Rufus Wainwright Benefit Concert

A special evening benefitting the nonprofit 516 ARTS

November 11, 2016 • KiMo Theatre • Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Schedule Friday, November 11, 2016

Art reception Timothy Cummings: The Concert 5:30 – 7:30pm KiMo Theatre Gallery Beer & wine from Tractor Brewing Free & open to the public

Silent Auction 5:30 – 9:15pm KiMo Theatre Lobby Bid on Timothy Cummings’ benefit print titled Musicians, as well as gift certificates for gourmet dinners and an array of special gifts and services.

Check-out after the concert.

Free & open to the public

Rufus Wainwright Concert 8:00pm KiMo Theatre Doors open at 7:30pm • Tickets required

VIP Post-Concert Reception with Rufus Wainwright 9:30 – 10:30pm 516 ARTS 516 Central Ave. SW between 5th & 6th Streets Ticket holders $75 and up and sponsors are invited to a private reception across the street at 516 ARTS, featuring Gruet champagne, delicacies from Farm & Table and Gabriel Jaureguiberry on the turntables.

516 ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Danny López, Chair Suzanne Sbarge, President Clint Wells, Vice President Juan Abeyta, Treasurer Kymberly Pinder, Secretary Hakim Bellamy Patricia Kurz Tim Price Mark Rohde Arturo Sandoval ADVISORY BOARD Michael Berman

Jenny McMath

Sherri Brueggemann

Elsa Menéndez

Diane Burke

Rhiannon Mercer

Chris Burmeister

Henry Rael

David Campbell

Mary Anne Redding

Andrew Connors

Rick Rennie

Debi Dodge

Augustine Romero

Idris Goodwin

Shelle Sanchez

Tom Guralnick

Paula Smith-Hawkins

Deborah Jojola

Rob Strell

Manny Juarez

Randy Trask

Jane Kennedy

Marta Weber

Arif Khan

Will K. Wilkins

Brian McMath

Robert Wilson

516 ARTS An independent, nonprofit contemporary arts organization 516 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico www.516arts.org

A Friendship Between Two Great Artists When we look at the history of art, the relationships between artists can tell us as much about a moment or an idea as the artists’ works themselves.

Tonight is a special opportunity to experience two major artists of our time who inspire one another and who are generously sharing their work with our lucky community.

Albuquerque artist Timothy Cummings is a longtime friend of Grammynominated Rufus Wainwright, and recently painted a portrait of him as a theatrical Elizabethan character for his new album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespearian Sonnets. Cummings primarily shows his work in San Francisco and New York, but is sharing exciting new work right here at the KiMo Theatre Gallery. His exhibition includes a limited edition, hand-colored lithograph he created at Tamarind Institute to benefit 516 ARTS. Rufus Wainwright, who is touring the world performing and writing a new opera, has taken time out of his busy schedule to help support the arts in the city where his good friend lives.

The generosity of Rufus Wainwright, Timothy Cummings, Tamarind Institute and the sponsors of tonight’s event are all helping to make 516 ARTS possible.

Thank you to our audience for being here and for supporting 516 ARTS. Enjoy this magical night!

Suzanne Sbarge Executive Director, 516 ARTS

About Rufus Wainwright Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists, composers, and songwriters of his generation. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer songwriter has released eight studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums, including the fantastic Grammy-nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, which captured his celebrated Judy Garland tribute performance at the London Palladium in 2007, and the album Release The Stars which went Gold in Canada and the U.K. Wainwright has received Juno Awards for Best Alternative Album in 1999 and 2002 for Rufus Wainwright and Poses, respectively, and nominations for his albums Want Two (2005) and Release the Stars (2008). He was nominated for Songwriter of the Year in 2008 for his Release the Stars album. He also composed the original music for choreographer Stephen Petronio’s work BLOOM which has toured across the country.

Wainwright has collaborated with artists including Elton John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys and producer Mark Ronson among others. His most recent collaboration is on the title track of Robbie Williams’ latest album, Swings Both Ways, which was co-written with renowned musician and producer Guy Chambers and sung as a duet between Rufus and Robbie.

In addition to being a celebrated contemporary pop singer, Wainwright has made a name for himself in the classical world. His much acclaimed first opera, titled Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2009. The opera was subsequently performed in London at Sadler’s Wells and in Toronto at the Luminato Festival in 2010, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House in 2012. Now fully established as a composer of operas, Wainwright has been commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company to write his second opera based on the story of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and Antinous, which will premiere in Toronto in 2018.

