Recital Series: Sandbox Percussion

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 acoustics 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 2023 season marks the tenth year of the Armory’s celebrated Recital Series. Over the past ten years, we have held over 100 intimate performances by 230 internationally renowned musicians, including important North American, US, and New York debuts like the North American recital debut of pianist Igor Legit and the US recital debut of soprano Barbara Hannigan. We have also been proud to serve as the locale for 15 premieres by contemporary composers, including works by Michael Hersch, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, John Zorn, Dai Fujikura, Michael Gordon, Jake Heggie, and others.

The 2023 Recital Series continues the tradition of offering the chance to hear internationally renowned vocalists in a close and personal setting. Tenor Allan Clayton returns to New York after his appearance in the title role of Peter Grimes at the Met last fall for his North American recital debut at the Armory performing with pianist James Baillieu. American soprano Julia Bullock showcases her versatile artistry and probing intellect in recitals this September, returning to the Armory following her critically acclaimed performance in Michel van der Aa’s Upload. Other vocal recitals include an intimate evening with baritone Stéphane Degout and pianist Cédric Tiberghien and performances by mezzo soprano Kate Lindsey with pianist Justina Lee.

“Poet of the piano” Pavel Kolesnikov appears in a two-program residency this May. He opens the residency with Bach’s towering classical keyboard masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations, and follows with a program inspired by artist Joseph Cornell’s orrery Celestial Navigation. Finally, leading contemporary percussion ensemble Sandbox Percussion take the Recital Series to the Veterans Room in October for a spirited program that vibrantly showcases their solid technique, rhythmical musicality, and lively showmanship, including the world premiere of Chris Cerrone’s Ode to Joy—commissioned by Park Avenue Armory—and the New York premiere of Viet Cuong’s Next Week’s Trees

This year’s lineup offers 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 join in our excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music.

Rebecca Robertson

Adam R. Flatto Founding President and Executive Producer

Pierre Audi

Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

2023 RECITAL SERIES IN THE

RESTORED VETERANS ROOM

SANDBOX PERCUSSION

sunday, october 1, 2023 at 3:00pm tuesday, october 3, 2023 at 7:30pm

Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory

Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by the Thompson Family Foundation, Charina Endowment Fund, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, 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 Marc Haas Foundation, the Prospect Hill Foundation, the Reed Foundation, Wescustogo Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Richenthal Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Armory’s Artistic Council. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

The Recital Series is supported in part by the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation.

PROGRAM

Andy Akiho Haiku 2

Viet Cuong Next Week’s Trees (New York premiere)

Amy Beth Kirsten may the devil take me

Juri Seo vv

Intermission

David Crowell Verses for a Liminal Space

Chris Cerrone Ode to Joy (world premiere)

Julius Eastman “Joy Boy”

Andy Akiho “Pillar V” from Seven Pillars

This performance is approximately 90 minutes including a 15-minute intermission.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

HAIKU 2 BY ANDY AKIHO

Haiku 2 (2011) is the second in a set of six short pieces that Andy Akiho wrote for the contemporary music ensemble Loadbang in 2011. It was originally scored for trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, but is presented here for the first time in a version for tuned ceramic bowls, metal pipes, wooden slats, a metal pot lid, a glass bottle, and a piece of scrap metal. Akiho and Sandbox Percussion developed this version of Haiku 2 during a residency at Avaloch Farm Music Institute in 2019.

This work has no text, but it observes the 5-7-5 form of a haiku musically. The rhythmic structure of each measure consists of a group of 5 sixteenth notes, then a group of 7, then another group of 5. The larger metric structure is also based on the 5-7-5 of a haiku—the material is played 5 times, then 7 times, and then 5 again. When one returns to the beginning of the cycle again, each player in turn leaves their pitched instrument and moves to an unpitched sound, until by the end, all that is left is a dense hocket among the four players.

Ian Rosenbaum

NEXT WEEK’S TREES BY VIET CUONG NEW YORK PREMIERE

The title of this piece comes from Mary Oliver’s poem

“Walking To Oak-Head Pond, And Thinking Of The Ponds I Will Visit In The Next Days And Weeks.” I was deeply inspired by Oliver’s words—words that are a gentle reminder of the uncertainty of the future, the confident hope of the present, and the propulsive force of life that drives us through any doubt that a new day will arrive.

Next Week’s Trees (2021) was originally commissioned by the California Symphony as part of their Young American Composer-in-Residence program, and the percussion quartet adaptation was commissioned by Sandbox Percussion.

— Viet Cuong

“Walking to Oak-Head Pond, And Thinking Of The Ponds I Will Visit In The Next Days And Weeks” by Mary Oliver What is so utterly invisible as tomorrow? Not love, not the wind, not the inside of a stone. Not anything. And yet, how often I’m fooled –I’m wading along in the sunlight –and I’m sure I can see the fields and the ponds shining days ahead –I can see the light spilling like a shower of meteors into next week’s trees, and I plan to be there soon –and, so far, I am just that lucky, my legs splashing over the edge of darkness, my heart on fire.

I don’t know where such certainty comes from –the brave flesh or the theater of the mind –but if I had to guess I would say that only what the soul is supposed to be could send us forth with such cheer as even the leaf must wear as it unfurls its fragrant body, and shines

against the hard possibility of stoppage –which, day after day, before such brisk, corpuscular belief, shudders, and gives way.

MAY THE DEVIL TAKE ME BY AMY BETH KIRSTEN

may the devil take me (2019) is inspired by the following passage in Cervantes’ iconic work, Don Quixote:

Sancho Panza hung on his words but said none of his own, and from time to time he turned his head to see if he could see the knights and giants his master was naming; since he could not make out any of them he said,

“Señor, may the devil take me, but no man, giant, or knight of all those your grace has mentioned can be seen anywhere around here; at least, I don’t see them; maybe it’s all enchantment, like last night’s phantoms.”

“How can you say that?” responded Don Quixote.

“Do you not hear the neighing of horses, the call of the clarions, the sounds of the drums?”

“I don’t hear anything,” responded Sancho, “except the bleating of lots of sheep.”

