Summergarden 2005
New MoMA, New Music
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Sunday evenings, July 17 to August 21, 2005
Tickets distributed at 6:00 p.m. Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m. Concerts begin at 8:00 p.m.
Admission is FREE; tickets are required for entry.
Following a three-year hiatus, The Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden series returns to The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden for six Sunday evenings beginning July 17. Summergarden, a tradition that began in 1971, is part of MoMA’s long history of presenting jazz and classical music in the Sculpture Garden. This year’s Summergarden is made possible for the first time by a generous grant from The Ethel P. Shein Fund for Music at MoMA.
The Museum welcomes the participation of The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center to present a program of musical premieres. Juilliard concerts are performed by current students and recent graduates of the Juilliard School, under the artistic direction of Joel Sachs, who creates three distinctive programs of contemporary compositions, all of which will have their New York, United States or world premieres. Jazz at Lincoln Center selects three leading jazz artists, each of whose concerts will emphasize original works, with at least one world premiere. Full program information is available to the public starting June 10 at www.moma.org or by calling (212) 708-9491.
Summergarden 2005 Schedule
July 17: Juilliard Concert
July 24: Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert
July 31: Juilliard Concert
August 7: Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert
August 14: Juilliard Concert
August 21: Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert
Entrance to Summergarden is through the Sculpture Garden gate on West 54th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Summergarden is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are distributed outside the Sculpture Garden gate on 54th Street starting at 6:00 p.m. on the day of the concert. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, and seating is limited and unreserved. The Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m., and concerts start at 8:00 p.m. and run approximately one hour. The Sculpture Garden closes at 10:00 p.m.
About Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2004-05 season. This is the inaugural season in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. For more information visit www.jalc.org.
About The New Juilliard Ensemble
The New Juilliard Ensemble, directed by Joel Sachs, is now in its 12th season. Celebrating the liveliness of today's music, and focusing primarily on repertory of the last decade, the Ensemble presents music by a variety of international composers writing in the most diverse styles. Its members are current students at The Juilliard School, who are admitted to the ensemble by audition. Student interest in its work has been so great that more than 100 students participate every year, although the maximum size of compositions is normally 15-20 players.
The New Juilliard Ensemble has made its mark through tour performances. Recent performances have included two concerts at the Leipzig Conservatory in May 2001and appearances at the Festival Why Note in Dijon, France, in November 2002. Last month a group of New Juilliard Ensemble players and their counterparts from the Manson Ensemble of London's Royal Academy of Music joined to perform works by three composition students from each school. The concerts took place in New York and London, and all works were recorded for the Royal Academy's CD label. In October 2002, the Ensemble gave the world premiere of Hearing Solutions, a concerto for cello and chamber ensemble by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan), the first recipient of the Siemens Corporation's Artist-in-Residence award. The New Juilliard Ensemble's recording of Virko Baley's Violin Concerto, with violinist Tom Chiu, can be found on the TNC label (www.TNCmusic.net).
For more information contact All About Jazz.
