Ian Bostridge & Wenwen Du Recital Series Program

ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM “The restoration of the Park Avenue Armory seems destined to set a new standard, not so much for its scale, but for its level of respect and imagination.”

– The New York Times The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important historic rooms in America and one of the few remaining interiors by Herter Brothers. After decades of progressive damage and neglect, the room completed a revitalization in 2013 by the architecture team at Herzog & de Meuron and executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White Architects to transform the space into a state-of-the-art salon for intimate performances and other contemporary art programing.

The Board of Officers Room is the third period room at the Armory completed (out of 18) and represents the full range of design tools utilized by the team including the removal of accumulated layers on the surfaces, the addition of contemporary lighting to the 1897 chandeliers, new interpretations of the stencil patterns on areas of loss, the addition of metallic finishes on new materials, new programming infrastructure, and custom designed furniture.

The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $200-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise – and hand – of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout.

The renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation.

Cover photo by Mark Adams.

2015 RECITAL SERIES IN THE NEWLY RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM

friday, april 17 at 8:00pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE, tenor WENWEN DU, piano SONGS OF WORLD WAR I

The Recital Series is supported in part by a generous grant from Gwen Norton on behalf of the IKBS and The Reed Foundation. The Recital Series is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Shubert Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Marc Haas Foundation, The Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation.

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PROGRAM SONGS OF WORLD WAR I MAHLER Revelge Der Tambourg’sell

Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Rudi STEPHAN Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied Kythere Pantherlied Abendfrieden In Nachbars Garten Glück zu Zweien Das Hohelied der Nacht

BUTTERWORTH

A Shropshire Lad

Intermission WEILL Four Walt Whitman Songs Beat! Beat! Drums!

O Captain! My Captain!

Come up from the Fields, Father Dirge for Two Veterans BRITTEN

Four Songs from Who Are These Children?, op. 84 Nightmare Slaughter Who are these children?

The Children This performance is approximately one hour and thirty minutes in length, including intermission.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM Revelge (1899) Der Tamboursg’sell (1901) Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (1898) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

by Gustav Mahler (Kalischt, Bohemia [now Kaliště, Czech Republic], 1860 – Vienna, 1911) Des Knaben Wunderhorn (“The Youth’s Magic Horn”), a collection of German folk poems, was published between 1805 and 1808 by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim.

Almost a century later, the young Gustav Mahler became so obsessed with the simplicity, immediacy, depth, and diversity of the Wunderhorn poems that he set no other texts to music for the better part of a decade. His earliest settings date from the late 1880s; 12 more songs, which were later orchestrated, were written between 1892 and 1901.

Revelge (“Reveille”) is an eerie vision in which a soldier, mortally wounded, sees an army of skeletons continue the fight and defeat the enemy. In Der Tamboursg’sell (“The Drummer Boy”), a young drummer boy faces the firing squad for desertion. The music has all the characteristics of a funeral march, but there is a certain childlike naïveté to the words and the melody, which only underscore the tragedy of the story. In Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (“Where the Fine Trumpets Sound”), a soldier is forced to leave his lover to go to battle.

Their dialogue is of the utmost tenderness; time and again, a military trumpet signal is heard in the background.

Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied (1913-14)

by Rudi Stephan (Worms, Germany, 1887 – Ukrainian front, 1915) Rudi Stephan, killed at the age of 28 in World War I, was one of the most promising young German composers of his generation. The texts of the present set of six songs are by Gertrud Emily von Schlieben (1873-1939), who used the pseudonym Gerda von Robertus. The English translation of the title, “I want to sing you a song,” doesn’t do justice to the fact that Hohelied stands for the Biblical Song of Songs.

Accordingly, the poems seek to capture the mystical, spiritual dimension of love. The music, firmly tonal but filled with unusual chord progressions, combines intense eroticism with deep introspection in a way only late Romantic Lieder can do.

A Shropshire Lad (1911)

by George Butterworth (London, 1885 – Battle of the Somme, 1916) In his collection of poems A Shropshire Lad, Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) contrasted an idealized, idyllic English countryside with the harsh realities of war and death. The poems resonated particularly strongly with composers; they were set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, John Ireland, and many others.

