Other Minds presents Philip Glass: Music For Two Pianos featuring Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa
St. John's Presbyterian Church
2727 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705-1247 USA
7:30 PM, Wednesday, December 6, 2017

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• Philip Glass: Suite from Jean Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terrible for two pianos
• Philip Glass: Suite from Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete for two pianos and eight winds
• Philip Glass: Four Movements for Two Pianos

[7:33 PM lights down, announcements by Charles Amirkhanian, performers out]

Philip Glass (b.1937): Suite from Les Enfants Terrible (1996), arranged for two pianos by Dennis Russell Davies & Maki Namekawa

1. [7:38 PM] Overture
2. [7:42 PM] Paul Sleepwalking
3. [7:49 PM] the Bedroom
4. [7:56 PM] Snow Falling in the Playground
5. [8:00 PM] Elizabeth Chooses a Career
6. [8:04 PM] Death of the Twins
7. [8:11 PM] Finale
   [work ends 8:15 PM; applause for a minute or two]
   [brief pause for the wind ensemble to get set up]

Philip Glass (b.1937): Suite from La Belle et la Bete (1994), arranged for two pianos and eight winds by Michael Riesman

1. [8:20 PM] Overture
2. [8:27 PM] Beauty Goes to the Castle
3. [8:31 PM] Dinner at the Castle
4. [8:35 PM] the Beast's Anguish
5. [8:40 PM] A Walk in the Garden
6. [8:46 PM] the Pavilion
7. [8:51 PM] the Metamorphosis
   [set ends 8:54 PM; all off after a few minutes of applause]

[9:m PM lights down, announcements, band out]

Philip Glass (b.1937): Four Movements for Two Pianos (2008)

1. [9:22 PM] i quarter note = 144
2. [9:29 PM] ii quarter note = 84
3. [9:35 PM] iii quarter note = 116
4. [9:42 PM] iv quarter note = 80
   [show ends 9:48 PM; plenty of applause, no encore]

• Dennis Russell Davies: piano;
• Maki Namekawa: piano;

• Katie Dennis: French horn;
• Scott Hartman: French horn;
• Shawn Jones: bassoon;
• Peter Josheff: clarinet;
• Deborah Kramer: bassoon;
• Larry London: clarinet;
• Robin May: oboe;
• Ryan Zwahlen: oboe.

DRD swaps movements 2/3 in the first work but MN catches the goof immediately, and without batting an eye, quickly swaps her score pages and “catches up”.

In his post-intermission introduction, Charles Amirkhanian mentioned that an audio recording of the show would eventually be posted at 2017-12-06

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