Events: Jan 21, 2010 7pm: Ira Glass/Philip Glass Join Forces At Soho Apple Store.
4January 19, 2010 by Citizen192
This American Life host Ira Glass and famous composer cousin Philip Glass will be speaking and performing together January 21, 2010 at 7pm in the Soho Apple store. From Ira:
I’ve been asked to perform a piece that Allen Ginsberg used to perform with Philip, Ginsberg’s great Vietnam-era poem “Wichita Vortex Sutra.” Philip set it to music years ago, and there are a few great recordings of them performing it together, which you are just a google search away from, or try this YouTube clip, and at this point by the way are we still supposed to capitalize Google when we use it as a verb or adjective?
The Apple store isn’t a big venue so arrive early. Methinks hoards of storytelling fanatics will be arriving hoping to hear words like these. Hell, that’s why I’m going.
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I had no idea that those two were related. Wish I could make it.
I’m hoping I can make it in time to actually see anything. I hear it’s going to be packed.
I hope this’ll become one of those Apple podcasts up on iTunes, like ‘Meet the Author’, so we can hear the whole event. Any ideas?
I’m actually not sure about an Apple podcast, but I do know they filmed the event and will be posting footage either on YouTube or on Apple.