Cbail'lllln Asher B. Edelman Brooklyn Academy of Music Preside at Harvey Lichtenstein Board of Trustees Vice Ck1irmen Neil D. Chrisman Rita Hillman I. Stanley Kriegel Franklin R. Weissberg
Mem~ers Francis M. Austin, Jt Jenne K. Britell
SPECIA L FUNDIN G FOR T HI S ANNU AL REPORT HAS BEEN Kevin Burke
PROVIDED THROUGH THE GENEROUS SU PPORT OF Joanne L. Cossullo Warren B. Coburn MANUFACT U RERS HANOVER C O RPORATION . Beth DeWoody PRINTED B Y HARD ING Be H ARD ING GRAPHICS, INC. Charles M. Diker Brendan Duggan Choim Edelstein Mallory Foetor Ronald E. Feiner Alan H. Fishman Robert L. Forbes Michael Fuchs Faith G. Golding Morton Gottlieb Stephen R. Greenwald Sidney Kantor Stanley H. Kaplan Andrew K. Klink Bettina Bancroft Klink Robert A. Krasnow lngo Kretzschmar Edgar A. Lampert Eugene H. luntey laurie Mollet Martin F. Mertz Evelyn Ortner David L. Ramsay Bruce (. Ratner Richard M. Roson Jonathon F. P. Rose Robert (. Rosenberg Pippa Scott Mikki Shepard Vaughn (. Williams Ho10r1ry Chlirmen David N. Dinkins Officers Howa rd Go Iden Harvey Lichtenstein, IIHonry Tr11tees President and Executive Producer Seth Faison Koren Brooks Hopkins, leonard Garment Executive Vice President & Managing Director Paul lepercq Douglas W. Allan, Arne Vennemo Vice President for Marfceting and Promotion Ex-officii Jacques Brunswick, Mary Schmidt Campbell Vice President for Administration During the post yeo~ public funding of the arts weathered not only Fuchs and the Recording Industry Council chaired by Elelctro Entertoin Amidst a year of uncertainty at the National Endowment lor the intense challenges, but ever declining appropriation levels in the menrs Robert Krasnow, the Golo Committee organized a roving, post Arts, and a sense of growing unease with the country's economy, face of budget reductions of all levels of government. Iwont to toke perfonnonce dinner party throughout the Academy's theater spaces, BAM kept its nose to the grindstone. It may not have been a spectoc this opportunity to stole the record on the importance of public each thematically distinct with its music, food and decoc ulat breakthrough season lor BAM, but there was important work funding to BAM and to solute those government agencies that ho ve The BAM Opera Council, Belgian Consul General Roger Prues, and done, artists encouraged and produced, and BAM's leadership quali mode our programs possible. S.W .l.F. T. (Society lor Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunica ties in the perfonning arts reoffinned . We were delighted to welcome Without the intervention of tions) hosted a dosing night benefit lor the American debut engage bock Laurie Anderson, who hod New York City and Brooklyn ment of Brussels' Theiitre Royal de Ia Monnaie, featu ring its not done o major work at BAM Borough President in the early outstanding production of Mozarrs lo Fin to Giordiniero. Garrison Keil since the United Stoles Ports ' 60s, BAM's historicand unique lor was the guest perfonner at the BAM/BPO Real Estate Council /-/Vin ea rly 1983. It was great facility could hove gone the way Annual Dinner on April 3, which recognized BAMIBPO Trustee Robert to hove o sort of Velvet Under of the wrecking boll. The City, Rosenberg and Starrett City lor their leadership support of both ground reunion with John Cole together with Borough Presi institutions. and Lou Reed reuniting lor dent Howard Golden , al so BAM was also honored to work with the Women's Sub-Committee of Songs for 'Orella, o requiemlo r played leadership roles in the the Mandelo Welcome Committee, led by Co-Chairpersons Julie Bela Andy Warhol; the Ruhr Festival 1977 Flood Recovery Campaign lonte, Karen Daughtry and Jennifer Davis, in hosting the June 22 continued BAM's intemotionol and in the renovation of the BAM Majestic Theotec We also solute "Community Tribute lor Winnie Mandela" during the Mandelas' his mini-festivals; and the BAM Majestic perfonnances of Jacques d' Am the Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council for its vital toric visit to New York Gty. boise's National Dance Institute contributed to our vital program support of BAM despite o light city budget. The BAM Visual Arts Programs expanded this season with the organi ming. And it was great to sponsor the lOth Anniversary blow-out of BAM first received support from the New York Stole Council on the zation of the Collaborative Arts Council, BAMART, and a third Print New Music America, both here and throughout the city. Arts in 1965, and since then has continued to receive annual grants, Portfolio Series. Through the combined efforts of its member artists, Which leads naturally tothe appointment of Dennis Russell Davies most