-Shaw The Shubert Organization, Inc. Stephanie and Fred Shuman Albert Simons III Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Marva Smalls / Viacom Stephanie and Dick Solar Patricia Brown Specter Lisa and Gavin Steinberg Beatrice Stern The Jay and Kelly Sugarman Foundation Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang Sharzad and Michael Targoff Dave and Karen Thomas Alexander and Bara Tisch Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Michael Tuch Foundation Jordan Turkewitz L.F. Turner Olivia Tyson Jason van Itallie Mr. and Mrs. Alexander von Perfall Lulu C. Wang Mati Weiderpass and Nikolas Chen Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc. Michael Weinstein Kevin Wendle Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wexler Francis H. Williams and Keris A. Salmon Maria Wirth Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt Zubatkin Owner Representation, LLC Anonymous (4)
$2,500 to $4,999 Abigail Kirsch Catering David and Amy Abrams Katie Adams Schaeffer Nancy and Elliott Alchek Susan Heller Anderson Cristiana Andrews Cohen and David Cohen Michael and Leslie Arlein Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bacon Susan Baker and Michael Lynch Femenella & Associates Peter Balis Candy Barasch Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beattie Jonathan and Marjaleena Berger Stephen Berger and Cynthia Wainwright Judy and Howard Berkowitz Donald and Vera Blinken Leslie Bluhm and David Helfand John Bonanno
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Cynthia and Steven Brill Carolyn S. Brody Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Brokaw Amy and Kevin Brown Laura Broumand Veronica Bulgari and Stephan Haimo Mary and Brad Burnham Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Carter Cesar Carvalho Avna Cassinelli Hilary Cecil-Jordan Melanie Charlton Sommer Chatwin Alexandre and Lori Chemla Anthony P. Coles Curtis Cravens and Martha Berry Margaret Crotty and Rory Riggs Ellie and Edgar Cullman The Cultivist Joshua Dachs / Fisher Dachs Associates Jeffrey De Flavio Anne Delaney Anna Denton Mr. and Mrs. John Downer Jacqueline Weld Drake Susan Dryfoos Christopher A. Duda Luis Felipe P Dutra Leite Karen Eckhoff Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Jane Ehrenkranz and Robert Draizen Frederic Fekkai and Shirin von Wulffen Jared Feldman / Anchin Private Client Haiki and Ziel Feldman Michael Finkelstein and Sue-Ann Friedman Candia Fisher Megan Flanigan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Franco Hugh Freund Julie Geden Buzzy Geduld Mr. and Mrs. Martin Geller Alberta Gerschel and Peter Wasserman Sarah Jane and Trevor Gibbons Glickenhaus Foundation Sarah Gould and David Steinhardt Elizabeth and David Granville-Smith Great Performances Robert Haddock and Ann Stanton Mark Hauser Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hayden Gillian Hearst Shaw Daisy Helman Herrick Feinstein LLP Mr. and Mrs. Ian Highet Susanna Hong Lauran Paten Hughes Glenn Hutchins, Hutchins Family Foundation Phyllis Hyde Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Iscol Paul Kanavos and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos Jeanne Kanders Meredith J. Kane and Richard T. Sharp Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Herbert Kasper Saundra Keinberger Nancy Kestenbaum and David Klafter Julia Flesher Koch Phyllis L. Kossoff John Lambert and Ramona Boston Barbara and Richard Lane Nancy L. Lane Lazarus Charitable Trust Julia Ledda Dorothy Lee Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joe Neubauer Sahra T. Lese Phyllis Levin
Francis Levy and Hallie Cohen Seaboard Weatherproofing & Restoration Gina Giumarra MacArthur Mehdi Mahmud Ann Maloney Mr. and Dr. Alan Mantell Ruth H. Marcon Iris Z Marden Judith and Michael Margulies Joanie Martinez-Rudkovsky Bonnie Maslin Mr. and Mrs. Peter May Constance and H. Roemer McPhee Gregor and Beatrix Medinger Mr. and Mrs. William Michaelcheck Mr. and Mrs. Robert Millard Martha and Garfield Miller Sandra Earl Mintz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morse Saleem and Jane Muqaddam Mary Kathryn Navab Nancy Newcomb and John Hargraves Stephen Novick and Glenn Rice Mrs. and Mr. Susan Numeroff Mr. and Mrs. Christian Oberbeck Nancy and Morris W. Offit Kathleen O'Grady Gerry Ohrstrom David Orentreich, MD / Orentreich Family Foundation Peter and Beverly Orthwein Meredith Palmer Scott and Kelley Parel Louis and Barbara Perlmutter Dr. and Mrs. Prashant Parikh Stuart and Laura