Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival to Return for 5th Year; Tickets on Sale 7/28

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 with Jerry Quickley and Mike Garry, Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer and Glass on piano; and free film screenings and talks in conjunction with Sundance 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."

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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 QUICKLY, LAVINIA MEIJER AND MORE
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-and more special guests to be announced-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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The Philip Glass Center, founded by world renowned and highly collaborative composer Philip Glass, seeks to gather the world's leaders in the fields of art, science and the environment for a broad array of interdisciplinary activities including performances, seminars and educational programs that inspire and motivate the public to become engaged with matters vital to the future of the natural environment and the quality of human existence. The Days And Nights Festival-now in its fifth year-is the Center's first step towards that goal.

The mission of the Center is founded on the premise that interdisciplinary collaborations can expand imagination and produce understanding and discoveries beyond what can be accomplished by any individual discipline. According to Glass and the Center's founders: art can become a language to express scientific ideas; science informs predictions about the future of the environment; and both science and the environment can inspire the arts. These kinds of interactions also enhance the creativity within disciplines and make education about each much more compelling. These fundamental understandings mean that there is value in creating a place where various disciplines intersect in ways that naturally lead to enlarged and innovative thinking and that produce collective genius. The Philip Glass Center-a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization-aims to be such a place, conceived to generate projects and collaborations where, for instance, scientific ideas expressed through art spark a passion to protect the environment, leading to further ideas about how to accomplish such a goal.

For more than five decades, Philip Glass continues to be at the forefront of contemporary music and art. 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). Several new works have been unveiled, including two operas in 2013 (The Lost, for the opening of the new opera house in Linz Austria, and The Perfect American, about the death of Walt Disney). Glass's newest opera, based on Kafka's The Trial, premiered at London's Covent Garden in October 2014 and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel with Katia and Marielle Labeque premiered his Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra in May 2015. Glass's memoir, Words Without Music, was recently released to great acclaim via Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company.

For more information, visit philipglasscenter.org.

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