I’m fascinated by the idea that one character’s reality is so at odds with another’s. This bears out musically by converting triangles into objects that are contrary to their true nature. They aren’t resonant but are choked or muted. Perhaps this makes them untrue somehow. Perhaps the counterpoint of true and untrue sounds creates a kind of sonic enchantment reflecting the world between reality and fiction that Cervantes creates.

— Amy Beth Kirsten

VV BY JURI SEO

My first inspiration for vv (2015, rev. 2018) was the instrument itself, particularly its dark metallic sound with deep resonance. I built harmonies that evolve over the course of their durations by selectively muting some of the notes. The players use their fingers and mallets to dampen the notes, feeling the decay intimately. The introduction gives rise to a playful theme. vv then unfolds in an unconventional sonata form in which the themes head toward dissolution rather than consolidation. Throughout, the players interact with each other to collectively execute intricate musical gestures, as if the mallets are the fingers of a single person.

— Juri Seo

VERSES FOR A LIMINAL SPACE BY DAVID CROWELL

In Verses for a Liminal Space (2021), the percussionists move through various transitional states. The polyrhythms which begin the piece are bound by pulse but also suspended in time. Amid this euphoric jumble of tightly organized sound, ankle bells spontaneously rattle while toms unpredictably dart through the texture. Eventually the music opens into long, held chords, another approach to suspension which is sprinkled with the same rattlers, light scraping on brake drums, and other ambient sounds winding their way inside the stillness.

Verses for a Liminal Space was composed as a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in Spring 2021 and was premiered there one year later. It is my latest collaboration with Sandbox Percussion, and I continue to be inspired by their musical vision, sensitivity, and unrivaled technical ability.

— David Crowell

ODE TO JOY BY CHRIS CERRONE WORLD PREMIERE, A PARK AVENUE ARMORY COMMISSION

Ode to Joy (2023) is my sixth composition to feature a percussion quartet, but my first for a solely acoustic quartet (the other pieces featured piano solo, voice solo, or electronics). It was written at the behest of my good friends Sandbox Percussion, based in Brooklyn, New York, who asked for a relatively short, relatively simple piece in terms of instrumentation that they could take on tour without a soloist or sound system.

To that end, I endeavored to use a maximum number of traditional percussion instruments—vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, crotales—while limiting the “special” instruments to those that can be carried in a small bag or suitcase.

Six is a lot of percussion quartets. When surveying the prior five, I found a relatively wide range of emotions: from contemplative to dramatic to mysterious to elegiac. But one felt missing: joy. This composition—through its use of simple, optimistic harmonies and pulsating rhythms—seeks to remedy that. Its title playfully references the iconic Beethoven tune, but the source is one of America’s, and one of New York City’s, great joy-havers: the poet Frank O’Hara. His poem of the same name iterates an enthusiastic passion for the city I have long called home—a passion I felt more urgently while living in Europe on a residency.

One more thing about joy: Joy is hard. It’s much easier to feel anger, sadness, or nothing. That hardness is part of the piece. While writing, I set these harmonics in unison against bowed crotales and vibraphones. Despite the best efforts of these excellent musicians, none of these instruments will ever sound entirely in tune with one another. These imperfections, these distances between the joys I have in my life and the joys I aspire toward, are something I have come to embrace.

Ode to Joy is jointly dedicated to Sandbox Percussion and to Blow Up Percussion, a group from Rome who have been wonderful champions of my music in Italy and beyond and who co-commissioned the work. The work was created with the support of a residency from the Stiftung Laurenz-Haus in Basel, Switzerland.

— Chris Cerrone

"JOY BOY" BY JULIUS EASTMAN

Julius Eastman was born in Ithaca in 1940 and studied piano and composition at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was a talented vocalist in addition to his work as a composer, and was an active participant in the 20th-century new music scene. He was a member of the Creative Associates at SUNY Buffalo and the S.E.M. Ensemble, and yet his identity as an unapologetic Black and gay man did not fit comfortably into the music establishment. While his music was somewhat known during his life, much of his work was lost after his untimely death in 1990. It has only been recently that many of his scores have been found and republished, and his music championed.

Eastman’s work features elements of minimalism, which he often blends with pop-style harmonies, rhythms, and riffs. Eastman often gives his performers a lot of freedom in the choices that they make—in terms of instrumentation, dynamics, and even the patterns that are played. “Joy Boy” (1974) is a work for open instrumentation, scored on a single page for “four treble instruments.” Sandbox Percussion has created the arrangement that you’ll hear today.

— Ian Rosenbaum

"PILLAR V" FROM SEVEN PILLARS BY ANDY AKIHO

“Pillar V” is a movement from Andy Akiho’s extended work Seven Pillars (2021), a 75-minute work that includes seven quartets and one solo for each member of the group.

This movement is built around an ostinato that is 25 sixteenth notes long—six quarter notes + one sixteenth note, and the melodies and rhythms that surround the ostinato are based on multiples of 25. It is a rhythmic game with a hidden pulse—as soon as you start to tap your foot, the beat moves. The pitch content for all of Seven Pillars is based on a scale that Andy created. The pitches in “Pillar V” are a hexatonic subset of that scale—this piece uses only six unique notes that are organized in alternating half steps and minor thirds.

— Ian Rosenbaum

armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory

ABOUT SANDBOX PERCUSSION

Described as “exhilarating” by The New York Times and “utterly mesmerizing” by The Guardian, Grammy-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion brings out the best in composers through their unwavering dedication to artistry in contemporary chamber music. The members were brought together in 2011 by their love of chamber music and the simple joy of playing together; they have since captivated audiences with performances that are both visually and aurally stunning. Today, Sandbox Percussion—Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, and Terry Sweeney—are established leaders in the fields of contemporary music and percussion, engaging a wider audience for classical music through multidisciplinary collaborations with leading composers and artists.

Sandbox Percussion’s 2021 album Seven Pillars was nominated for two Grammy awards—Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Nationally recognized “as pure as music gets” (The New York Times), Andy Akiho’s feature-length work, with stage direction and lighting design by Michael Joseph McQuilken, is Sandbox Percussion’s largest commission to date. The ensemble also commissioned 11 short films to accompany each movement, and performed the full piece more than 15 times throughout the United States and Europe last season, including at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with the LA Dance Project and choreographer Benjamin Millepied.