George Butterworth, educated at Oxford and the Royal College of Music, wrote two cycles on Housman’s poems; he also composed an orchestral rhapsody entitled A Shropshire Lad. Butterworth was particularly attracted to the folk accents in Housman’s work.

At tonight’s recital, we will hear the first Shropshire cycle. In turn nostalgic, playful, boisterous, and melancholy, the songs are also eerily prophetic: the composer would become one of “the lads that will never be old.” The last song— “Is my team ploughing?”—is a poignant dialogue between a dead soldier and his living friend, heart-rending in its balladesque simplicity.

Four Walt Whitman Songs (1941/47)

by Kurt Weill (Dessau, Germany, 1900 – New York, 1950) “Everybody tries to help the enormous war effort in his own way”—Kurt Weill wrote in a letter to his parents in 1942.

“Among other things, I’ve written some songs to poems by Walt Whitman, the great American poet.” Weill composed three of the songs shortly after Pearl Harbor; he added the fourth (“Come Up from the Fields, Father”) in 1947.

The cycle opens with the passionate call to arms, “Beat! Beat!

Drums!” followed by three images of mourning for the dead.

“O Captain! My Captain!” memorializes Abraham Lincoln. In the other two poems—a scene of a mother receiving the news of her only son’s death, and the funeral procession carrying the bodies of a father and a son who were killed together—the devastation wrought by the war becomes an intensely personal experience. Here Weill let go of all Brechtian alienation effects, and produced what amounts to a true requiem for the fallen.

Four Songs from Who are These Children?, op. 84 (1969)

by Benjamin Britten (Lowestoft, England, 1913 – Aldeburgh, 1976) Britten composed these songs on words by a Scottish poet, William Soutar (1898-1943). Besides his serious poetry in standard English, Soutar also wrote lighter verse in Scots dialect. In his 12 songs, Britten intermingled these two types of poetry—one (for the most part) invoking the happy world of childhood, the other the destruction of that world by war and human cruelty.

Mr. Bostridge will be performing the four English songs at this recital—a veritable cycle within the cycle. Britten achieved a wide expressive range while maintaining an extreme economy of means. The tree that cries out when its murderer approaches; the violent storm that “tramples cities down”; the elegant party that goes fox-hunting while towns are being bombed, and most disturbingly, the killing of innocent children—all these images are brought to life with extraordinary vividness and dramatic power. © 2015 by Peter Laki

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Ian Bostridge’s international recital career has taken him to the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh, and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade Festivals and to the main stages of Carnegie Hall and La Scala, Milan. He has held artistic residencies at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, a Carte-Blanche series with Thomas Quasthoff at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, the Barbican in London, the Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Wigmore Hall,and Hamburg Laeiszhalle.

Mr. Bostridge has worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras under Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Andrew Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Harding, and Donald Runnicles. He sang the world premiere of Henze’s Opfergang with the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano.

His operatic appearances have included Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opera Australia at the Edinburgh Festival, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte and Jupiter in Semele for English National Opera and Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Caliban in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest for the Royal Opera. For the Bavarian State Opera, he has sung Nerone in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress and Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, and Don Ottavio for the Vienna State Opera. He sang Aschenbach in Britten’s Death in Venice for English National Opera and in Brussels and Luxembourg.

Pianist Wenwen Du first trained with Mr. Dan Zhaoyi in China before studying at the Vancouver Academy of Music with her mentor, Professor Lee Kum Sing, where she earned a Bachelor’s of Music degree and an Artist Diploma.

As a solo pianist Ms. Du has been awarded prizes from Prokofiev International Piano Competition and Wiesbaden Piano Competition, as well as winning scholarships from the Vancouver Chopin Society. She has given solo piano recitals in China, North America, and Europe.

Ms. Du has collaborated with many singers. She attended courses at the Oxford Lieder Festival, at the Franz Schubert Institut, and at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, coaching with Elly Ameling, Ian Bostridge, Imogen Cooper, Julius Drake, and Wolfgang Holzmair, among others.

Ms. Du currently lives in Vancouver, Canada, while maintaining a local and international performance schedule.

