Park Avenue Armory 2016 Season Brochure

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SPATIAL

GRIEF

EDUCATION

FINALE

SURPRISE

LIEDER

POLITICS DANCE THEATER

MUSIC ART OPERA

GLEE JUSTICE RITUAL

STORYTELLING TECHNOLOGY CULTURE

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march 22– 30

Louis Andriessen Heiner Goebbels ICE PETER RUNDEL

“Epic … an unclassifiable hybrid of theatre, narration, singing, instrumental music and philosophical reflection … [with] absolutely compelling materiality” — The Guardian (UK)

Louis Andriessen is one of Europe’s most eminent and influential composers, whose music is marked by the combination of forward propulsion, sparseness, and clarity from large blocks of sound to minimalism. But there is nothing minimal about De Materie, starting with its all-encompassing theme: the relationship between matter and spirit. Like four voluminous chapters of a book or movements of a symphony, this exceptional music theater masterwork is better thought of as a series of visions, as much choreographic as it is operatic.

Visionary director Heiner Goebbels stages this monumental work in a highly-imaginative production that infuses the work’s journey through a sequence of non-narrative tableaus with stunning visual imagery to help convey its meaning, with references to Mondrian and Madame Curie as well as floating zeppelins and a flock of sheep. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) under the direction of Peter Rundel takes on the sonically varied score, which serves as its own journey through eras and styles of music history from early Renaissance, to the jazz-tinged roaring 20s, to contemporary music of today. The vastness of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall is the perfect setting to fully realize this rarelystaged work, which premiered more than 25 years ago and only now makes its highlyanticipated North American stage premiere.

PERFORMANCES March 22-30 Tuesday-Thursday at 7:30pm Friday-Saturday at 8:00pm

A Production of the Ruhrtriennale – Festival of the Arts Adapted by Park Avenue Armory

Photo: Wonge Bergmann for the Ruhrtriennale 2014

Tickets start at $40

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N orth A merican S tage P remiere Composer Louis Andriessen Director Heiner Goebbels Stage and Lighting Designer Klaus Gruenberg

International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Conductor Peter Rundel

june 8– august 7

MARTIN CREED

“Clever, dumb, smart and stupidly gorgeous. Whatever Creed does … he brings a joyousness, lightness and objectivity to the task.”

— The Guardian (UK)

Winner of the 2001 Turner Prize, British artist Martin Creed has pursued an extraordinary path by confounding the traditional categories of art and employing a minimalistic approach that strips away the unnecessary while preserving an abundance of wit, humor, and surprise.

Crossing all media including painting, drawing, music, dance, theater, film, sculpture, fashion, and more, Creed’s practice meditates on our everyday existence and the visible and invisible structures that shape our lives.

Creed continues his ongoing exploration into rhythm, scale, and order in his largest installation in the U.S. to date, a survey of his work from its most minimal moments to extravagant, larger-than-life installations. Utilizing both the Wade Thompson Drill Hall and the historic interiors of the building, Creed will reimagine the space with opening and closing doors, curtains, a slamming piano, and balloons, amongst other new works made for this exhibition. These materials and situations, when grouped together, create a playful spectacle within a framework that provides the viewer with a fascinating way to counter our visually overloaded, choice-saturated culture.

HOURS June 8-August 7

Tickets: $15 | Free for Park Avenue Armory Members C ommissioned Curated by Tom

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Tuesday-Thursday: 12:00pm-8:00pm Friday: 12:00pm-10:00pm Saturday-Sunday: 12:00pm-7:00pm

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september 13–25

Taryn Simon

“One of the leading artists to understand our moment in history” — Interview Magazine

Taryn Simon is an enigmatic and groundbreaking artist working in photography, video, text, sculpture, and performance. Her practice involves rigorous research and investigation into the power and structure of secrecy and the precarious nature of survival. Often highlighting moments of collapse in authority and seemingly functional systems, she underscores our operational and emotional vulnerabilities.

Simon continues to challenge the limits of this exploration in a new work that blurs the lines between audience, performer, performance, and reality. Commissioned and produced by the Armory, Simon directs and designs a performance that is self-orchestrated by the audience through their collective presence, absence, and movement throughout the space. At once intensely solitary and somberly communal, the work blends performance, sound, and architecture, mapping the ways in which grief is programmed.

