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9/7/2011

Summergarden 2011

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

The Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden concert series returns to The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden for four Sunday evenings beginning July 10, 2011. Summergarden, a tradition since 1971, is part of MoMA’s long history of presenting contemporary classical music and jazz. MoMA once again welcomes the collaboration of the Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Museum’s programming partners.

Members of the New Juilliard Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Joel Sachs, offer two concerts on July 10 and 24, of recent American and European music that has never before been heard in New York. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s concerts feature the compositions and ensembles of George Garzone (July 17) and Geri Allen (July 31), artists who have developed a unique sound and who will premiere new works for their established ensembles.

Summergarden is free and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden may close if attendance reaches maximum capacity. Entrance to Summergarden is through the Sculpture Garden gate on West 54th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m., and concerts start at 8:00 p.m. and run approximately one hour to 90 minutes. The Sculpture Garden closes at 10:00 p.m. In the event of rain, concerts will be held in The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby, and the Museum’s 54th Street entrance will open at 7:30 p.m. The Garden Bar will sell gelati and seasonal sorbetti from il laboratorio del gelato, homemade cookies, and Cafe 2’s signature ice cream sandwich. Wine, champagne, American craft beer, specialty coffees, and bottled water are also available for purchase. In the event of rain, refreshments are not available. The exhibition galleries are closed during Summergarden.

Major annual support for Summergarden is provided by The Ethel P. Shein Fund for Music at MoMA, which is generously funded by Agnes Gund. Additional support is provided by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Paul D. Shein, and Elizabeth Pozen.

Summergarden 2011 Schedule

July 10
Juilliard Concert I: New Music for Mixed Ensembles

July 17
Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert I: George Garzone and The Fringe

July 24
Juilliard Concert II: New Music for String Quartet

July 31
Jazz at Lincoln Center Concert II: Geri Allen and Timeline

ABOUT THE NEW JUILLIARD ENSEMBLE:
Performers in the Juilliard concerts at Summergarden are members or alumni of the New Juilliard Ensemble, directed by Joel Sachs, which is now in its nineteenth season. Focusing primarily on repertory of the last decade, the ensemble presents music by international composers writing in the most diverse styles. The ensemble is modeled on new-music chamber orchestras common in Europe, which have cultivated a repertory for chamber orchestra that is all too rarely performed in the United States. It brings many of these works to New York, presents American compositions for similar ensembles, and has commissioned many pieces from composers around the world. Although its primary goal is to train performers, the New Juilliard Ensemble offers opportunities for students in Juilliard’s composition program through an annual audition from which one or two composers are selected to write for the group. The ensemble tours extensively abroad and in the United States. Visit its website for more information.

ABOUT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER:
Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center 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, a jazz hall of fame, weekly national radio programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curriculum for students, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops and interactive websites. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman Lisa Schiff, and Executive Director Adrian Ellis, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of events each season in its home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and around the world. For more information, visit jalc.org

ON VIEW IN THE ABBY ALDRICH ROCKEFELLER SCULPTURE GARDEN:
Figure in the Garden, on view through May 2012, brings together 18 figurative works from the late 19th century to the present day from the Museum’s collection. Making its debut at MoMA is Figurengruppe/Group of Figures by Katharina Fritsch (German, b. 1956). Conceived in 2006–08, the work features nine life-size sculptures of, among others, St. Michael, a Madonna, a giant, a snake, and a set of skeleton feet, all rendered in precise detail and finished in bold colors. It is juxtaposed with earlier works such as Auguste Rodin’s heroic St. John the Baptist Preaching (1878–80), Aristide Maillol’s pensive Mediterranean (1902–05), and pieces by Elie Nadelman, Gaston Lachaise, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Renée Sintenis, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, and Tom Otterness. The exhibition is organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.

Press Contact: Daniela Stigh, 212-708-9747 or daniela_stigh@moma.org

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden
Sunday evenings, July 10, 17, 24, and 31, 2011
Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m. Concerts begin at 8:00 p.m.
Admission is FREE

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