BOOK OF LONGING
A new major work based on the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing has been conceived as an evening-length concert work composed for ensemble, singers, spoken word and imagery. The piece features new music by Philip Glass inspired by Cohen's most recently published book of the same name.

ORION
Commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004. Guest collaborators include Australian didgeridoo master, Mark Atkins; West African Griot Foday Musa Suso; Indian composer and sitar master Ravi Shankar, Nova Scotian fiddler Ashley MacIssac; Brazil's UAKTI; pipa virtuoso Wu Man of China; and contemporary Greek vocalist, Eleftheria Arvanitaki.

THE QATSI TRILOGY
Over 25 years in the making and available for the first time in its entirety, the completed QATSI TRILOGY by avant garde filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass has been reinvented as a live film and music concert event. Designed to be shown on three consecutive evenings with music performed live by Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble.

KOYAANISQATSI: Life Out of Balance
POWAQQATSI: Life in Transformation
NAQOYQATSI: Life as War (Commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Arts)
Maya Beiser featured cello solo

PHILIP ON FILM
Exploring the role of music as it relates to the moving image on film, this unprecedented event features five evening-length works for music and film created over the past 25 years. Presented as a week-long event or individual evenings.

Shorts: A 2001 premiere featuring debuts of new scores by Philip Glass. 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: Staring Bela Lugosi (Tod Browning, 1931)
KOYAANISQATSI: Life Out of Balance
POWAQQATSI: Life in Transformation
NAQOYQATSI: Life as War

CONCERTS BY PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE
30-year retrospective concerts of repertoire written by Philip Glass for the Philip Glass Ensemble. Programs vary.

PHILIP GLASS SOLO PIANO AND APPEARANCES
An evening of work for solo acoustic piano featuring recent etudes composed and performed by Philip Glass.

PHILIP GLASS SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & APPEARANCES
Programs include spoken commentary by Philip Glass tailored to specific themes or presented in recital format.

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