Celebrating
Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer Charles
Wuorinen's 70th
birthday, Works & Process at
the Guggenheim presents an
all Wuorinen program with
Boston Symphony Orchestra
and Metropolitan Opera Music
Director James Levine
conducting Ashberyana,
Wuorinen's setting of John
Ashbery poems with members
of the Brentano String
Quartet, James Pugh, Sarah
Rothenberg and Leon
Williams. Works &
Process commissions Sean
Curran to choreograph
The Mission of Virgil,
inspired by scenes from
Dante's Inferno, with
members of the Sean
Curran Dance Company
accompanied by Metropolitan
Opera pianists Linda Hall
and Howard Watkins.
Sarah Rothenberg moderates
a discussion. A reception
with the artists in the
museum’s Frank Lloyd
Wright-designed rotunda
follows.
Program
Praegustatum for James
Levine
Charles Wuorinen, piano
The Mission
of Virgil (Dance World
Premiere)
Sean Curran Dance Company
Rebbeca
Ayers, Dwayne Brown, Evan
Copland, Elizabeth Coker
Giron,
Winston
Dynamite Brown, Jenny Rocha
and Aaron Walter
Sean Curran, choreography
Linda Hall, piano
Howard Watkins, piano
Dance commissioned by Works
& Process at the Guggenheim
Asberyana
Leon Williams, baritone
James Pugh, trombone
Mark Steinberg, violin
Serena Canin, violin
Misha Amory, viola
Nina Lee, cello
Sarah Rothenberg, piano
James Levine, conducting
Works & Process
For over 23 years and in
over 300 productions, Works
& Process at the Guggenheim
has been a pioneer in
creating ground-breaking and
carefully crafted programs
which provide unprecedented
access to today’s leading
performing artists. Each
program uniquely blends
performance and discussion
among creative collaborators
and explores the creative
process. Works & Process has
a long history of
commissioning and fully
producing original works.
Described by The New York
Times as "a popular
series devoted to shedding
light on the creative
process," by The Village
Voice as "revelatory,"
and by New York Magazine
as "illuminating," Works &
Process is produced by Mary
Sharp Cronson. For further
information visit
www.worksandprocess.org
Lead funding for Works &
Process is provided by The
Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
with additional support
from The Brown Foundation,
Inc., of Houston, Geoffrey
C. Hughes Foundation,
Christian Humann Foundation,
Leon Levy Foundation,
Rockefellers Brothers Fund,
Inc., Louisa Sarofim and The
Evelyn Sharp Foundation.
This program
is supported in part by
public funds from the New
York City Department of
Cultural Affairs and the New
York State Council on the
Arts, a state agency.
LOCATION:
Peter B. Lewis Theater
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th
Street
Subway – 4,5,6 train to 86th
Street
Bus – M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus
on Madison or Fifth Avenue
TICKETS:
$30 General
$25 Guggenheim Members
$10 Students
The public may call (212)
423-3587, M-F, 1–5 PM to
order tickets and for more
information visit
worksandprocess.org