The Mondavi Center’s new series Masters of Our Time continues Feb. 18 with a visit by composer Philip Glass, performing his own works at the piano and participating in a Forum@MC.

The forum, free and open to the public, is billed as a conversation between Glass and music writer-collaborator Tim Page.

Don Roth, the Mondavi Center’s executive director, said: “Glass writes with a kind of modern romanticism that is certainly of our own time but accessible, beautiful, and very moving.

“This concert gives us the rare opportunity to hear Glass and his music through the sharp-focus lens of the chamber music environment. Even more important, as with Frederic Rzewski’s performance (May 16-17), this is an opportunity to hear an important living American composer performing his own work at the Mondavi Center.”

Glass’ concert program: Tissues for cello and percussion, from the Naqoyqatsi film score; Metamorphosis II, III and IV for solo piano, inspired by the story by Franz Kafka; the dynamic Études II and X for solo piano; Songs and Poems for Solo Cello, composed for Wendy Sutter; The Orchard for cello, piano and percussion, composed for a 1989 production of Jean Genet’s The Screens; and Closing from Glassworks, Glass’ debut release on CBS Masterworks — one of the first albums to use digital recording technology.

AT A GLANCE

Forum@MC: “A Conversation With Philip Glass and Tim Page,” with Jeffrey Callison of Sacramento radio station KXJZ’s Insight program as the host. Free. 5 p.m. Feb. 18, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

Concert: An Evening of Chamber Music, with Glass on piano, Wendy Sutter (of Bang on a Can All-Stars) on cello and Mick Rossi on percussion. Ticketed event. 8 p.m. Feb. 18, Jackson Hall.

Preperformance lecture: UC Davis music professor Pablo Ortiz. 7 p.m. Feb. 18, Jackson Hall.

Tickets: (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or www.mondaviarts.org.

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