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 friday, october 7 at 8:00pm saturday, october 8 at 8:00pm
SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON, cello BRUNO FONTAINE, piano LITTLE GIRL BLUE, FROM NINA SIMONE A Program Conceived by Sonia Wieder-Atherton Gian Carlo Menotti Traditional Richard Rodgers Nina Simone Duke Ellington Bernard Ighner Nina Simone Nina Simone Brahms-Bach Steve Diamond & Susan Sheridan Nina Simone William Taylor Fritz Rother Mindi Beth Abair & Matthew W Hager Rachmaninoff Nina Simone
Black Swann Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair Little Girl Blue Fodder on My Wings Hey, Buddy Bolden Everything Must Change Ain’t Got No, I Got Life Images Schmücke Dich, O Liebe Seele, Op.122, No.5 You Can Have Him Ain’t Got No, I Got Life I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free That’s All I Want From You Stars Andante from Sonata in G Minor, Op.19 Return Home
This performance is approximately one hour and fifteen minutes in length, performed without intermission. 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 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 PROGRAM There is one thing I am sure of: she moves you and enchants you beyond belief. But then we all know that. What I also know is that her voice, and her songs, goes with her alone to a place from which none of us return unscathed. What I do not know is the space she is in when suddenly I hear a Bach chorale or a Monteverdi madrigal. Allusions that typically she seems to keep tucked away and hidden deep in her songs. Another mystery to me is where she is in those moments of seeming absence, when, seated at the harpsichord, she plays something that might be Couperin… keyboard and voice seemingly floating in from disconnected worlds, seeking each other, over and over, until, ultimately they are reunited by the simple melody of a nursery rhyme. Then there are those moments of escape when she hurls herself at her keyboard and, like a tidal wave of harmony, sweeps
everything away. As though her song has displaced, in one movement, all the incurable pain, anger, and loneliness. All hers. All ours, too. Leaving us no choice. So what is this place? Is it the place she comes from, the place she returns to? A place that goes back beyond her classical studies to where she first heard the church music of her childhood? Where her desire was born? The only place capable of reconciling her love of music with her underlying anger, rebellion, and muted pain? What I do know is that it is her secret. I have dived deep into her repertory, her arrangements, her harmonic universe, and her story, too. This project is about offering her the voice of my cello, supported and accompanied by the multi-faceted musicianship of Bruno Fontaine. Perhaps if I abandon myself to her, she will take me to the secret links between her and the composers she loved above all else. – Sonia Wieder-Atherton
ABOUT NINA SIMONE I often try to imagine you. Age 4. Playing by ear the hymn tunes you heard at church or Bach chorales. Music is your first language. Your mother is a preacher. With African, Irish, and Indian blood, her skin is paler than yours. I have no photo, so I can only picture her in my mind’s eye. They say your whole family was so proud of you and people came from miles around to hear you play. It was your father who got you into popular songs. Behind your mother’s back. If I had seen your delight at your first piano lesson. If I had seen you discovering a world of dreams. If I had seen you drinking in your teacher’s words. If I had heard the music running off your fingertips. At the age of nine you are preparing your first concert. Your parents are asked to give up their seats to whites. Is this where you first found about skin color? Is it your first contact with anger? I don’t know. Were you alone when you received your letter of rejection from the Curtis Institute of music? It took you a while to understand. But you could never admit. Then came the bar in Atlanta. Where you had no choice but to warm up your voice and revert to the songs you learned from your father as a child. I would have come every evening to hear 2
you sing. To hear you play, eyes closed, for this audience you hated. To see you sculpting your style, inventing your language, going where you had not planned to go. Then, little by little, you became the woman we recognize on the black and white photos. In your eyes there is always an enigma of loneliness. You tell your mother that the girl with the dark voice causing such a sensation is in fact you. On that day and forever, she turns her back on you. She says you are playing devil music. How did you get by? If I had been at the Carnegie Hall in New York. If I had heard you open your recital, playing Samson and Delilah to all those people who came to hear you do “I Loves You, Porgy.” I imagine you because I want to capture the strength you need to go your own way. I heard Angela Davis tell how, when she was in jail, you took her a red balloon. A balloon that she did her utmost to keep as long as possible in her cell. A balloon like a piece of childhood that you keep secret to save yourself from the violence of the world. You were born on February 21, 1933 at Tryon in North Carolina. Your name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon. But you turned yourself into Nina Simone. – Sonia Wieder-Atherton
