SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2018 • 7PM
THE LANTERN TOUR
Concert For Migrant And Refugee Families
W. EMMYLOU HARRIS , JACKSON BROWNE , SHAWN COLVIN , LILA DOWNS , GRAHAM NASH & SPECIAL GUESTS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018 • 8PM
BEASTIE BOYS BOOK LIVE & DIRECT WITH ADAM HOROVITZ & MICHAEL DIAMOND
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018 • 7PM
I MIGHT REGRET THIS
A Conversation with Abbi Jacobson
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH, 2018 • 8PM
KCRW'S LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER
Hosted By Josh Barro with Ana Marie Cox and Rich Lowry
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2018 • 8PM BROADWAY @ THE TOWN HALL | AUDRA MCDONALD
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018 • 8PM BELA FLECK, ZAKIR HUSSAIN & EDGAR MEYER
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018 • 8PM
TAYLOR MAC'S HOLIDAY SAUCE
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2019 • 8PM BROADWAY @ THE TOWN HALL | KELLI O'HARA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 • 8PM FARRUQUITO
MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019 • 8PM BROADWAY @ THE TOWN HALL | JEREMY JORDAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2019 • 8PM
A THOUSAND THOUGHTS
A Live Documentary by SAM GREEN and KRONOS QUARTET
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2019 • 8PM
DJANGO A GOGO 2019
Stephane Wrembel Presents a Celebration of Guitar Through the Music of Django Reinhardt
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2019 • 8PM A Conversation With LINDA RONSTADT
SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 • 7PM ANOUSHKA SHANKAR
FRIDAY, JUNE 28 + SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2019 • 8PM JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL & STEPHEN TRASK
THE ORIGIN OF LOVE
The Songs and Stories of Hedwig
THE TOWN HALL P r ESENTS
MUSIC IN TWELVE PARTS
g LASS ENSEMBLE Michael r iesman, Music Director
P HILIP gLASS , L ISA B IELAWA , DAN B O rA , J ON gIBSON , P ETE r H ESS , ryAN K ELLy , M ICHAEL rIESMAN , M ICK rOSSI , A ND r EW STE r MAN
TONI g HT’S P r O grAM
PArTS 1, 2, 3
INTErMISSION: 15 minutes
PArTS 4, 5, 6
DINNEr BrEAK: 75 minutes
PArTS 7, 8, 9
INTErMISSION: 15 minutes
PArTS 10, 11, 12
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PrODuCED By Pomegranate Arts, Inc.
Linda Brumbach , Executive Producer
Alisa E. regas , Associate Producer
THE TOWN HALL 123 W 43rd st nyc
LARRY ZUCKER , Executive director
M.A. PAPPER , Artistic director
JEFF MANN , director of Marketing
BILL DEHLING , technical director
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CARL ACAMPORA , Production Manager
LEIA-LEE DORAN , Principal designer
ALEX KOVEOS , digital Media Manager
Begun in May 1971 and completed in April 1974, Music in Twelve Parts is an extended cycle of music normally requiring three live concerts to perform in its entirety. It is intended to describe a vocabulary of techniques, which appear repeatedly in Philip Glass’ music. Individual parts feature one or several aspects of a common musical language. they are characterized by different procedures, note choices and rhythmic profiles.
PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE:
Philip Glass composer, keyboard
Lisa Bielawa voice
Dan Bora live sound mix
Jon Gibson flute, soprano saxophone
Peter Hess alto and tenor saxophones
Ryan Kelly onstage audio engineer
Michael Riesman music director, keyboard
Mick Rossi keyboard
Andrew Sterman flute, piccolo, soprano saxophone
PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE
established by composer Philip Glass, the first performance by the Philip Glass ensemble was held in May 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. embraced first by the visual art community working in soHo in the early 1970’s, the early concerts performed by the Philip Glass ensemble were considered visual as well as musical events and were often performed in art galleries, artist lofts, and museum spaces rather than traditional performing art centers.
since that time, the members of the PGe have become known as the premiere performers of the music of Philip Glass and continue to be an inspiration for new work. Over the past thirty years, the group has performed on four continents in some of the most prestigious music festivals and concert venues throughout the world. they have been featured in Philip Glass’ projects Hydrogen Jukebox , 1000 Airplanes on the Roof , The Photographer , La Belle et la Bête , and Monsters of Grace
In June 2004, in Athens, Greece, Glass premiered Orion , a new work for the ensemble and world musicians commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004. Following its world premiere in Athens, Orion was performed in Greece, Italy, France, London, Australia, as well as cities in the United states.
the Philip Glass ensemble tours regularly with Music in Twelve Parts , Koyaanisqatsi , Powaqqatsi , La Belle et la Bête , and Dracula . In 2012-5, they also appeared in the international revival of robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera, Einstein on the Beach remounted in honor of the composer’s 75th Birthday season. In 2018, Philip Glass re-conceived Music with Changing Parts to include a brass and choral section, which was premiered at Carnegie Hall with the Philip Glass ensemble and young performers from the san Francisco Girls Chorus and san Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 2019, the Philip Glass ensemble will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary season.
