Philip Glass and Franz Schubert with Vivien Schweitzer, piano
About This Event
Pianist Vivien Schweitzer appears at Bargemusic in a program juxtaposing works by Philip Glass and Franz Schubert. The pairing sets Schubert's late-Classical/early-Romantic melodic breadth and prolific chamber and piano repertoire against Glass's repetitive structures and cross-genre tendencies, foregrounding differences in form, texture and forward motion.
About the Artists
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer and pianist whose career helped shape late-20th-century concert music, often through tightly organized repetition and slowly shifting patterns. Though frequently linked to minimalism, his output moves across forms and collaborations, including rock/pop contexts.
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert is best known as a foundational voice in European art music, with a catalog that ranges from song cycles and chamber works to symphonies and late piano pieces. In New York City, his music appears regularly in programs at Groupmuse NYC and Bargemusic, where it sits alongside composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Bartók and Finzi, and in collaborations associated with artists such as Muriel Oberhofer, Eric Clark, and Alexander Fiterstein.