Center for 21st Century Music Inaugural Concert

The Music of Philip Glass

Concert will be held Monday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m.; related programs begin at 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.
Concert to be held at Center for the Arts Mainstage; related programs will be held in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall and the Student Union Theater.

The Center for 21st Century Music will open its inaugural concert series with the Slee Sinfonietta and special guest Philip Glass performing a special concert held in conjunction with the visit to UB by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This evening of celebration includes special musical events prior to the concert and a film presentation after the performance.

The concert program will include the Glass composition "Songs of Milarepa," a 24- minute work for baritone and chamber orchestra set to poems by the 11th-century Tibetan saint and poet Milarepa. Glass arranged the texts in the form of a common Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His Symphony No. 3 for string orchestra will also be performed. Glass will speak and answer questions from the audience following the concert.

Tickets to this performance are $25 for the general public, $15 for UB alumni, and $10 for students; they are available at the Center for the Arts box office, Ticketmaster outlets and ticketmaster.com.

A pre-concert reception celebrates the opening of the Center for 21st Century Music. A new multimedia work entitled "Chashmal" by center director David Felder with a video by Elliot Caplan will be presented in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall at 6:30 p.m. At 8:45 p.m., Martin Scorsese's film "Kundun," about the early life of the 14th Dalai Lama—with Academy Award-nominated score by Philip Glass—will be shown in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall and the Student Union Theater. Both of these events are free and open to the public.

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Cost: Tickets to the concert are $25 for the general public, $15 for UB alumni, and $10 for students; the multimedia and film presentations are free.