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Fernwood?http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=9355591c-7e37-4de6-8e9d-733e7033bc07&k=84756~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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I will be buying tickets soon. (They are selling already!) Anyone else interested in going?1.] Music from Einstein on the Beach
December 6, 2007 8:00 PM $19 - $64 USD
Performers: Philip Glass & the Philip Glass Ensemble, Timothy Fain, Michael Riesman
Venue: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA
Carnegie Hall presents a concert of music from Philip Glass's legendary 20th-century opera, Einstein on the Beach, performed live for the first time in 15 years by the Philip Glass Ensemble with chorus and violinist Timothy Fain. Produced for Carnegie Hall by Pomegranate Arts. from
http://www.philipglass.com/calendar/index.php?mo=12&yr=2007and
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_10124.html?selecteddateand2.] Satyagraha with the Metropolitan Opera in NY at the Lincoln Center, price ranges all over but around $100 - $200 USD
Approximate running time 3 hrs. 30 min.
Philip Glass’s landmark 1980 work, set to text from the ancient Sanskrit scripture the Bhagavad Gita, is a moving account of Mahatma Gandhi’s formative experiences in South Africa, which transformed him into a great leader. For the opera’s Met premiere, director Phelim McDermott and designer Julian Crouch (artistic directors of London’s provocative Improbable theater company) use adventurous, improvisational puppetry, achieved by the Skills Ensemble, a brilliant team of aerialists, to illuminate this formative period in Gandhi’s life and work. Tenor Richard Croft (pictured) brings his crystalline timbre and musical finesse to Glass’s gently unfolding, chant-like music.April 11,14,19,22,25,28, May 01, 2008.
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http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/
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Philip is not slowing down, it seems.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass#Recent_works:_Waiting_for_the_Barbarians.2C_Symphony_No.8_and_AppomattoxAppomattox, a new opera, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera (surrounding the events at the end of the American Civil War), premiered on October 5, 2007.Among new works in various stages of completion: the symphonies No.9 and No.10; an opera on the life of Johannes Kepler (to be premiered by Dennis Russel Davies, 2009); music for two plays [18]; a second Violin Concerto; and a second Volume of Etudes for piano.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Philip_GlassHow could one find all of these recordings??
(How could one find time to listen to all of these recordings?
How does Philip compose all of these??)
(I'm serious about that first question.)
(You may notice that he has collaborated with Robert Wilson at least six times! He has also collaborated with Doris Lessing, had works based on Edgar Allan Poe's, Franz Kafka's, and Samuel Beckett's writings...it goes on and on: it boggles the mind!)~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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Listening to Philip had made me want to compose pieces like he does, but after my recent trip to England, Amsterdam, and Vancouver, I want to create amazing paintings like the ones I saw: the colour of Georgia O'Keeffe, the beautiful visions of Van Gogh, the warmth of Kandinsky, the stillness of Rothko -- all adjectives falling short, hopefully gesturing from whence they came, the darkness of leaves falling. There's something in painting that has to do with clarity. The thick heavy brushstrokes across the canvass of colour.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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Steve Reich on Steve Reich:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich#Reich_on_himselfHe and Philip Glass had a moving company together?!
Here again we have a community of artists. (They also seem to have known Terry Riley. These three are the 'biggest' names in American minimalism.)~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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In C (1964) is probably Riley's best-known work and one that brought the minimalist music movement to prominence. ... Its form was an innovation: the piece consists of 53 separate modules of roughly one measure apiece, each containing a different musical pattern but each, as the title implies, in C. One performer beats a steady stream of Cs on the piano to keep tempo. The others, in any number and on any instrument, perform these musical modules following a few loose guidelines, with the different musical modules interlocking in various ways as time goes on.from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Riley#Musical_style_and_techniques~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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Terry Riley:
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Augustine is not wrong. There's something really quite amazing happening here. I can't quite put my finger on it.
