Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is delighted to sponsor the performance of Words and Music in Two Parts, on February 10, 2017, at Memorial Hall, Carolina Performing Arts’ main venue located in the center of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus.
Unique to Carolina Performing Arts, this program blends a rare musical collaboration between two giants of the avant-garde of the past 50 years—Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson—with one of Glass’s most important song cycles, Monsters of Grace. Longtime friends, Glass and Anderson will share musical moments and poetry readings followed by a selection of Glass songs featuring lyrics by 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi, performed by The Philip Glass Ensemble and a cast of longtime Glass vocalists including Tara Hugo, Marie Mascari, Gregory Purnhagen and Peter Stewart.
Words and Music in Two Parts is one of six performances held at Carolina Performing Arts, February 1-10, 2017, in celebration of Glass’s 80th birthday. Glass at 80 features the extraordinary impact Philip Glass has had upon the musical and intellectual life of his time. Glass’s associations, personal and professional, with leading rock, pop and world music artists date back to the 1960s.
