PARK AVENUE PARK AVENUE 643 Park Avenue ARMORY SEASON ARMORY New York, NY 10065 PRESENTS PROGRAM PHILI P GLASS TUNE-IN MUSIC FESTIVAL FEBRUAry 23 – 26, 2012 TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: MARS MAy 18 – jUNE 17, 2012 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC PHILHARMONIC 360 JUNe 29 – 30, 2012 TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY ASTRAL CONVERTED JULy 10 – 14, 2012 JANET CARDIFF AND GEORGE BURES MILLER THE MURDER OF CROWS AUGUST 3 – sEPTEMBER 9, 2012 ANN HAMILTON THE EVENT OF A THREAD DECEMBEr 7, 2012 – jANUARY 6, 2013 SPONSORED BY www.armoryonpark.org DESIGN: dbox THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 3 – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 6 , 2 0 1 2 PHI LIP GLASS TUNE-IN MUSIC FESTIVAL “TWHA Glass IS DOING IS CHANGING THE face OF MUSIC FOR OUR TIME AND ALL TIME.” — The Daily Telegraph The 2012 Tune-In Music Festival celebrates Philip Glass’ extraordinary impact upon the world’s musical and intellectual life on the occasion of his 75th birthday. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 7:30 PM KADDISH (World Premiere) 2:00 PM AFTERNOON CONCERT A commissioned work from Grammy Award Performances by contemporary musicians selected winners Bill Frisell and Hal Willner based on Allen by Philip Glass for their musical ingenuity: Nico Ginsberg’s epic poem. Readings by Hal Willner and Muhly, Nadia Sirota, Tirtha (Vijay Iyer with Chloe Webb are accompanied by a music ensemble, Prasanna & Nitin Mitta), Tania León, Zack Glass, with visual design by artist Ralph Steadman. Ruben Gónzaléz, and Ashley MacIsaac. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 7:30 PM PHILIP GLASS AND PATTI SMITH: 7:30 PM ANOTHER LOOK AT HARMONY THE POET SPEAKS — PART IV Philip Glass and Patti Smith pay homage to great Glass’ rarely-heard choral work will be performed poet and mutual friend, Allen Ginsberg, during this by a 160-person strong chorus, comprising evening of music and poetry. The Collegiate Chorale and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, conducted by James Bagwell and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 accompanied by organist Michael Riesman. 5:00 PM MUSIC IN 12 PARTS The Philip Glass Ensemble performs Glass’ tickets: $15-50 iconic work. A dinner break mid-way through the performance allows the audience the opportunity for dining in the Drill Hall. Dinner packages available. Major support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Reed Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor P James oto: Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and The Amphion Foundation, Inc. h E win g FRIDAY, MAY 1 8 – SUNDAY, JUNE 1 7, 2 0 1 2 PARK AVENUE ARMORY | CREATIVE TIME TSOM SACH SPACE PROGRAM: MARS “ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST, MOST ENTERTAINING, AND MOST VORACIOUSLY INQUISITIVE artists ON THE contemporary SCENE.” — Artinfo Known for his innovative and witty examination of capitalist culture and dystopian realities, sculptor Tom Sachs takes audiences to the further reaches of the solar system with a meticulously planned voyage to Mars. Using his signature ‘bricolage’ technique, Sachs recasts the Wade Thompson Drill Hall as an immersive space odyssey, fashioning elaborate space craft, exploratory vehicles, suiting stations and other sculptural elements out of found and salvaged material. Throughout the four-week mission, Sachs and his studio team will perform mission tasks and real-time demonstrations from take-off to landing. This is the second launch of Sachs’ SPACE PROGRAM, the first of which was a mission to the moon at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles in 2007. Sachs’ work has been included in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad and is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. P oto: Joshua White/jwpictures.com, Courtesy of Tom h tickets $12; $10 students / seniors Major support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. S a chs S t udio FRIDAY, JUNE 2 9 – SATURDAY, JUNE 3 0 , 2 0 1 2 PARK AVENUE ARMORY | NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Alan Gilbert, Music Director PHI LHARMONIC 360 SPATIAL MUSIC FROM MOZART’S DON GIOVANNI TO STOCKHAUSEN’S GRUPPEN “[Gruppen IS] …ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE OF ALL 20TH-CENTURY ORCHESTRAL works.” — The Guardian In two epic evenings, the New York Philharmonic will explore the spatial qualities of the Armory’s soaring, 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall with four iconic works in which the orchestra members surround the audience. The centerpiece of the evening will be the rarely-performed Gruppen by Karlheinz Stockhausen— a work that requires three orchestras and three conductors. Also on the program are Pierre Boulez’s Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna, the Finale of Act I