Philip Glass Set for Days And Nights Festival, 9/24-27
The acclaimed Days and Nights Festival, founded and curated by Philip Glass, returns for its fifth edition 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.
Tickets to First Annual Aspen Theatre Festival Now on Sale
Theatre Aspen announced that tickets are on sale for the first annual Aspen Theatre Festival, held at the Hurst Theatre during the final week of the summer, on August 25th and 28th. The Agent and Finn the Fearless are the two new works being developed as part of the organization's new festival. Tickets range from $20-30 and can be purchased at www.theatreaspen.org.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to Present NEIGHBORHOOD WEEK, 8/31
PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presents “Neighborhood Week,” an entire week of classical orchestral and chamber music in some of Pittsburgh's most beloved locales. Beginning on Monday, August 31, the Pittsburgh Symphony will be bringing music to the community with different events each day through Friday, September 4.
All details about Neighborhood Week, including locations and ticket information, can be found at pittsburghsymphony.org/neighborhood.
Principal Flute of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to Perform DIVINE TRAVEL, 10/24
PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Principal Flute Lorna McGhee headlines “Divine Travel,“ part of the BNY Mellon Grand Classics series, on October 24 and 26 at Heinz Hall.
Guest conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier returns to lead the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Grieg's “Peer Gynt,” written for Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name. It recounts the downfall and subsequent redemption of a Norwegian peasant anti-hero. McGhee will shine in Nielsen's Flute Concerto, which was last heard by Pittsburgh Symphony audiences in 1987. Sibelius' romantic Symphony No. 5, which was the composer's response to popular musical modernism of the time, closes the program.