In the 2023-24 season, Sandbox Percussion performs Seven Pillars at the VIVO Music Festival (Columbus, OH); the New School (New York); Aperio, Music of the Americas (Houston); the Frost School of Music (Miami); Brown University (Providence, RI); and the Peace Center (Greenville, SC), among other venues.

Additional season highlights include two performances at the Park Avenue Armory’s Veterans Room (New York), presenting music by Andy Akiho, Amy Beth Kirsten, Juri Seo, David Crowell, Julius Eastman, and new music by past collaborators Christopher Cerrone (world premiere) and Viet Cuong (New York premiere); a performance at the 92nd Street Y with pianist and new-music champion Conor Hanick featuring New York premieres of two works composed for them by Christopher Cerrone and by Tyshawn Sorey; and an appearance at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with acclaimed new-music performers Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, and Alisa Weilerstein. Sandbox Percussion also continues to champion Viet Cuong’s acclaimed concerto for percussion quartet, Re(new)al, including performances with the Des Moines Symphony and with the Albany Symphony, which commissioned the piece.

This season, Sandbox Percussion also releases their fourth album, Wilderness, featuring the piece of the same name by experimental composer Jerome Begin. The hourlong work seamlessly fuses the raw impact of live percussion instruments with electronic manipulations in real time. Last season, Sandbox Percussion released Bathymetry, on Cantaloupe Music, featuring music for percussion and analog synthesizer by Matt McBane. The album draws from various strains of minimalism and modern electronic music production, and from ASMR and ambient modular synth videos. In 2020, the ensemble released their debut album And That One Too, on Coviello Classics, featuring music by longtime collaborators Andy Akiho, David Crowell, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Thomas Kotcheff.

Besides maintaining an international performance schedule, Sandbox Percussion holds the position of Ensemble-inResidence and Percussion Faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and The New School’s College of Performing Arts, where they have created a curriculum with entrepreneurship and chamber music at its core.

Sandbox Percussion has led masterclasses and coachings at prestigious music schools in the United States, including Curtis Institute, The Juilliard School, the Peabody Conservatory, and Cornell University. In 2016, Sandbox Percussion founded the Sandbox Percussion Seminar—a weeklong seminar that invites percussion students from around the globe to rehearse and perform today’s leading repertoire for percussion chamber music.

In 2022, Sandbox Percussion launched their Creator Mentorship Program, a commissioning program that solicits proposals from early-career creators around the world. The selected creators are commissioned to create a new work for the ensemble, and they receive time, space, and funding for a yearlong workshop and development period.

Sandbox Percussion endorses Pearl/Adams musical instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Remo drumheads, and Black Swamp accessories.

ABOUT THE RECITAL SERIES

Park Avenue Armory presents more intimate performances and programs in its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe in an intimate salon setting. Now celebrating its tenth season, the series has held the debuts of many world-class artists, including: the North American recital debuts of pianist Igor Levit, soprano Sabine Devieilhe, tenor Ilker Arcayürek, baritones Benjamin Appl and Roderick Williams, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, and cellist István Várdai; the North American solo recital debuts of tenor Michael Spyres and mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo; the US Recital debuts of sopranos Barbara Hannigan and Anna Lucia Richter and baritone Thomas Oliemans; and the New York debut of pianist Severin von Eckardstein and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.

The Recital Series has programmed the world premieres of Roger Reynolds’ FLiGHT performed by the JACK Quartet and Michael Hersch’s “…das Rückgrat berstend” performed by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and cellist Jay Campbell. Actor Charlotte Rampling and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton gave the US premiere of The Night Dances on the series in 2015, which brought together Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo cello and poetry by Sylvia Plath; Wieder-Atherton returned to the Armory in 2017 for the North American premiere of Little Girl Blue, a program that reimagined the music of Nina Simone. New York premieres include: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s In the Light of Air and Shades of Silence performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble; Dai Kujikura’s Minina, John Zorn’s Baudelaires, and a new arrangement of Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel, also performed by ICE; Michael Gordon’s Rushes performed by the Rushes Ensemble; Michael Harrison’s Just Constellations performed by Roomful of Teeth; David Lang’s depart, Gabriel Jackson’s Our flags are wafting in hope and grief and Rigwreck, Kile Smith’s “Conversation in the Mountains” from Where Flames A Word, Louis Andriessen’s Ahania Weeping, Suzanne Giraud’s Johannisbaum, David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet, Benjamin CS Boyle’s Empire of Crystal, and Ted Hearne’s Animals (commissioned by Park Avenue Armory), all performed by The Crossing under conductor Donald Nally; and John Zorn’s Jumalatteret sung by soprano Barbara Hannigan with pianist Stephen Gosling.

Additional notable programs include performances by: baritone Christian Gerhaher with pianist Gerold Huber; the Flux Quartet; tenor Ian Bostridge with pianist Wenwen Du; pianist David Fray; soprano Lisette Oropesa with pianist John Churchwell countertenor Andreas Scholl with harpsichordist Tamar Halperin; soprano Kate Royal with pianist Joseph Middleton; pipa player Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet; tenor Lawrence Brownlee with pianists Myra Huang and Jason Moran; mezzo soprano Isabel Leonard with pianist Ted Sperling; soprano Nadine Sierra with pianist Brian Wagorn; soprano Rosa Feola with pianist Iain Burnside; cellist Nicolas Altstaedt; tenor Paul Appleby with pianist Conor Hanick; baritone Will Liverman with pianist Myra Huang; mezzo soprano Jamie Barton with pianist and composer Jake Heggie; new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound; French period choir and chamber orchestra Ensemble Correspondances under the direction of harpsichordist and organist Sébastien Daucé; baritone Justin Austin and pianist Howard Watkins; and soprano Ying Fang with pianist Ken Noda.

