CURRENT TOURING PROJECTS
RETROSPECTIVE CONCERTS
Forty-year retrospective concerts of repertoire written by Philip Glass for the Philip Glass Ensemble. Programs include selections from the iconic works Einstein on the Beach, Music in 12 Parts, Koyaanisqatsi, and Glassworks. Full length performances of the four-hour epic Music in 12 Parts (1971-74) are also available as special events.
PHILIP GLASS LIVE FILM PROJECTS
Over the last thirty-five years, Philip Glass has explored the role of music as it relates to the moving image on film. This series of performances features six evening-length works for music and projected film.
THE QATSI TRILOGY (Godfrey Reggio)
KOYAANISQATSI: Life Out of Balance
POWAQQATSI: Life in Transformation
NAQOYQATSI: Life as War
Koyaanisqatsi has also been arranged for the Philip Glass Ensemble to perform with local symphony orchestras and choir. Commissions for orchestral arrangements for additional filmworks are currently under exploration and may become available.
SHORTS: Program includes specially commissioned short films by Atom Egoyan, Peter Greenaway, Shirin Neshat, and Michal Rovner, as well as classics by Godfrey Reggio.
LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE: Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
DRACULA: Starring Bela Lugosi (Tod Browning, 1931). Originally composed for the Kronos Quartet (pending availability) and also available with the Philip Glass Ensemble.
PHILIP GLASS SOLO PIANO
An intimate evening of work for solo acoustic piano featuring recent etudes composed and performed by Philip Glass.
PHILIP GLASS CHAMBER MUSIC
An evening of Philip Glass chamber music performed by Philip Glass, cellist Wendy Sutter and percussionist Mick Rossi. The program features excerpts from the recent critically acclaimed Songs & Poems for Solo Cello, Naqoyqatsi, and recent etudes.
Also available are the Philip Glass Chamber Players, ranging in size from duets to octets. Programs feature Philip Glass’ most recent works for strings, and may consist of Glass pieces exclusively, or be presented in combination with works from the classical repertoire.
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
In celebration of Philip Glass' 75th birthday in 2012, Pomegranate Arts has spear-headed a campaign to launch an international tour of Robert Wilson
and Philip Glass' seminal collaborative work EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH. First performed in 1976 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and the Festival d'Avignon, the opera subsequently toured in 1984 and 1993 to a select number of cities. It has never been seen outside of New York City in North America.
Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH changed opera forever and continues to be recognized as one of contemporary performance's greatest masterpieces.
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