SARATOGA SPRINGS — The world premiere of David Greenberger and Tyson Rogers’s How Vowels Endure Winter will be presented by the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 12. The event is the inaugural commission and performance in the Adirondack Trust New Works Series at the Tang Museum.
How Vowels Endure Winter features a series of monologues with piano created in response to work by the artist Joachim Schmid that occupies an entire wall in the Tang exhibition Studio/Archive.
Greenberger and Rogers’s new compositions for voice and piano respond to Schmid’s works with short tales about collecting, creating, organizing, and memory. Greenberger, who lives and works in Greenwich, Washington County, is known for audio works and performances based on conversations with nursing home residents. He created The Duplex Planet publication in 1979 based on his conversations with nursing home residents.
His drawings and compositions were featured in the 2014 Tang exhibition David Greenberger: One Upon, which included a one-seat theater in which Greenberger and his band A Strong Dog performed one two-minute composition for one audience member at a time.
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.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit https://tang.skidmore.edu. The Tang Museum is open to the public Tuesday–Sunday, noon – 5 p.m., with extended hours until 9 p.m. on Thursdays.