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS For Sonia Wieder-Atherton, music has always been a laboratory. Her unbounded research has taken her from one repertoire to another, from one discovery to the next. Constantly exploring criss-crossing musical avenues, she unravels the received wisdom in a relentless pursuit of meaning. Ms. Wieder-Atherton was born in San Francisco of a mother of Romanian origin and an American father. She grew up in New York and then Paris, where she enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur, studying with Maurice Gendron. She very soon found herself investigating form and sound, already seeking a language that could be a common denominator for all music. At 19, she crossed the iron curtain to live in Moscow, where she studied with Natalia Shakhovskaya at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her years there left an indelible mark, for, in addition to receiving a top-class education, she took away a special relationship with time, stories, and man. Returning to France she has never stopped querying the repertoire. At 25, she won the Rostropovich Competition. Ms. Wieder-Atherton works as tirelessly as she experiments. She enjoys nothing better than to decipher the language of contemporary composers like Pascal Dusapin, Georges Aperghis, and Wolfgang Rihm, all of whom she has been prompt to champion and who have written for her. Researching the classical repertory with equal devotion, her curiosity sets her interpretations apart. She performs as a soloist with many ensembles under the guidance of numerous conductors, notably the Paris Orchestra, the French National Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Liège Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonia, the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg, the NDR Orchestra in Hanover, the REMIX Ensemble, Les Siècles, and Asko/Schönberg, and works regularly with musicians such as Imogen Cooper and Raphaël Oleg, with whom she records and performs in concert. In recent years she has instigated a wide range of projects conceived as complete musical and visual experiences: Jewish songs, a cycle for cello and piano inspired by the art of the Hazzan; Eastern songs, for cello and instrumental ensemble, conceived as a journey from Russia to Central Europe; Vita, for cello solo and three cellos, in which she tells the story of Angioletta-Angel via two timeless geniuses, Monteverdi and Scelsi; Odyssey for cello and imaginary choir, in which a woman, alone with her cello, accompanied by a soundtrack, faces the elements: wind, waves, chaos, storms; The Night Dances, with Charlotte Rampling, featuring works by Benjamin Britten and Sylvia Plath, and her latest project,
Little Girl Blue, from Nina Simone. Whether playing Bach, Beethoven, Jewish songs, or Nina Simone, she asks the same question: that of a voice that can never be understood if it is heard in isolation. In 2011, she received the Bernheim Foundation Award, which each year acknowledges three creative works in the fields of the arts, literature, and science. Bruno Fontaine is a concert pianist, conductor, arranger, and composer, a versatile artist who epitomizes the wide outlook of 21st-century artists. Born in Épinal, he took up the piano at the age of four and at the unusually early age of eleven, was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM), where his teachers included Jean Hubeau and Pierre Sancan. He left the CNSM at 15 and travelled to the United States, where he met and worked with Don Costa, Franck Sinatra’s famous arranger, which confirmed his taste for getting to know other types of music. While pursuing his classical career, he worked with various artists including Jérôme Deschamps (composition of two symphonic suites: Hulophonies, inspired by music for the films of Jacques Tati and performed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002), and Les Rita Mitsouko, who asked him to create symphonic arrangements of their songs. Since then, he has created the same kind of projects for Barbara Hendricks, Misia, Paolo Conte, Michel Portal, Richard Galliano, Mino Cinelu, and Louis Sclavis. For many years, he has worked as musical director on the shows of Ute Lemper, Lambert Wilson, and Julia Migenes. Mr. Fontaine simultaneously continues to appear as a classical soloist and conductor, playing regularly with the Concerts Lamoureux, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre de Cannes, the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Romande, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under the batons of Yutaka Sado, Philippe Bender, Edmon Colomer, David Wroe, and others. He also conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for a recording with the guitarist John Williams (Sony Classical). As a chamber musician he plays with the Ysaÿe Quartet, Michel Portal, the cellists Sonia WiederAtherton and Ophélie Gaillard (with the latter he recorded Fauré’s complete works for cello and piano for Ambroisie), the violinist Guillaume Sutre, and the viola player Miguel Da Silva (with whom he recorded works by Max Bruch for TransArt Live).
