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Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival
Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass
Saturday, October 5, 2013, 8:00 pm

Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival

Presented by Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival

DAYS AND NIGHTS FESTIVAL AT SUNSET CENTER - NIGHT TWO. 

Our second evening at the Sunset Center features a unique and engaging performance,"Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass." Critically acclaimed Laurence Olivier nominee from London, Texas born Tara Hugo sings songs from the recently released album, which has garnered international praise.

"Hugo's stand out performance in Glass' Book of Longing, the composer's song cycle of Leonard Cohen's poems." Opera News

 "Sexually charged, memory-drenched and riding high on a sense of mortality"  Chicago Sun-Times

 "A flexibility that individually drew on pop, jazz, theater and classical vocal styles, but melded into a coherent whole"  New York Times

 "Tara Hugo slinks onto stage and the audience gets the theatrical jolt it has waited for all night" — Variety London

"She gives a credible, stirring, and profoundly compassionate voice to Philip Glass… the fascination and beauty of the music is ultimately its coherency. Everything is a piece — a shower of music, singer, instruments, and sound." — BR Klassik

She will be accompanied by our world-class "Festival Players." With Maria Bachmann, violin / Jesse Mills, violin / David Harding, viola / Matt Haimovitz, cello / Jon Klibonoff, piano.

After Tara's performance, the Festival Players will perform a piano quintet by César Franck.

Tickets: Level I $70 / Level II $50

FILM SCREENINGS starting at 1:00 PM in Studio 105

Free and Open to the Public

 SENSE OF PLACE: Young Filmmakers: The popular Monterey Bay Teen Film Festival has migrated to the Days and Nights festival, bringing with it a new one-hour program of 18 films in which young filmmakers explore their voices, their dreams, and their environments.  This year's program features films from Bangledesh, in which teenagers create lightbulbs for slums from repurposed plastic bottles; Palestine, where teenagers navigate rapid changes to their physical and political landscapes; Watsonville, where students create hip hop jams about the pleasures of belonging to the Chemistry club; Seaside, where students fight the pressures to give up on their dreams of studying art in school; and more from Gonzalez, Los Angeles, Oakland and from inside Salinas Juvenile Hall.  All of the locally made films were created in workshops that will continue through an ongoing partnership of CSU Monterey Bay with the Philip Glass Center for Arts, Science and the Environment.

WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL: Fourteen-year-old Malawian William Kamkwamba teaches himself to build a power-generating windmill from junk parts, successfully rescuing his family from poverty and famine. He becomes an energy icon for the developing world and meets American entrepreneur and mentor Tom Reilly, who helps him imagine a new future. Directed by Ben Nabors, this film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 South By Southwest Film Festival.