PERFORMANCES September 13-25 Timed Entry Tickets start at $45 W orld P remiere Simon

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Installation Design and Architecture Taryn

Artistic Concept and Direction T aryn S imon in collaboration with Shohei Shigematsu/OMA Lighting Design U rs S chĂśnebaum

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october 13– 14

Kaija Saariaho New York Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen

“To journey into Saariaho’s music is to be confronted with the darkest and most dazzling dimensions of your subconscious.”

— The Guardian (UK)

Across a crowded contemporary musical landscape, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho stands apart with her sensual, expansive soundscapes. A composer of immense imagination, her spellbinding scores evoke luminous color and emotional depth while being full of new instrumental techniques that often blend acoustic instruments with subliminal electronic manipulation. After dazzling Armory audiences with their program of spatial music in 2012, the revered New York Philharmonic returns, this time under the baton of the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence and Saariaho’s fellow countryman Esa-Pekka Salonen, for performances of some of her seminal works that need to appropriate a massive space and require surround sound for their full realization.

The program features the New York premieres of 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, written for and performed here while moving through the audience and orchestra by clarinetist Kari Kriikku. The evening also includes the U.S. premiere of Lumière 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.

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“The Board of Officers Room in the Park Avenue Armory has worked hard to carve out a niche for chamber music programming that is every bit as distinct as the monumental talk-of-the-town productions that take place in the Drill Hall.”

— The New York Times

Since its reopening in 2013, the Board of Officers Room has been lauded for becoming “a locus for important chamber-music concerts” (The New Yorker) by offering audiences the chance to enjoy the intimacy of music-making in the most personal of settings.

This season we continue that trajectory, with magical moments that include thrilling North American recital debuts, artfully curated programs by intrepid interpreters at the height of their craft, and thrilling performances that explore signal works and take the art form in exciting new directions.

lisette oropesa, soprano john churchwell, piano January 12-13

A winner of the Met’s National Council Auditions in 2005, CubanAmerican soprano Lisette Oropesa has been taking the opera world by storm ever since with vocally commanding performances at the Metropolitan Opera as well as other opera houses in the U.S. and Europe. She performs a program of Spanish art songs as well as works by Schubert and Schumann, offering audiences the chance to get to know this star on the rise in one of the only spaces that could provide such an intimate encounter – the Board of Officers Room.

Tuesday, January 12 at 7:30pm Wednesday, January 13 at 7:30pm

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Program to include works by Schubert, Schumann, Fauré, and de Falla

“… with blistering power and assurance, as well as a range of vocal colors and emotional shadings, [Oropesa] is one to watch.”

— The Boston Globe

Tickets: $75

RODERICK WILLIAMS, BARITONE JENNY AGUTTER, ACTRESS SUSIE ALLAN, PIANO Photo: Benjamin Ealovega

February 4-5 All-Schubert Program Schwanengesang, D 957 (”Swan Song”) Baritone Roderick Williams has made a name for himself on both the opera and concert stage, singing a wide repertoire of rarely-heard Baroque gems to contemporary music of today. The burnished baritone makes his North American recital debut with a performance of Schubert’s final and one of the most enduring song collections, elucidating the songs with interspersed poetry and readings for a poignant and heartfelt evening that could only be felt in the perfectly intimate setting of the Board of Officers Room.

“Williams has an enviable reputation, thanks to his handsome vocal quality, open-minded approach to repertoire and warm, unaffected stage persona.”

— The Financial Times (London)

Thursday, February 4 at 7:30pm Friday, February 5 at 8:00pm Tickets: $45

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Lindemann Young Artist Concerts March 8-10 Program include works by Robert Schumann and French composers Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Fauré, and Bizet With a roster of alumni that includes Stephanie Blythe, Nathan Gunn, and Dawn Upshaw, the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program has solidified its place in the opera world as a leader in nurturing the next generation of operatic superstars. Hear a preview of three of these soon-to-be opera greats from the program – soprano Clarissa Lyons, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, and tenor Kang Wang – in intimate evenings of song in the Board of Officers Room.

Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30pm Thursday, March 10 at 7:30pm Tickets: $35

Roomful of Teeth March 31-April 1 Program to include works by Elliot Cole and Michael Harrison

Thursday, March 31 at 7:30pm Friday, April 1 at 8:00pm Tickets: $45

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The Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth is a project dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice, exploring singing traditions and techniques from around the world in an effort to commission new vocal works without borders.

