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A seminal work of post-modern dance from 1979 that has been reconstructed and remastered using the latest technology fits in perfectly with the theme of rediscoveries this season at Bard College's SummerScape.

Telluride Musicfest 2006 A shot of Ajax Peak in the window framed Philip Glass's morose, weathered face as he sat down in Musicfest presenter Josh Aronson's sparse Telluride home.

The struggling New York City Opera should take heart from its "people's opera " counterpart in London, the English National Opera.

Playing modern classical music with the likes of Philip Glass and Steve Reich has given saxophonist and composer David Crowell a unique perspective on jazz and improvisational music.

A lit-smart coming-of-age story where money, lust, suicide, and angst intertwine - this isn't an episode of Gossip Girl or a bad day on The Hills .

Composer Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet perform Glass' score for Dracula on Friday at Jack Singer Concert Hall.

The Museum of Contemporary Art's performance program has evolved into one of Chicago's finest and most continually surprising showcases of all things international, experimental, multidisciplined, multiethnic and flat out intriguing.

Present Music paired music by Terry Riley and Philip Glass with Indian classical music Saturday at Turner Hall, on the sensible theory that both American minimalists had studied Indian music extensively and were influenced by it.

I became a true devotee of composer Philip Glass when I dragged a date to see a rare performance of the Glass-Robert Wilson opera "The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down" in the late '80s at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Burkina Electric, which has been called a oean irresistible brew of West African and electronica,a is the Present Music guest band Feb.

Don't let Grizzly Bear 's name confuse you. There's nothing vicious about this buzz-worthy band, though drummer Christopher 's last name, coincidentally, is Bear .

Philip Glass' music was such unbridled fun in the 1980s with its bright, bouncing, beach-ball harmonies and chord sequences that could have bopped in from a Carole King song.

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts , references one of Philip Glass' major compositions from the 1970s, Music in Twelve Parts .A That enormous work features Glass' signature arpeggiated melodies and subtly shifting harmonic structures.A The documentary is itself divided into twelve parts, roughly breaking up into snapshots of the ...

Rock has become so good at grand, anthemic statements - the kind that can fill a stadium with 60,000 screaming fans - that it already operates on a grand opera-like stage.

'There will be people who are horrified by these ideas' As he prepares for a London appearance this weekend, Philip Glass discusses the state of modern music with fellow composer Nico Muhly Nico Muhly I worked for Philip Glass from 1999 until 2008 in his studio in SoHo, in New York City.

Published May 21, 2009, issue of May 29, 2009 . "GLASS ON GLASS" - A COMPOSER PERFORMS AND MUSES ABOUT HIS WORK Karen Leon Glass Family : Philip Glass, left, was interviewed by his cousin, Ira Glass, Right.

The world's most austere composer drove taxis until he was 42. He reveals how his fastidious life informs his music Getty Images Glass says: 'The idea that artwork consisted of a transaction is the essence of postmodernism.

The conductor Brad Lubman formed the new-music chamber orchestra Signal just over a year ago, and it is already considered one of the most vital groups of its kind.

Once condemned as an instrument of the devil because of the belief that its sound could damage mental health, the glass harmonica, invented by US founding father Benjamin Franklin, almost died out in the 19th century.

Ballet Theatre Ashtabula presents its final performances of its annual spring ballet at the Ashtabula Arts Center today through Sunday.