from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, and Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question. conductors: Alan Gilbert, Magnus Lindberg and Matthias Pintscher director and designer: Michael Counts soloists for don giovanni: Ryan McKinny (Don Giovanni); Julianna di Giacomo (Donna Anna); Russell Thomas (Don Ottavio); Keri Alkema (Donna Elvira); Sasha Cooke (Zerlina); Kelly Markgraf (Masetto); Keith Miller (Leoporello) for ticketing information, please visit www.armoryonpark.org. h P oto: Chris Lee TUESDAY, JULY 1 0 – SATURDAY, JULY 1 4 , 2 0 1 2 TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY ASTRAL CONVERTED “SOME OF US only DREAM ABOUT FLYING; TRISHA Brown launches HER DREAMS onto THE stage.” —The Village Voice Legendary choreographer Trisha Brown brings her company to the Armory’s Drill Hall for the restaging of Astral Converted, with visual and costume design by Robert Rauschenberg and original music by John Cage. Rauschenberg’s metal frame towers, restored for this production, house the lights and sound system and are built from automotive supplies. The towers are activated by motion sensors to detect the dancers and respond to their movement. At once serene and highly physical, Astral Converted is the culminating piece in Brown’s Valiant Series, which premiered at the National Gallery of Art in 1991 as an adaptation of Astral Convertible (1989). tickets: $35, 45 Major support provided by The Rockefeller Foundation. P oto: Mark Hanauer h FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 , 2 0 1 2 JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER THE MURDER OF CROWS FROM THE THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA ART CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION “Few artists WORK WITH SOUND MORE INVENTIVELY AND WITH A CANNIER SENSE OF theater THAN [CARDIFF AND MILLER].” — The New York Times rk o Y w e N The largest sound installation to date by artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, The Murder of Crows is a compelling “sound play” that envelops the audience in an unexpected physical and aural environment. Moving and weaving through ninety-eight speakers mounted within the cavernous Drill Hall, the work narrates a captivating rlin / Luhring Augustine, e and confounding melodrama, investigating concepts of desire, intimacy, love and loss. B The multifaceted soundscape uses a fluttering of voices and sounds, from crashing waves to the hubbub of a factory floor, to transport the listener to an unexpected rbara Weiss, a B dream-like world. The Armory’s presentation of The Murder of Crows marks the work’s U.S. premiere. tickets: $12; $10 students / seniors o R h P oto: man März, Courtesy of the artists / Galerie FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 , 2 0 1 2 – SUNDAY, JANUARY 6 , 2 0 1 3 A MINN HA LTON T HE EVENT OF A THREAD “MS. Hamilton’S WORK IS INCONTESTABly ORIGINAL.” — The New York Times Visual artist Ann Hamilton combines the ephemeral presence of time with the material tactility for which she is best known to create a new large-scale installation for the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Commissioned by the Armory, The Event of a Threadreferences the building’s architecture, as well as the individual encounters and congregational gatherings that have animated its rich social history. A multisensory affair, the work draws together readings, sound, and live events within a field of swings that together invite visitors to connect to the action of each other and the work itself, illuminating the experience of the singular and collective body. Ann Hamilton represented the United States in the 1999 Venice Biennale and has exhibited extensively around the world with installations at major museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MASS MoCA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Tate Liverpool, the Contemporary Art Museum in Kumamoto, Japan, and the Musee d’art Contemporain in Lyon, France. tickets: $12; $10 students / seniors P Hamilton Ann to: ho In 2012, Park Avenue Armory’s radiant period rooms become the setting for a series of intimate performances with a diverse roster of contemporary artists. The Under Construction Series provides audiences the rare opportunity to experience up close works in development by a cross-section of exceptionally talented performers within a smaller- scale setting rich with the Armory’s history and the patina of time. participating artists include: Vocalist and Performance Artist Composer, Singer, Director, and Choreographer HELGA DAVIS MEREDITH MONK “SPELLBINDING...RADIANT IN EVERY WAY.” “HER EXTRAORDINARY VOCAL RANGE... – Robert Wilson OVERWHELMINGLY MEMORABLE.” – The New York Times Post-Classical String Quartet ETHEL Vocalist and Song-Writer “EXTRAORDINARILY SKILLED, SOMI PASSIONATE MUSICIANS” “PRODIGIOUS MUSICAL CHOPS” – The New York Times – NPR Soprano Composer, Performer, Vocalist, and Sound Artist LAUREN FLANIGAN BORA YOON