recently in multi-year awards. For the post three years, the gallery owners, and collectors, the Collaborative Arts Council is raising os BAM Music Director and as Principal Conductor of the Brooklyn State of New York through the Brooklyn Delegation of the State funds to develop joint efforts between visual and perfonning artists. Philhannonic Orchestra; and of the newly established liaison of the Legi~ature and the Natural Heritage Trust has provided additional BAMART is a new lund raising initiative that benefits all Academy Orchestra and BAM. Maestro Davies adds tremendously to the musi project support for the Perfonning Arts Program for Young People programs through the generous donations of works of art. We are cal life of the Academ y and to the vitality of the Orchestra. and our multicultural programming efforts. especially grateful to Cristo, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Uchten Perhaps most disturbing have been the attacks levelled at the stein, Jules Olitski, and Lawrence Weiner lor participating in this Lost, but certainly not least, is the Notional Endowment for the Notional Endowment lor the Arts throughout the yeoc It is not that undertaking. The success of the Artists Print Portfolio Editions promises Arts, which, in porticulat hoscontributed support for new initiatives, the Endowment is perfect and beyond reproach, rather that the to continue with o new third series featuring the works of Richard Estes, including the creation of the NEXT WAVE Festival in 1983. In addi attacks have been vicious, unfair and out of context. It has been a Peter Halley, Gaudio Hart, Sol LeWin, Will Menlot Suzan Pitt, Robert tion, the NEA has awarded three Challenge Grants to BAM: in 1977 dossic smear campaign, with one or two out of context incidents Ryan, and Tom Wesselman. Our thanks to all those participatingin the for program development, in 1983 to establish the Academy's first used to smear the Arts Endowment as a whole. And not only the cash reserve, and in 1988 to launch BAM Opera. The National Visual Arts Programs. specific grants, but the process itself has been under attack, with the Endowment for the Humanities was also an important participant Our ongoing efforts to match the NEA Challenge Ill Grant lor BAM peer panel system of awardi ng grants under siege for supposedly in the early years of the NEXT WAVE and most recently was the Opera by June 1992 were furthered by new leadership grants from The being an "old boy" system. major supporter for the television filming of Peter Brook's Pew Charitable Trusts, the Ula Wolloce-Reodets Digest Fund, the As someone who has served on NEA panels, and who cu rrently The Mohobhorato. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable serves as an NEA Council membe ~ Ifind these accusations scurrilous. During the 1989-90 season, BAM was very pleased to welcome to Trust, and the Booth Ferris Foundation. We are grateful as well It is on easy thing to soy, "Of course, the system is corrupt, panelists its Boord new members Kevin Burke, Brendan Dugan, Stanley to all BAM donors who increased their contributions to benefit this award grants to their friends. " The only way to refute the accuso· Kaplan, lngo Kretzschma~ Bruce Raine ~ and Vaughn Williams. I also campaign. lion is to be port of the process and to see how scrupulous and careful want to acknowledge the special dedication and generous support of The season ended with o new lund raising event, the BAM Auction the panelists are in evaluating the appl ications. At least tho! has departing Trustees Francis Austin, Elizabeth Bouman, Warren on June 26, hosted by Rudolf at his downtown night dub, Quick, and been my experience. Coburn, Cecil Forstet and Faith Golding. co-chaired by Rudolf, Hoi Rubenstein, Bob Patino, and Cindy How important are the arts to the citizens of this country? The The season opened with the seventh annual NEXT WAVE Festival, for Crawford. answer should by no means be taken lor granted. which Philip Morris Companies Inc. provided primary corporate spon In dosing, I wont to express the sincere appreciation of the BAM sorship for the fourth consecutive yeac BAM Trustees Beth DeWoody Boord and staff lor the loyal and generous support of the Friends of Harvey lichtenstein and Robert Forbes chaired the NEXT WAVE Gola on November 8 salut BAM, our audiences, foundation and corporate donors, and once again President and Executive Producer ing the tenth anniversary of NEW MUSIC AMERICA and honoring lor the government agencies that hove anchored BAM's financial Bianca Jogger for her long-standing dedication to the NEXT WAVE . growth and health. Together with the NEXT WAVE Producers Council led by H80 's Michael Asher B. Edelman Chairman NEXT WAVE Festival