Wainwright has also distinguished himself by playing original orchestrated pop songs and pieces from an extensive classical repertoire with well-respected opera singers and orchestras around the world. He was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony to compose Five Shakespeare Sonnets, a fivemovement suite that sets the texts from selected Shakespearian Sonnets to orchestra and voice. Five Shakespeare Sonnets premiered in the US in 2010 and debuted in the UK in 2012 with the sixty-piece BBC Symphony Orchestra

conducted by Rory MacDonald. Wainwright was asked by famed director Robert Wilson to compose music for Shakespeare Sonnette that was staged at the Berlin Ensemble in 2009.

Other recent achievements include the 2012 world premiere of Sing Me The Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle, the feature length music documentary starring Rufus, Martha Wainwright and their family, and directed by Lian Lunson. The film captures the 2011 tribute concert honoring Rufus’ late mother, the great singer songwriter Kate McGarrigle. Nonesuch Records released a record, Sing Me The Songs That Say I Love You: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle which included songs from the movie as well as selections from the three tribute concerts for Kate given in London, New York and Toronto and featuring performances by Rufus, Martha, Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Richard and Linda Thompson and many others. The movie and the record are both available on iTunes and Amazon.

In 2014, Universal Records released Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright, a new career-spanning collection that features eighteen standout songs defining one of music’s most innovative talents. Included in the collection are three new recordings, Me and Liza, Chic and Pointless and WWIII. Also Photo by Matthew Welch

released on CD and Blu-ray is Rufus Wainwright: Live from the Artists Den which captures Rufus’ inspired performance at New York City’s Church of the Ascension in 2012.

Rufus recently completed his PledgeMusic campaign to record Prima Donna: The Album, a studio recording of his first opera with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon release of a double CD recording of Prima Donna with the BBC Symphony Orchestra is now available everywhere.

The initial success of Wainwright’s opera, Prima Donna, which premiered in 2009 at the Manchester International Festival, led him to create an artistic concert adaptation to share with the rest of the world. The opera’s central character, a retired Diva struggling to make her return to the stage and regain her former years of greatness, was inspired by BBC Lord Harewood interviews with Maria Callas in her later years.

Rufus also recently premiered Prima Donna: A Symphonic Visual Concert at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus at the Athens Festival in Greece in 2015 and it was also performed at the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal, and in 2016 in Buenos Aires at Teatro Colon, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, and the Montreal Jazz Festival in Montreal, Quebec.

Rufus celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with the release of his latest album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets on Deutsche Grammophon worldwide in 2016. Performers on the new record include Rufus’ sister Martha Wainwright, vocalist Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine, Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska; multiple Grammy-nominated composer and producer Marius de Vries; Sián Phillips, Peter Eyre who provides the introduction, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra; British actress Helena Bonham Carter, Americans Carrie Fisher and William Shatner, and the 92 yearold Inge Keller – one of the great names of German theatre.

About Timothy Cummings Timothy Cummings was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but made his career as an artist during the past two decades living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up in the midst of Spanish Catholic and Native American culture, fertile with religious imagery and iconography of the churches, and was influenced by murals and retablos depicting death, martyrdom and Day of the Dead imagery.

Inspired by Renaissance paintings as well as by primitive art, Cummings’ works transport the viewer from this world into a world of transformation where anything is possible.

Cummings’ work has been exhibited throughout the United States at LACE Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); the Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA); the Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ); and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA). In 2013, Cummings was an artist-in-residence and subject of a solo exhibition at Transarte Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. His work is represented in the permanent collection of Di Rosa Gallery in Napa, California and in the personal collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, owners of the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Cummings’ exhibitions have been reviewed in the San Francisco Examiner, Artweek, Art Papers, Flash Art and Details. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York and at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, both of which represent his work.

Photo by Roberto Appicciafoco

Silent Auction Items Farm Fresh Gourmet A meal at Farm & Table to celebrate health, community, sustainability and local economy in Albuquerque’s beautiful North Valley. Value: $100

Date Night in EDO Wine tasting and dinner for two at The Artichoke Café – great food, warm and robust menu and an all around extraordinary dining experience. Value: $150

Upscale Downtown Dinner for two at MAS Tapas y Vino, a one night stay at Hotel Andaluz and a bottle of Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon.

Value: $400

Contemporary Craft & Fine Art Shop at Mariposa Gallery, one of the oldest contemporary craft galleries in the country located in Historic Nob Hill on Route 66.

Value: $50

Menswear Upgrade Shop at Izzy Martin, Albuquerque’s locally-owned menswear alternative, featuring the best of heritage materials and styles re-worked with a modern edge.

Value: $200

Spa Time Relax, unwind and retreat at Betty’s Bath & Day Spa in the North Valley, offering massages, facials, hot tubs and more. Value: $50

An Italian Picnic Buy fine groceries at La Montañita Coop to pair with two bottles of Italian wine. Value: $100 Get Inked Visit local tattoo artist Max Vasher for expert custom tattoo work (good for one person only).

