The SCSU Visual and Performing Arts Department
Presents The Percussion Department Premiere Concert,
The 70th birthday Celebration of the academy nominated film and concert composer, Philip Glass”, live with film
 Prof. James Orlick, director of percussion

May 1st 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the Barbara A Vaughan Recital Hall

The SCSU Percussion Department presents a ground-breaking concert of ten works of which seven are world premiers, by Philip Glass, the most famous living American classical composer. The concert is to celebrate the 70th birthday celebration of Mr. Glass’ contribution to the performing arts, the motion picture industry in Hollywood and New York, and theatre.  

James Orlick, director of percussion studies at SCSU in the Visual and Performing Arts, is the motion picture orchestrator and conductor for the concert. Mr. Orlick worked many years in New York City orchestrating Mr. Glass’ motion picture films and has made the decision to make SCSU the location for the first all Philip Glass percussion concert in the world but also to become one of the few to host Mr. Glass’ 70th Birthday Celebration. “This is a seminal concert in the history of the SCSU Percussion Department. And I am thrilled that the exceptional talent of the SCSU Percussion Ensemble students will be at the forefront: the youthful energy to initiate the national wide celebration of a brilliant mind in music,” said Orlick. 

Program includes:

From the motion picture “Powaqqatsi”: Serra Pelada and Train to Sao Paulo, World Premiere  

1+1 Music for Amplified Table Top   

From the motion picture “The Hours”: Escape, The Poet Acts, Choosing Life, and The Hours title cue – World Premiere Prelude to Endgame written by Samuel Beckett- Eddie Morris, physical theatre, South Carolina Premiere  

Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread written by David Ives with live actors/actresses

Etude No.2 for Mallet Ensemble with video installation, World Premiere 

For more information contact: Prof. James Orlick at 803-536-7124

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