Spotlight; Philip Glass, Scoring With `Koyaanisqatsi'

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 24, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

The time has never been more right, said composer Philip Glass on the phone from Montreal last week. So he's embarked on a four-week tour of "Koyaanisqatsi Live!," which makes its Washington debut at Lisner Auditorium tomorrow and Friday nights as part of District Curators' Multi Kulti series.

The screening of Godfrey Reggio's nonverbal film "Koyaanisqatsi" (a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance") in conjunction with a live soundtrack performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble premiered in front of capacity audiences at New York's Avery Fisher Hall in 1985, two years after the ...

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