NATIONAL SAWDUST

Invites you to

STRETCH

Spring Gala 2019

Tuesday, May 7, 2019
6:30pm – Cocktails
7:30pm – Dinner and performances

at

Sotheby’s
1334 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Honoring:

BLACK THOUGHT

Co-Founder, lead MC/singer of The Legendary Roots Crew and Grammy-winning musician, actor, and artist who is one of the most skilled, incisive and prolific rappers of his time

DAVID BYRNE

Oscar-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe–winning musician, writer, and artist, and founding member of the Talking Heads

JULIETTE JONES

EVP of Urban Promotion at Atlantic Records and one of the leading women working in the music industry today. Her most recent accolades include 2018 Billboard Women in Music and the 2018 Billboard Pioneers Cover.

With Performances:

Amazing Grace (Traditional) • Performed by Davóne Tines & string quartet from Face the Music at Kaufman Music Center

Sisters – Paola Prestini • Performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus

One Fine Day –  David Byrne • performed by David Byrne & Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Excerpt from The Amazon • Performed by Pauchi Sasaki

Hold Me – Helga Davis • Performed by Helga Davis & Flexn Crew

Burning Black Churches (from M is Black Enough) – Roger Bonair-Agard, text; Andy Akiho, music • Performed by Andy Akiho, steelpan; Roger Bonair-Agard, vocals; Sean Dixon, drums; Jeffrey Zeigler, cello

and more TBA

If you would like to be listed in the program for our Gala, please be sure to purchase your table or premium tickets before April 8th, after which we will no longer be able to include new names in the program.

For more information, please contact the development department: development@nationalsawdust.org • (646) 779-8449

You may also make checks payable to Original Music Workshop and mail to Munira Khapra-Reininger at National Sawdust, 80 N 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249.

Black-tie Optional

Chairs:
Gelila Bekele and Karen Wong

Hosts:
Jill Steinberg, President of the Board of Directors
Paola Prestini, Composer, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

Co-Chairs:
Lynn A. Calpeter
Rick D’Avino
Kevin Dolan
Jill and Bill Steinberg
Ann Ziff

Benefit Committee:
Elizabeth Madigan Jost
Catriona Mordant AM and Simon Mordant AM
Ellen O’Brien Kelly
Kristin Sebastian and Alberto Cribiore
Robert L. Turner

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Daniel Breen
Lynn A. Calpeter
Courtenay Casey, Executive Director
Jean Pierre Chessé, President Emeritus
Rick D’Avino, Vice President
Kevin Dolan, Co-Founder and Chair
Joan Faber
Chris Grymes
Steve Houston
Joanne Hubschman
Sarah Johnson
Helen Little
Elizabeth Madigan Jost
Ellen O’Brien Kelly
Harvey Mogenson, Treasurer
Fabien Moreau
Emmanuel Morlet
Elena Park
Paola Prestini, Co-Founder, and Artistic Director
Kristin Sebastian
David Stein
Jill Steinberg, President
Dan Widawsky
Christopher Whitman
Karen Wong
Lawrence J. Zlatkin
Peter Zuspan, Secretary

ABOUT NATIONAL SAWDUST

National Sawdust is a non-profit music venue whose mission is to build new audiences for classical and new music by providing outstanding resources and programmatic support to both emerging and established artists and composers.

ABOUT SOTHEBY’S

Sotheby’s has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since 1744. Today, Sotheby’s presents auctions in ten different salesrooms, including New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris, and Sotheby’s Bid Now programme allows visitors to view all auctions live online and place bids from anywhere in the world. Sotheby’s has a global network of 80 offices in 40 countries and is the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (BID).