PHILIP GLASS (composer) Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard school. 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, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for the Philip Glass ensemble and for the Mabou Mines theater Company. this period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach , for which he collaborated with robert Wilson. since Einstein , Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, 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 ). In the past few years several new works were unveiled including an opera on the death of Walt disney, The Perfect American (co-commissioned by teatro real, Madrid and the english National Opera), a new touring production of Einstein , the publication of Glass’s memoir, Words Without Music , by Liveright Books, and the premiere of the revised version of Glass’ opera Appomattox , in collaboration with librettist Christopher Hampton, at the Washington National Opera in November 2015.
Glass celebrated his 80th birthday on January 31, 2017 with the world premiere of Symphony No. 11 at Carnegie Hall. His 80th birthday season featured curated programming around the globe, including the U.s. premieres of operas The Trial and The Perfect American , and world premieres of several new works, including Piano Concerto No. 3 , String Quartet No. 8 , and his first Piano Quintet
In 2015, Glass received the U.s. National Medal of Arts and the 11th Glenn Gould Prize. He was honored with the richard and Barbara debs Composer’s Chair from Carnegie Hall for the 2017-2018 season. Glass will receive the 41st Kennedy Center Honors in december 2018.
On January 10th, 2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will present the world premiere of Glass’ Symphony No. 12 , based on david Bowie’s album Lodger and a completion of three symphonies based on Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy . Glass continues to perform solo piano evenings, chamber music evenings with world-renowned musicians, and regularly appears with the Philip Glass ensemble.
MICHAEL r IESMAN (music director) is a composer, conductor, keyboardist, record producer, and is the Music director of the Philip Glass ensemble. He has conducted and performed on many recordings of works by Glass, including most of his film soundtracks. He has recorded four albums of solo piano arrangements of Glass film music: The Hours, Dracula, Philip Glass Soundtracks, and La Belle et la Bête. He has conducted major ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and the toronto, sydney, and BBC symphony Orchestras, and has appeared as a piano soloist with the Chicago symphony Orchestra and the Milwaukee symphony. He has conducted and performed on albums by Paul simon (Hearts and Bones) and david Bowie (BlackTie/White Noise). riesman’s composition Formal Abandon, which originated from a commission by choreographer Lucinda Childs, has been re-released on itunes.
LISA BIELAWA (voice) is a 2009 rome Prize winner in Musical Composition. she takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. the New York times describes her music as, “ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart.” she is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and she received a 2018 Los Angeles Area emmy nomination for her unprecedented, made-fortV-and-online opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser. Bielawa began touring as the vocalist with the Philip Glass ensemble in 1992, and in 1997 co-founded the MAtA Festival, which celebrates the work of young composers. Bielawa served as Artistic director of the san Francisco Girls Chorus from 2013-2018 and recently completed her residency at Grand Central Art Center in santa Ana, California. she was named a William randolph Hearst Visiting Artist Fellow at the American Antiquarian society for 2018. Her discography includes albums on the tzadik, trOY, Innova, BMOP/sound, Orange Mountain Music and sono Luminus labels.
DAN BO rA (live sound mix) is a producer, engineer, and sound designer of albums, film scores, and live sound. dan has worked with Marina Abramovic, Anohni, Philip Glass, Howard shore, Nico Mühly, and groups such as Alarm Will sound, Kronos Quartet, the Magnetic Fields, and Matmos. His credits include Academy Award winning Fog of War, the Academy Award nominated The Illusionist, Notes on a Scandal, The Reader, Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream, as well as the revival of robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, and the Life and Death of Marina Abramovic dan’s live mixing and sound design have been praised as “deft, provocative and even poignant…” (New York times).
JON g IBSON (woodwinds) is a composer, multi-wind instrumentalist and visual artist who has been active in new music for over 40 years. He has been a member of the Philip Glass ensemble since its beginnings and has performed with Glass in other configurations including solo/duet concerts featuring the music of both Gibson and Glass. Gibson’s own output includes music for solo instruments, various ensembles, dance, music theater, video, film and opera. He has performed and collaborated with musicians, choreographers and artists, including Merce Cunningham, Nancy topf, Nina Winthrop, ralph Gibson, Lucinda Childs, JoAnne Akalitis, Harold Budd, david Behrman, LaMonte Young, steve reich, elisabetta Vittoni and thomas Buckner. Gibson’s music can be heard on the superior Viaduct, tzadik, Orange Mountain Music, New tone, Point Music, New World, Lovely Music, earrational and einstein records labels.