Having been heralded as “blazing a new trail” in choral music

by The New Yorker, the group performs a program of works that include Elliot Cole’s Hanuman’s Leap and others that redefine vocal music for the 21st century.

“Roomful of Teeth is making some of the most rigorously venturesome and thrillingly inventive music being made by any ensemble, vocal or instrumental, today.” — The Nation “Experimentation may be this group’s calling card, but its essence is pure joy.”

— The Boston Globe

KristÓf Baráti, violin Klára Würtz, piano April 27-28

There is no doubt that the ten Beethoven sonatas represent the most important body of work for violin and piano, setting the standard to which all other composers aspired for many years to come. Having received rave reviews for their recording of these brilliant works, celebrated duo Kristóf Baráti and Klára Würtz arrive at the Armory to interpret a selection of these wondrous works.

Wednesday, April 27 at 7:30pm Thursday, April 28 at 7:30pm

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All-Beethoven Program Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G Major, Op.30, No.3 Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op.12, No.2 Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A Major, Op.47 (“Kreutzer”)

“Baráti’s performance was, in a word, masterful. Probing, austere, meditative, it rang with a rare sense of authenticity and almost majestic scope.”

— The Washington Post

Tickets: $45

Andreas Scholl, countertenor Tamar Halperin, harpsichord Photo © Decca/James McMillan

May 21-22 Program to include works by Dowland, Campion, Purcell, Johnson, and Byrd The countertenor voice—a male who sings in the pitch range more typically associated with the alto or mezzo—came to prominence in the mid-17th century before falling from favor not even a century later. It has since enjoyed a powerful resurgence, with many countertenors now commanding praise on the world’s greatest concert and operatic stages. Andreas Scholl, who possesses one of the most beautiful countertenor voices of his generation, comes to the Board of Officers Room with a program that explores the poetry and artistic expression of the English Renaissance and Baroque at the height of the voice type’s original popularity.

“It might be a new Golden Age of the countertenor, but few can equal the sheer beauty of tone and dramatic instinct displayed by Andreas Scholl.”

— BBC Music Magazine

Saturday, May 21 at 8:00pm Sunday, May 22 at 3:00pm Tickets: $75

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Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet jose gallardo, piano Photo © Lars Borges/Mercury Classics

September 7-9 Program to include works by Debussy, Francaix, Gershwin, and Béla Kovács Born into a musical family in Vienna, clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer dabbled with the piano and cello before taking up the clarinet. The young Austrian prodigy has gone on to become principal clarinetist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, capturing audiences and critics alike with his diverse musicality and the singular beauty of tone that he coaxes from the instrument. He makes his North American recital debut in the Board of Officers Room with a program the perfectly showcases what the clarinet can do in a space that highlights the sheer beauty of chamber music.

“One of the leading clarinettists working today” — The Independent (UK)

Wednesday, September 7 at 7:30pm Friday, September 9 at 8:00pm Tickets: $45

Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello Bruno Fontaine, piano October 7-8 Little Girl Blue: From Nina Simone

Friday, October 7 at 8:00pm Saturday, October 8 at 8:00pm Tickets: $45

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Having delighted Armory audiences in 2015 with her program of Benjamin Britten’s powerful suites and Sylvia Plath’s haunting poetry, renowned cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton returns to the Board of Officers Room with the North American premiere of a program that boldly re-imagines the radical, sometimes fierce music of Nina Simone. With her cello taking the role of the torch singer’s voice, Wieder-Atherton digs deep into Simone’s universe and delivers a kaleidoscope of emotions, from honey-sweet to raw and uncompromising, and an exploration of diverse styles in this musical tour de force.

“Sonia Wieder-Atherton has created a tribute to Nina Simone that is more than the sum of its parts and a world away from a straightforward set of cover songs.”

— The Strad

JACK Quartet October 30-31 All-Roger Reynolds Program FLiGHT Photo: Justin Bernhaut

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.