NEXT IN THE SERIES

KATE LINDSEY AND JUSTINA LEE

october 16 & 17

Mezzo soprano Kate Lindsey is one of the most promising voices of her generation, receiving ovations from audiences in the world’s most prestigious opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, and Salzburg, Glyndebourne, and Aix-en-Provence festivals. She performs on a far more intimate stage with pianist Justina Lee in a chamber program that beautifully highlights her vivacious musicality, agile technique, and unmatched command of an audience. The program will include works by Schumann, Fauré, and Sondheim.

armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory

NEXT AT THE ARMORY

MUTANT;DESTRUDO

october 11 – 15

World Premiere, A Park Avenue Armory Commission

Directed by Arca, Mutant;Destrudo congregates her close friends and collaborators around a shared vision of creating space to allow for deconstruction of preconceptions. This ambitious new project is steeped in electronic music sound design to induce various states of embodied physicality and synthesize new ways to mediate both the ego and identity at large. The resulting Armory commission continues her ongoing practice of creating instances which merge all forms of creative practice, reexamining the ritual of the concert as a moment of heightened connection between those present.

THE RITE OF SPRING / COMMON GROUND[S]

november 29 – december 14

New York Premiere

Faithful to Stravinsky’s visceral score, Pina Bausch’s monumental choreography is given a thrilling new life by a specially assembled company of 36 dancers from 14 African countries. Danced on a peat-covered stage, they clash and engage in a wild and poetic struggle of life, ritual, and sacrifice that pays tribute to her unparalleled genius. Rite is paired with a new work created, performed, and inspired by the lives of two remarkable choreographers, professors, and grandmothers: Germaine Acogny, the founder of the Senegalese École des Sables who is widely considered to be “the mother of contemporary African dance,” and Malou Airuado, who performed leading roles in many of Bausch’s early works as a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. This poetic and tender antidote to Rite reflects their shared histories, emotional experiences, and common ground.

MAKING SPACE AT THE ARMORY CORPUS DELICTI

october 14

At a moment of maximum anxiety and backlash over the fundamental human rights to autonomy, expressivity, modification, and self-transformation of the body, this afternoon happening uplifting the NYC Trans Oral History Project includes a series of panel discussions exploring topics including an examination of trans life through the lens of time, intergenerational voices telling their stories, and exploring the creative projects that have been born out of trans life.

SEASONS OF DANCE

december 3

Thomas F. DeFrantz moderates a consideration of the living legacy of Pina Bausch and a celebration of the diversity of contemporary dance flourishing in Africa today. He is joined by Jorge Puerta Armenta, Germaine Acogny, Malou Airuado, dancers from the company of The Rite of Spring, and others.

ARTISTS STUDIO

THE AACM: POWER STRONGER THAN ITSELF, A TALK BY GEORGE

E. LEWIS

november 18 at 3pm

Founded on the virtually all-Black South Side of Chicago in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians has played an unusually prominent role in the development of American experimental music, exploring an unprecedented range of methodologies, processes, and media. Scholar-composer George E. Lewis, Professor of Music at Columbia University and an AACM member since 1971, presents an historical overview of the works of the famed collective.

THE REGGIE NICHOLSON PERCUSSION CONCEPT

november 18 at 7pm & 9pm

Reggie Nicholson’s signature style and sound have made him one of the most inventive and inspirational drummer/ percussionists of his generation, composing and improvising original music that showcases his formidable technique and considerable skill. He performs some of his recent works and world premieres for percussion ensemble, displaying his “exquisite splashes of color and unmetered cascades on the drums” (Chicago Tribune) with his ensemble, the Reggie Nicholson Percussion Concept.

AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS CHORAL WORKSHOP

december 17

Prodigious pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and improvisationist Amina Claudine Myers is a visionary in the areas of composition for vocal choirs and instrumental ensembles, composing a wide range of works that distinctly blend traditional influences from spiritual, gospel, and jazz, to extended forms and improvisations. The multi-talented trailblazer leads a vocal workshop for aspiring singers and the general public to perform some of her original compositions.

ARMORY PUBLIC TOURS

various times

Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided walking tour of the building. Explore from the soaring 55,000-squarefoot 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.

ABOUT PARK AVENUE ARMORY

Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory supports unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall—reminiscent of 19th-century European train stations—and an array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory provides a platform for artists to push the boundaries of their practice, collaborate across disciplines, and create new work in dialogue with the historic building. Across its grand and intimate spaces, the Armory enables a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in New York.

The Armory both commissions and presents performances and installations in the grand Drill Hall and offers more intimate programming through its acclaimed Recital Series, which showcases musical talent from across the globe within the salon setting of the Board of Officers Room; its Artists Studio series curated by Jason Moran in the restored Veterans Room; Making Space at the Armory, a public programming series that brings together a discipline-spanning group of artists and cultural thought-leaders around the important issues of our time; and the Malkin Lecture Series that features presentations by scholars and writers on topics related to Park Avenue Armory and its history. In addition, the Armory also has a year-round Artists-in-Residence program, providing space and support for artists to create new work and expand their practices.

The Armory’s creativity-based arts education programs provide access to the arts to thousands of students from underserved New York City public schools, engaging them with the institution’s artistic programming and outside-the-box creative processes. Through its education initiatives, the Armory provides access to all Drill Hall performances, workshops taught by Master Teaching Artists, and in-depth residencies that support the schools’ curriculum. Youth Corps, the Armory’s year-round paid internship program, begins in high school and continues into the critical post-high school years, providing interns with mentored employment, job training, and skill development, as well as a network of peers and mentors to support their individual college and career goals.

The Armory is undergoing a multi-phase renovation and restoration of its historic building led by architects Herzog & de Meuron, with Platt Byard Dovell White as Executive Architects.

PARK AVENUE ARMORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman Emeritus

Elihu Rose, PhD

Co-Chairs

Adam R. Flatto

Amanda J.T. Riegel

President

Rebecca Robertson

Vice Presidents

David Fox

Pablo Legorreta

Emanuel Stern

Treasurer

Emanuel Stern

Marina Abramović

Abigail Baratta

Joyce F. Brown

Cora Cahan

Hélène Comfort

Paul Cronson

Jonathan Davis

Tina R. Davis

Jessie Ding

Sanford B. Ehrenkranz

Roberta Garza

Kim Greenberg

Andrew Gundlach

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Samhita Jayanti

Edward G. Klein, Brigadier General NYNG (Ret.)

Ralph Lemon

Jason Moran

Janet C. Ross

Joan Steinberg

Peter Zhou

Founding Chairman, 2000–2009

Wade F.B. Thompson

Pierre Audi, Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

Avant Garde Chair

Adrienne Katz

Directors Emeriti

Harrison M. Bains, Jr.

