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Philip Glass and Pico Iyer In Conversation
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part was, and is to this day, the music,” he wrote in his autobiography, Words Without Music: A Memoir. October 3rd’s unique evening with Philip Glass and Pico Iyer was created for this series only, and will bring together two unique and commanding cross-cultural interpreters for an intimate conversation about life, creativity, and the global soul. Pico Iyer, long time friend of Arts and Lectures is the author of two novels and 13 works of non-fiction. His books have been translated into 23 languages. He has also written the introductions to more than 60 other works, as well as liner notes for Leonard Cohen and a screenplay for Miramax. He is currently Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton. He is the author of three new books including Autumn Light (April, 2019) and A Beginner's Guide to Japan. He recently gave three talks for TED in the space of three years, and they have received more than eight million views Pico Iyer so far. Current Glass projects include the King Lear Overture, written for the New York Philharmonic to premiere in September 2019 and Glass' first Piano Sonata which will receive its New York premiere in November 2019. Glass continues to perform solo piano and chamber music evenings with world-renowned musicians, and regularly appears with The Philip Glass Ensemble. Born in Baltimore, MD, Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he 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 completed 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. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Philip Glass In Conversation with Pico Iyer is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Speaking with Pico Series Sponsors include: Martha Gabbert, Dori Pierson & Chris Carter, and Laura Shelburne & Kevin O'Connor. Courtesy Photo
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NDLESS WAVES OF MUSICAL COLOR have flowed from renowned composer Philip Glass, an American treasure who will join author Pico Iyer in a conversation presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:30pm at UCSB Campbell Hall, kicking off A&L's popular Speaking with Pico series. "I was overwhelmed when Philip Glass agreed to continue his long-standing relationship with Arts & Lectures and open the Speaking with Pico series this coming season," recalled Iyer. "To talk not just about his music, which has opened a new dimension in many hearts and ears, but even more about his vision of transformation and his life on the front lines of artistic and spiritual exploration, as a friend and colleague of the Dalai Lama, Ravi Shankar, Martin Scorsese and so many others.” A Promethean composer, Glass has had an unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times through an extraordinary body of work that has become part of a cultural soundtrack with a repertoire that includes music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. Glass described his entrance into composing music. “The point was that the world of music—its language, beauty, and mystery— was already urging itself on me. Some shift had already begun. Music was no longer a metaphor for the real world somewhere out there. It was becoming the opposite. The “out there” stuff was the metaphor and the real Philip Glass
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HE SPEAKING WITH PICO SERIES is intended to offer intimate glimpses of worldclass figures – the personal side of public heroes — in conversations which discover fresh and hopeful ways to think about tomorrow from visionaries creating new worlds today. In Conversation With Pico Iyer will be: Philip Glass, bringing together two unique and commanding cross-cultural interpreters for an intimate conversation about life, creativity and the global soul; Thu, Oct 3rd / 7:30pm / Campbell Hall. Elaine Pagels, a renowned religious scholar, the conversation will be about her bestselling works including The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief, Adam, Eve and the Serpent, and Why Religion? Thu, Jan 9th / 7:30pm / Campbell Hall. Mohsin Hamid, takes on ethnic identity, class disparity, and mass-urbanization in his bold, inventive novels including Exit West, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Moth Smoke; Fri, Apr 17th / 7:30pm / Campbell Hall. Elizabeth Strout’s lauded collection of works of fiction include the Pulitzer-winning short story collection Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys, and My Name Is Lucy Barton; Tue, May 12th / 7:30pm / Campbell Hall. Elaine Pagels
Mohsin Hamid
Elizabeth Strout