“Every JACK concert transcends a run-ofthe-mill performance and becomes a true event.” — Time Out New York

Sunday, October 30 at 3:00pm Monday, October 31 at 7:30pm Tickets: $45

Kate Royal, soprano JOSEPH MIDDLETON, piano November 18-20

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 Armory to perform an artfully-curated selection of lieder and song by Robert and Clara Schumann, Mahler, and Samuel Barber.

Friday, November 18 at 8:00pm Sunday, November 20 at 3:00pm Tickets: $75

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“Komm, Trost der Welt”: a recital of Robert and Clara Schumann, Mahler, and Barber

“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

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“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.”

– Decorator and Furnisher, 1885

When the Veterans Room opened in 1881, it was hailed by The New York Times as “unique in its appointments and decorations, and is undoubtedly the most magnificent apartment of the kind in this country.” With its exquisite melding of styles and mediums evident in the creative collaboration of Louis C. Tiffany and Associated Artists in the new Aesthetic Movement style, this room represents the exuberance and innovation of exceptional young artisans approaching the decorative arts with a new vision.

Join us for a new series of events inspired by the exotic beauty of the newly-reopened space and the inventive spirit of the designers who conceived it. Curated by jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran, these performances feature a diverse mix of contemporary classical, performative art, and an improvisational approach to jazz. These cutting-edge interventions are created by dynamic artists and artistic pairings that harken back to the imagination present at the room’s inception, while testing the limits of the space and pushing their art forms in bold, new directions.

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Jason Moran March 7

Monday, March 7 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm Tickets: $60

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Jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran has a rich and varied body of work that is actively shaping the current and future landscape of jazz. Having released nine of his own albums in addition to over 30 recordings with others, Moran has garnered international acclaim including a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Album in 2014. He inaugurates the Veterans Room with a performance of works for solo piano, commemorating the auspicious occasion with a live recording for future release.

“Jason Moran [is] shaping up to be the most provocative thinker in current jazz.”

— Rolling Stone

“… it’s Moran’s writing, the bane of so many a young pyrotechnic lion, that separates him.” — Newsweek

Improvisations: Louis Andriessen AND Jason Moran Dutch contemporary composer Louis Andriessen creates music that is carefully structured, strictly notated, and technically demanding, yet he loves to improvise and is influenced and passionate about jazz as heard in many of his works. As a counterpoint to the visionary production of his monumental De Materie, he is joined by pianist Jason Moran for an evening spotlighting these jazz influences as well as other improvisations. This artfully-curated set for two pianos gives a contemporary context to musical improvisation, moving this extemporaneous art form from its origins in the time of Bach and Beethoven to the modern age.

Wednesday, March 23 at 8:00pm Tickets: $60

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“one of the most influential figures in contemporary classical music” — The New York Times on Louis Andriessen

“Moran is like no other pianist at work.

His improvisations are dynamic, eruptive, keyed to the compositions at hand.”

— Village Voice

Pauline Oliveros & Ione April 1-2

Session 1: Friday, April 1 from 7:00pm—10:00pm Session 2: Saturday, April 2 from 3:00pm—6:00pm Session 3: Saturday, April 2 at 8:00pm

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Pauline Oliveros is an American composer and accordionist who is a central figure in the development of experimental and electronic art music, redefining the boundaries of music making for more than 50 years. She is joined by noted author and poet Ione in the Veterans Room to present a Deep Listening Intensive, exploring the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening through movement and sonic, interactive meditations. Conducted in multiple sessions over two days, the experience reengages the listener with the sounds of daily life, nature, imagination, and dreams, to offer a new sonic reality that shows that there is more to listening than meets the ear.

“Oliveros’s compositions will enrich your musical imaginations, but she’ll also expand your ears … and maybe even your soul, too.”

— The Guardian (UK)

(Sonic Meditation with Pauline Oliveros and concert with Jason Moran and The Bandwagon)

Tickets: $35 (includes access to all sessions throughout the weekend. Attendance is encouraged at all sessions.)

Conrad Tao & Tyshawn Sorey May 20 A thoughtful artist and dynamic performer, 21-year-old pianist and composer Conrad Tao has already garnered praise from audiences and critics alike for his imaginative performances of a wide range of classical and contemporary repertoire. This next big thing in classical piano is joined by multifaceted percussionist and instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey, a pivotal figure in contemporary improvisation practice in his own right who operates in a wide cross-section of musical idioms. Featuring both solo performances and dynamic dual improvisations that blend their unique talents and unparalleled artistic vision, this unique pairing allows both musicians to step outside their disparate styles to share the same space together for an exciting and rarely-heard musical dialogue.