AM's NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL SETS THE PACE IN THE CONTEMPO-
RARY PERFORMING ARTS FIELD, COMMISSIONING AND PRESENTING NEW
WORKS BY INNOVATIVE ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. BUT THIS YEAR IT
SURPASSED EVEN ITS OWN REPUTATION WHEN IT SPONSORED AND PRODUCED
THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF NEW MUSIC AMERICA - 69 CONCERTS BY MORE
THAN 100 COMPOSERS AND ENSEMBLES IN TEN DAYS AT TWENTY- THREE VEN -
UES THROUGHOUT NEW YORK- IN ADDITION TO ITS ANNUAL NEXT WAVE PRO-
GRAMMING. IN ITS SEVENTH YEAR, THE NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL FEATURED
MORE NEW WORKS AND MIXED MEDIA COLLABORATIONS WITH EIGHT AMERI -
Laurie Anderson • Empty Places • October CAN PREMIERES AND THREE WORLD PREMIERES THAT
3-15 • BAM Opera House • Laurie Anderson BAM CO - COMMISSIONED. LAURIE ANDERSON, opened the 1989 Festival with the New York pre REINHILD HOFFMAN N, SUSANNE L I NKE, MAGUY miere of Empty Places, a solo music-theater piece that synthesized computerized film projections on MARIN -THESE GROUND BREAKING ARTISTS moving screens, music, live action and her unique RETURNED TO THE FESTIVAL JOINED BY FRED CUR· blend of story-telling and song . Empty Placeswas CHACK, POHL MUSIC, KAREL APPEL AND MIN TANAKA, co-commisioned by Spoleto Festival U.S.A.,
U.LLA. Center for the Performing Arts and the CHRISTINE BRUNEL, BEBE MILLER, Lou REED AND BAM NEXT WAVE Festival. JOHN CALE AND NUSRAT FATEH ALl KHAN. FOUR OF
THE 1989 NEXT WAVE EVENTS CAME FROM GERMANY"S INDUSTRIA L RUHR
VALLEY AS PART OF RUHRWORKS: THE ARTS OF A GERMAN REGION , AND
MAGUY MAR IN PRESENTED A DANCE/ THEATER WORK AS PART OF THE AMERI ·
CAN CELEBRATION OF THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
AUD I ENCE RESPONSE AND TICKET SALES WERE GRATIFYING, ACHIEVING A
FESTIVAL TOTAL OF 78% OF CAPAC I TY IN BAM ' s FOUR VENUES. Pibl Musik • October 13-14 • BAM Lepercq Space • The three musicians comprising Piihl
SuSinne Linke • Hommage aDore Hoyer • October 17-22 • BAM lepercq Space • Dancer/ Musik, Karl-Heinz Blomonn on saxophone, sam choreographer Susanne Linke danced the Ameri ple-keyboard, and "klongmoschine," Thomas can premiere of Hommoge ii Oore Hoye, o mov Kommonn on electric boss, and Norbert Sollboch ing tribute to Ge rman choreographer Dore Hoyer on electric guitars and trombone, brought to (1922-67). The three sections of this work form o America their form of jazz bridge from turn-of-the -cen- expressing the relationship tury German donee trodi- of labor and music in the lions to the present : Karel Appel and Min Tanaka • Can We Dance A· Landscape {Puet-on tlanser machine-dominated life of " Affectos humonos" is o October 1B-22 • BAM Corey the Ruhr Volley. In place of solo choreographed by Ms. le paysage?) • Playhouse • Renowned Dutch-born pointer Karel drums, they hove devised o Hoyer and reconstructed by Appel and Japanese dancer/choreographer Min "klongmoschine," o sculp- Ms. Linke; "Dolor" is her Talltlltater Rei1hild Hlftllal • Machan tural , mechanical instru- solo tribute to Ms. Hoyer; ment that produces rhythmic landscape? (Puet-on donser tlel• October 11 -15 • BAM Majestic Theater • and "Affekte" is o modern hammering and siren sounds le poysoge?}, o controversial Reinhild Hoffmann brought (a/los to the 1985 interpretation of the themes again st which they mixed media work presented NEXT WAVE Festival. This year she returned with in " Affectos humonos" in its American premiere. A her troupe from Germany's industrial Ruhr Volley, improvise. danced by Ms. Linke and Urs flying goat, roller-skaters, with the American premiere of o new, dark donee/ Dietrich. chickens, M[ Appel's enor theater work, Mochondel mous colorful paintings, (Juniper}, unearthing the music by Nguyen Thien Doo, violence, desire, suspense and Min lanoka and his and ritual in the writings of dancers together enacted o the Brothers Grimm. rich landscape in Japanese Butoh tradition. Frd CurchiCk • StuH as Dreams Are Made On • October 31 -November 5 • BAM lepercq Space • Fred Curchack's one-man per formance of Stuff as Dreams Are Mode On, Shake speare's The ilmpest Changed into Something Tanztheater Christine Brunei • Woman Rich and Strange infused puppetry, mime, Japa with Blue Boll (Frau mit blauer Kugel} nese Noh, Balinese Topeng, acrobatics and • The Song on the Bridge (Der Gesang shadow ploy. auf der Briicke} • October 24-29 • BAM lepercq Space • Christine Brunei and her com pany danced for the first time in America at this NEXT WAVE Festival, performing Woman with Blue Boll and The Song on the Bridge.
