Join our special guests Richard Guérin from Philip Glass’s publishing company and record label, and author and journalist Eddi Fiegel for a richly illustrated discussion about the composer’s distinguished career. The panel, hosted by season programmer Justin Johnson, will consider Glass’s unique approach to film scoring, his distinctive musical language across documentary, fiction and archive works, as well as his immense musical contribution outside of the cinema.
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Richard Guérin is the director of Philip Glass’s record label Orange Mountain Music since 2006, as well as the Head of Repertoire for his publishing company Dunvagen Music Publishers. A native of the Boston area, Guérin interned for the Boston Pops Orchestra in 2004, later in 2005-06 acted as General Manager for Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony.
The author of numerous program and liner notes about the music of Philip Glass, Guérin has also been published by the American Music Centre’s New Music Box and spoken about concert hall architecture at New York Institute of Technology and Arts Administration at Northeastern University.
He has lectured on the music of Philip Glass including at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and on stage interviews with Glass at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow, Poland, and at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Mass and at Glass’s own festival in Big Sur, California, in 2019, discussing art and creativity with Glass and Danny Elfman.
Eddi Fiegel is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster.
She is the author of John Barry – A Sixties Theme (Faber) – the biography of film composer John Barry and she writes features on music, film and the arts for publications including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and The i.
Her interviewees have included Philip Glass, Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, Terry Riley and Glenn Branca, as well as John Schlesinger, Lewis Gilbert, Bryan Forbes, David Hemmings, Susan Sarandon, Kenneth Branagh, Rebecca Hall, David Bowie and Paul McCartney.
She originally trained as a BBC radio reporter and has been a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music. She presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary John Barry – The Lost Tapes.
Justin Johnson is Lead Programmer for BFI Southbank and also selects films for the BFI London Film Festival. His seasons at the BFI have included focuses on Sergio Leone, Stop Motion Animation, Bette Davis, John Waters, Anime, Ennio Morricone, Mike Leigh and Peter Greenaway. He is a regular contributor to radio and TV on matters concerning film, TV and animation. He has served on juries at many European Film Festivals including Berlin, Copenhagen and Zlin and has served as both a selector and a juror for the British Animation Awards. He is a past member of the BAFTA Film Committee and has hosted events and been on juries for the Royal Television Society. In a non BFI capacity he has produced films with Atticus Film and Television.
SHIFTING LAYERS: THE FILM SCORES OF PHILIP GLASS
Koyaanisqatsi
Tue 6 Aug 18:20; Sat 24 Aug 12:50; Mon 26 Aug 11:30 BFI IMAX
Powaqqatsi
Wed 7 Aug 20:40; Sat 24 Aug 15:20
Naqoyqatsi
Thu 8 Aug 18:20; Sat 24 Aug 18:00
The Truman Show
Thu 8 Aug 20:30; Sat 10 Aug 18:30
The Illusionist
Fri 9 Aug 20:30; Thu 29 Aug 18:10
UK Premiere: A Place Called Music + Q&A with director Enrique M. Rizo
Sun 11 Aug 15:15
The Hours
Sun 11 Aug 18:00; Mon 26 Aug 17:30
The Philip Glass Effect
Wed 14 Aug 18:10
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Wed 14 Aug 20:20
Dracula (Philip Glass Special Edition)
Thu 15 Aug 18:10
Visitors + UK Premiere: Once Within a Time
Thu 15 Aug 20:10; Tue 27 Aug 17:50
Notes on a Scandal
Fri 16 Aug 18:30; Thu 29 Aug 20:40
Jane
Sat 17 Aug 20:40; Sat 31 Aug 15:10
Kundun
Sun 18 Aug 18:00
The Thin Blue Line
Mon 19 Aug 18:10
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Mon 19 Aug 20:30; Mon 26 Aug 20:10
Candyman
Fri 23 Aug 18:20
Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent
Fri 23 Aug 20:40
With thanks to
Richard Guerin, Director of Orange Mountain Music
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