Friday, May 20 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm Tickets: $50

“ferociously talented” — Time Out New York on Conrad Tao

“A spectacular young drummer on jazz’s leading edge, Mr. Sorey has proved himself a serious new-music composer besides, sometimes to the point of cerebral severity.”

— The New York Times

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Milford Graves & Deantoni Parks June 13

Monday, June 13 at 8:00pm Tickets: $45

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The art of music making gets examined through the lenses of science and technology in this thrilling double bill of music and projection by percussion pioneers. Seminal drummer and acupuncturist Milford Graves is an innovator of free jazz, liberating percussion from its timekeeping role to inform an entirely new sound. He has since gone on to build technologies for transforming human biorhythms into electronic sounds in order to explore their percussive link to music. The ever-evolving relationship between music and technology is explored by extraordinary drummer and musician Deantoni Parks, who augments his natural talents with the benefits of sampling and technology to fuel his own singular vision, as showcased on his newly-released debut album Technoself.

“Multi-percussionist Milford Graves generate[s] all sorts of musical fire.”

— All About Jazz

“As an exercise in musicianship and high-level conceptual art, Technoself is masterful.”

— Pitchfork on Parks’s debut album

TALES OF LOVE AND FEAR: Lucy Raven September 29-30

Thursday, September 29 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm Friday, September 30 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm Tickets: $35

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Lucy Raven is an artist whose practice encompasses a wide variety of forms, including animated films, sculptural installations, performative lectures, and interventions into live television.

Connecting all of these disparate strands is the artist’s continuing exploration into the effects of technology on the world. She comes to the Veterans Room to reimagine her work Tales of Love and Fear, a unique instance of cinema that is as much a film as it is a kinetic sculpture performing the architecture of the space it inhabits. A single stereoscopic photograph is split by two projectors into left and right eye perspective which slowly counter-rotates around the room, utilizing 3D film technologies to expand the perception of the cinematic beyond the screen through an art-historical lens.

“Raven is poised to map a newly emerging regime by which filmic spaces are set.”

— Art in America

“one of the most influential figures in contemporary classical music” — The New York Times on Louis Andriessen

Camile Norment & Craig Taborn October 16

Sunday, October 16 at 5:00pm & 7:00pm Tickets: $45

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Representing Norway at the 2015 Venice Biennial, multimedia artist Camille Norment uses the notion of cultural psychoacoustics to explore the perception of sound through installation, sculpture, and performance. She is joined by improvising pianist, composer, and electronic musician Craig Taborn for a performance that blends the pair’s unique styles and instruments, electronics to the rare glass armonica. Having known each other since their college days, the duo now partner for the very first time in a presentation that traces the fringes of sound, perception, and historical memory and perfectly marries with the varying aesthetics of the space.

Ms. Norment’s instruments “can trespass the border between what is considered beautiful and what is considered noise.”

— The Wall Street Journal

“… an inspired bandleader-composer, one of the smartest and slipperiest in his peer group” — The New York Times on Craig Taborn

Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch November 21 “There is nothing else in today’s art world even remotely like Ryan Trecartin’s videos,” proclaimed Art in America. “It’s a sci-fi theater of the absurd for our manically paced YouTube era.“ Within these fluidly structured and visually commanding works, Trecarin’s groundbreaking sound design – a densely layered mix of rapid-fire dialogue, electronic music and live instrumentation – extends the depth, intensity, and insane hilarity of his art. He is joined by his principal collaborator Lizzie Fitch to presenttheir buoyant, digitallyinflected scores live for the very first time.

Monday, November 21 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm

“The most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s.”