Mo rtho Swo pe
Gillo>Abogg Belle Miller lid CIIIIIIIY • Rain • Allies • November 28-0ecember 3 • BAM lepercq Space • The 1989 NEXT W/f/E Festival co-commis sioned two new works from dancer/choreographer Compagnie Maguy Marin • Hey, What's Bebe Miller, Allies and Rain. For Allies, Ms. Miller All This to Me? (Eh, qu'est-ce que a m'fait moil?} • November 1-5 • BAM Opera composer Fred Frith . House • Co-commissioned by BAM, French chore ographer Maguy Marin created this new, large-
scale donee/theater work to celebrate th e Bicentennial of the French Revolution . It looked beyond the French Revolution to the causes and mentalities of social upheaval, past, present and future. Nusrat fateh Ali Khan and Party • Qawwali Singing • October 27-28 • BAM Corey Playhouse • Nusrot Foteh Ali Khan, master of Oowwoli singing, and his ensemble mode their American premiere at the NEXT WAVE Festival, exposing BAM audiences to the devotional, ecstasy inspiring music of the Sufis, mystics of the Muslim faith , centered in Pakistan. This music, richly textured and rhythmica ll y intricate, has continued to develop since the eleventh century. John Cale an~ Lou Reed • Songs for 'Orella-a Fidion • November 29- December For the fourth conse
HE SECOND SEASON OP' BAM 0PI:RA IN
SPRING 1990 CONTINUED THE INITIATIYI:, DEDI•
CATED TO PRESENTI NG ALTERNATIVE OPERA ANII'
MUSIC THEATER PROGRAMMING, WITH BRUSSI:L8•
THifATRE DE LA MONNAIE PRODUCTION OP
MOZART' S LA FINTA GIARDINIERA AND THE MON•
NAIE DANCE GROUP/ MARK MORRIS' S DIDO AQ
AltNEAS BY HENRY PURCELL. The presentation of King leor by the Rustoveli Theatre Company was mode possible, in port, by grants from the Trust for Mutual Unde~tand i ng , The Howard Gilman Foundation and an anonymous dono[ lb Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • La Finta Giardi niera • March 15, 17, 19 • BAM Majestic Theater • The second season of BAM Opera opened with the The titre Royal de Ia Monnoie of Brussels production of lo lllry PII'CIII• Dlllo tHrd AMtltls • June Finto Giordiniero (The Pretended 20, 21, 22, 23 • BAM Majestk Theater • Ditlo Gardener) by Wolfgang Amadeus ond AelltiOS, by Henry Purcell with libretto by Mozart with libretto by Giuseppe Nahum lite, was staged and choreographed by Petrosellini_ Though rarely per Mark Morris. The Philhormonla Boraque Ordles formed, this eo~y opera by Mozart is tm, under the direction of Nicholas McGegan, on important-and beautiful-port performed the music on authentic peried lnstrv of his body of work. ments, and the vocal ports were sung by Dana Ko~ - Emst Herrmann and Ursel Her Hanchard, Judith Molofronte and Richard rmann, assisted by Geoffrey layton, Stilwell, while on stage the Monnoie Oonce directed this charming production of Group/Mark Morris danced the action. lo Finto Giorcliniero. Sylvain (om breling conducted the Orchestra of the Theatre Royal de Ia Monnoie, and the set and costumes we re
designed by Ka~ - Emst Herrmann.