Angela E. Thompson

PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF

Rebecca Robertson Adam R. Flatto Founding President and Executive Producer

Pierre Audi Marina Kellen French Artistic Director

ARTISTIC PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING

Michael Lonergan Chief Artistic Producer

Kevin Condardo General Manager

Rachel Rosado Producer

Samantha Cortez Producer

Darian Suggs Associate Director, Public Programming

Kanako Morita Associate Producer/Company Manager

Oscar Peña Programming Coordinator

ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

Paul King Director of Production

Claire Marberg Deputy Director of Production

Nicholas Lazzaro Technical Director

Lars Nelson Technical Director

Aidan Nelson Technical Director

Rachel Baumann Production Coordinator

ARTS EDUCATION

Cassidy L. Jones Chief Education Officer

Monica Weigel McCarthy Director of Education

Aarti Ogirala Associate Director of Education, School Programs

Nadia Parfait School Programs Coordinator

Ciara Ward Youth Corps Manager

Bev Vega Youth Corps Manager

Drew Petersen Education Special Projects Manager

Emily Bruner, Donna Costello, Alexander Davis, Asma Feyijinmi, Hawley Hussey, Larry Jackson, Hector Morales, Peter Musante, Drew Petersen, Leigh Poulos, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Vickie Tanner Teaching Artists

Wilson Castro, Shar Galarza, Daniel Gomez, Nancy K. Gomez, Maxim Ibadov, Amo Ortiz Teaching Associates

Arabia Elliot Currence, Victoria Fernandez, Sebastian Harris, Melissa Velasquez Teaching Apprentices

Kenny Amesquita, Nat Banaszek, Eden Battice, Adwoa Boateng, Vicky Braga Dos Santos Casey, Wildany Ferol, Adonai FletcherJones, Lolo Iberle, Mia Kokilashvili, Sheena Luke, Sofia Maza, Oscar Montenegro, Kelsy Padilla, Silas Rodriguez, Fahmida Rimpa, Denivia Rivera, Arley Suarez, AJ Volkov Youth Corps

BUILDING AND MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS

Jenni Kim Chief Operating Officer

Ashlee Willaman Director of Human Resources

Marc Von Braunsberg Director of Operations and Security

Paul Sutter Director of Facilities and Capital Projects

David Burnhauser Collection Manager

Frank Duda Facilities Manager

Emma Paton Administrative and Office Coordinator

Williams Say Superintendent

Olga Cruz, Leandro Dasso, Mayra DeLeon, Mario Esquilin, Jeferson Avila, Branden Fell, Jacob Garrity, Joshua Rosa, Tyrell Shannon Castillo Maintenance Staff

Jason Moran Curator, Artists Studio

Tavia Nyong’o Curator, Public Programming

Oku Okoko Director of IT

Ethan Cohen IT Administrator

Natasha Michele Norton Director of House Management

Alejandra Ortiz House Manager

Jacqueline Babek, Emma Buford, Sarah Gallick, Daniel Gomez, Eboni Green, Nariah Green, Maxim Ibadov, Sandra Kitt, Christine Lemme, Beth Miller, Drew O’Bryan, Jon Ovadia, Regina Pearsall, Shimel Purnell, Eileen Rourke, Michael Simon, Kin Tam, Kathleen White Ushers

DEVELOPMENT

Melanie Forman Chief Development Officer

Charmaine Portis Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer

Sarah Rodriguez Director of Development

Chiara Bosco Individual Giving Coordinator

Angel Genares Director of Institutional Giving

Kelly Carr Associate Director of Special Events

Séverine Kaufman Special Events Manager

Michael Buffer Database Manager

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Lori Nelson Executive Assistant to the President

Nathalie Etienne Administrative Assistant, President’s Office

Simone Elhart Rentals and Project Manager

FINANCE

Khemraj Dat Accounting Manager

Zeinebou Dia Junior Accountant

MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS and BOX OFFICE

Tom Trayer Chief Marketing Officer

Nick Yarbrough Senior Digital Marketing Manager

Allison Abbott Press and Editorial Manager

Joe Petrowski Director of Ticketing and Customer Relations

Monica Diaz Box Office Manager

John Hooper Box Office Lead

Victor Daniel Ayala, Isabelle Graham, Sarah Jack, Max Komisar, Mary McDonnell, Michelle Meged, Maeghan Suzik Box Office Associates

Resnicow + Associates, Inc. Press Representatives

JOIN THE ARMORY

Become a Park Avenue Armory member and join us in our mission to present unconventional works that cannot be fully realized elsewhere in New York City. Members play an important role in helping us push the boundaries of creativity and expression.

FRIEND $100

$64 is tax deductible

» 10% discount on tickets to all Armory tours and performances*

» 20% discount on member subscription packages*

» Invitations to member preview party for visual art installations

» Complimentary admission for two to visual art installations

» Access to the Membership Hotline for ticket assistance

» Discounts at local partnered restaurants

SUPPORTER $250

$194 is tax deductible

All benefits of the Friend membership plus:

» Fees waived on ticket exchanges*

» Two free tickets to Armory Public Tours***

» Invitation to annual Member event

ASSOCIATE $500

$348 is tax deductible

All benefits of the Supporter membership plus:

» Complimentary admission for two additional guests (total of four) to visual art installations and member preview party

» Two free passes to annual fairs held at the Armory, such as TEFAF, The Art Show, Salon Art + Design, etc.**

» Access to the Patron Lounge at select productions

BENEFACTOR $1,000

$824 is tax deductible

All benefits of the Associate membership plus:

» Recognition in the Armory printed programs

» No-wait ticket pick up at the patron desk

» Handling fees waived on ticket purchases*

» Invitation for you and a guest to a private Chairman’s Circle event

» Two complimentary tickets to the Malkin Lecture Series*

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE starting at $2,500

Chairman’s Circle members provide vital support for the Armory’s immersive arts and education programming and the restoration of our landmark building. In grateful appreciation of their support, they are provided unique and exclusive opportunities to experience the Armory and interact with our world-class artists.

AVANT-GARDE starting at $350

The Avant-Garde is a group for adventurous art enthusiasts in their 20s to early 40s. Members enjoy an intimate look at Armory productions, as well as invitations to forward-thinking art events around New York City.

