Whitney Museum: Meredith Monk Music Brochure

Performers/Artists

Production Credits

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Theo Bleckmann Ellen Fisher Katie Geissinger Ching Gonzalez Meredith Monk Bruce Rameker Allison Sniffin Bohdan Hilash, winds John Hollenbeck, percussion

Meredith Monk, artistic director Olivia Georgia, executive director Amanda Cooper, company manager Jahna Balk, development associate Peter Sciscioli, assistant manager Jeremy Thal, bookkeeper

The M6 Sasha Bogdanowitsch Sidney Chen Emily Eagen Holly Nadal Toby Newman Peter Sciscioli Brian Snow, cello

Whitney Museum of American Art Limor Tomer, adjunct curator for performing arts Emily Krell, performing arts coordinator and producer, Meredith Monk Music @ the Whitney Jessica Edkins, assistant, Meredith Monk Music @ the Whitney Alexandra Von Oertzen, technical director Tony Giovanetti, lighting designer Serena Rockower, InConcert Audio, stage manager Audio, Inc., sound equipment Meredith Monk’s costume by Gary Graham

So Percussion Eric Beach Josh Quillen Adam Sliwinski Jason Treuting

Strings

Meredith Monk Music @ the Whitney is part of Whitney Live, and like all Whitney Live events is free with Museum admission. No special tickets, no reservations. For information on upcoming Whitney Live programs, please visit whitney.org/live.

Todd Reynolds, violin Courtney Orlando, violin Esther Noh, violin Nadia Sirota, viola Clarice Jensen, cello Ha-yang Kim, cello

Funding for Whitney Live is provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Amphion Foundation, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable Trust, and Whitney Live Producers.

Bleckmann/Hollenbeck Quintet

Yamaha C7 piano provided courtesy of Yamaha Artist Services, Inc.

Theo Bleckmann, voice/arrangements John Hollenbeck, drums/arrangements Gary Versace, organ Ellery Eskelin, tenor saxophone Tony Malaby, soprano/tenor saxophone

Guest Performers: Rick Moody, narrator Cynthia Powell, keyboards Alex Samaras, voice Lauren Wang, Amanda Lubin, Michael Eliran, Albina Kozlova, Julia Thurston, Jessenia Zambrano, Jesse Murray, and Benjamin Korman, 6th-grade piano students, Special Music School (P.S. 859) Special Music School Middle School Chorus, Emily John and Nils Neubert, conductors

Meredith Monk Music @ The Whitney Sunday, February 1, 2009 2–6 pm 3rd Floor Galleries Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021

Please feel free to move around the galleries during this event. whitney.org/live

Program Selections from A Raw Recital

1970 Meredith Monk, Ching Gonzalez, and John Hollenbeck

Porch Understreet Fat Stream

INTERMISSION

Film: Ball Bearing

1968 Directed by Meredith Monk; camera: Meredith Monk and George Landau

Music from impermanence

Vessel Suite

1971 Meredith Monk, Katie Geissinger, and Allison Sniffin

2006

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble

Maybe 1

with Lauren Wang, Amanda Lubin, Michael Eliran, Albina Kozlova, Julia Thurston, Jessenia Zambrano, Jesse Murray, and Benjamin Korman

Epic Fire Dance Little Epiphany Sybil Song Mill Do You Be

Maybe 2 Totentanz

Stringsongs

Film: 16 Millimeter Earrings

1966 Directed and performed by Meredith Monk; camera: Kenneth Van Sickle

2004 Originally commissioned by Kronos Quartet Todd Reynolds, Courtney Orlando, Nadia Sirota, and Clarice Jensen

Boys

Gotham Lullaby

1999 Rick Moody (author & narrator), Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk, and Allison Sniffin with Emily Eagen, Holly Nadal, and Brian Snow

1974

arr. Todd Reynolds Todd Reynolds with So Percussion

Film: Faces from Volcano Songs

1994 Directed by Meredith Monk; camera: Nick Blair; edited at Mortey’s, NYC, with Bruce Ashkinos; Bohdan Hilash with faces: Nick Blair, Damon Kamalis, Barbara Dufty, Laura Kamali, Pablo Vela, Max Guarino, Dolma Sherpa, Carlos Arevalo, Peter Guarino, Laura Aswad, Thomas Bogdan, Allison Easter, Mieke Van Hoek, and Mrs. Cohen

Double Fiesta 1986 arr. Todd Reynolds Todd Reynolds with So Percussion John Hollenbeck/Theo Bleckmann Variations Bleckmann/Hollenbeck Quintet

Future Quest (from ATLAS) 1991 Procession (from American Archeology) 1994 Wheel 1983 1979 Members of The M6

1991

Choosing Companions

Agricultural Community

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, The M6, Strings, Cynthia Powell, and Alex Samaras

Hocket (from Facing North)

1990

Meredith Monk and Theo Bleckmann

Film: Quarry

1978 Directed by Meredith Monk; camera and editing: David Geary

Dolmen Music

Music from ATLAS

Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez, and Meredith Monk

Tablet

The M6

Lonely Spirit (from Atlas) 1991

arr. Bohdan Hilash Bohdan Hilash

1979

Excerpts from Songs of Ascension

2008 Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble with Todd Reynolds, Esther Noh, Nadia Sirota, and Ha-Yang Kim

Finale: Panda Chant II

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble with Special Music School (P.S. 859) Middle School Chorus