Sunday, September 22, 2019, 3:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

 

At this time, the performance is sold out online. Extremely limited sightline-issue seats may be available on Sunday 9/22 when the Box Office opens at 1:30 p.m. Please continue checking our website and voicemail (413-545-2511) for the latest information.

For this 50th anniversary tour with the Philip Glass Ensemble, the legendary composer returns to his score for the film Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance. The 1982 film is a visual poem that explores the disconnections between the natural world and our human-built environment. Screened with a live performance of the score by the Philip Glass Ensemble, the film is as relevant today as ever. It explores, in Glass's words, "the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment." It reflects Glass's lifelong interest in environmental issues, and the danger of losing our connection to the natural world.

Pre-performance talk in the lobby at 2 p.m. by Shawn Shimpach, Director, Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival/Associate Professor, Department of Communication.

$65, $48, $33; Five College Students and Youth 17 & Under: $15, $12, $10

In Conversation with Philip Glass: The Power of the Arts & Sciences Working Together

Saturday, September 21, 7 p.m., Bowker Auditorium
Join Philip Glass and the UMass School of Earth & Sustainability (SES) in an engaging panel discussion with prominent scholars and artists about pressing environmental issues, promising solutions, and the power of creative arts and communication to inspire collective action. Tickets are free and available to the public, but limited to two per person. To reserve your ticket(s), please visit this page for Panel Conversation tickets .

Joining Philip Glass are panelists Professor Carolina Aragón, public artist and Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department; Dr. Alison Bates, graduate program director of the MS Sustainability Science (MS3) Program and a clean energy professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation; Dr. Toni Lyn Morelli, research ecologist with the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and an adjunct professor with Environmental Conservation; Dr. Roy Scranton, author and English Professor at the University of Notre Dame; and Mark Hamin, Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department. Moderator: Dr. Curtice Griffin, Executive Co-Director of the School of Earth & Sustainability and Department Head of Environmental Conservation.