Most recently she appeared at the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival and in recital with Mr. Bostridge in concerts in Dallas, Texas and at Schloss Elmau. She will tour North America with Mr. Bostridge in April 2015.

His recordings have won all the major international record prizes and been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards.

In the autumn of 2014 he embarked on a European recital tour of Winterreise with Thomas Adès to coincide with the publication by Faber and Faber in the UK and Knopf in the USA of his new book Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession at the beginning of 2015.

Mr. Bostridge was a fellow in history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and in 2001 was elected an honorary fellow of that college. In 2003 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Music by the University of St Andrew’s and in 2010 he was made an honorary fellow of St John’s College Oxford. He was made a CBE in the 2004 New Year’s Honours. He will be Humanitas Professor of Classical Music at the University of Oxford in 2014-2015.

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TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS Revelge

Reveille

Des Morgens zwischen drein und vieren, Da müssen wir Soldaten marschieren Das Gäßlein auf und ab; Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, Mein Schätzel sieht herab.

Between three and four of a morning, we soldiers have to march up and down the alleyway; tralalee, tralalay, tralala, my love looks at me from her window.

“Ach Bruder, jetzt bin ich geschossen, Die Kugel hat mich schwere, schwer getroffen, Trag mich in mein Quartier.

Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, Es ist nicht weit von hier.”

‘O comrade, I’ve been shot, the bullet’s wounded me badly, carry me back to the camp, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, it isn’t far from here.’

“Ach Bruder, ich kann dich nicht tragen, Die Feinde haben uns geschlagen, Helf dir der liebe Gott; Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, Ich muß marschieren bis in Tod.”

‘O comrade, I cannot carry you, the enemy have routed us, may dear God help you; tralalee, tralalay, tralala, I must march on to meet my death.’

“Ach Brüder, ihr geht ja mir vorüber, Als wärs mit mir vorbei, Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, Ihr tretet mir zu nah.”

‘Ah, comrades, you pass me by, as though I were done for, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, you march too close to where I lie.’

“Ich muß wohl meine Trommel rühren, Tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, Sonst werd’ ich mich verlieren, Tralali, tralaley, tralala!

Die Brüder dick gesät, Sie liegen wie gemäht.”

‘I must now start to beat my drum, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, or else I’ll be lost forever, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, my comrades strewn so thick lie like mown grass on the ground.’

Er schlägt die Trommel auf und nieder, Er wecket seine stillen Brüder, Tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley, Sie schlagen ihren Feind, Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, Ein Schrecken schlägt den Feind.

Up and down he beats his drum, he wakes his silent comrades, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, they fall upon their foe, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, and terror strikes the foe.

Er schlägt die Trommel auf und nieder, Da sind sie vor dem Nachtquartier schon wieder, Tralali, tralaley, tralali, tralaley!

Ins Gäßlein hell hinaus, Sie ziehn vor Schätzeleins Haus, Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, Sie ziehn vor Schätzeleins Haus.

Up and down he beats his drum, soon they’re all back at camp, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, out into the bright street they pass before his sweetheart’s house, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, they pass before his sweetheart’s house.

Des Morgens stehen da die Gebeine, In Reih und Glied, sie stehn wie Leichensteine, Die Trommel steht voran, Daß sie ihn sehen kann, Tralali, tralaley, tralalera, Daß sie ihn sehen kann.

There in the morning lie their bones, in rank and file like tombstones, at their head the drummer-boy that she may see him there, tralalee, tralalay, tralala, that she may see him there.

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Der Tambourg’sell

The Drummer Boy

Ich armer Tamboursgesell, Man führt mich aus dem Gwölb, Wär ich ein Tambour blieben, Dürft ich nicht gefangen liegen.

I, poor drummer boy they’re leading me from my cell.

If I had stayed a drummer I would not be imprisoned now.

O Galgen, du hohes Haus, Du siehst so furchtbar aus, Ich schau dich nicht mehr an, Weil i weiß, daß i gehör dran.

O gallows, you lofty house, You look so fearsome, I won’t look at you any longer because I know I am yours.

Wenn Soldaten vorbeimarschieren, Bei mir nicht einquartieren.

Wenn sie fragen, wer i g’wesen bin: Tambour von der Leibkompanie.

