PROGRAM
PLÁCIDO DOMINGO
ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD
GENERAL DIRECTOR
JAMES CONLON
RICHARD SEAVER
MUSIC DIRECTOR
CHRISTOPHER KOELSCH
PRESIDENT AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PRESENT
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY
Philip Glass
PERFORMED BY
Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin Hank Dutt, viola
with Michael Riesman, keyboards
Sunny Yang, cello
to Universal Pictures’ 1931 film classic
DRACULA
CONDUCTED BY
Michael Riesman
PRODUCED AND MANAGED BY
Pomegranate Arts, with Kronos Performing Arts Association
TOUR MANAGEMENT
Pomegranate Arts, Inc.
© Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc.
FOR THE FILM DRACULA
Universal Studios
presents
Directed by
Tod Browning
Bela Lugosi
in
DRACULA
with
David Manners, Helen Chandler,
Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan
Screenplay by Garrett Fort
based on the novel by
Bram Stoker
and from the play adapted
by Hamilton Deane and
John L. Balderston
Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. and Tod Browning
©1931, 1999 Universal Studios. All rights reserved.
There have been many screen versions of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of Dracula,
but none more famous or enduring as the 1931 original. Starring Bela Lugosi as
the world’s most popular vampire and directed by horror specialist Tod Browning,
Universal Studios’ Dracula creates an eerie, chilling mood that has rarely been
realized since.
Dracula: The Music and Film features new music by composer Philip Glass, who was
asked to create the first original musical score for the re-release of Dracula on video.
In this early “talkie,” there was no musical score and few sound effects. Browning
relied on Lugosi’s legendary Hungarian accent to give the film its distinctive sound.
Glass composed the intense and sweeping Dracula score specifically for the Kronos
Quartet. Dracula: The Music and Film is a unique reinvention of an American
cinematic classic—the perfect marriage of the live and the undead.
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ARTISTS
Philip Glass
Grammy winner, Kronos is also the only recipient of both the
Polar Music Prize and the Avery Fisher Prize.
Integral to Kronos’ work is a series of long-running
collaborations with many of the world’s foremost composers,
including Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Franghiz AliZadeh, Henryk Górecki and Aleksandra Vrebalov. Additional
collaborators have included Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man,
Laurie Anderson, Azeri vocalist Alim Qasimov, Inuit throat
singer Tanya Tagaq, Paul McCartney, Tom Waits, Amon Tobin,
and The National.
Kronos appears in the world’s most prestigious concert halls,
clubs and festivals. Kronos is equally prolific on recordings.
Recent releases include Kronos Explorer Series, a five-CD
retrospective boxed set, and A Thousand Thoughts.
With a staff of eleven based in San Francisco, the nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA) manages
all aspects of Kronos’ work, including the commissioning of
new works, concert tours and home-season performances,
education programs and its new presenting program,
KRONOS PRESENTS.
In 2015 KPAA launched a five-year commissioning and
education initiative, Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning
Repertoire, and in collaboration with Carnegie Hall as lead
partner, will commission 50 new works—five by women and
five by men for five years—designed for training students and
emerging professionals, and distributed online for free.