Value: $200 Pueblo VIP Dinner for two at Pueblo Harvest Café, serving Native Fusion Fare, and a private tour of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, the Gateway to the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico, with the Curator of Exhibitions Deborah Jojola.

Value: $150

Strong is the New Sexy One month membership to use the open gym or take advantage of the intimately sized and coached Crossfit classes at Zia Strength Systems/NFP Crossfit. All fitness levels welcome! Value: $80 Taos Getaway Two-Night Stay at El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa. Just three blocks from Taos Plaza, El Monte Sagrado offers a secluded yet indulgent sanctuary in harmonious coexistence with its natural setting.

Value: $400 Flamenco Night Out Four tickets to Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque and a bottle of Lolailo Sangria. Value: $100

Commemorative T-shirt & poster Behind the Scenes at the Museum Family membership to The Albuquerque Museum, assorted goodies from museum shop and a private tour of the museum with the Curator of Art Andrew Connors. Value: $200 Signed Lithograph by Timothy Cummings Musicians is an editioned Tamarind print (19/30), handcolored by the artist and made especially to benefit 516 ARTS for its 10th anniversary.

Value: $2,000 516 ARTS Treasure Basket Ten years of publications from the 516 ARTS’ archives, including collectible art books published

by Radius Books (LAND/ART, ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness, Digital Latin America and Fraction of a Second), Michael Berman photography books and more, plus two 516 ARTS T-shirts.

Value: $1,000

This collectible T-shirt features a drawing by Albuquerque artist Roberto Espinosa of Rufus Wainwright in Elizabethan garb, in celebration of his latest album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespearian Sonnets.

Sponsored by IMEC. $35

Wine Basket 8 bottles of assorted wines contributed by 516 ARTS Board Members.

Value: $300 This 11 x 17 inch poster features Timothy Cummings’ ochre-colored sketch of Rufus Wainwright for the portrait on the album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespearian Sonnets.

Sponsored by Don Mickey Designs. $15

516 ARTS STAFF

516 ARTS VOLUNTEERS

Suzanne Sbarge

Nina Buscemi

Executive Director Teresa Buscemi Programs & Communications Manager Claude Smith Exhibitions & Fulcrum Fund Manager Paige Taylor Programs & Education Coordinator

Julia Dexter Shay Gardner Nicole Johnson Brian McMath Lisa Nevada Raquee Rivera Nionnien Sturdivan Anna Zollinger

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Rufus Wainwright Tour Brennan Foster Hospitality Support Andrés Martinez Outpost Tech Manager Tom Pambrun Rufus Wainwright Tour Chad Sheer Outpost Sound Technician Chris Sorem

Paul Fornell Nancy Harbert Sheila Murphy Cris Nichols Maria Nipson Anita Shenkman Linda Spaulding Eddie Tafoya Paul Tatter Liz Weston

Rufus Wainwright Sound Technician SILENT AUCTION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jenny McMath, Chair Teresa Buscemi Andrew Connors Deborah Jojola Manny Juarez

Cover photo of Rufus Wainwright by Matthew Welch

COMMUNITY SUPPORT Businesses & Organizations:

Individuals: Clara Apodaca

Albuquerque Piano & Organ Service

John & Nira Avila

The City of Albuquerque Cultural Services

City Councilor Isaac Benton

Classic Event & Tent Rentals

Beverly Chavez

Geltmore, LLC

Thomas & Celia Chavez

Gruet Winery

Ray & Judy Dewey

KiMo Theatre & Gallery

Craig Eaves

Little Empire Music

Rupel Engineer & Manny Juarez

Tractor Brewing

Roberto Espinosa & Luis Nolasco

Silent Auction Donors:

Martin Garcia Diana Gaston

The Albuquerque Museum Foundation

Gary Goodman

The Artichoke Café

Tom Guralnick

Betty’s Bath & Day Spa

T. Judy Heiss

El Monte Sagrado Living Resort & Spa

Mark Hoover

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Lee & Maria Humpheys

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Patricia & Rob Kurz

Izzy Martin Menswear

Don Mickey

La Montañita Coop

Cherie Montoya

Mariposa Gallery

Kymberly Pinder

MAS Tapas y Vino / Hotel Andaluz

Gorky Pacha

Max Vasher Tattoos

Bill & Judy Pfeifer

National Institute of Flamenco

Paula Quijano

Pueblo Harvest Café

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Zia Strength Systems / NFP Crossfit

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Contribute $1,000+ to 516 ARTS and receive a Tamarind lithograph by Timothy Cummings!

Tamarind Institute collaborated with acclaimed artist Timothy Cummings to produce a limited edition of hand-colored lithographs titled Musicians.

516 ARTS donors at the level of $1,000 and up will receive a print, while supplies last. To reserve yours now, join the Friends of 516 ARTS tonight at the event, online at 516arts.org/join, or call 516 ARTS at 505-242-1445.