When soldiers march by who were not quartered with me when they ask who I was: I was a drummer from the first company.

Gute Nacht, ihr Marmelstein, Ihr Berg und Hügelein.

Gute Nacht, ihr Offizier, Korporal und Musketier.

Good night, marble rocks, mountains and hills Good night, officers, corporals and musketeers.

Gute Nacht! Ihr Offizier’, Korporal und Grenadier!

Ich schrei mit lauter Stimm, Von euch ich Urlaub nimm.

Gute Nacht! Gute Nacht.

Good night, officers, corporals and grenadiers, I cry with a loud voice, and take my leave of you!

Good night! Good night.

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Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

Where the splendid trumpets sound

Wer ist denn draußen und wer klopfet an, Der mich so leise wecken kann?

Das ist der Herzallerliebste dein, Steh auf und laß mich zu dir ein.

Who stands outside and knocks at my door waking me so gently?

It is your own true dearest love, arise, and let me in.

Was soll ich hier nun länger stehn?

Ich seh die Morgenröt aufgehn, Die Morgenröt, zwei helle Stern, Bei meinem Schatz da wär ich gern, Bei meinem Herzallerlieble.

Why leave me longer waiting here?

I see the rosy dawn appear, the rosy dawn and two bright stars.

I long to be beside my love, Beside my dearest love.

Däs Mädchen stand auf, und ließ ihn ein, Sie heißt ihn auch willkommen sein.

Willkommen, lieber Knabe mein, So lang hast du gestanden.

The girl arose and let him in, She bids him welcome too.

O welcome, dearest love of mine, too long have you been waiting.

Sie reicht ihm auch die schneeweiße Hand.

Von ferne sand die Nachtigall, Das Mädchen fing zu weinen an.

She gives to him her snow-white hand, from far off sang the nightingale, the girl began to weep.

Ach weine nicht, du liebste mein, Aufs Jahr sollst du mein eigen sein; Mein eigen sollst du werden gewiß, Wies keine sonst auf Erden ist.

O Lieb auf grüner Erden.

Ah, do not weep, my dearest love, within a year you shall be mine, you shall be mine most certainly, as no one else on earth.

O love upon the green earth.

Ich zieh’ in Krieg auf grüne Haid’, Die grüne Haide, die ist so weit.

Allwo dort die schönen Trompeten blasen, Da ist mein Haus von grünem Rasen.

I’m going to war, to the green heath, the green heath so far away.

There where the splendid trumpets sound, There is my home of green turf.

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Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied I want to sing you a song Texts by Gerda von Robertus Translations by Jo Bennett Kythere Der Rosen Düfte liebeatmend schwingen in weichen Wellen, die wie Brüste beben, sich zu uns über purpurblaue Meere.

Ganz ferne, feiner Äolsharfen klingen.

Die Barke, Liebster, lenk und lass uns streben gen Aphrodites Inselreich: Kythere.

Cythera Fragrance of roses, breathing love, wafts to us, in soft waves like swelling breasts, across indigo seas.

From afar comes the exquisite sound of Aeolian harps.

Pilot our bark, O best beloved, and let us seek out Aphrodite’s island realm: Cythera.

Pantherlied Geschmeidig und wild wie ein junger Panther So hast du von mir Besitz ergriffen.

Ach, wie weich ist dein Sammetfell, du schöner Panther.

Ach, und die Sammettatzen, wie lieb sie streicheln!

Lass mich nie, nie deine Krallen spüren; Neulich im Traum grubst du sie mir in’s Herz!

Panther song Supple and wild like a young panther, You have taken possession of me.

Ah, how soft is your velvet coat, you beautiful panther.

Ah, and your velvety paws, how tenderly they caress!

Never, never let me feel your claws; Lately, in a dream, you sank them deep into my heart!

Abendfrieden Das Sonnenfeuer starb -- Rubingepränge -Ganz leis verhalt des Ave letzter Ton; Die Nebel wallen eine Prozession -Wie Weihrauch schwebt es dunstig um die Hänge.

Und Friede weit -Die Seele fleht für Dich ein stilles Nachtgebet.