Parker Mr. and Mrs. Lee Parks Elizabeth Peyton Rebecca Pietri Elese Reid Diana and Charles Revson Frank and Kimba Richardson Heidi Rieger Eric Roberts and Robbianne Mackin Rose Brand Jonathan F.P. and Diana Rose Robert Rosen and Dr. Dale Atkins Rosen Marjorie P. Rosenthal Spencer Ross and James Delavan Susan and Jon Rotenstreich Hope Rothschild Pierre Rougier Anne Beane Rudman Bonnie J. Sacerdote Jeffrey Sagansky and Christy Welker Dr. and Ms. Nathan Saint-Amand Fuad Sawaya Sofie Scheerlinck Sabina and Wilfred Schlumberger Caroline Schmidt-Barnett Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch Lynn Schwab Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Schwartz Jonathan Sheffer Peggy Siegal Alan Siegel* and Sandy Siegel Douglas Sills Denise Simon and Paulo Vieiradacunha Laura Skoler Mr. and Mrs. David Sonenberg Daisy M. Soros Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Spahn Doug C. Steiner Melissa Stewart Leila Maw Straus Bonnie and Tom Strauss Tastings NYC Ellen and Bill Taubman
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Amanda Taylor Stephen Trevor and Stephanie Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tuft Patrick van Maris Ambassador and Mrs. William J. vanden Heuvel Wendy vanden Heuvel Christine van Itallie Dini Von Mueffling Rosemary Vrablic Felicity Waley-Cohen Susan and Kevin Walsh Ian Wardropper David Reed Weinreb Lauren and Andrew Weisenfeld Katherine Wenning and Michael Dennis Mindy White Shelby White Saundra Whitney Mr. and Mrs. W. Weldon Wilson Valda Witt and Jay Hatfield Claire and Matthew Wittman Amy Yenkin and Robert Usdan Neda Young Paul Young Judy Francis Zankel Xin Zhang Donald Zilkha Richard and Franny Heller Zorn Anonymous (4)
$1,000 to $2,499 Sallie Abelow Marina Abramovic´ Travis Acquavella Catherine Adler Hank Alpert Eric Altmann Diane Archer and Stephen Presser Mr. and Mrs. John Argenti Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Sarah Azad-Bowman Billie Banks Hugo Barreca and Wendy Schlemm Nina Beattie and Michael Eberstadt Stefan Beckman Norton Belknap Mr. Alan Bell and Mr. David Ziff Deborah Berke Friederieke Biggs Claudia and George Bitar Hana and Michael Bitton Arlo Blocher Charles and Ellen Bock Dr. Suzy and Mr. Lincoln Boehm Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Bonovitz Melanie Bouvard Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brause Mark and Anne Brennan Diane Britz Lotti Marc Brodherson and Sarah Ryan Stacey Bronfman Elizabeth Brooks Karen Brooks Spencer Brownstone David Bruson Vineet Budhraja and Rebecca Bagdonas Martin Indyk and Gahl Hodges Burt Cora Cahan and Bernard Gersten Marissa Cascarilla Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Casdin Eleanor Cayre Anna Chapman and Ronald Perelman Shirin and Kasper Christoffersen Michael Clifford Bradley I. Collins Alexander Cooper Mimi Ritzen Crawford
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Crisses Austen and Ernesto Cruz David Burke Tavern Virginia Davies and Willard Taylor Christina R. Davis Henry Davison Suzanne Dawson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas de Neufville Richard and Barbara Debs Gena Delbridge Carolina de Neufville Chiara de Rege and Phoenix Esme Nga Diana Diamond and John Alschuler Jacqueline Didier and Noah Scheinfeld* Frederick Doner and Michele Oka Doner Peter Droste and Morgan Beetham Mr. and Mrs. John Dunn Yevgeniya Elkus Patricia Ellis Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein Leland and Jane Englebardt Maria Etchebarne Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Farmakis Patricia and Alexander Farman-Farmaian Mr. and Mrs. John Finley Robert and Kimia Finnerty Barbara G. Fleischman Christina Floyd Di Donna Sheryl Flug Frances Fontaine Bill and Kelly Fradin Betsy Frank Molly O'Neil Frank Jamie Frankfurt and Pamela Hanson Lisa Frelinghuysen Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Scott Fulmer and Susan Kittenplan Fulmer Gail Furman Lindy Gad Mr. and Mrs. David Ganek Stefan Gargiulo Bruce and Alice Geismar Mr. and Mrs. John Gellert Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gerber Olga Geroulanos-Votis and George Votis Christopher Girr Katja Goldman Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Goldman Golub Captial LLC Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Gonzalez de Cosio Nina Gorrissen von Maltzahn Jan M. Guifarro Frances and Gerard Guillemot Kathleen and Harvey Guion Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Guttman Vanessa Handal Paul W. Hanneman Lana and Steve Harber Alison Harmelin Mary and Charles Hesdorffer Stephanie and Stephen Hessler In memory of Maria E. Hidrobo Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Brian Higgins William T. Hillman Barbara Hoffman Lily and Joel Hoffman Richard and Judith Hoffman Elisabeth Holder Pamela Howard Mr. and Mrs. William Janeway Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson Leslie Johnson Christopher and Hilda Jones Mike and Roberta Joseph Jennifer Kang Hon. Bruce M. Kaplan and Janet Yaseen Kaplan Kalliope Karella John Katzman Margot Kenly and Bill Cumming
