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Philip Glass, Samuel Adler and Itzhak Perlman
fill Detroit-area stages with the sounds of music.
Saturday, Nov. 3.
Glass, 64, who composed the music
for Martin Scorsese's film Kundun,
developed his style after studying tra-
ditional music at Juilliard, filmmaking
in Paris and sounds of the East in
India, Nepal and Africa. The structure
of his music has come to be known as
"minimalist" because of the small
number of themes, constant beats and
shifting rhythms over static harmony
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Born in Tel Aviv and living most of
the year in New York, artist Michal
Rovner expresses herself through many
disciplines, from painting to installa-
tion, as she changes mood and inter-
est. Currently planning a summer ret-
rospective of her work for New York's
Whitney Museum of American Art,
she also will be represented in Ann
Arbor in collaboration with composer
and musician Philip Glass, who will
perform the melodies he's scored for
films, including hers.
Notes, an enigmatic short movie
about the dynamics of human interac-
tion, plays on the word "notes" as it
relates to both music and drafts of
ideas. The piece will be shown with
cinema by five other filmmakers 8
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1.
Presented by the University Musical
Society, the evening is part of a series
of programs grouped together as
"Philip on Film," a festival of concert
screenings celebrating 25 years of
Glass' work. The Philip Glass
Ensemble will be part of the presenta-
tions at the Michigan Theater.
"Notes is not about a specific situa-
tion," says Rovner, who co-founded
the Camara Obscura Art School in
Israel, where students explore photog-
raphy, video, cinema and computer
talents. "It is about the human condi-
tion and fabricated reality"
Similar to his connection with the
other visual artists represented in an
evening of "Shorts," Glass invited
Rovner to follow her own creativity
and then added his music. They had
several meetings to discuss their col-
laboration. Since then, she's begun a
project to express her reaction to the
tragedy of Sept. 11.
"I was very concerned as I began
working on Notes, but I was very
pleased with the results," says Rovner,
whose film was premiered at Lincoln
Center in New York and will be on
tour for two years.
"[Glass] music added to the
nuances of meaning and made the
images more dramatic. The music is
emotional and storm-like, making the
interaction seem as if it is going in and
out of a tempest."
The festival will include screenings
of Dracula at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.
31; and Koyaanisqatsi, a cult classic of
images and music, at 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 2, and 8 p.m. and midnight
Samuel Adler was on a plane leaving
New York when the terrorists attacked
the city, and he expressed his feelings
by composing a piece that will be per-
formed Nov. 3 by the New York City
Chamber Symphony at Lincoln
Center.
Adler, whose more than 400 pieces
include many for synagogue, titled his
work Showing an Affirming Flame,
which comes from a line in an WH.
Auden poem.
On the day that piece is being intro-
duced, Adler will be in Detroit as the
featured guest composer for the New
Music Conference, sponsored by the
Society of Composers Inc. Running
Nov.1-3 on the campus of Wayne
State University, the event will present
seven concerts of new music and
include pieces for orchestra, wind
ensemble, chorus, chamber groups and
electronics.
More than 30 composers from
around the country will hear their
music played in programs co-hosted
by Dr. James Lentini and Dr. James
Harrway, composers and professors of
composition at WSU. Also featured
will be percussion superstar Evelyn
Glennie, who will conduct a master
class/discussion.
Open to the public at no charge, the