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After a nearly decade-long career as a punk rock musician, Peter Dayton returned to visual art upon moving to East Hampton in the mid-1980s. Dark Garden is a site-specific installation created for Guild Hall’s stairwell leading from the lobby to the balcony of the Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater. Dayton’s exploration of flowers began when he found discarded issues of House and Garden magazine from the 1950s near his home, and his collages utilize photocopied flowers from seed catalogs, which links his practice to the work of Andy Warhol and other pop artists. He chooses visually arresting images of flowers without leaves and stems—images devoid of sentiment, emotion, or specific references—allowing the flower forms to create their own patterns.

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Peter Dayton: Dark Garden

Guild Hall

Join composer Peter Dayton (MM ’16, Composition) for a celebration of the change of season: a concert of songs on the autumn themes of transition, mortality, and nature. “The Saunter into Autumn” features an eclectic program of contemporary art song, featuring sopranos Katie Procell (MM ’18, Voice) and Arianna Arnold (MM 18, Voice) singing works by Baltimore-based composers Dayton and Michael Rickelton (MM ’10, Composition), as well as works by Tania León and Carl Smith. Baritone (and pianist) Aaron Thacker (MM ’16, Piano) will give the world premiere of Dayton’s “In the Desert” song cycle, setting poetry by Stephen Crane. All ticket sales will go to the performing artists. Dayton and collaborative pianists Valerie Hsu and Thacker will accompany.

Alumni Event: Peter Dayton

405 E. Oliver Street

Tenor/composer Peter Dayton (MM ’16, Composition), baritone and current DMA candidate Michael Mangniello, pianist Aaron Thacker (MM ’16, Piano), and countertenor James M. Brown perform “The Need of Comrades: A Gay Cantata” at the inaugural Baltimore Queerscape at Area 405 in Baltimore’s Station North Arts & Entertainment District.

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Peter Dayton

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Jul 1, 2024

Peter Dayton: Dark Garden · Guild Hall

Oct 13, 2023

Alumni Event: Peter Dayton · Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

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