Evening peace With ruby splendour the sun’s fire dies, The Ave’s closing notes fade soft and low; Wreathes of mist drift in procession, Circling the slopes like a haze of incense.

And far and wide is peace— My soul pleads silently for you its evening prayer.

In Nachbars Garten In Nachbars Garten duftet die Lindenblüte schwül, Doch unter den wuchtigen Zweigen ist’s dämmerlauschig kühl.

In Nachbars Garten schatten die Lindenzweige tief als ob in den Blättern verborgen ein süß Geheimnis schlief.

In Nachbars Garten rauscht es im Lindenwipfel bewegt Als ob in Sturmes Takte ein Herz am andern schlägt.

Heut’ sah ich unter der Linde verschlungen zwei Liebende stehn’.

Weshalb nur in brennendem Schmerze die Augen mir übergehn’ ?

In the Neighbour’s Garden In the neighbour’s garden the linden blossom gives forth its sultry fragrance, Yet beneath its heavy branches is a cool dusky seclusion.

In the neighbour’s garden the linden branches cast a deep shade as if a sweet secret slept hidden in its leaves.

In the neighbour’s garden the tops of the linden trees are sighing and stirring as if one heart were beating in time with another to the cadence of the storm.

Today I saw two lovers entwined under the linden tree.

Why then do my eyes overflow in burning pain?

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Glück zu Zweien Wir haben im Lärm der Menge im Gleichempfinden geschwiegen; Wir sind aus Tal und Enge gemeinsam zu Gipfeln gestiegen.

An Felsengraten standen wir jauchzend in göttliche Weiten.

Zwei Könige wir, die fanden das Reich ihrer Einsamkeiten Das Hohelied der Nacht Zwei Tage reichen sich die Hand -- der eine schied, ein Flüstern raunt es durch die tiefe Stunde.

Es klingt einLied -- der Nacht ein Hohelied -Ich sing es mit, -- Du küsst es mir vom Munde: O hehre Nacht, tu auf dein Wunderland, Lass alles Leiderinnern Ruhe finden.

Der Liebe Meer umrauscht ja Deinen Strand, Drin alle Ströme meiner Sehnsucht münden.

Happiness Together In the hubbub of the crowd we found the silence of shared feeling; From the narrow valley we have climbed summits together.

On rocky ridges we stood exulting in divine expanses.

We were two kings discovering the realm of our solitudes.

High Song of the Night Two days touch hands—one departs, a whispered murmur passes through the deep hour.

There is the sound of a song—a High Song of the night— I sing it too—you kiss it from my mouth: Oh sublime night, open up your wonderland, Lay all remembrance of suffering to rest.

Upon your shores there beats the sea of love where all the torrents of my yearning reach their mouth.

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A Shropshire Lad Texts by Alfred Edward Housman Loveliest of trees Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow When I was one-and-twenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.”

But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, “The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; ‘Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.”

And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

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Look not in my eyes Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.

One the long nights through must lie Spent in star-defeated sighs, But why should you as well as I Perish? Gaze not in my eyes.

A Grecian lad, as I hear tell, One that many loved in vain, Looked into a forest well And never looked away again.

There, when the turf in springtime flowers, With downward eye and gazes sad, Stands amid the glancing showers A jonquil, not a Grecian lad.

Think no more, lad Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly; Why should men make haste to die?

Empty heads and tongues a-talking Make the rough road easy walking, And the feather pate of folly Bears the falling sky.

Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

If young hearts were not so clever, Oh, they would be young for ever; Think no more; ’tis only thinking Lays lads underground.

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The lads in their hundreds The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There’s men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold, The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.

There’s chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart, And many to count are the stalwart, and many the brave, And many the handsome of face and the handsome of heart, And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.

I wish one could know them, I wish there were tokens to tell The fortunate fellows that now you can never discern; And then one could talk with them friendly and wish them farewell And watch them depart on the way that they will not return.

But now you may stare as you like and there’s nothing to scan; And brushing your elbow unguessed at and not to be told They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

Is my team ploughing?

“Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive And hear the harness jingle When I was man alive?”

Ay, the horses trample, The harness jingles now; No change though you lie under The land you used to plough.

“Is football playing Along the river-shore, With lads to chase the leather, Now I stand up no more?”

