Music, Glass, and poetry

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(http://www.giornaledellamusica.it/rol/scheda.php?id=1914&l=1)    Patti and
Philip Glass at
the 'Futuro Presente' Contemporary Arts Festival of  Rovereto in Italy.
"Rough tenderness"- one of the most interesting  descriptions I've heard of
Patti.
 xxo- Seena
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Music, Glass, and poetry
Futuro Presente. Festival delle Arti Contemporanee
Auditorium Fausto  Melotti
Rovereto
April 6, 2006
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Program
"Effetto Glass"

Concerto Patti Smith-Philip Glass: "Footnote to Howl.  The Poet Speaks".
Omaggio ad Allen Ginsberg. Prima assoluta

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Philip Glass opened the monographic week at the 'Futuro Presente'
Contemporary Arts Festival of Rovereto, held at the MART, with a tribute to
Allen
Ginsberg. The afternoon session already made clear his indirect and  absolute
vision of music, reasserted in this inaugural concert, in which he was  joined
by
Patti Smith. The concert was an ideal and slightly nostalgic journey  in which
the dominant expressive tension came from poetic references chanted by  the
voice of the American singer; she gave us Ginsberg's poems b and her own b
using her customary rough tenderness. The sequence kicked off with verses from
'Notes to the Future', written by Smith herself, and then introduced some of
Ginsberg's poems such as 'Wichita Votrex Sutra VI', 'On Cremation of Chogyam
Trungpa, Vidyadhara' and 'Magic Psalm'. During the intermezzo dedicated to
Smith  the singer-songwriter, Glass - joined by Giovanni Sollima b performed
songs
such  as 'Beneath the Southern Cross' and 'My Blakean Year', followed by an
intense  tribute to a vintage De AndrC(. Glass is no Pollini at the piano b
songs  performed included the first one from the 1980s' album 'Glassworks' and
the
more  recent 'Musical Journey' and 'Etude 2 and 10' b but his style of
composition  still represents a fixed point for the various musical styles of
the
last thirty  years, and is clearly anchored to the oriental concept of
repetition that has  pervaded his music since the mid 1970s. The numerous and
enthusiastic public was  the one Glass looks for in these concerts: a mix of
those who
follow his music  with a majority of 'popular' music enthusiasts. The
operation was a success.
Alessandro Rigolli
(translation by Alexander  Martin)