Funds lor the 1990 season of BAM Opera were provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts; the lila Wolloce-Reode(s Digest Fund; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Fronceno T. Harrison Foundation Trust; The Howard Gilman Foundation; The Greenwell Foundation; the BAM Opera Coundl; the friends of BAM; the New York Stole Coundl on the Arts and the New York City Deportment of Cultural Affairs. Corporate sponsors for the se 651 KINGS MAJESTIC CORPORATION CtJ...-EDHATIIC .....Irft NUN• •&It OF THI! BAM M4.1ESTIC THSATEN WAil.trouiiDED A8 AN INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN .... .JOINTLY .y TM C.ltr111 Lepcy • May BAM, THE FUND FOR THIE BOROUGH BROOKLYN, AND LIIAD• 19 • BAM Majestic Theater • In IEitS IN THE LOCAL ARTS COMMUNITY. ITS P~E IS TO this spe DCVI:-I.OP PROGRAMS TO SERVE THIE DIYCHE CW.TUitAL COM• musicians Reggie Workman on boss, Andrew White, Sonny II(UffiTI&SIN BROOKLYN. Tt(E EX&CUTtYIE/ARTtSTIC DIRECTORS Fortune, Billy Harper and Odean oF est 4R& Ms. MIKKI SHEPARD AND D" LEON RD GoiNEa. Pope on sox, Stanley Cowell on piano and Ronnie Buroge on drums performed sele 21 ilzlicar Pa' Ti! • May 20 • BAM Majestic The- ater • Eddie Palmieri, a major fig ure in latin DanceAfrica • Nana Opare Dinizulu music famous for his fiery piano solos, spear and his African Dancers, Drummers and headed this concert of salsa with louis Ramirez, Singers • Forces of Nature with Thun one of salsa's best composers, arrangers and derbird American Indian Dancers • TINUING ARTISTIC DIRECTION producers. Magic Dances of Zaire • May 26 & 27 • OF CH UCK D AVIS, D ANC E BAM Opera House Corporate spo nsorllor the second season ol 65 1 were June 16 • Blue Lights in the Basement • the Coco-Colo Company; Coco-Cola USA; and BAM Opera House • Jerry "Ieemon" Butler and Coco -Cola Bottling Company of New York. Ma jor AFRICA I N ITS 13TH Y EAR PRESENTED FOUR DIVERSE T R OUPES support lor 651 was provided by BAM through the Curtis Mayfield hove been composing and si nging generosity of New York illephone Company and The REPRESENTING THE VARIED T R ADITIONS OF AFRICAN AND AFRI· the soul music played at parties for thirty years Reed Foundation. Majo r support was also provided by the New York City Depo rtment of Cultural Affairl; the CAN/ AMERICAN DANCE AN D MUSIC. TH E MAGIC D AN C ES OF and they were still at it with The Impressions at New York State Council on the Arts; the Natural Heri tage Trust; the Robert Sterling Clark Fo undation, ZAIRE, NATIVE Z AIRIAN MUSICANS AND DANCERS, MADE THE I R this 651 evening. Inc.; Brooklyn Union Gas; and The New York Community Trust. Additional support was provided by Merrill lynch; Pfizer Pharmaceutica ls; the Sandalwood NEW YORK DEBUT. A ND THE THUNDERBIRD A M ERI CAN INDIAN Calypso Carnival • June 24 • BAM Majestic Foundation; IBM; and Citibonk Brooklyn-Staten Theater • The greatest livi ng exponents of Island. Spe calypso, The Mighty Sparrow and Swallow, pre New York City Council. LITTLE- KNOWN INTERFACING OF ART AND CU LTUR E WHICH TOOK sented this Calypso Carnival with The Metro Steel PLACE BETW EEN EARLY A FRICAN AMERICANS AND NAT I V E Band. AMERICANS. SONGS AND DANCES OF T HE Z U L U PEOPLE , SOUTH AFRICAN MINERS AND D AGOMBA P E OPL E OF GHANA WERE PERFORMED BY NANA 0 PARE DINIZU LU AND H I S AFRI· CAN DANCERS, DRUMM E RS AND S INGERS. CONCURRENT WITH THE D ANCEAFRICA PERFORMANCES, AN ENLARGED FREE O UTDOOR BAZAAR ATTRACTED OVERFLOW CROWDS AND FOUR MASTER CLASSES W ERE H E LD BY C HUCK D AVIS AND MEMBERS OF T HE M AGIC D ANCES O F ZA I RE TH E ACQUES D ' AMBOISE" NATIO PRIOR W EEK IN BAM's H ILLMAN STUD IO. ITS FIRST RESIDENCY AT T HE BAM IMMEDI A T ELY FOLL OWING THE THREE P E RFORMANCES, THE