John Cage • Winter Music / Ann Southam • Simple Lines of Enquiry
Thursday, December 19, 4:30pm and 6:30pm

Adam Tendler, pianist

Adam Tendler presents a dialogue between John Cage's Winter Music (for 1 to 20 pianos), composed in 1957 for Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, with Ann Southam's meditative and haunting Simple Lines of Enquiry (2007), performed in its entirety.

Grammy-nominated pianist Adam Tendler is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, the Yvar Mikhashoff Prize, and is considered "currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), “relentlessly adventurous” (Washington Post), a "remarkable and insightful musician" (LA Times), and an "intrepid... maverick pianist" (The New Yorker). A pioneer of DIY culture in classical music, at 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots recital tour called America 88x50, the subject of his coming-out memoir, 88x50. He has gone on to become one of today’s most recognized and celebrated performers in classical-contemporary music, appearing with the London Symphony Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, NJ Symphony, and on the main stages of Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre, Sydney Opera House, Roy Thomson Hall, BAM, and leading series and stages nationwide. This year he also performed at the Venice Biennale and Milan Fashion Week.

Tendler's recordings include his much-anticipated Inheritances album, released this month, comprising 16 new works for piano from composers including Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Dev Hynes and Missy Mazzoli, commissioned using the entire inheritance left to him by his semi-estranged father. Inheritances was a New York Times Critic Pick, describing the program as "emotionally involving...with a sense of true dramatic stakes." Tendler's recordings also include Wild Up's Grammy-nominated album of works by Julius Eastman, If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?, as well as solo albums of music by Robert Palmer, Franz Liszt, and his own music.

Adam Tendler was 2024’s Artist in Residence at Brooklyn's Greenwood Cemetery, creating an immersive installation exploring queerness, grief and identity, called Exit Strategy. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist, and serves on the piano faculty of NYU.

The Next Life
10am - 6:30pm

A film by Carlos Marques da Cruz
For Jim Hodges

with: Witt Stanley Adolf, Anthony Monetti Jr., Adam Gordon, Stefano Iezzi, M, Taylor Mac, Fabio Clemente, Zata Clemente, Jon Woolner, Bryant Lanier, Dave Nyzio, Rommel Malabanan, Joey Arias, Kenny Gatta, Jim Hodges

camera: Encke King, Jim Hodges

stylist: Antonio Branco

color: Evan Anthony

A special thanks to Gladstone Gallery, Budco, Jim Hodges Studio and Tim Hailand.

In memory of Barbara Gladstone who encouraged the unfettered use of the Gallery spaces during the exhibition of Jim Hodges in 2011.

Carlos Marques da Cruz (b. Lisbon, 1968), is a Luso-American conceptual and performance artist, who works between dance, theater, film and art. He collaborates with Jim Hodges on the stage design for Damien Jalet’s choreography works: Kites (2022); Skid (2017) for the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani; Tarantiseismic (2017) for the National Youth Dance Company at Sadler Wells; and Thr(o)ugh (2016) for the Darmstadt Staatstheater. He created set pieces and performed in Robert Wilson productions: White Raven (1998), Lisbon; Hamlet, a monologue (1995), Venice; T.S.E. “come in under the shadow of this red rock” (1993); Memory/Loss (1993). Influenced by his experience in Physical Theater and working with Maiko and Hiroshi Hori, and Sankai Juku, Marques da Cruz explores his work, through different mediums, timeless subjects and narratives. Carlos Marques da Cruz co-directed the film Untitled with Jim Hodges and Encke King, distributed by Visual AIDS for the 2011 World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art.