HEALING THE DIVIDE
A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation
New York, NY
A benefit concert co-presented by Philip Glass and Richard Gere on the occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit to New York City. Following an address by His Holiness, performances included Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, Foday Musa Suso, R. Carlos Nakai, Nawang Kechog, The Gyoto Tantric Choir, Anoushka Shankar, and Tom Waits. Held at Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center on September 21, 2003. www.healingthedivide.org

Produced by Pomegranate Arts, curated in association with Philip Glass.

CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (CVR)
Created by Bob Berger, Patrick Daniels, and Irving Gregory

Pomegranate Arts launched the first international tour of Drama Desk Award winning Charlie Victor Romeo. Recipient of two 2000 Drama Desk awards, including Best Unique Theatrical Experience, this live theatrical documentary is derived from the "black box" transcripts of six major real-life airline emergencies. Embraced by the US military, aviation and medical communities; this production has been heralded for its unsparing truthfulness and dedication to its non-sensational approach. Allowing the audience into the tension-filled cockpits of actual flights in distress, Charlie Victor Romeo is a portrait of the psychology of crisis and a testimony to the ability to live to the last second of life. More information on CVR can be found on the website: http://www.charlievictorromeo.com

Tour: December 2000- January 2003.

DRACULA: THE MUSIC AND FILM
With Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet

Pomegranate Arts produced the world-wide tour of Dracula: The Music and Film featuring new music by Philip Glass set to Universal Studio's 1931 film classic directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi, performed live by the Kronos Quartet. Dracula: The Music and Film is currently being performed by Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble.

Tour: USA and Europe September - November, 2000, Hong Kong March 2001

EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

In collaboration with a consortium of performing arts presenters, Pomegranate Arts spear-headed a campaign to launch an international tour of Robert Wilson & Philip Glass' seminal collaborative work EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH. First performed in 1976 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and the Festival d'Avignon subsequently toured in 1984 and 1993 to a select number of cities.

The Glass-Wilson opera takes a metaphorical look at Einstein through a surrealistic non-narrative structure. Exploring his place in popular consciousness via his legacy as scientist, humanist, amateur musician-and the creator of the atom bomb, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH represents for Wilson a move away from the complex mis en scene of his earliest plays towards the stripped-down geometry of his later work. It is a precise statement of light, movement, design, and duration, whose mathematical precision is accentuated by Glass' musical score and Lucinda Child's choreography.

Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH changed opera forever and continues to be recognized as one of contemporary performance's greatest masterpieces.

VIRGINIA RODRIGUES

Pomegranate Arts launched the first North American tour of Brazilian vocalist Virginia Rodrigues. Virginia Rodrigues is from Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where African culture blends with portuguese influences. In the fall of 1999 Ms. Rodrigues toured the west coast of the United States, including a date at the San Francisco Jazz Festival. Following the release of her second album, Nos, released in February 2000, Ms. Rodrigues performed in many North American cities in the spring of 2000, including Toronto and Montreal.

Tour: October-November 1999 and March-April 2000

Photo by Josh Kessler. Courtesy of Hannibal/Rykodisc

THE SCREENS

A collaboration between Philip Glass and West African griot and master kora player Foday Musa Suso, The Screens was an enchanting and exotic synthesis of African and Western musical traditions with an Arabic twist. The Screens was performed in jazz and world music series, intimate concert halls and outdoor festivals.

Tour: New York, September 1999; North America, March-May 2000; USA and Europe, April-July 2001; Europe, July 2004

THE TIGER LILLIES

The underworld's favorite cabaret act, The Tiger Lillies are led by the bizarre and beautiful falsetto of Martyn Jacques, whose voice has been described as Tom Waits on helium. The music is a startling mixture of Kurt Weil, Bertholt Brecht, gypsy laments and French chanson. The Tiger Lillies' tales of the dark side luridly detail the surreal misfortunes of grifters, pimps, hookers, junkies, and losers in decidedly bent-and peculiarly delightful-songs laced with black humor. The music of Martyn Jacques and The Tiger Lillies is featured in Shockheaded Peter, a music theater work based on the Struwwelpeter Tales by Heinrich Hoffman, directed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch. More information on the Tiger Lillies, can be found on their website: http://www.tigerlillies.com

Tour: Spring 2001