— The New Yorker on Ryan Trecartin

Tickets: $45

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SPRING-FALL 2016 at-a-glance lisette oropesa, soprano john churchwell, piano january 12-13 Board of Officers Room tuesday, january 12 at 7:30pm wednesday, january 13 at 7:30pm

Pauline Oliveros & Ione april 1-2 Veterans Room Friday-Saturday, April 1-2 tickets: $35

TALES OF LOVE AND FEAR: Lucy Raven september 29-30 Veterans Room thursday, september 29 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm friday, september 30 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm

tickets: $75

KristÓf Baráti, violin Klara Wurt, piano

Roderick Williams, baritone Susie Allan, piano Jenny Agutter, actor

april 27 – 28 Board of Officers Room

Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello Bruno Fontaine, piano

wednesday, april 27 at 7:30pm thursday, april 28 at 7:30pm

october 7-8 Board of Officers Room

february 4-5 Board of Officers Room thursday, february 4 at 7:30pm friday, february 5 at 8:00pm tickets: $45

Jason Moran

tickets: $45

Conrad Tao & Tyshawn Sorey may 20 Veterans Room

tickets: $35

friday, october 7 at 8:00pm saturday, october 8 at 8:00pm tickets: $45

Circle Map

friday, may 20 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm tickets: $50

october 13-14 Wade Thompson Drill Hall

monday, march 7 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm tickets: $60

Andreas Scholl, countertenor Tamar Halperin, harpsichord

thursday, october 13 at 7:00pm friday, october 14 at 7:00pm

Lindemann Young Artist Concerts

may 21-22 Board of Officers Room

march 8-10 Board of Officers Room

saturday, may 21 at 8:00pm sunday, may 22 at 3:00pm

tuesday, march 8 at 7:30pm thursday, march 10 at 7:30pm

tickets: $75

march 7 Veterans Room

tickets start at $45

Camile Norment & Craig Taborn october 16 Veterans Room

tickets: $35

THE BACK DOOR: Martin Creed

sunday, october 16 at 5:00pm & 7:00pm tickets: $45

De Materie

june 8-august 7 Wade Thompson Drill Hall

JACK Quartet

tuesday-thursday: 12:00pm-8:00pm friday: 12:00pm-10:00pm saturday-sunday: 12:00pm-7:00pm

october 30-31 Board of Officers Room

tickets: $15 | free for members

sunday, october 30 at 3:00pm monday, october 31 at 7:30pm

Milford Graves & Deantoni Parks

tickets: $45

march 22-30 Wade Thompson Drill Hall tuesday, march 22 at 7:30pm thursday, march 24 at 7:30pm friday, march 25 at 8:00pm saturday, march 26 at 8:00pm tuesday, march 29 at 7:30pm wednesday, march 30 at 7:30pm tickets start at $40

Improvisations: Louis Andriessen & Jason Moran

june 13 Veterans Room monday, june 13 at 8:00pm tickets: $45

Kate Royal, soprano JOHN MIDDLETON, piano november 18-20 Board of Officers Room

Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet jose gallardo, piano

friday, november 18 at 8:00pm sunday, november 20 at 3:00pm

wednesday, march 23 at 8:00pm tickets: $60

september 7-9 Board of Officers Room

tickets: $75

Roomful of Teeth

wednesday, september 7 at 7:30pm friday, september 9 at 8:00pm

march 23 Veterans Room

march 31-april 1 Board of Officers Room thursday, march 31 at 7:30pm friday, april 1 at 8:00pm tickets: $45

tickets: $45

Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch november 21 Veterans Room

Taryn Simon

monday, november 21 at 7:00pm & 9:00pm tickets: $45

september 13-25 Wade Thompson Drill Hall tickets start at $45

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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. The series is curated by Meiyin Wang.

If something unexpected comes up, you can easily exchange subscription tickets for other performances of the same production.

This service is free for any of your season tickets.

ON-SALE DATES Subscriptions on sale now

Single Tickets De Materie; recitals by Lisette Oropesa, Roderick Williams, the Lindemann Young Artists, Roomful of Teeth, Kristof Baráti, and Andreas Scholl; and Artists Studio performances on sale now The Back Door: Martin Creed, Taryn Simon, Circle Map, and recitals

by Andreas Ottensamer, Sonia Wieder-Atherton, the JACK Quartet, and Kate Royal may 2 park avenue armory members may 5 subscribers may 9 general public

HOW TO BUY

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Family Programs Parents and children are invited to participate in interactive art-making workshops offered monthly during the school year in our historic rooms that draw upon the Armory’s castlelike setting and unique programmatic offerings to spark the imagination of children of all ages.

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.

monday – friday 10:00am-6:00pm

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Discover 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 nontraditional 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.

