Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble are teaming up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale to present an all-Glass program tonight at the Hollywood Bowl. The ensemble's music director and keyboardist, Michael Riesman, will conduct the orchestra.

Featured on the program are a performance, by the ensemble, of "Spaceship," from the composer's seminal 1976 collaboration with Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach, described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most important and groundbreaking American operas in history," and a screening of Koyaanisqatsi, the unforgettable 1982 film by director Godfrey Reggio, set to a new arrangement of Glass's film score for the ensemble and orchestra, commissioned by the LA Philharmonic.

In a feature in this week's Sunday Los Angeles Times, writer Scott Timberg talks to the composer and takes a look at his prominence in film scoring, an aspect of Glass's career that came only after he had already established himself as a groundbreaking composer in his own right and a leading light of the Minimalist movement in America.

The article examines the role of Glass's scores in such films as Koyaanisqatsi, Mishima, The Thin Blue Line, and The Hours, such that, Timberg writes, "Glass' film music has helped make him perhaps the best-known classical composer of the last half-century."

Read the article at latimes.com.

The LAist selects the concert as a Classical Pick of the Week, and LA Weekly's Mary Beth Crain, in a preview of the event, explains, "there's a lot more to Glass than meets the ear: His progressions tend to be brilliantly subtle, forming, like gradated layers of color on canvas, some amazing aural paintings."

For more information on tonight's event, visit hollywoodbowl.com.