PETE r HESS (woodwinds) defies musical borders and has appeared and/or recorded with Balkan Beat Box, Barbez, david sanborn, Asphalt Orchestra, Alarm Will sound, david Byrne, tony Visconti, songs:Ohia, slavic soul Party, tim Berne, Jabbo Ware, Jack Mcduff, dirty Projectors, tV on the radio, Wu tang Clan, ICe, the Hold steady, son Volt, Antisocial Music, Big Lazy, and dozens more. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His work composing and arranging for winds and strings can be heard on over 50 recordings, HBO’s Bored to Death, PBs, and the recent feature documentary Art and Craft. He holds a deep love of the music of the Balkans, which he has researched and studied in roma villages in southern serbia.
ryAN KELLy (onstage audio engineer) began his career at the renowned Legacy recording studios in New York City after graduating from Full sail University. since then he has worked on live performances across five continents alongside artists including Paul simon, Philip Glass ensemble, solange, eighth Blackbird, Nico Muhly, yMusic and son Lux. He began working with the Philip Glass ensemble for the revival of robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach and joined the ensemble in 2014. selected studio work has included producing film scores and recording albums with Beyoncé, roomful of teeth, Marc ribot, and Booker t. Jones featuring the roots. His sound design credits include multiple shows with the steven Petronio Company, Dream’d in a Dream with the sean Curran Company, and The Dorothy K with Saint Genet featuring Zac Pennington & Brian Lawlor.
MICK r OSSI (keyboards) performs diverse and progressive work rooted in the NY downtown scene at venues including the Knitting Factory, the stone, MoMA and most recently as curator and artist-in-residence at spectrum NYC (Outliers series). rossi is celebrated as “an exemplar of the cross-fertilization between jazz and classical music worlds” and “one of the most lucid, original and creative minds of the New York scene” (All About Jazz). He is simultaneously a longtime member of the Philip Glass ensemble and the Paul simon band as pianist and percussionist, showcasing not only technical proficiency but divergent idiomatic disciplines. He has appeared on eleven recordings with Philip Glass, and eight with Paul simon (including Koyaanisqatsi Live with the NY Philharmonic, Einstein On The Beach and Austin City Limits respectively). rossi has also conducted for Mr. Glass, including Book of Longing (sydney Opera House) and Dracula rossi has served as music director and curator of the MAtA Festival, music director of the Public theater’s The Bacchae (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis), percussionist with Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson at Carnegie Hall, and conductor and co-orchestrator of renée Fleming’s Dark Hope
AND r EW STE r MAN (woodwinds) has been a member of the Philip Glass ensemble since 1992, touring and recording extensively with the ensemble. A recipient of a commission from the NeA, sterman has presented two solo concerts at MoMA, performed with the NY Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, and numerous orchestras in europe. From 2012 through 2014 he was featured in the world tour of Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, including the only improvising role in the work (of sterman’s ‘Einstein’ performance: Wall Street Journal: “Powerful, standout moment”; National Post Canada: “searing”; London Observer: “Virtuosic”). He has also performed and recorded with major jazz and pop artists including Frank sinatra, Bruce springsteen, Freddie Hubbard, dizzy Gillespie, sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin, Fred Hersch, rashied Ali, Buddy rich, Kelly Clarkson, tony Bennett, and countless recordings, theater and concert performances in NYC. His 2007 Cd The Path To Peace was called “A major conceptual work, whose exquisite ebb and flow merits listening by a worldwide audience (All About Jazz: New York). sterman’s third solo Cd, Wet Paint, was praised as “Questing, devoid of self-indulgence, emotionally flexible…” (Jazz Times), “...emotive lyricism, inventively architected, superb compositional pen…” (Jazz Review.com).
POME grANATE A r TS (executive Producer) For the past twenty years, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Founder and director Linda Brumbach, along with Managing director Alisa e regas produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach, the multi-award winning production of taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the drama desk Award winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo since it’s inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced over 30 major new performing arts productions and tours for Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, dan Zanes, London’s Improbable, sankai Juku, Batsheva, and Bassem Youssef and collaborated on new productions with the Kronos Quartet, Leonard Cohen, robert Wilson, and Frank Gehry. Pomegranate Arts hope to continue to build a community of institutions and individuals that are inspired by artists that help bring beauty and truth into the world, ask important questions, and take bold risks.
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this program is supported, in part by public funds from the new York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the new York state Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew m. Cuomo and the new York state Legislature. We would like to thank the following foundations, corporations, and government institutions for their support:
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Town Hall has played an integral part in the electrifying cultural fabric of New York City for more than 90 years. A group of suffragists’ fight for the 19th Amendment led them to build a meeting space to educate people on the important issues of the day. during its construction, the 19th Amendment was passed, and on January 12, 1921 the town Hall opened its doors and took on a double meaning: as a symbol of the victory sought by its founders, and as a spark for a new, more optimistic climate. In 1921, German composer richard strauss performed a series of concerts that cemented the Hall’s reputation as an ideal venue for musical performances. since, town Hall has been home to countless musical milestones: the Us debuts of strauss, and Isaac stern; Marian Anderson’s first New York recital; in 1945, dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker introduced bebop to the world; Bob dylan’s first major concert in ‘63; and much much more.
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