Philip Glass Set for Days And Nights Festival This Weekend

The acclaimed Days and Nights Festival, founded and curated by Philip Glass, returns for its fifth edition this weekend, September 24-27, with four days of performances in Big|Brave Sur and Monterey, CA.

Highlights of the long weekend include the first screening/performance of Godfrey Reggio and Glass's collaboration Naqoyqatsi in over a decade, with live score performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble and Matt Haimovitz on cello; Glass's Complete Piano Etudes performed by Glass himself along with pianists Timo Andres and Maki Namekawa, preceded by a locally sourced picnic lunch underneath the redwoods of Big|Brave Sur; the return of the popular "Philip & Friends" program of music and spoken word withJerry Quickley and Mike Garry, Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer, kora player and Mandingo griot Foday Musa Susa, cellistJeffrey Zeigler, David Harding on viola and Glass on piano; plus free film screenings and talks in conjunction withSundance Film Festival Best Shorts 2015 and the Ambulante California Documentary Film Festival (screening details to come). Information on ticketed events is below-tickets on sale at philipglasscenter.org on July 28.

Glass envisions the Days and Nights Festival as encompassing and nurturing the arts in a way that welcomes the future while exploring seminal developments in the arts throughout history. Future seasons will delve ever further into the evolution of the arts across time and space.

The composer has chosen Big|Brave Sur and the surrounding area, world famous for its beauty, as the future home of the Philip Glass Center for the Arts, Science and the Environment. Over time, the Center will develop a broad array of interdisciplinary activities including live (filmed and recorded) performance, exhibitions, seminars and publications. "The Days and Nights Festival was my first step towards the establishment of a center," notes Glass. "The idea was to present a condensed sample of the work intended for the Center."

2015 DAYS AND NIGHTS FESTIVAL TICKETED EVENTS:

Tickets on sale July 28, see philipglasscenter.org for details. Information on additional free screenings and events to come.

PHILIP & FRIENDS: AN EVENING OF MUSIC & SPOKEN WORD WITH MIKE GARRY, JERRY QUICKLEY, LAVINIA MEIJER, FODAY MUSA SUSA, JEFFREY ZEIGLER AND DAVID HARDING
Friday, September 25 at 8 p.m.
Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big|Brave Sur (Carmel shuttle service available)

Acclaimed spoken word artists Jerry Quickley and Mike Garry return to the Days and Nights Festival, joined by Philip Glass on piano, Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer, kora player and Mandingo griot Foday Musa Susa, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and David Harding on viola for an evening of music and spoken word under the stars among the redwoods of Big|Brave Sur.

NAQOYQATSI LIVE
WITH PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE & MATT HAIMOVITZ
Saturday, September 26 at 8 p.m.
Golden State Theatre, Monterey

Directed by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass, Naqoyqatsi is the third and final film in the duo's acclaimed Qatsi trilogy. The Philip Glass Ensemble returns to the Festival, accompanied by cellist Matt Mainovitz, to perform the score live for the first time in over a decade.

PHILIP GLASS: THE COMPLETE ETUDES
WITH PHILIP GLASS, TIMO ANDRES & MAKI NAMEKAWA
Sunday, September 27
Lunch at 12:30 p.m.
Performance at 2 p.m.
Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big|Brave Sur (Carmel shuttle service available)

Finished in 2014 and reflecting two decades of composition, Glass's Complete Etudes have been performed to raves around the world and debuted at #1 on the iTunes Classical chart last year upon their release on Nonesuch Records. For this performance Glass is joined by pianists Maki Namekawa (who recorded the Etudes for Nonesuch) and Timo Andres to play all 20 in a single afternoon. A locally sourced picnic lunch will precede the performance on the lawn of the Henry Miller Library underneath the redwoods of Big|Brave Sur.

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