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Met simulcast of Glass opera about Ghandi at UPAC

by Frances Marion Platt
April 1, 2016
in Art & Music
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In spite of the daily onslaught of downbeat news falling under the heading of “man’s inhumanity to man,” there has been some interesting research published lately suggesting that the world has become a measurably less violent place over the past century than it had been in previous historical eras. If that is so, perhaps Time magazine got it wrong in 1999 when it named Albert Einstein its Person of the Century. Maybe Mohandas K. Gandhi shouldn’t have been merely a runner-up.

Perhaps it’s also not coincidental that Minimalist composer Philip Glass has written operas about both of these movers-and-shakers: the man who provided the theoretical underpinnings for nuclear weaponry and the man who transformed the concept of “nonviolence” from the absence of something into a powerful positive force for world change. That force of what the Mahatma termed satyagraha (Sanskrit for “insistence on truth”) has since been wielded with profound effects by such heroes as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Corazón Aquino and Nelson Mandela. It is the flicker of hope lurking in the bottom of Pandora’s Box after all the plagues of humankind have escaped, keeping us going in spite of the despair that the image of the mushroom cloud makes us feel.

Composed in 1979, Glass’s Satyagraha tells the story of Gandhi’s early years in South Africa, where he developed his philosophy of nonviolence, with three acts separately referencing Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore and Dr. King. The libretto, taken directly from the Bhagavad Gita, is sung in Sanskrit.

The Metropolitan Opera premiered its production of Satyagraha in 2008, to great acclaim, and has revived it for seven performances during the current season. A high-definition simulcast will be beamed out to the nationwide network of theatres participating in The Met: Live in HD, and you can see it on the big screen at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston this Sunday, November 20 at 1 p.m.

Tickets go for $23 general admission, $21 for Bardavon members and $16 for children aged 12 and under. They are available at the Bardavon box office at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-2072; the UPAC box office at 602 Broadway in Kingston, (845) 339-6088; or online at www.bardavon.org. The Met: Live in HD will next return to our neck of the woods with Handel’s Rodelinda on December 3 at the Bardavon and Gounod’s Faust on December 17 at UPAC.

If you go, don’t forget to bring a jar of peanut butter, a bag of rice or a can of tuna with you: The Bardavon and UPAC will be accepting nonperishable food items for distribution at the Beverly Close Memorial Food Pantry in Poughkeepsie and the Queens Galley in Kingston. Items will be collected during all upcoming performances. Drop-offs can be made at performances or during Bardavon box office hours, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and from 11 a.m. to final intermission on days of performances; during UPAC box office hours, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays and from 11 a.m. to final intermission on days of performances. It’s a convenient opportunity to practice a little satyagraha close to home.

 

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Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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