PHILIP GLASS’S CELEBRATORY
85TH BIRTHDAY SEASON KICKS OFF TODAY
85TH BIRTHDAY SEASON KICKS OFF TODAY
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
TRILOGY OF PERFORMANCE FILMS, PHILIP GLASS: THREE CITIES
85TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NYC
WORLD PREMIERE: SYMPHONY NO. 13
NEW PRODUCTION OF EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
AKHNATEN RETURNS TO THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMS SYMPHONY NO. 11
PIANO ETUDES FESTIVAL
35TH ANNUAL TIBET HOUSE U.S. BENEFIT CONCERT
85TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NYC
WORLD PREMIERE: SYMPHONY NO. 13
NEW PRODUCTION OF EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
AKHNATEN RETURNS TO THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMS SYMPHONY NO. 11
PIANO ETUDES FESTIVAL
35TH ANNUAL TIBET HOUSE U.S. BENEFIT CONCERT
photo credit: Danny Clinch
January 31, 2022—Today Philip Glass, one of America’s most esteemed composers, celebrates his 85th birthday. The milestone kicks off a year of notable performances and events—in addition to the just-released premiere recording of his Symphony No. 12, Lodger—encompassing many aspects of his multi-faceted career: opera, chamber music, orchestral music and more. Highlights follow, with additional events and honors to be announced throughout the season.
CELEBRATORY PERFORMANCE FILM SERIES: PHILIP GLASS: THREE CITIES
To mark the momentous occasion of Glass’s 85th birthday, Dunvagen Music announces today a three-part film series, Philip Glass: Three Cities, celebrating the composer and his formidable body of work. Each film features performances in a city chosen for its special significance to Glass and a developmental period in his life: Baltimore, where he spent his youth (release date: February 27); Chicago, where he attended University of Chicago (release date: March 13); and New York City, where his artistic maturity took root (release date: March 20).
Captured by Four/Ten Media and streaming via Mandolin, Philip Glass: Three Cities presents stunning live performances in historic and striking locations by musicians and dancers who call these cities home. The films star some of the foremost interpreters of Glass’s music performing some of his most iconic works, including Third Coast Percussion, Simone Dinnerstein, Lisa Moore, Nico Muhly, Jenny Lin, James Fable, Philip Glass Ensemble, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and selected members of NEXT Ensemble and Peabody Camerata.
NEW YORK CITY CELEBRATES PHILIP GLASS’S 85TH BIRTHDAY AT THE RINK AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER
Tonight, Rockefeller Center and Pomegranate Arts present a night of festivities on and around The Rink at Rockefeller Center, on the evening of Glass’s 85th birthday. Multimedia artist and creative pioneer Laurie Anderson will host a party at 7 p.m. for her dear friend with ice skating, cupcakes, and live music and performances. An afterparty, DJ’d by Anderson, will follow the celebration at 8:50 p.m. Members of the public are welcome to purchase tickets to one or both events (availability permitting), and all tickets include skate rental.
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMS SYMPHONY NO. 11
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Riccardo Muti, performs Glass’s Symphony No. 11 at the Symphony Center in Chicago, Illinois, February 17–19. Originally premiered by the Bruckner Orchester Linz in a triumphant performance at Carnegie Hall on the composer’s 80th birthday, the work now receives a trio of American performances in celebration of his 85th, compliments of the CSO.
35TH ANNUAL TIBET HOUSE U.S. BENEFIT CONCERT CELEBRATES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PHILIP GLASS’S 85TH BIRTHDAY
One of the longest-running and most renowned live cultural events in New York City, the annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert, returns March 3 for a special 35th Anniversary virtual edition celebrating artistic director Philip Glass’s 85th birthday. Streaming via Mandolin for the second year in a row, the virtual aspect of this year’s concert once again offers viewers around the world the unique opportunity to experience the warmth, sense of community and amazing music the evening has provided for so many years in person at Carnegie Hall. Glass has curated a lineup that features performances by Keanu Reeves, Trey Anastasio, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Nathaniel Rateliff, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Angélique Kidjo, Margo Price, Punch Brothers, The Fiery Furnaces, Tenzin Choegyal, Rubin Kodheli and The Scorchio Quartet, as well as special greetings by Iggy Pop and Bernard Sumner. For tickets click HERE.
WORLD PREMIERE: SYMPHONY NO. 13 IN TORONTO WITH SUBSEQUENT PERFORMANCES IN NEW YORK CITY & OTTAWA + GLOBAL LIVESTREAM
Glass’s Symphony No. 13, commemorating freedom of the press and dedicated to journalist Peter Jennings, receives its world premiere in Toronto, Canada on March 30 as part of a program entitled “Truth in our Time,” performed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and led by Music Director Alexander Shelley. The U.S. Premiere will then take place April 5 at Carnegie Hall in New York City, with subsequent performances in Ottawa, Canada on April 13 & 14. The April 14 performance will also be livestreamed.
AKHNATEN RETURNS TO THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
Director Phelim McDermott’s critically acclaimed, GRAMMY-nominated production of Akhnaten returns to the Metropolitan Opera May 19–June 10, with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo reprising the titular role. Mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb assumes the role of his wife and queen, Nefertiti, and noted master of Glass’s music, Karen Kamensek, returns as conductor.
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH: NEW PRODUCTION AT THEATER BASEL
Theater Basel in Basel, Switzerland presents a new production of Glass and Robert Wilson’s landmark opera, Einstein on the Beach, June 4–22. In their first opera production, directors Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg create a futuristic production in their unmistakable style exploring the boundaries between humans and machines, reality and simulation. With music direction by André de Ridder, the production marks the first time that ensembles Basler Madrigalisten and Ensemble Phoenix will appear together in a Theater Basel opera production.
THE GLASS ETUDES AT KAATSBAAN
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, New York opens its annual fall festival September 17–18 with a weekend devoted to Glass’s complete Piano Etudes in celebration of his 85th birthday. Presented by Kaatsbaan and produced in collaboration with Pomegranate Arts, the 20 etudes will be performed live across the lush 153-acre property, accompanied by world premieres of newly commissioned dance works by choreographers spanning generations and genres. The weekend will also feature film, poetry, and visual and culinary arts.
ABOUT PHILIP GLASS
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for the Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Glass’s memoir, Words Without Music, was published by Liveright Books in 2015.
Glass received the Praemium Imperiale in 2012, the U.S. National Medal of the Arts from President Barack Obama in 2016, and 41st Kennedy Center Honors in 2018. His recent works include Symphony No. 12, a completion of three symphonies based on David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy, his first Piano Sonata, a new opera, Circus Days and Nights, and Symphony No. 14, which premiered in September 2021.
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