Ay, the ball is flying, The lads play heart and soul; The goal stands up, the keeper Stands up to keep the goal.

“Is my girl happy, That I thought hard to leave, And has she tired of weeping As she lies down at eve?”

Ay, she lies down lightly, She lies not down to weep: Your girl is well contented.

Be still, my lad, and sleep.

“Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has he found to sleep in A better bed than mine?”

Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as lads would choose; I cheer a dead man’s sweetheart, Never ask me whose.

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Four Walt Whitman Songs Beat! Beat! Drums!

Beat! Beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow!

Through the windows - through doors - burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar is studying; Leave not the bridegroom quiet - no happiness must he have now with his bride, Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain, So fierce you whirr an pound you drums - so shrill you bugles blow.

Beat! Beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow!

Over the traffic of cities - over the rumble of wheels in the streets; Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers must sleep in those beds, No bargainers bargains by day - no brokers or speculators - would they continue?

Would the talkers be talking? would the singer attempt to sing?

Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge?

Then rattle quicker, heavier drums - you bugles wilder blow.

Beat! Beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow!

Make no parley - stop for no expostulation, Mind not the timid - mind not the weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child’s voice be heard, nor the mother’s entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump O terrible drums - so loud you bugles blow.

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O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths - for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!

But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

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Come up from the Fields, Father Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here’s a letter from thy dear son.

Lo, ‘tis autumn, Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder, Cool and sweeten Ohio’s villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind, Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis’d vines, Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with wondrous clouds, Below too, all calm, all vital and beautiful, and the farm prospers well.

Down in the fields all prospers well, But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter’s call, And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.

Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling, She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.

Open the envelope quickly, O this is not our son’s writing, yet his name is sign’d, O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother’s soul!

All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only; Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, taken to hospital, At present low, but will soon be better.

Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,) While they stand at home at the door he is dead already, The only son is dead.

Dirge for Two Veterans The last sunbeam Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath, On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking, Down a new-made double grave.

Lo, the moon ascending, Up from the east the silvery round moon, Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon, Immense and silent moon.

I see a sad procession, And I hear the sound of coming full-key’d bugles, All the channels of the city streets they are flooding, As with voices and with tears.

I hear the great drums pounding, And the small drums steady whirring And every blow of the great convulsive drums, Strikes me through and through.

For the son is brought with the father, (In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell, Two veterans son and father dropt together, And the double grave awaits them.)

And nearer blow the bugles, And the drums strike more convulsive, And the daylight o’er the pavement quite has faded, And the strong dead-march enwraps me.

O strong dead-march you please me!

O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!

O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!

What I have I also give you.

The moon gives you light, And the bugles and the drums give you music, And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, My heart gives you love.

But the mother needs to be better, She with thin form presently dressed in black, By day her meals untouch’d, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking, In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with one deep longing, O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw, To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.

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Four songs from Who Are These Children?, op. 84 Nightmare The tree stood flowering in a dream: Beside the tree a dark shape bowed: As lightning glittered the axe-gleam Across the wound in the broken wood, The tree cried out with human cries: From its deepening hurt the blood ran: The branches flowered with children’s eyes And the dark murderer was a man.

There came a fear which sighed aloud; And with its fear the dream-world woke: Yet in the day the tree still stood Bleeding beneath the axe-man’s stroke.

Slaughter Within the violence of the storm The wise men are made dumb: Young bones are hollowed by the worm: The babe dies in the womb.

Above the lover’s mouth is pressed The silence of a stone: Death rides upon an iron beast And tramples cities down.

And shall the multitudinous grave Our enmity inter; These dungeons of misrule enslave Our bitterness and fear: All are the conquered; and in vain The laurel binds the brow: The phantoms of the dead remain And from our faces show.

Who are these children?

With easy hands upon the rein, And hounds at their horses’ feet, The ladies and the gentlemen Ride through the village street.

Brightness of blood upon the coats And on the women’s lips: Brightness of silver at the throats And on the hunting whips.

Is there a dale more calm, more green Under this morning hour; A scene more alien than this scene Within a world at war?

Who are these children gathered here Out of the fire and smoke That with remembering faces stare Upon the foxing folk?

