Annenberg Center, Zellerbach Theatre

The Philip Glass Ensemble (PGE) will give the Philadelphia premiere of Philip Glass’s monumental work Music in Twelve Parts presented by the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts as part of #GLASSFEST. The piece runs 5 hours, including a dinner break. Music in Twelve Parts, written by Glass between 1971 and 1974, is an encyclopedic compendium of techniques of repetition the composer had been evolving since the 1960s. It holds an important place in Glass’s repertory – not only historically (as the longest and most ambitious concert piece for The PGE) but also from a purely aesthetic standard, because Music in Twelve Parts is both a massive theoretical exercise and a work of art.

Tickets: https://annenbergcenter.org/events/glassfest.php

Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA