San Francisco Performances - 35th Anniversary Season
Category:
Concert
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
3/2/2015
End Date:
3/2/2015
Start Time:
7:30 PM
End Time:
10:00 PM
Event
Info:
San Francisco Performances (SFP) presents the iconic American composer Philip Glass performing the Bay Area Premiere of his two-decades-in-the-making piano etudes with Timo Andres and Maki Namekawa.
Philip Glass is a lightning rod among American composers, having created in the 1960s a style popularly known as "minimalism."With influences ranging from the legendary French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger to sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar, Glass emerged as one of the most important composers of the era with a prodigious output of operas, symphonies, concertos, film scores, and more.
SFP has a special relationship with Glass, having presented many of his seminal works since his first appearance at Davies Symphony Hall in October 2002. He has frequently appeared to capacity audiences with his Ensemble, performing live scores to the complete Qatsi film trilogy and La Belle et La Bete the mammoth Music in Twelve Parts in its West Coast Premiere ("...a new sound and a new chord suddenly break in, with an effect as if one wall of a room has suddenly disappeared, to reveal a completely new view" -The New Yorker) and performing his original solo piano and chamber music compositions in intimate recitals. Glass was also present for the re-mounted DANCE, "a blindingly seminal collaboration" (The Guardian) between Glass, choreographer Lucinda Childs, and artist Sol LeWitt.
Glass now returns to perform a special program of his complete piano etudes, a series of works spanning 20 years of his life as a composer and begun in 1994 partly as a 50th birthday gift to conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies and also to expand his piano technique with music that would challenge his playing. He is joined by Maki Namekawa, a leading interpreter of his music, and Timo Andres, a star composer-pianist among a new generation of American mavericks. Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes was released in November and is available at www.itunes.com/philipglass.
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