The Children Upon the street they lie Beside the broken stone: The blood of children stares from the broken stone.

Death came out of the sky In the bright afternoon: Darkness slanted over the bright afternoon.

Again the sky is clear But upon earth a stain: The earth is darkened with a darkening stain.

A wound which everywhere Corrupts the hearts of men: The blood of children corrupts the hearts of men.

Silence is in the air: The stars move to their places: Silent and serene the stars move to their places: But from earth the children stare With blind and fearful faces: And our charity is in the children’s faces.

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Built between 1877 and 1881, Park Avenue Armory has been hailed as containing “the single most important collection of nineteenth century interiors to survive intact in one building” by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, with an 80-foot-high barrel vaulted roof, is one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York City. The Armory’s magnificent reception rooms were designed by leaders of the American Aesthetic Movement, among them Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, and Herter Brothers. The building is currently undergoing a $200-million renovation designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

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NEXT IN THE RECITAL SERIES CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, voice SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON, cello

RUSHES ENSEMBLE october 23

april 22–26

Explore the subtleties of Benjamin Britten’s suites for solo cello through the lens of the American poet Sylvia Plath, considered one of the leading cultivators of confessional poetry. Acclaimed actor Charlotte Rampling and renowned cellist Sonia WiederAtherton bring together Plath’s haunting poetry and Britten’s powerful music for the U.S. premiere of The Night Dances, an intimate melding of these celebrated artistic voices.setting of poems about children in wartime.

DAVID FRAY, piano october 6–9

“Fray has a brilliant technique and a serious and thoughtful regard for the music.” —The Chicago Tribune Franz Schubert had a tragically short but extremely productive life. While known for composing over 600 songs and song cycles, his works for piano are perhaps some of the most beautiful pieces of chamber music ever composed. French pianist David Fray harnesses the delicacy and richness of color in his playing to interpret three of these expressive works in the Board of Officers Room.

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“Even within the classical-music world… an ensemble of seven bassoons is a conspicuous novelty. [Rushes] makes one wonder what took so long.” —The Boston Globe With one of the most unorthodox ensembles imaginable, New York City-based Michael Gordon, composer and founder of the iconic Bang on a Can collective, offers Rushes, a sonic meditation for seven bassoons in its New York City premiere.

Best known for music driven by rhythmic intensity and power, Gordon explores interweaving textures and the timbre of a surplus of double reeds to form a steadily pulsating, unbroken wall of woodwind sound.

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER, baritone GEROLD HUBER, piano november 10

“[Gerhaher’s recent recitals] have been nothing short of sublime… prov[ing] once again that he ranks as today’s peerless singer of lieder.” —The Telegraph (UK) While he has triumphed in international opera and oratorio appearances, Christian Gerhaher is also today’s foremost interpreter of Lieder, with his vocal artistry profoundly conveying the poetry and emotional seed of each song. After inaugurating the reopening of the Board of Officers Room in 2013, the burnished baritone returns with his longstanding recital partner Gerold Huber for a program that highlights the Viennese peak of the art song tradition.

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NEXT AT THE ARMORY H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS

LAURIE ANDERSON october 2–4

PHILIPPE PARRENO, MIKHAIL RUDY

june 11–august 2

“From spectacle to bafflement, moments of melancholy to visceral excitement... it is not so much an immersive exhibition as one that engulfs you.” —The Guardian (UK) In his largest installation in the U.S. to date, Philippe Parreno reshapes the very notion of what it means to experience art by exploring an exhibition as a singular, coherent object rather than as a collection of individual works. This dramatic composition combines remastered existing works and new projects to guide and manipulate the viewer’s experience and perception by utilizing sound, film, light, and memory.

TREE OF CODES

“Anderson continues to imbue her work with a singular perspective that is both haunting and timeless.”

—The New Yorker Iconic storyteller Laurie Anderson examines the contrast between an event and the memory of that moment in her latest multimedia artwork, harnessing events from anthropology and history to form a series of songs in visual form that are experiences in a site-specific environment in which audiences confront their perceptions of these opposing ideas, situations, and images in a processional of consciousness.