For information on ticketing, or to purchase tickets, please contact the Box Office at (212) 933-5812 or visit us at armoryonpark.org.

For more information about membership, please contact the Membership Office at (212) 616-3958 or members@armoryonpark.org.

Each membership applies to one household, and one membership card is mailed upon membership activation.

*Subject to ticket availability **Certain restrictions apply ***Reservations required

PARK AVENUE ARMORY ARTISTIC COUNCIL

Co-Chairs

Noreen Buckfire

Lisa Miller

Anonymous (2)

Anne-Victoire Auriault/Goldman Sachs

Gives

Abigail and Joseph Baratta

Ken and Noreen Buckfire

Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort

Caroline and Paul Cronson

Jessie Ding and Ning JIn

Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz

The Lehoczky Escobar Family

Adam R. Flatto

Roberta Garza

LEGACY CIRCLE

Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy

Barbara and Peter Georgescu

Kim and Jeff Greenberg

Barbara and Andrew Gundlach

Anita K. Hersh*

Lawrence and Sharon Hite

Samhita and Ignacio Jayanti

Wendy Keys

Kameron Kordestani

Fernand Lamesch

Almudena and Pablo Legorreta

Christina and Alan MacDonald

John and Lisa Miller

Lily O’Boyle

Valerie Pels

Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel

Susan and Elihu Rose

Janet C. Ross

Caryn Schacht and David Fox

Brian S. Snyder

Joan and Michael Steinberg

Emanuel Stern

Jon Stryker and Slobodan Randjelović

Merryl and James Tisch

Saundra Whitney

Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee

The Armory’s Legacy Circle is a group of individuals who support Park Avenue Armory through a vitally important source of future funding, a planned gift. These gifts will help support the Armory’s outside-the-box artistic programming, Arts Education Programs, and historic preservation into the future.

Founding Members

Angela and Wade F.B. Thompson

Co-Chairs

Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz

Marjorie and Gurnee Hart

SUPPORTERS

Members

The Estate of Ginette Becker

Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick

Emme and Jonathan Deland

Adam R. Flatto

Roberta Garza

Marjorie and Gurnee Hart

Ken Kuchin

Heidi McWilliams

Michelle Perr

Amanda Thompson Riegel

Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief

Susan and Elihu Rose

Francesca Schwartz

Joan and Michael Steinberg

Angela and Wade F. B. Thompson

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

Adam R. Flatto

Marina Kellen French

Barbara and Andrew Gundlach

Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc.

Richard and Ronay Menschel

New York City Council and Council Member

Daniel R. Garodnick

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

New York State 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 Smilow 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

Almudena and Pablo Legorreta

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan

Donna and Marvin Schwartz

Emanuel Stern

Anonymous

$250,000 to $499,999

American Express

Abigail and Joseph Baratta

Michael Field

Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan

The Rockefeller Foundation

Marshall Rose Family Foundation

$100,000 to $249,999

The Achelis and Bodman Foundations

R. Mark and Wendy Adams

Linda and Earle Altman

Booth Ferris Foundation

Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Courtney and Jonathan Davis

The Artistic Council is a leadership group that champions and supports groundbreaking “only at the Armory” productions.

Jessie Ding and Ning Jin

Roberta Garza

Howard Gilman Foundation

Marjorie and Gurnee Hart

Anita K. Hersh

Samhita and Ignacio Jayanti

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Leonard & Judy Lauder Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Lester Morse

New York State Assembly

New York State Council on the Arts

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Donald Pels Charitable Trust

Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker

Daniel and Joanna S. Rose

Mrs. Janet C. Ross

Caryn Schacht and David Fox

Stacy Schiff and Marc de La Bruyère

Harold and Mimi Steinberg

Charitable Trust

Joan and Michael Steinberg

Mr. William C. Tomson

Peter Zhou and Lisa Lee

$25,000 to $99,999

Arthur R. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation

Anne-Victoire Auriault / Goldman Sachs Gives

The Avenue Association

Christine and Turner Batty

Sonja and Martin J. Brand

Noreen and Ken Buckfire

The Cowles Charitable Trust

Caroline and Paul Cronson

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Emme and Jonathan Deland

Andrew L. Farkas & Island Capital Group LLC

Lorraine Gallard and Richard H. Levy

Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation

Barbara and Peter Georgescu

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Kim and Jeff Greenberg

Agnes Gund

Janet Halvorson

The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation

The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation

Fernand Lamesch

The Lehoczky Escobar Family

George S. Loening

Christina and Alan MacDonald

Christine and Richard Mack

Marc Haas Foundation

The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Katharine Rayner

The Reed Foundation

Rhodebeck Charitable Trust

Genie and Donald Rice

Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel

Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief

The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman

Amy and Jeffrey Silverman

Sanford L. Smith

Brian S. Snyder

Mimi Klein Sternlicht

TEFAF NY

Tishman Speyer

Barbara D. Tober

Jane Toll and Robert Toll*

Deborah C. van Eck

Wescustogo Foundation

Winston & Strawn LLP

Anonymous (3)

$10,000 to $24,999

AECOM Tishman

Jody and John Arnhold

Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Harrison and Leslie Bains

Mercedes Bass

Debra and Leon Black

Sergey G Butkevich

Tim Cameron Coach

Ania Coffey

Betsy and Edward Cohen

Con Edison

Antoinette Delruelle and Joshua L. Steiner

William F. Draper

Sarah Jane and Trevor Gibbons

Kiendl and John Gordon

Herzog & de Meuron

Lawrence and Sharon Hite

Kameron Kordestani

Suzie and Bruce Kovner

Leon Levy Foundation

James Marlas and Marie NugentHead Marlas

Danny and Audrey Meyer

John and Lisa Miller

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Helen Nash

Lily O’Boyle

Michael Peterson

Joan and Joel I. Picket

Anne and Skip Pratt

Esther Rosenberg

Valerie Rubsamen and Cedomir Crnkovic

Fiona and Eric Rudin

May and Samuel Rudin Family

Foundation, Inc.

