New York City Metblogs » mahatma gandhi http://nyc.metblogs.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Satyagraha http://nyc.metblogs.com/2008/03/27/satyagraha/ http://nyc.metblogs.com/2008/03/27/satyagraha/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:51:45 +0000 dhaval mehta http://nyc.metblogs.com/2008/03/27/satyagraha/ SatyagrahaWhen I recently saw the poster for Philip Glass’ Satyagraha, I had no clue that the opera had been composed in 1980. With the Metropolitan Opera now trying to reach out to a younger crowd, posters that would be saved for the newest indie pop record was plastered in the Lower East Side on a phone booth.

I’m really freaking glad I saw it. Tickets are pretty expensive, but if you look closely, they have standing room only space that sells for as little as $15.

I’m so IN for peace. And so IN for Philip Glass. By the by, the image to the right is not the poster I saw. The poster I saw had the background image of Gandhi and a foreground filled with yellow letters exclaiming something along the lines of “what if an opera led you to non-violence” or something like this.

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