On October 3, 2013, the American Symphony Orchestra will present New York Avant-Garde at Carnegie Hall in New York. The event was organized in partnership with the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution, which opens on October 11, 2013. Led by the Symphony’s Leon Botstein, New York Avant-Garde will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the legendary 1913 Armory Show by recreating the fall-out in music caused by the groundbreaking event. The show will include works by modernist composers including Edgar Varèse and Aaron Copland.
Organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the Armory Show, officially titled the International Exhibition of Modern Art, took place at the 69th Regiment Armory and introduced radical works of art to the public; a far cry from the realistic art they were accustomed to. Artists, critics, and patrons were presented with European works that boasted avant-garde sensibilities and spanned genres like Futurism, Cubism, and Fauvism. The show transformed the landscape of modern art and inspired an unmatched growth and progression in American art.
