THE music of legendary minimalist composer Philip Glass has a spiritual home at Dublin’s National Concert Hall. He has performed multiple times, on solo piano and leading the Philip Glass Ensemble, and his works and exclusively commissioned pieces have been performed by other ensembles.
In 2019 he performed his famous Music in 12 Parts on night one of a residency, but fell ill and had to bow out of performing with his ensemble for the score of Godfrey Reggio’s visionary time-lapse non-dialogue film, Koyaanisqatsi.
The Ensemble is back in Dublin again to present a live score to the final film in the ‘qatsi trilogy’, Naqoyqatsi.
While Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi are powerful, evocative warning shots about industrialisation and its effect on modern life in the 1980s, the post-911 Naqoyqatsi (“Life as War” in Native American Hopi language) uses digitally-altered archival footage and CGI to depict society’s shift from nature to technology.
The Ensemble is playing with the National Symphonic Orchestra, for the Irish premiere of a new orchestral score.
The Philip Glass Ensemble play the National Concert Hall on October 11
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