STUDENTS REPRES EN TI NG NE W YOR K MAGIC D ANC E S OF Z A I RE THE NDI PRODUCTION OF THe SHOOT 01' DAN MCGREW, AN ADAPTA· Performances of DonceAirico 1990 were presented in cooperation with Con Edison. Additional funds were BEGAN A WEEK- L ONG TOUR TION OF T HE ADV ENTURES OF CANADI provi ded by The Harkness Foundations lor Donee; the Natural Heritage Trust; the Notional Endowment lor the Arts; the New York City Deportment of Cultural UNDER TH E AUSP I CES OF WORK " S ORIGINAL MUSIC WAS COMP D BY GALT MCDERMOTT, THE Affoirl; and the New York State Council on the Arts. The DanceAirico Bazaar was sponsored by New York BAM TO A LLENTOWN, PA, COMPOSER OF HAIR AND PERFORMED Newsdoy. RED B ANK, NJ A ND COLLINS. Tb Stllti11 If In Mdrtrt • National Dance WASH INGTON , DC. Institute • June 2 & 10 • BAM Majestic Theater Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra Performing Arts Program The PDIIID PeDple • Theatre Beyond for Young People Words• December 9 • BAM Corey Playhouse • The Potato People is a series of masked ploys by Canada's Theatre Beyond Words company. ~HORTHEVENTH BPO SEASON, MAESTRO LUKAS FOSS, SEASON, BAM ' S PER,ORMONG ~"TH PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR DESIGNATE DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES AND ARTS PROGRAM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (PAPYP) INAU· ASSOCIATE CONDUCTORS, TANIA LEON, KENT NAGANO, YUVAL WALP · Zoppe Circus Europa • March 24 • BAM Opera GURATED A FAMILY FUN SERIES OF WEEKEND PER· House • The Zoppe Family, Europe's oldest cir MAN AND DAVID ANRAM LED NEARLY 80 CONCERTS AT BAM, THE FORMANCES. THE SCHOOL- TIM E SERIES DREW OVER cus dynasty, brought to BAM wo~d doss circus WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER , AVERY FISHER HALL, BROOKLYN artists including the Flying Wollendos, famed 90,000 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TO BAM AND GAVE BOTANIC GARDEN AND THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE, AND high wire aerialist lubov Pisorenkovo, and Harry THEM AN INVALUABLE, EARLY EXPOSURE TO THEATER James with prize leopard King. CARNEGIE HALL IN ADDITION TO SCHOOLS AND PARKS OF BROOKLYN FROM AROUND THE WORLD. THE PERFORMANCES AND LONG I SLAND. GUEST SOLOISTS PERFORMING WITH THE 0RCHES· WERE SUPPLEMENTED BY FIFTEEN POST-PERFORM· TRA INCLUDED SOPRANO BENITA VALENTE , VIOLINISTS OSCAR ANCE WORKSHOPS AND S I X IN - SCHOOL RESIDENCIES SHUMSKY AND CHO· L IANG LIN, PIANISTS YEFIM BRONFMAN AND The Wizlfd of Oz • The Prince Street AND THE COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE PROJECT Players • May 6 • BAM Corey Playhouse • This URSULA 0 PPENS, AND CELL IS T GARY HOFFMAN. WAS DOUBLED. THI S SEASON EACH OF THE TWENTY traditional musical theater adaptation of the IN THE NEW MUSIC AMERICA PORTION OF THE l. Fronk Bourn dossic was performed by the fif PRODUCTIONS WAS AUGMENTED BY FREE STUDY FESTIVAL, THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBE teen members of The Prince Street Players, with GUIDES FOR ALL OF THE 90,000 STUDENTS AND live music and lavish sets and costumes. CONDUCTED BY TANIA LEON, PERFORMED THE PREMIERES OF JOHN TEACHERS WHO CAME TO BAM. AND TO BENEFIT THE ZORN ·s FOR YOUR £YES ONLY; LAWRENCE " BUTC H " M RRIS' DUST TO HEARING IMPAIRED, SIX PERFORMANCES WERE DUST; GLORIA CoATEs· MUS IC ON ABSTRACT LINES· AND THE NEW S IGNED BY HANDS- ON, INC. YORK PREMIERE OF ROBERT MORAN·s OPEN VEINS. IN HI: SAME CON• The Jungle BDDk • Asolo Touring Theatre CERT MOONDOG, IN TRIUM~HANT • May 19 • BAM lepercq Space • This intimate The 1989-90 BPD season was supported, in port, by the Mary Flagler Cory Charitable Trust; Citibonk, NA; theatrical experience by The Asolo lOuring The