Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrates Phillip Glass's 75th Birthday with Spring Events

The Metropolitan Museum celebrates the 75th birthday of Philip Glass with two events: a conversation with his longtime friend the artist Chuck Close, and a chamber music concert with Glass at the piano with violinist Tim Fain at the Museum's fabled Temple of Dendur.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. - Philip Glass and Chuck Close: A Conversation
Friends and allies for decades, composer Philip Glass and artist Chuck Close come together to talk about artistic intimacy, collaboration, notions of an artistic community, geographic proximity, and the fluidity of creative energy.

Philip Glass, who is celebrating his 75th birthday (January 31) this year, has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. www.dunvagen.com
The remarkable career of artist Chuck Close extends beyond his completed works of art. More than just a painter, photographer, and printmaker, Close is a builder who, in his words, builds "painting experiences for the viewer." Highly renowned as a painter, Close is also a master printmaker, who has, over the course of more than 30 years, pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking in remarkable ways.

This event is supported by the Mrs. Joseph H. King Fund.

Tickets: $25; 30 & Under Rush $15 tickets subject to availability

Saturday, April 21, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. - Philip Glass at 75: Glass Chamber Works at The Temple of Dendur
Philip Glass at the piano with violinist Tim Fain performing an evening of Glass's chamber music in the dramatic setting of The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing: a rare opportunity to hear the composer perform some of his recent compositions.

Philip Glass will perform the solo piano works Two Etudes (1999) and Metamorphosis (1989); Tim Fain will play the Partita for Solo Violin in Seven Movements (2011); and the two will perform Music from The Screens (a. The Orchard, b. France, c. The French Lieutenant), Glass's music for Jean Genet's last stage work, composed for a production directed by Jo Anne Akalaitis in 1989; and Pendulum, an arrangement for violin and piano of a work for violin, cello, and piano commissioned for the American Civil Liberty Union's 40th Anniversary in 2010.

Philip Glass, who is celebrating his 75th birthday (January 31) this year, has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. www.dunvagen.com
With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts, violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing new presence on the music scene. The "charismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile, strong musical instincts, and first rate chops" (Boston Globe) was most recently seen on screen and heard on the soundtrack of the new hit film BLACK SWAN, and heard as the sound of Richard Gere's violin in Fox Searchlight's feature film Bee Season. 
Tickets: $50