Mrs. William H. Sandholm

Philip Schmerbeck/Herzog & de Meuron USA

Cynthia and Tom Sculco

Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation

Jean and Gene Stark

Beatrice Stern

The Polonsky Foundation

Merryl and James Tisch

Andrew and Purva Tsai

Susan Unterberg

Saundra Whitney

George Wang

Michael Weinstein

Maria Wirth

Samiah Zafar and Minhaj Patel

Anonymous (5)

$5,000 to $9,999

Amy and David Abrams

Donald Allison and Sumiko Ito

Judy Hart Angelo

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Mortimer Berkowitz III

Sara and Mark Bloom

The Emma and Georgina

Bloomberg Foundation

Nicholas Brawer

Catherine and Robert Brawer

Dr. Joyce F. Brown and Mr. H. Carl McCall

Amanda M. Burden

Mary and Brad Burnham

Michael Clifford and Robert Levy

Ben Cohen

Orla Coleman and Rikki Tahta

Joyce B. Cowin

Irene Danilovich

David Schwartz Foundation, Inc.

Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer

Jeanne Donovan Fisher

Peggy and Millard Drexler

Family Foundation

Douglas and Susanne Durst

Caryl S. Englander

Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff

The Felicia Fund

Andrew and Theresa Fenster

Jill and Michael J. Franco

Amandine Freidheim

Mary Ann Fribourg

Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein

Martin and Lauren Geller

Heather & Andrew Georges

The Georgetown Company

Elizabeth and David GranvilleSmith

Dedrea and Paul Gray

Great Performances

Guenther Greiner

Allen and Deborah Grubman

George and Patty Grunebaum

Tania Higgins

Adrienne Katz

Claire King

The David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation

Jill and Peter Kraus

Sheila and Bill Lambert

Kate Lauprete

Julia Ledda and Hassan Taher

Gail and Alan Levenstein

The Honorable and Mrs. Earle I Mack

Shelly and Tony Malkin

Marian Goodman Gallery

Joyce F. Menschel

James and Margo Nederlander

Jesse and Stéphanie Newhouse

Elyse and Michael Newhouse

Anna Nikolayevsky

Lynn Nottage and Tony Gerber

Arlena Olsten

David Orentreich, MD / Orentreich Family Foundation

PBDW Architects

Susan Porter

Preserve New York, a grant program of Preservation League of New York

Frances A. Resheske

Frank Richardson and Kimbra Wood

Richenthal Foundation

Robert Rosen and Dr. Dale Atkins Rosen

Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation

Jane Fearer Safer

Robyn and Seymour Sammell

Susan Savitsky

Sara Lee and Axel Schupf

David Schwartz Foundation Inc.

Matthew and Stephanie Sharp

Denise Simon and Paulo Vieira da Cunha

Lea Simonds

Patricia Brown Specter

Doug C. Steiner

Michael & Allison Stillman

Michael and Veronica Stubbs

Michael Tuch Foundation

L.F. Turner

Cynthia and Jan van Eck

Alyssa Varadhan

Theodora Velys

Bob Vila and Diana Barrett

Cristina von Bargen and Jonathan McHardy

Anastasia Vournas and J. William Uhrig

Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Warshawsky

Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc.

Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg

Gary and Nina Wexler

Valda Witt and Jay Hatfield

Lisa and David Wolf

Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt

Toni Young

Elham Yousefi

Judy Francis Zankel

Kiddy Zhou and Lu Li Zubatkin Owner Representation, LLC

Anonymous (3)

$2,500 to $4,999

Katie Adams Schaeffer

Allen Adler and Frances Beatty

Fabrizio and Enrica Arengi

Bentivoglio

Michael S. Arlein

David and Janice Barnard

Laurel Beebe Barrack

BDO United States

Tony Bechara

Catherine Behrend

Marjaleena and Jonathan Berger

Mr. Stephen Berger and Ms. Cynthia Wainwright

Stephanie Bernheim

Katherine and Marco Birch

Allison M. Blinken

Clemence Boissonnas

Melanie Bouvard and Matthew Bird

Carolyn S. Brody

Annabel Buckfire

Arthur and Linda Carter

Alexandre and Lori Chemla

Betsy Cohn

Margaret Conklin

Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz

Ellie and Edgar Cullman

Joshua Dachs / Fisher Dachs Associates

Joan K. Davidson* (The J.M. Kaplan Fund)

Peter Droste

Susan Dunn and Rob Cunjak

Karen Eckhoff

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz

Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Foundation

Deborah and Ronald Eisenberg Foundation

Leslie Falk

Jared Feldman / Anchin Private Client

Laura Jane Finn

Megan Flanigan

Ella M. Foshay and Michael B. Rothfeld

Gwen and Austin Fragomen

Eleanor Friedman and Jonathan J. Cohen

Julie Geden

Buzzy Geduld

Rosalind and Eugene Glaser

Sylvia Golden and Warren Friedman

Robert and Trudy Gottesman

Robert S. Gregory

Phillip Gulley

Ian and Lea Highet

Andrea Hirsch

Johanna Hudgens and Matthew Wilson

Phyllis Hyde

Laura Isenberg

Kamila Islam

Shujaat Islam and Fay Sardjono

Judith Jadow

Anu Jayanti

Tianyue Jiang

Jim and Leslie Johnson

Jeanne Kanders

Jennie A. Kassanoff and Daniel H. Schulman

Lee Kern

Timothy and Jessica Kisling

Jana and Gerold Klauer

Meghan Klopp

Douglas and Judith Krupp

Lizbeth & George Krupp

Theodore and Adeline Kurz

Jerome and Sara Lande

Lazarus Charitable Trust

Les Yeux Art Foundation Inc.

