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ACFNY RECOMMENDED | BRUCKNER ORCHESTER LINZ CELEBRATES PHILIP GLASS

The Bruckner Orchester Linz, under its Music Director Dennis Russell Davies, celebrates Philip Glass’s 80th birthday with the world premiere of his Symphony No. 11. Other works on the program include the intoxicating samba-inspired Days and Nights in Rocinha, and Ifé: Three Yoruba Songs, featuring vocalist Angélique Kidjo.

Bruckner Orchester Linz
Music Director: Dennis Russell Davies
Vocals: Angelique Kidjo

ALL-PHILIP GLASS PROGRAM
Days and Nights in Rocinha
Ifé: Three Yorùbá Songs 
(NY Premiere)
Symphony No. 11 (World Premiere)

ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA
The Bruckner Orchester looks back on more than two hundred years of history and tradition, and over the past few decades, it has become one of Central Europe’s leading orchestras.
With 110 musicians it manages not only the music for stage productions of Linz’s Upper Austrian State Theater but also the orchestra concerts. The Bruckner Orchester Linz fulfills a number of prominent tasks, including participation in the Bruckner Festival, the Ars Electronica Festival, the Linzer Klangwolke and the festival. In the last few decades, the orchestra has earned an outstanding reputation for itself both in Austria and abroad.
The orchestra toured the United States of America once again in the fall of 2009, having successfully completed its last U.S. tour in 2005. The orchestra had some major assignments during Linz’s year as the European Capital of Culture in 2009, which was followed in 2011 by the opening of the city’s long-awaited new “Musiktheater” theatre and opera house.

ABOUT THE COMPOSER
After more than five decades, Philip Glass continues to be at the forefront of contemporary music and art. 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 he was creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company (which he co-founded). This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, on which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for 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). Several new works have been unveiled in recent years, including two operas in 2013 (The Lost, for the opening of the new opera house in Linz Austria, and The Perfect American, about the death of Walt Disney). Glass’s newest opera, based on Kafka’s The Trial, premiered at London’s Covent Garden in October 2014 and in 2015 the Washington National Opera premiered a newly revised version of his 2007 work, Appomattox, on which he collaborated with librettist Christopher Hampton. Ifé: Three Yoruba Songs, written with his friend and collaborator Angelique Kidjo, was premiered by the Philharmonique de Luxembourg in January 2014; and in 2015 the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, premiered his latest concerto, a piece written for pianists Marielle and Katia Labèque. Glass’s memoir, Words Without Music, was released to great acclaim via Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, and last year he was named the eleventh recipient of the Glenn Gould Prize, a lifetime achievement award given to prominent musicians.

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Photo by K.W. Foto

VENUE
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019

Date

Jan 31 2017
Expired!

Time

7:30 pm
Category
Music

Tue ‒ Thu: 09am ‒ 07pm
Fri ‒ Mon: 09am ‒ 05pm

Adults: $25
Children & Students free

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