• Philip Glass with Patti Smith: Footnote to Howl, The Poet Speaks, Homage to Allen Ginsberg
• 8pm Show
• Special Series

Please Note: This show rescheduled from March 29th

Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. After studying at the University of Chicago, the Juilliard School and in Aspen with Darius Milhaud, he moved to Europe to complete his discipline with the legendary Nadia Boulanger (who also taught Aaron Copland , Virgil Thomson and Quincy Jones) and worked closely with the sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar. He returned to New York in 1967 and formed the Philip Glass Ensemble – seven musicians playing keyboards and a variety of woodwinds, amplified and fed through a mixer. This new musical style was evolving was eventually dubbed “minimalism”—a term Glass himself never liked, preferring instead to speak of himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures.” There has been nothing “minimalist” about his output however, and in the past 25 years, Glass has composed more than twenty operas; eight symphonies; two piano concertos, as well as concertos for violin, piano and timpani; quartets for saxophone, strings and orchestra; film soundtracks; and a growing body of work for solo piano and organ. He has also collaborated with Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Yo-Yo Ma, and Doris Lessing, among many others, and continues to appear regularly with the Philip Glass Ensemble.

For four weeks in March and April, Philip Glass will appear at City Winery as part of an innovative series that will pair him with some of today’s most intriguing and avant-garde performers, drawn from the worlds of pop, rock, classical and world music.