The Village Trip partners with Victoria Bond and Cutting Edge Concerts to celebrate the legacy of ground-breaking composer Philip Glass.

Pianists Vicky Chow, Marilyn Nonken, Adam Tendler, Joan Forsyth, Emily Tong, and The Bond Trio (Pauline Kim Harris, violin; Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello) and others will pair Glass’s work with music that responds to the space he created. Homages, reactions – Ann Southam’s Glass Houses, Victoria Bond’s “Dancing on Glass”, Jonathan Dawe’s “Glass Harmonica” – plus works by Charles Wuorinen, Nico Muhly and Steve Reich.

“…what you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We’re not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages” – Philip Glass

From the East Village in the 1960s, composer Philip Glass turned the music world upside-down. Minimalist art and music reacted against the sheer difficulty of modernist practice, its density and complexity. Glass Houses: Celebrating Philip Glass at 85 both celebrates and explores the new space his work opened up – a space that brought new musical challenges.

Five new music pianists will pair a Glass piece with music composed in response – some inspired by and in synch with Glass’s work, some in reaction. The program will include Glass’s “Etudes”, “Metamorphoses”, and “In Memory of Charles Wuorinen” plus works by John Dawe, Ann Southam, Charles Wuorinen and Steve Reich.

7pm Prelude and performance by young artists from the Third Street Music Settlement School.
The main program begins at 7.30pm.
A reception with the artists follows the concert.