Next Wave Festival Programme Brooklyn Academy Of Music 1983

Specifications

Inaugural programme for the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) New Wave Festival dated 1983 (please see attached picture). BAM is one of the world’s most influential performing arts centres. The (retired 1999) President and CEO Harvey Lichtenstein supported emerging artists at the time; Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunnigham, Twyla Tharp, Bill T Jones and Pina Bausch, and was supported in his efforts by Susan Sontag (author), Roy Rauschenberg (artist) and John Cage (composer) who are all listed in the programme along with David Geffen (founder of Asylum Records) and Ed Koch (the then Mayor of NYC) as members of the Board of Trustees.

The bespoke cover, produced specifically for the Festival Programme, is by Roy Lichtenstein, the prominent American pop artist and the Festival’s Chairman. The original poster is listed on the collection of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation website (http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/) as Next Wave Festival (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Poster. He is one of the founding members of BAM’s New Wave Festival and is listed along with, amongst others, his wife Dorothy. The programme events listing: • • • • • • • • • • •

The Photographers/Far From the Truth (American Premiere) including A Gentleman’s Honor by David Byrne – Conceived and composed by Philip Glass and Rob Malasch, music performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble Accumulation, Line-Up, Son of Gone Fishin’, and Set and Reset (World Premiere) – Trisha Brown Dance Company with music performed live by Laurie Anderson and set by Roy Rauschenberg The Way of How (New York Premiere) – Opera tenors John Duykers and Rinde Eckert, mime Leonard Pitt and composer musician Paul Drescher Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future – Art Ensemble of Chicago Mad Rush, and Available Light (New York Premiere) – Lucinda Childs, John Adams and architect/designer John Geary, music by Philip Glass and John Adams The Gospel at Colonus (New York Premiere) – Lee Breuer and Bob Telsen Underwood (American debut) – Carolyn Carlson Dance Theatre of La Fenice Hemispheres (World Premiere) – Molissa Fenley and Dancers with costumes by Rei Kawakubo at Comme De Garcon Threads, Silk, and Sticks (New York Debut) – Rina Schenfeld Victory Over the Sun (New York Premiere) – Directed by Robert Benedetti, music by Mikhail Matiushin and Jerold Frohmader, produced by Alma Law, costume design adaptation Martha Ferrera Wind Devil (World Premiere) – Nina Weiner and Dancers

The catalogue is sponsored by, amongst others, designers Bill Blass, Diane von Furstenberg, Hubert de Givenchy, Carolina Herrera, Ralph Lauren, Issey Miyake, Yves San Laurent and Willi Smith, and a number of NYC galleries. End pieces include their showcase designs and artwork. The programme also includes seven photographs by Robert Mapplethope almost all of which are dated 1983 which were taken specifically for the programme: • • • • • • •

Philip Glass (compoer) and Robert Wilson (director) (not dated) Philip Glass (composer) David Gordon (dance director) Robert Coe (writer of The Photographers/far from the Truth) Robert Rauschenberg (artist) and Trisha Brown (Trisha Brown dance Company) Molissa Fenley and Anthony Davis (Molissa Fenley and Dancers) Francesco Clemente (stage lighter) (not dated)

The programme measures 8” x 12” and is in very good condition and has 64 pages It also includes interviews of the festival artists specifically for the programme The provenance was that John Howlett (deceased), Vice President for Marketing and Promotion, was my close friend. He went on to the Los Angeles Opera and was a friend and colleague of Placido Domingo, the Los Angeles Opera’s General Director.