Notional Endowment lor the Arts; Natural Heritage RETURN TO NEW YORK, NDUCTI:D AND Trust; New Yorlc City Deportment of Cultural Alloi~; The BAM Family Fun Series was presented in cooperation atre is based on the Rudyard Kipling dossic. New Yorlc Stole Council on the Arts; Fund lor the PERFORMED A GROUP OF HIS COM~081• with Bank lor Kids, available at Republic National Bank Borough of Brooklyn; Republic Notional Bonk of New of New York and Williamsburgh Savings Bank; and Gren York and Williomsburgh Savings Bonk; Storr TIONS INCLUDING PARIS, Plt~S~NT~It adier Realty Corp., managing agent of Starrett ol Spring Foundation; Starrett at Spring (reek; ASCAP Creek. Foundation; Brooklyn Union Gas Company; Louis THE PREZ AND DARK£ K-. The Penorming Arts Program lor Young People was presented in cooperation with Con Edison. Additional Calder Foundation; Film Funds Trust Funds; JM funding wa.s provided by: the Natural Heritage Trust; the louis Calder Foundation; the Samuel and May Kaplan Fund; Rita & Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation; Rudin Foundation; The Educational Foundation of America; the Helena Rubinstein Foundation; the Uris Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center; Metropolitan Brothm Foundation; Time Worner Inc.; the Heckscher Foundation lor Children; the New York City Ule Foundation; Music Penormance Trust Funds; Deportment of Cultural Alloi~; the New Yorlc Stale Council on the Arts; the Notional Endowment lor the National Westminster Bank USA; New Yorlc illephone Arts. PAPYP dance penormonces were made possible, in port, by The Horlcness Foundations lor Dance. Company; Edward John Noble Foundation; Gerald Study Guides lor this program were mode possible by special underwriting from Grenadier Realty Corp. , and May Ellen Ritter Memorial Fund; Jonathan F.P. managing agent of Starrett at Spring Creek; the Samuel and May Rudin Foundation; and the Michael Tuch Rose; Robert C. Rosenberg; Arnold l. Sobin; Michael Foundation. Tud! Foundation. Garrison Keillor American Radio Company of the Air • PATRONS ROM BAM, G A RRISO N KEILLO R BROA DCAST HIS N EW N ATION · The Brooklyn Academy of Music gratefully acknowledges all contributions. listed belowo re those indi viduals, foundations, corporations and public agencies whose gifts or pledges of $250 or more were received between July 1, 19B9 and June 30, ALLY SYNDICATED RADIO PROGRAM, AME:RICAN RADIO COMPA N Y OF T HE: 1990. We offer sincere thanks to all whose support has ensured the continuation of BAM's many artistic programs and services. AIR, PRODUCED B Y MINNES OTA PUBLIC RADIO. MR. KEILLOR'S TWO- HOUR • LEADERSHIP The Andy Warhol foundation for lhe Details Magazine Geoffrey Beene • BROADCASTS FROM BAM O FFERED HUMOROUS COMMENT ARY ON BROOK· ($50,000 or more) Visual Arts, Inc . Dime Savings Bonk of New Yoli< GEM Pawnbrokers Inc. Wesrdeutsche Londesbonk Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundolion Gromovision, Inc: . M&T Foundolion Robert W. Wilson Editions Ile ne Kurtz• Mary livingslon Griggs & Mary Griggs Buli • 1990 NEXT WAVE PRODUCERS COUNCIL • BAM OPERA COUNCIL Chairman : Michael Fuchs • BEN£FAOORS: • PiiTRONS (S2,SODo r more) (S I, SDD or more) Vice Chairmen : Joseph Kosuth & Cornelia lout Bob Weir & Felicity Seidel Anne H. Boss Mrs. And rew Klink Evelyn ond Everett Ortner Mt & Mrs. Henry Christensen Ill Nelson Peltz John M. Powers, Jt Cynthia f. Davis The lsok ond Rose Weinman Foundation, In<. Mrs. Dorio Soria Yveto ond Malcolm Groff Mt W. Loeber londoo • MEMBERS: (Sl ,SDD or more) Judith Aothindoss Madison S. Finlay bny Kiser (ormelo Pomodoro Michoel (oretnoy Boilkin lydia & Robert forbes Bettina Bon • MEMBERS: Judith ond le~ ie Agi~m Pool & Caroline (ranson Caroline S. levy Adrian Rosen • RECORDING INDUSTRY COUNCIL Caroline AndoS fronmco lcovullo, Inc. The lawrence A. Wien foundation Arnold Smaller Ms . Ann Goffney Robin Renzi' M11. louise Seymour Samuel & Ellen Sporn Dt & Mrs. Arthur J. Vidich The friars foundation Wi ngs luggage• Ann &Jocob Storr Morit Gentele-Gru10n lynne and Jonathon Ridgeway Dt Ronald Shermanliish McEvoy Ms. Barbara H. Stanton Mt Rodman Ward, lt Fromm Muli< foundation Anonymous• Ms . Lourie Sussman Mt l01eph Gia Below is a summary of audited financial statements by the independent CPA firm of lutz and Con Opinions on re Consolidated Balance Sheet Consolidated Statement of Operations Year Ended June 30, 1990 FY 1990 FY 1989 Year Ended June 30, 1990 FY 1990 FY 1989 Assets Revenue Current Box Office, Rentals, Concessions s 4,235,561 $ 4,853,343 Cosh $ 1,603,829 $ 1,272,750 Appropriations & Contributions Accounts Receivable 665,287 396,701 New York City 2,645,229 2,405,764 Grants Receivable 1,308,890 1,542,697 New York State 487,500 472,500 Prepaid Expenses 289,309 643,403 Federal Support 621 ,000 730,704 Marketable Securities and Works of Art 141 ,690 24,000 Private Support• 4,421 ,814 4,723,288 Total Current $ 4,009,005 $ 3,879,551 Special Project Support•• 55,000 1,035,000 Non-Current Capitol Additions 7,500 200,310 272,500 422,500 Grants Receivable- Future Periods $ $ Total Revenue & Public Support $12,473,604 $14,420,909 Fixed Assets (Net of Depreciation) 2, 986,463 3,229,866 Expenses Total Assets $ 7,267, 968 $ 7,531 ,917 Program, Rentals & Concessions $ 6,435,638 s 8,097,792 Liabilities Artistic Development 553,011 552,993 Current Program Related Accounts Payable $ 1,093,023 s 1,278,656 Stage & Production 834,357 880,521 Grants for future Periods 1, 900,717 2,039,730 Promo, Advert. & Comm. Rei. 669,686 775,196 Advance Box Office & Rentals 152,264 97,772 House Management & Box Office 483,509 420,603 Capitol lease Obligation 16,780 10,375 Building Maintenance & Operations 1,159,719 1,087,622 Total Current $ 3,162,784 s 3,426,533 Majestic Theater Operations 104,522 169,201 long term Supporting Services Accounts Payable-long Term 0 s 232,000 Administration 1,248, 116 1' 196,482 Grants for Future Periods 962,500 622,500 Development 691 ,090 671 ,969 Capitol lease Obligation 54,588 44,590 Operating Expenses $12,179,648 s13 ,852,379 Total liabilities s 4,179,872 s 4,325,623 Operating Surplus s 293,956 s 568,530 Fund Balances s 3,088,096 s 3,206,294 Depreciation 412, 154 388,121 Total liabilities and Fund Balances s 7,267, 968 s 7,531 ,917 Surplus/(Delicit) Alter Depreciation ($ 118, 198) $180,409 The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. is lox-exe mpt under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and is not a private foundation . Contributions ore lox deductible to the extent provided by low. Additional Information Operating Surplus Before Depreciation as Above s 293,956 $ 568,530 Capitol Aquisitions 140,842 227,455 Surplus/(Delicil) After Capitol Acquisitions and Before Depreciation s 153,114 s 341 ,075 •tndudes Benefit in The BAM facility is owned by the City of New York and its operation is mode possible, in port, with public funds provided through the New York City Deportment of Cultural Affairs with support from the Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council and Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden. ), • Night of aThousand Bands NEXT WAVE Festival World Saxophone Quartet with African Drummers School·time Series 651 Butthole Surfers Bobby Previte's Pocket Drtbestra •r IJ• &i111~ .~ Jerry Illat • TN Savey llllrM •I.Jurie Anderson The Drdinaires November 14 May 13 Empty Places Ned llotllenberg and Paul Dresher D