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Susan Kessler Jana and Gerold Klauer Mr. and Mrs. Charles Klein Major General Edward G. Klein, NYNG (Ret.) Kameron Kordestani Ezriel Kornel MD Kimberly Kravis and Jonathan Schulhof Geraldine Kunstadter Jerome LaMaar and John Goodman Barbara Landau Judith Langer Sydie Lansing Jon Ledecky Ralph Lemon Josh Leuchtenburg Alexia and David Leuschen Donna and Wayne Lowery John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Liz MacNeill Reeva and Ezra P. Mager The Marcus Family Foundation Jan Marks Jacqueline Martin François and Ketty Maisonrouge Match65 Larry and Mary McCaffrey Orin McCluskey Nancy McCormick Melanie McLennan Melissa Meeschaert Rebecca Gold Milikowsky Claire Milonas Whitney and Andrew Mogavero Anne Cook and Charles Moss Helen Nash Sheila Nevins and Sidney Koch Sheila Newhouse Annette Niemtzow and Eve Ellis Sassona Norton and Ron Filler Lynn Nottage Mr. and Mrs. John C. Novogrod Mr. and Mrs. David Oliver Lisbeth Oliver Joey O'Loughlin Arlena Olsten John Olympitus Dr. Catherine Orentreich Robert Ouimette and Lee Hirsch Deborah Pagani Mr. and Mrs. David PalamÊ Robin and Carlos Palomares Mindy Papp Britten Leigh Pascale Annie Pell Sally Peterson and Michael Carlisle Mr. and Mrs. Richard Petrocelli Mr. and Mrs. Brian Pfeifler Yesim Philip Patricia Picciotto Marie-Noelle Pierce Robert and Veronique Pittman Lyon Polk Mrs. and Mr. Geri Pollack Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz Michael Poppo Laura Poretzky-Garcia Prime Parking Systems Francesca Proietti David and Leslie Puth Martin and Anna Rabinowitz Victoria Reese and Greg Kennedy Milbrey Rennie Julie Richardson Judi Roaman and Carla Chammas Mr. and Mrs. David Rogath Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Rosberg Marisa Rose and Robin van Bokhorst Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Rosen
Rotisserie Georgette Whitney Rouse Jane Royal and John Lantis Susan Rudin Mr. and Mrs. Ned Sadaka Jennifer Sage and Nicolas Grabar Victoria Love Salnikoff Christine Sare Elizabeth Sarnoff and Andrew Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Satnick Susan Savitsky Paul H. Scarbrough, Akustiks, LLC. Diane Schafer Pat Schoenfeld Amy Schulman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Schwarzman Paolo Sciarra Nadine Shaoul and Mark Schonberger Laura Sherman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shuman Paula Diane Silver Mr. and Mrs. Randy Slifka James Spindler John Spofford Emily L. Spratt Squadron A Foundation Max Stafford-Glenn Helen Stambler Neuberger and Jim Neuberger Mark Stamford Lili L. Stawski Nicolas Streff Mr. and Mrs. Myron Stein Gayfryd Steinberg and Michael Shnayerson Justin Steinberg Joseph Stern Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stern Tricia Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Alan Stillman Jennifer Stockman Andrew and Dana Stone Stella Strazdas and Henry Forrest Studio Institute Summit Security Services, Inc. Harold and Estelle Tanner Jennifer Tipton Kris Togias Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Troubh Yolanda Turocy Maria Vecchiotti Jerome and Maria Villalba Mr. and Mrs. John Vogelstein Cristina von Bargen Mr. and Mrs. Douglas von Erb Amanda and John Waldron Kay Kimpton Walker Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC Caroline Wamsler and DeWayne Phillips Evelene Wechsler Ayse Weinberg Lynne Wheat The Wheeler Family Gigi Stone Woods Jon and Reva Wurtzburger Dan and Nancy Yih Meghan and Michael Young Toni Young Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Zemmel Joseph Zimmel and Sheryl Ronzello Anonymous (3) List as of November 6, 2019 * Deceased
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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 $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 renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation. Cover photo by James Ewing.