Join us Friday, April 12, at 7 pm, for the world premiere of How Vowels Endure Winter, a series of monologues with music composed by David Greenberger and Tyson Rogers for voice and piano. The performance features newly commissioned work–short tales about collecting, creating, organizing, and memory–created in response to Joachim Schmid’s photographs featured in the exhibition Studio/Archive, currently on view.

This is the inaugural commission and performance in the Adirondack Trust New Works Series at the Tang Museum.

About the Musicians

For the past thirty years David Greenberger has created commissioned works for museums, universities, performing arts venues, and National Public Radio. These performances grew out of The Duplex Planet, the publication he started in 1979 based on his conversations with nursing home residents. The Duplex Planet has been collected into books, adapted into a comic book series, and a traveling exhibition. His recordings and performances of monologues with music have been created in collaboration with a wide range of musicians and ensembles. Throughout his career he has also been a visual and conceptual artist. These practices predate degree in painting from Massachusetts College of Art (BFA, 1978). A documentary film by Beth Harrington about Greenberger, Beyond the Duplex Planet, is due for release later in 2024.

Pitchfork called Tyson Rogers a “wayfaring keyboard wrangler” for his multi-faceted abilities as a recording and touring musician. Rogers toured extensively with bluesman Tony Joe White and country legend Don Williams, playing on his Grammy nominated duet with Alison Krauss, “I Just Come Here for the Music.” Rogers’s original music has been featured by National Geographic, Tokyo Olympics, CBS television, The North Face, and Tom’s Shoes, and his recordings have received critical acclaim from music critics, earning “Best CDs of the Year” by Downbeat and others.

About the Adirondack Trust New Works Series at the Tang Museum

The Adirondack Trust New Works Series at the Tang Museum is supported by a generous gift to Skidmore College from the Adirondack Trust Company. This annual series will present a world premiere commission in art, music, dance, or poetry at the Museum. Performances will be free and open to the public.