Michael Century | Music at Noon

Name: Michael Century | Music at Noon
Start: 2025-01-14T12:00:00-05:00
Location: 32 2nd St, Troy, NY, United States, New York 12180

Schedule

Tue Jan 14 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

32 2nd St, Troy, NY, United States, New York 12180 | Troy, NY

It's been said of Philip Glass and J.S. Bach that each is a composer’s composer. Structure and architecture for both, it is thought, count for more than instrumentation or color. Yet beneath all this measured precision lie depths of spiritual rapture, hypnotic trance, and timeless serenity. Michael Century presents a thought-provoking mashup of the two composers, interleaving six of Glass’s Piano Etudes with the same number of movements selected from Bach’s keyboard works.

Program
Glass Etude #6 in F minor
Bach Sinfonia, Partita in C minor
Glass Etude #2 in C major
Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in C major, Book I

Bach Well Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in D major, Book II
Glass Etude #15 in D major
Glass Etude #16 in G minor
Bach Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus #9

Bach Adagio from BWV 564 (Arranged by Busoni)
Glass Etude #11 in C minor
Bach Corrente, Partita in E minor
Glass Satyagraha Act III (Conclusion)

Bio
Michael Century, pianist, accordionist, and cultural historian, is Professor of New Media and Music in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Musically at home in classical, contemporary, and improvisational settings, Century has a passion for experimentation, often interweaving his music with visual images and creating software applications for live performance and interactive installations. Recent performances include the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture, Stanford University’s CCRMA, Harvestworks Art and Technology Center on Governor’s Island NYC, and the Experimental Media and Performing Art Center in Troy, NY. https://www.nextcentury.ca/biography-michael-century