(KronosQuartet.com)
PHOTO BY JAY BLAKESBERG
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is
a graduate of the University of Chicago
and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s,
Glass spent two years of intensive study in
Paris with Nadia Boulanger and while
there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian
music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of
innovative projects, creating a large collection of new music
for The Philip Glass Ensemble, and for the Mabou Mines
Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve
Parts, and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach for which
he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein, Glass has
expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance,
theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. His scores
have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The
Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman
Show). In the past few years several new works were unveiled,
including an opera on the death of Walt Disney, The Perfect
American (co-commissioned by Madrid’s Teatro Real and the
English National Opera); a song cycle entitled, Ifé, written for
Angelique Kidjo; a new touring production of Einstein; and the
publication of Glass’s memoir Words Without Music by
Liveright Books. In May 2015, the Los Angeles Philharmonic,
conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, performed the world
premiere of a double piano concerto he wrote for Katia and
Marielle Labèque. The Days and Nights Festival, a multidisciplinary arts festival Glass launched in 2011, will take place
again this summer in Carmel / Big Sur and, in November, the
Washington National Opera will premiere a revised version of
his opera Appomattox, created in collaboration with librettist
Christopher Hampton. Mr. Glass will celebrate his 80th birthday
on January 31, 2017 with the world premiere of his 11th
Symphony. (PhilipGlass.com)
Kronos Quartet
FEATURED ENSEMBLE
For more than 40 years, San
Francisco’s Kronos Quartet—David
Harrington (violin), John Sherba
(violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and
Sunny Yang (cello)—has combined
a spirit of fearless exploration with
a commitment to continually
re-imagining the string quartet
experience. As one of the world’s
most celebrated and influential ensembles, Kronos has
performing thousands of concerts, releasing more than 50
recordings, collaborating with many of the world’s most intriguing
and accomplished composers and performers, and commissioning
more than 850 works and arrangements for string quartet. A
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PHOTO BY ELI REED (MAGNUM)
COMPOSER
Michael Riesman
CONDUCTOR/KEYBOARDS
Michael Riesman is a composer, conductor,
keyboardist, record producer and the
music director of the Philip Glass
Ensemble. He has conducted many
recordings of works by Glass, including
Einstein on the Beach, Songs from Liquid Days, Dance Pieces,
Music in 12 Parts, Passages, Orion and Book of Longing, and
almost every Glass film soundtrack including Koyaanisqatsi,
The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time, Candyman, Kundun,
The Truman Show, The Illusionist and Notes on a Scandal. He
was the pianist for the soundtrack for The Hours and has
recorded a solo piano arrangement of that score. He has
received two Grammy nominations as conductor, for The
Photographer and for Kundun. He has conducted and
performed on albums including Paul Simon’s Hearts and
Bones, Scott Johnson’s Patty Hearst, Mike Oldfield’s Platinum,
Ray Manzarek’s Carmina Burana, David Bowie’s BlackTie/White
Noise and Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Mr.
Riesman released an album, Formal Abandon, on the Rizzoli
label. His film scores include Enormous Changes at the Last
Minute, Pleasantville (1976) and Christian Blackwood’s Signed:
Lino Brocka. (MichaelRiesman.com)
ARTISTS
Bela Lugosi
Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble’s live events are produced
and booked by Pomegranate Arts: www.pomegranatearts.com
LEADING ACTOR
Bela Blasko (1882-1956), the man forever
associated with the role of Dracula, was born
near the western border of Transylvania. By
the early 1920s, Lugosi was an established
actor in the Hungarian Theater. After the war
and the 1919 Hungarian revolution, he traveled to New York where
he saw opportunity in the American theater. His first Englishspeaking play, The Red Poppy, brought him rave reviews. In 1927,
he landed the lead role in the Broadway production of Dracula. In
1931, he was cast as the infamous Count in Universal Screen’s
internationally successful film adaptation of the play. He was
buried in his Dracula cape.
Tod Browning
FILM DIRECTOR
Once considered to be “the Edgar Allen Poe
of the cinema,” Tod Browning (1882-1962)
turned to directing after working in the
circus, vaudeville and as a film actor.
Browning is known as one of the top
directors of horror films including The Unholy Three (1925), The
Unknown (1927), Dracula (1931), Freaks (1932), Mark of the
Vampire (1935) and The Devil-Doll (1936).
Pomegranate Arts
Pomegranate Arts is an independent production company dedicated to the development of international contemporary performing
arts projects. Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts has conceived,
produced, or represented projects by Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson,
London’s Improbable Theatre, Sankai Juku, Dan Zanes, Lucinda
Childs and Goran Bregovic. Special projects include the revival of
the Olivier Award-winning Einstein on the Beach; Dracula: The
Music and Film with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet; the
music-theater work Shockheaded Peter; Brazilian vocalist Virginia
Rodrigues; the Drama Desk Award-winning Charlie Victor Romeo;
Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation, presented by Philip Glass and Richard Gere; and Hal Willner’s Came
So Far for Beauty: An Evening of Leonard Cohen Songs. Current
and upcoming projects include the international tour of Available
Light by John Adams, Lucinda Childs and Frank Gehry, Taylor
Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and a new work in
development by Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass and James Turrell.
