More bad puns on Philip Glass’ name! Appomattox, which we rose our Glass to, was not the end of our wall-to-wall Glass coverage. The Glass is not full, we haven’t hit the Glass ceiling yet, ha.

Take tonight. There’s a cool concert at Herbst Theater, presented by Other Minds, an organization devoted to new music: Dennis Russell Davies and his partner, Maki Namekawa, playing music for two pianos from Philip Glass, but also J.S Bach (transcribed by György Kurtág), San Francisco’s Adam Fong and others. Plus, the composer will be on hand to socialize with you guys. Well, we don’t about Philip Glass, but Adam Fong, definitely.

Dennis Russell Davies is the conductor for the run of Appomattox at the SF Opera (except for the last performance, were Sara Jobin takes the podium) and has conducted the premiere of many a Philip Glass work (including his previous opera and plenty symphonies). He is an ardent advocate of modern music, and a better pianist than Glass himself.

Then the SF Conservatory of Music invited us to a bloggers night this Saturday, for a performance that includes works of Tan Dun (we saw his First Emperor last winter), Kaija Saariaho, Jay Lyon, Philip Glass and Benjamin Britten. You don't have to blog to attend, you should go anyway, but free drinks for bloggers? We're so there.

More after the jump! Picture above, Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa

The evening, conducted by Nicole Paiement, is called Synesthesia: Bridging the Senses, and nothing spells modern art like giving a fancy title to your concert, a concept we stole for this very blog post multi-modal writing performance. We had an oh-so-clever play on words about Philip Glass, but we’ll spare you. Again, the composer will be on hand to introduce the music and answer your questions. Well, we don’t know about Philip Glass, but Jay Lyon for sure.

Dennis Russell Davies, Maki Namekawa, Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 8 pm, preceded at 7 pm by the panel discussion, at Herbst Theatre, War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Ave. (at McAllister), San Francisco. Tickets ($20-$50) are available at City Box Office, (415) 392-4400.

Bridging the Sense, Saturday, October 13, 8:00 p.m.
Pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m. with Jay Lyon and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Tickets: $20 general admission/$15 students, seniors, Friends of the Conservatory. Box office: 415.503.6275 Visit www.sfcm.edu for complete calendar information.