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, reminiscent of 19th-century European train stations 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 as assisted by Platt Byard Dovell White, as Architects of Record.

GETTING HERE Park Avenue Armory is located at 643 Park Avenue between 66th and 67th Streets. Go to armoryonpark. org for directions and transit details.

ACCESSIBILITY For individuals requiring assisted access, a sidewalklevel entrance is available at 103 East 66th Street, located just off Park Avenue. Patrons can ring the service bell when they arrive, or can make arrangements prior to arrival by calling the main security desk at (212) 616-3950 extension 1.

TOURS Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided 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, see the newly reopened veterans Room as well as spaces not regularly open to the public and learn about the design plans by acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron.

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SEASON SPONSORS:

PRODUCTION SPONSORS:

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 Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation.

The Recital Series is supported in part by a generous grant from Gwen Norton on behalf of the IKBS, and by The Reed Foundation.

Join The Armory Membership

Benefactor $1,000

Become a member of Park Avenue Armory and support the presentation of epic, unconventional arts and educational programming in the Armory’s landmarked building. Members have access to the best seats for Armory productions during exclusive presales, and are invited to experience the Armory and its artists through preview parties, open rehearsals, members-only viewing hours, building tours, and the special events.

All benefits of the Associate membership plus:

Friend $100 » Exclusive access to seats for Armory performances through members-only presale » Invitations to opening night previews for Armory visual art installations » Free admission to Armory visual art installations » Discounts on Artist Talks » Invitations to select open rehearsals » Special members-only viewing hours for select exhibitions » Discount on tickets to the Malkin Lecture Series » Free admission for guided tours of the Armory

Supporter $250 All benefits of the Friend membership plus: » Pre-registration for educational workshops » Special access to talks, programs, and tours » Up to two ticket exchanges per season*

Associate $500 All benefits of the Supporter membership plus: » Free admission for two additional guests to Armory visual art installations » Access to VIP lounge in one of the Armory’s historic rooms during performance intermissions » Recognition in Armory printed programs » Two complimentary passes to an art fair**

» Members concierge ticket service » Two complimentary tickets to the Under Construction Series

Armory Avant-Garde $350 Or $600 This exciting group invites forward-thinking individuals in their 20s through early 40s to experience new, surprising, and innovative ideas in art, and provides access to the Armory and its artists through exclusive events designed for younger supporters.

Chairman’s Circle Starting At $2,500 Members of this exclusive group are provided unique and intimate opportunities to experience the Armory, including invitations to private tours and VIP receptions with world class artists; access to premium seats and concierge ticket service; and an invitation for two to the annual Chairman’s Circle Reception.

Members at the $5,000 level and above are invited to join the Armory travel program.

Education Committee Starting At $5,000 The Armory’s arts education program reaches thousands of public school students each year, immersing them in the creative process of exceptional visual and performing artists and teaching them to explore their own creative instincts. Education Committee members are invited to special events, meetings, and workshops that allow them to witness the students’ progress and contribute to the growth of the program.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES STARTING AT $7,500 The Armory has a menu of options to engage those who are looking to delve more deeply into the artistic process. These programs also provide access to the creative minds behind the Armory’s unconventional work. For more information, please contact Nicole Kidston at (212) 616-3952.

Memberships are subject to various levels of tax deductibility.

For more information about membership, please email members@ armoryonpark.org, call (212) 616-3952 or visit armoryonpark.org/join.

board of directors Co-Chairman Elihu Rose, PhD. Co-Chairman Adam R. Flatto President and Executive Producer Rebecca Robertson

Marina Abramović Harrison M. Bains Wendy Belzberg Emma Bloomberg Carolyn Brody Cora Cahan Peter Clive Charrington Hélène Comfort Paul Cronson Sanford B. Ehrenkranz David Fox Marjorie L. Hart

Karl Katz Edward G. Klein Major General NYNG (Ret.) Ken Kuchin Mary T. Kush Pablo Legorreta Ralph Lemon Heidi McWilliams David S. Moross Gwendolyn Adams Norton Joel I. Picket Joel Press

Genie H. Rice Amanda J.T. Riegel Janet C. Ross Jeffrey Silverman Joan Steinberg Emanuel Stern Angela E. Thompson Deborah C. van Eck Founding Chairman, 2000-2009 Wade F.B. Thompson

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