Philip Glass and friends will share music and poetry at City Winery at benefit for Days and Nights Festival
Who: Philip Glass, the Days and Nights Festival Players
What: Benefit for Days and Nights Festival
Where: City Winery, 155 Varick St. between Spring & Vandam Sts., 212-608-0555
When: Sunday, May 15, $70-$115, 2:00 & 8:00
Why: New Yorkers can get a taste of the sixth annual Days and Nights Festival, held in Big Sur every September, at this benefit for the Central Coast arts festival, a program of the nonprofit Philip Glass Center for the Arts, Science and the Environment. On May 15, Glass, who founded the center “to gather the world’s leaders in the fields of art, science, and the environment for a broad array of interdisciplinary activities including performances, seminars, and education programs that inspire and motivate the public to become engaged with matters vital to the future of the natural environment and the quality of human existence,” will be at City Winery with the Days and Nights Festival Players for two shows of music and poetry, at 2:00 and 8:00. In between, at 6:00, you can join the seventy-nine-year-old Glass and friends for a pre-evening-show dinner ($325).