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
Kronos Production Director
Pomegranate Arts Production Manager
Audio Engineer
Road Manager
Press Representation
Gregory T. Kuhn
Doug Witney
Scott Fraser
Jim Woodard
Sacks and Co.
Founder and President
Managing Director, Creative
Managing Director, Operations
Associate General Manager
Company Management Associate
Office Manager
Linda Brumbach
Alisa E. Regas
Kaleb Kilkenny
Linsey Bostwick
Katie Ichtertz
Eva Amessé
Philip Glass is managed and published by Dunvagen Music
Publishers Inc.: www.dunvagen.com
For the Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association:
Managing Director
Janet Cowperthwaite
Artistic Administrator
Sidney Chen
Development Associate
Mason Dille
Sound Designer
Scott Fraser
Production & Artistic Services Director
Gregory T. Kuhn
Office Manager
Nikolás McConnie-Saad
Strategic Initiatives Director
Kären Nagy
Production Associate
Hannah Neff
Business Operations Manager
Lucinda Toy
www.kronosquartet.org
The Kronos Quartet records for Nonesuch Records.
LA Opera and
LA Opera Off Grand
Now celebrating its 30th Anniversary Season, LA Opera is one of
America’s most exciting and ambitious opera companies, presenting benchmark productions of standard repertoire as well as new
and rarely-staged operas. In 2012, the LA Opera Off Grand initiative
was created to help support the company’s mission to embody the
diversity, pioneering spirit and artistic sensibility unique to Los
Angeles. Complementing the company’s existing mainstage opera
and educational programming, LA Opera Off Grand encompasses
a wide variety of artistic exploration. Its objectives are to serve a
broader geographical area, increase the diversity of the audience
and expand the range of experiences available to existing audiences. To learn more, visit LAOpera.org/OffGrand.
OFFICERS OF THE LA OPERA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Marc Stern
CHAIRMAN
Carol F. Henry
CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Bernard A. Greenberg
Warner W. Henry
Sebastian Paul Musco
Milan Panic
Marilyn Ziering
VICE CHAIRMEN
Robert Ronus
TREASURER
Marvin S. Shapiro
SECRETARY
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Opera
it’s not just what you think it is.
Now celebrating its 30th Anniversary Season, LA Opera has already become the nation’s fourth largest opera company—no easy
feat at such a young age! Through world-class staging and bold experimentation, LA Opera has something for everyone, regardless
of age, musical preferences or means. Here are five things you may not know about opera that you can see first-hand this season:
Classic works can be staged in astonishingly high-tech ways.
LA Opera’s game-changing production of The Magic Flute returns in February 2016.
Packed with stage wizardry, the beloved Mozart classic plunges audiences into an
incredible fantasy world, where singers interact with hand-drawn animation straight
out of the silent-era film. Find out more at LAOpera.org/Flute.
The operas you may already
know feel fresh and new
Madame Butterfly is a story of a romance
that knows no bounds—and then goes
horribly wrong. Puccini’s cherished music
tells the tale of a naïve young woman
who commits to a man utterly unworthy
of her love. We all know where it goes
from there, but you won’t want to miss
this gorgeous production in April 2016.
For more, visit LAOpera.org/Butterfly.
Great voices give other kinds of music a whole new life.
On December 12, sensational bass Erwin Schrott returns to LA Opera for an evening
filled with Latin flair: Cuba Amiga. The dynamic opera star will be joined by legendary
guitar virtuoso José Feliciano for an unforgettable musical experience. Find out more
at LAOpera.org/Schrott.
It appeals to even the
youngest of fans.
With programs tailored for families that
combine music with interactive activities—
crafts, sing-alongs and more—LA Opera
introduces children to opera in engaging
ways. The company even offers special
family pricing and weekend programming.
Find out more at LAOpera.org/ families.
It’s edgy and provocative.
With its world premiere coming in June 2016, Anatomy Theater follows the progression
of an English murderess from confession to execution and beyond. Through the magic
of opera, she sings through it all! David Lang’s new work is a contemporary reflection
on the historical efforts to seek evidence of moral corruption inside the human body.
Find out more at LAOpera.org/AnatomyTheater.