Dartmouth College is hosting Philip Glass this week for a residency that culminates in a public event Thursday night titled An Evening of Films and Discussion with Philip Glass. The event, which will be held at Spaulding Auditorium, part of the school's Hopkins Center for the Arts (Hop), starting at 7 PM, will begin with the screening of two of Glass's film collaborations—Godfrey Reggio's Anima Mundi (1992) and the short film Evidence (1995)—followed by an onstage discussion between the composer and Margaret Lawrence, the director of the Hop.

Leading up to the event, Dartmouth Professor Susan Brison will host a dinner and discussion tonight with Glass and various faculty members using the composer's La Belle et la Bête as a launching point for a conversation about the nature of the creative process. The film was screened last night in preparation for the discussion.

For more information on Thursday's public event, visit hop.dartmouth.edu.

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In an interview for Esquire magazine, recently published online, Glass explains a bit about "What I've Learned" over his long and multifaceted career. He tells interviewer Mike Sager:

When you hear for the first time the music you have composed, there is that astonishing moment when the idea that you carried in your heart and your mind comes back to you in the hands of a musician. People always ask, "Is it what you thought it would be?" And that's a very interesting question, because once you hear it in the air, so to speak, it's almost impossible to remember what it was you imagined. The reality of the sound eclipses your experience. The solitary dreamer is wondering: Will the horns sound good here? Will this flute sound good there? But then when you actually hear it, you're certainly in a different place. The experience of that is my god.

Read the complete interview at esquire.com.