GOLDBERG IGOR LEVIT, MARINA ABRAMOVIC

december 7–19

WAYNE MCGREGOR, OLAFUR ELIASSON, JAMIE XX

september 14–21

“[Wayne McGregor is] doing some of the most exciting work on the planet.” —The New York Times Award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor, artist Olafur Eliasson, and Mercury Prize-winning producer/composer Jamie xx create a new ballet triggered by the book Tree of Codes

by Jonathan Safran Foer, an artwork in the form of a book which was in turn inspired by Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. This new, evening-length work features a company of soloists and dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet alongside Wayne McGregor | Random Dance.

“We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.” —Marina Abramović Igor Levit, who made his impressive North American recital debut at the Armory in 2014, interprets Bach’s towering keyboard masterpiece Goldberg Variations in an installation created by seminal artist Marina Abramović. Having redefined what performance art is for nearly 40 years, she now reimagines the concert-going experience by creating a concentrated durational work that reflects upon music, time, space, emptiness, and luminosity, with the audience becoming a part of the work to connect with themselves and with the present — the elusive moment of the here and now.

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OTHER HAPPENINGS AT THE ARMORY UNDER CONSTRUCTION SERIES

FAMILY PROGRAMS

“A residency like the Armory’s can be life changing for an artist. With unlimited access to studio space and total creative freedom, even the wildest idea can be attempted.”

—The Wall Street Journal Get an inside look into the creative process of the Armory’s artists-in-residence, who set up studios and offer intimate public previews of works-in-progress, including dance, theater, music, and visual art. The Armory’s period rooms provide a unique backdrop for their workshops, serving as both inspiration and as a collaborator in the development of their work.

Previous artists-in-residence have included director and designer Julian Crouch, choreographers Faye Driscoll and Wally Cardona, soprano Lauren Flanigan, artist Ralph Lemon, maverick musician and composer Meredith Monk, postclassical string quartet ETHEL, writer and critic Sasha FrereJones, playwright and director Young Jean Lee, performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili, Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, and Shen Wei Dance Arts.

ARMORY AFTER HOURS

Salon culture has enlivened art since the 19th century, when friends gathered in elegant chambers to hear intimate performances and share artistic insights. Join us following select performances for libations with fellow attendees as we revive this tradition in our historic period rooms. You may also get to talk with the evening’s artists, who often greet friends and audience members following their performances.

Park Avenue Armory invites parents and children to participate in interactive art-making workshops in our historic period rooms. Drawing upon the Armory’s castle-like setting and unique artistic offerings, these programs are offered monthly during the school year and designed to spark the imagination of children of all ages.

ARTIST TALKS

Held in our historic period rooms, these insightful dialogues give audiences the opportunity to hear directly from the artists, and explore the inspirations, ideas, and themes behind their work.

MALKIN LECTURE SERIES

Each fall, the popular Malkin Lecture Series presents scholars and experts on topics relating to the Armory and the civic, cultural, and aesthetic life of New York City in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lecture topics have ranged from history makers like Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt to Gilded Age society’s favorite restaurants and the Hudson River painters.

HISTORIC INTERIORS TOURS

Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided walking tour of the building with our staff historian. From the soaring 55,000-square-foot Drill Hall to the extraordinary interiors designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Herter Brothers, and others, and learn about the design plans by acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron.

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ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM “The restoration of the Park Avenue Armory seems destined to set a new standard, not so much for its scale, but for its level of respect and imagination.”

– The New York Times The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important historic rooms in America and one of the few remaining interiors by Herter Brothers. After decades of progressive damage and neglect, the room completed a revitalization in 2013 by the architecture team at Herzog & de Meuron and executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White Architects to transform the space into a state-of-the-art salon for intimate performances and other contemporary art programing.

The Board of Officers Room is the third period room at the Armory completed (out of 18) and represents the full range of design tools utilized by the team including the removal of accumulated layers on the surfaces, the addition of contemporary lighting to the 1897 chandeliers, new interpretations of the stencil patterns on areas of loss, the addition of metallic finishes on new materials, new programming infrastructure, and custom designed furniture.

The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $200-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise – and hand – of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout.

The renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation.

Cover photo by Mark Adams.