New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Garrison Institute) On July 19 the Garrison
Institute presents "An Evening with Philip Glass," the iconic composer at the forefront of contemporary music and art for more than five decades, performing in a rare Hudson Valley concert to benefit the Institute. The Garrison
Institute is located in Garrison, New York, housed in a renovated monastery on the Hudson River an hour north of Manhattan.
The concert is part of Glass's 75th birthday anniversary season, being observed with performances and events across the globe encompassing every facet of his long career as a preeminent American composer—opera, chamber music, orchestra music, dance, theater works and more.
At the Garrison Institute, Glass will perform his own works. In addition, composer/pianist Trevor Gureckis and vocalist Tara Hugo will also perform Glass's musical settings of texts by Allen Ginsberg,
Leonard Cohen and others. Hugo was the mezzo in "Book of Longing," a collaboration between
Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen. She and Gureckis are currently working on an album of
Philip Glass songs sung by Hugo and arranged and co-produced by Gureckis, which will be released later this year.
Glass is a longtime friend and supporter of the Garrison Institute, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization whose mission is to apply the power of contemplation to social and environmental change. Proceeds from the concert will support the Institute's work. General admission tickets are $50, $25 with student ID. Preferred seating, which also includes a private post-concert champagne and dessert reception with the artists, is available for $150 ($100 of that is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law).
The concert take places July 19 at 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm. The Garrison
Institute is located at 14 Mary's Way, Route 9D, Garrison, New York. Free shuttle service from the MetroNorth train station is available.
