Philip Glass News

Philip Glass premiered this opera , his twenty-first, at Germany's Theatre Erfurt in 2005.

Contradictory as it sounds, minimalist music is arriving in an avalanche this fall.

While the commonalities between Philip Glass, Calvin Johnson, Steve Reich, and Daniel Johnston may be obvious to a lover of the avant-garde, a more superficial similarity is that they have all played live on ...

Puppets have always helped out with difficult lessons: Bert and Ernie taught the importance of tooth brushing; Kermit served as poster boy for the power of positive thinking.

When I started listening to classical music, after spending the first 18 years of my life basically immersed in rock, I found that I was really drawn to early music - ' the earlier the better.

Until then he's occupied with the release of his second album, Mothertongue , and his accompanying tour with Appalachian singer Sam Amidon and singer-pianist Thomas Bartlett, also known as Doveman.

Long before the Basin Complex Fire devoured most of the Ventana Wilderness and came close to destroying the community of Big Sur, the Henry Miller Library was planning to host a benefit concert by ...

Presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. Reviewed Aug. 12, 2008. Performers: Martin Chalifour, Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

Muhly, 26, grew up in New England as the only child of an artist mother and a filmmaker father.

After more than four decades and countless acclaimed compositions and film scores, Philip Glass will release Glass Box , a 10-disc retrospective of his groundbreaking career, on September 23 via Nonesuch.

At 71, composer Philip Glass is a comfortable member of the highbrow mainstream, as well as a renowned film composer with several scores under his belt.

At 71, composer Philip Glass is a comfortable member of the highbrow mainstream, as well as a renowned film composer with several scores under his belt.

At 71, composer Philip Glass is a comfortable member of the highbrow mainstream, as well as a renowned film composer with several scores under his belt.

VOOM PORTRAITS Robert Wilson Through August 3. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7062, www.bassmuseum.org This sensational exhibition features 26 moving images on large-scale HD plasma ...

Are words, more than music, the driving force in contemporary opera? Composer Libby Larsen thinks so.

Reviewed by Andy Battaglia July 29th, 2008 An articulate composer with a voracious curiosity, Nico Muhly worked for Philip Glass, written for the Boston Pops, and premiered a group of works at Carnegie Hall - ...

I tend to agree with Steve Reich on the subject of minimalism, a self-proposed genre whose label is borrowed more from a chronological standpoint than the actual musical content involved.

Defining the role of "composer" or "classical music" these days is far from an easy task.

A thoroughly winning CD. Should anyone be wondering 'who on earth is Ralph Evans?', he's been first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet since 1982 and here his non-derivative, audience friendly Quartet No 1 in ...

A thoroughly winning CD. Should anyone be wondering 'who on earth is Ralph Evans?', he's been first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet since 1982 and here his non-derivative, audience friendly Quartet No 1 in ...