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ABOUT THE ARMORY Part American palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory is dedicated to supporting unconventional works in the visual and performing arts that need non-traditional spaces for their full realization, enabling artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to consume epic and adventurous presentations that can not be mounted elsewhere in New York City. In its first nine years, the Armory opened its doors to visionary artists, directors, and impresarios who provided extraordinary experiences in a range of art forms. Such was its impact that in December 2011, The New York Times noted, “Park Avenue Armory… has arrived as the most important new cultural institution in New York City.” Built between 1877 and 1881, Park Avenue Armory has been hailed as containing “the single most important collection of nineteenth century interiors to survive intact in one building” by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, with an 80-foot-high barrel vaulted roof, is one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York City. The Armory’s magnificent reception rooms were designed by leaders of the American Aesthetic Movement, among them Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, and Herter Brothers. The building is currently undergoing a $210-million renovation designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF Rebecca Robertson, President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi, Artistic Director Katrina Berselius, Special Assistant to the President Jenni Bowman, Producer David Burnhauser, Collection Manager Courtney Caldwell, Venue Events Manager Leandro Dasso, Porter Khemraj Dat, Accountant Jordana De La Cruz, Special Projects Coordinator Mayra DeLeon, Porter Marcia Ebaugh-Pallán, Manager of Special Events Alexander Frenkel, Controller Lissa Frenkel, Managing Director Melanie Forman, Chief Development Officer Caelan Fortes, Individual Giving Assistant Peter Gee, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Pip Gengenbach, Education Coordinator Jennie Herreid, Ticket Services Manager Reginald Hunter, Building Mechanic Cassidy Jones, Education Director Chelsea Emelie Kelly, Youth Corps Coordinator Nicole Kidston, Deputy Director of Development Allison Kline, Director of Foundation and Government Relations Nicholas Lazzaro, Production Operations Manager Jennifer Levine, Director of Special Events Michael Lonergan, Producing Director 4
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NEXT IN THE RECITAL SERIES JACK QUARTET
KATE ROYAL, soprano JOSEPH MIDDLETON, piano
october 30–31
november 18–20
“Every JACK concert transcends a run-of-the-mill performance and becomes a true event.” —Time Out New York Known as “superheroes of the new music world” (The Boston Globe), JACK Quartet has emerged over the past decade as the go-to ensemble for contemporary music with their impeccable musicianship, intellectual ferocity, and a take-no-prisoners sense of commitment. This virtuosic young ensemble perform the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds’s FLiGHT, an exploration of humankind’s aspirations to fly through musical composition for string quartet, real-time computer-derived sound, readings, and projections.
“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.
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ARTISTS STUDIO
october 13–14 “To journey into Saariaho’s music is to be confronted with the darkest and most dazzling dimensions of your subconscious.” —The Guardian (UK) The revered New York Philharmonic returns to the Armory for the New York premiere of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Circle Map, a new work for orchestra and electronics that builds out from six stanzas by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, and D’om la Vrai Sens. The evening also includes the New York premiere of Lumiére et Pesanteur as well as Lonh, a work that combines medieval love poetry sung by rising soprano Jennifer Zetlan with an electronic score that manipulates sounds from nature to evoke a distant, luminous landscape.
Join us for a new series of events inspired by the exotic beauty of the newly reopened Veterans Room and the inventive spirit of the designers who conceived it. Curated by jazz pianist, composer, artist, and MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran, these performances feature a diverse mix of contemporary classical, performative art, and an improvisational approach to jazz. upcoming performances:
CAMILLE NORMENT & CRAIG TABORN october 16 RYAN TRECARTIN & LIZZIE FITCH november 21
MANIFESTO
december 7–january 8 “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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OTHER HAPPENINGS AT THE ARMORY UNDER CONSTRUCTION SERIES
FAMILY PROGRAMS
“A residency like the Armory’s can be life changing for an artist. With unlimited access to studio space and total creative freedom, even the wildest idea can be attempted.” —The Wall Street Journal Get an inside look into the creative process of the Armory’s artists-in-residence, who set up studios and offer intimate public previews of works-in-progress, including dance, theater, music, and visual art. The Armory’s period rooms provide a unique backdrop for their workshops, serving as both inspiration and as a collaborator in the development of their work. Previous artists-in-residence have included director and designer Julian Crouch, choreographers Faye Driscoll and Wally Cardona, soprano Lauren Flanigan, artist Ralph Lemon, maverick musician and composer Meredith Monk, postclassical string quartet ETHEL, writer and critic Sasha FrereJones, playwright and director Young Jean Lee, performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili, Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, and Shen Wei Dance Arts.
ARMORY AFTER HOURS
Salon culture has enlivened art since the 19th century, when friends gathered in elegant chambers to hear intimate performances and share artistic insights. Join us following select performances for libations with fellow attendees as we revive this tradition in our historic period rooms. You may also get to talk with the evening’s artists, who often greet friends and audience members following their performances.
Park Avenue Armory invites parents and children to participate in interactive art-making workshops in our historic period rooms. Drawing upon the Armory’s castle-like setting and unique artistic offerings, these programs are offered monthly during the school year and designed to spark the imagination of children of all ages.
ARTIST TALKS
Held in our historic period rooms, these insightful dialogues give audiences the opportunity to hear directly from the artists, and explore the inspirations, ideas, and themes behind their work.
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.
HISTORIC INTERIORS TOURS
Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided walking tour of the building with our staff historian. From the soaring 55,000-square-foot 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.
Go to armoryonpark.org for more information on all of these programs.
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Co-Chairman Elihu Rose, PhD. Co-Chairman Adam R. Flatto President and Executive Producer Rebecca Robertson
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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.