Stephen Ludwig

Lili Lynton and Michael Ryan

Gina Giumarra MacArthur

Charles and Georgette Mallory

Joanie Martinez-Rudkovsky

Bonnie Maslin

Nina B. Matis

Peter and Leni May

Claudia and Eduardo Mazzi

Peter D. McCann, MD

Ryan McNaughton and Anastasia

Antoniev

Constance and H. Roemer McPhee

Israel Meir & Steve Rivera

Saleem and Jane Muqaddam

Leslie and Curt Myers

Susan and Peter* Nitze

Stephen Novick

Susan Numeroff

Kathleen O’Grady

Patsy Orlofsky

Peter and Beverly Orthwein

Robert Ouimette and Lee Hirsch

Claudia and Gunnar Overstrom

Lee and Lori Parks

The Pass Family

Sanjay and Leslie Patel

Louis and Barbara Perlmutter

Richard and Rose Petrocelli

Marnie Pillsbury

Natalya and Nicolas Poniatowski

Phyllis Posnick and Paul Cohen

Rajika and Anupam Puri

Jennifer Reardon

Diana and Charles Revson

Laura and Gerald Rosberg

Tamika Rose

Marjorie P. Rosenthal

Deborah and Chuck Royce

Susan Rudin

Sana H. Sabbagh

John and Shelby Saer

Susan and Charles Sawyers

Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch

Stefan and Heidi Selig

Douglas Sills

Laura Skoler

Daisy M. Soros

Stephen and Constance Spahn

Michael and Marjorie Stern

Susan Stockel

Leila Maw Straus

Stella Strazdas and Henry Forrest

Geri Thomas

Union Square Events

Mrs. William J. vanden Heuvel

Robert Warshaw and Debbie Schmidt

Jacqueline Weld Drake

Andrew and Sarah Wetenhall

Michael Woloz

Amy Yenkin and Robert Usdan

Anonymous (9)

$1,000 to $2,499

Diane and Arthur Abbey

Marina Abramović

Travis Acquavella

Gina Addeo

Benigno Aguilar and Gerald Erickson

Eric Altmann

Ksenia Anisimova

Dr. Lora Aroyo

Catherine S.G. Atterbury

Edward and Elizabeth Baker

Barbara and Jude Barbera

Laurie G Beckelman

Stefan Beckman

Judy and Howard Berkowitz

Richard Berndt and MarieCamille Havard

Elaine S. Bernstein

Bluestem Prairie Foundation

Boehm Family Foundation

Maegan Boger

Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz

Polly Shih Brandmeyer

Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky

Spencer Brownstone

Hugh Burns and Molly Duffy

Cora Cahan

Janel Anderberg Callon

Sana Clegg

Christine Connolly

Dr. and Mrs. Bradley A. Connor

Andre Cornelius

Marina Couloucoundis

Sophie Coumantaros

Abby and Andrew Crisses

Austen and Ernesto Cruz

Sasha Cutter and Aaron Hsu

John Charles and Nathalie Danilovich

Richard and Peggy Danziger

Richard and Barbara Debs

David desJardins & Nancy Blachman

Amy and Tony Downer

Christopher Duda

Eamon Early

Roger and Carol Einiger

Marla Eisbruck

Frederick & Diana Elghanayan

Patricia Ellis

Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo

Dasha Epstein

Darice and Jason Fadeyi

Patricia Falkenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Farmakis

Femenella & Associates, Inc.

Walter and Judith Flamenbaum

Frances Fontaine and Anthony Chedid

Melanie and Robert Forman

Kristin Gamble

Sayuri Ganepola and Jeff Kaczynski

Bruce and Alice Geismar

Elisa H Gerarden

DeNora Getachew

David and Susan Getz

Gregory Gilmartin

Steven and Jan Golann

Katja Goldman

Mitch Gordon and Julie Appel

Notoya Green and Fred Mwangaguhunga

Karen and Jeff Groeger

Jan M. Guifarro

Frances and Gerard Guillemot

Kathleen and Harvey Guion

Yen Ha and Richard Tesler

Qusai Hammouri and Elizabeth Cho

Kathleen Harrison and Edward Flinn

Nicole Hart

Matthew Hemberger

Travis Hennings

Jill Herman

William T. Hillman

David and Rochelle Hirsch

Bruce Hoffman

Mr. Joseph C. Hoopes, Jr.

Julie and Dan Horton

Tom and Amy Houston

Weslie and William Janeway

Christopher and Hilda Jones

Boriana Karastoyanova

Mahesh and Bhavna Katkar

Sharon Kim

Tracy Kimmel

Brigadier General Edward G. Klein, NYNG (Ret.)

Quentin and Jayee Koffey

ABOUT THE VETERANS ROOM

The Veterans Room is among the most significant surviving interiors of the American Aesthetic Movement, and the most significant remaining intact interior in the world by Louis C. Tiffany and Co., Associated Artists. The newly formed collective led by Tiffany included some of the most significant American designers of the 19th century at early stages of their very distinguished careers: Stanford White, Samuel Colman, and Candace Wheeler among them. The design of the room by these artists was exotic, eclectic, and full of experimentation, as noted by Decorator and Furnisher in 1885 that “the prepondering styles appear to be the Greek, Moresque, and Celtic, with a dash of Egyptian, the Persian, and the Japanese in the appropriate places.”

A monument of late 19th-century decorative arts, the Veterans Room is the fourth period room at the Armory completed (out of 18). The revitalization of the room responds to the original exuberant vision for the room’s design, bringing into dialogue some of the most talented designers of the 19th and 21st centuries – Associated Artists with Herzog & de Meuron, Platt

Byrd Dovell White Architects, and a team of world-renowned artisans and experts in Tiffany glass, fine woodworking, and decorative arts.

The revitalization of the Veterans Room follows Herzog & de Meuron’s design approach for the Armory building, which seeks to highlight the distinct qualities and existing character of each individual room while interweaving contemporary elements to improve its function. Even more so than in other rooms at the Armory, Herzog & de Meuron’s approach to the Veterans Room is to amplify the beauty of the room’s original vision through adding contemporary reconstructions of lost historic materials and subtle additions with the same ethos and creative passion as the original artisans to infuse a modern energy into a harmonious, holistic design. 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, with a design process for the period rooms that emphasizes close collaboration between architect and artisan.

The restoration and renovation of the Veterans Room was made possible The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc., Susan and Elihu Rose, the Charina Endowment Fund, Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz, Almudena and Pablo Legorreta, Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly, Emanuel Stern, Adam R. Flatto, Olivia Tournay Flatto, Kenneth S. Kuchin, R. Mark and Wendy Adams, American Express, Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief, Amy and Jeffrey Silverman, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Anonymous (2).

armoryonpark.org | @ParkAveArmory

Cover photo by James Ewing.

“The rest of the world is not like this … that sublime and exclusive room, almost too opulent for this world.” —The New York Times