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Music under glass; Composer Philip Glass gives movies a musical language all their own.
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In the world of Philip Glass, music can tell a story and evoke
emotion in ways that words cannot.
The composer, whose film scores include "Dracula," "The Truman
Show" and the Oscar-nominated music for "Kundun" and "The Hours,"
will be graphically illustrating his point Monday at the Whitaker
Center in Harrisburg.
There, at 8 p.m. in the Sunoco Performance Theater, Glass and his
ensemble will present a live soundtrack performance of his first film
score, the internationally celebr...
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A reputation for repetition His recent music goes way beyond the so-called `minimalism' of his early work. But, as Philip Glass tells Phil Johnson, he still seems stuck with the label
The Independent - London
; When the African kora master Foday Musa Suso was first introduced to the music of Philip Glass, it was a deeply troubling experience. To the ears of the Gambian griot, whose own music builds up trance- like rhythms from endlessly recycled variations on the same five notes, the sound of the
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AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Philip Glass; Getting the Maximum From the Minimalism; From Extended Repetition, an Aural Tapestry Series: American Composers Series Number: 4/5
The Washington Post
; The American premiere of "Einstein on the Beach," a collaboration between the composer Philip Glass and the theatrical director and designer Robert Wilson, took place at the Metropolitan Opera House in November 1976. In the audience was the conductor and flutist Ransom Wilson, who has a vivid
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A reputation for repetition; His recent music goes way beyond the so-called `minimalism' of his early work. But, as Philip Glass tells Phil Johnson, he still seems stuck with the label.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; When the African kora master Foday Musa Suso was first introduced to the music of Philip Glass, it was a deeply troubling experience. To the ears of the Gambian griot, whose own music builds up trance-like rhythms from endlessly recycled variations on the same five notes, the sound of the
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Now we can hear Glass's full score
The Boston Globe
; The merging of music and technology has become a cornerstone of Philip Glass's career. But 15 years ago, the two reached an unhappy, and oddly ironic, impasse. The avant-garde composer had written the score for Godfrey Reggio's 1983 film "Koyaanisqatsi," a wordless meditation on technology's
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Glass work; Classic 'Koyaanisqatsi' reflects minimalist's natural musical balance.
The Boston Herald
; It's been years since the music of Philip Glass seemed shockingly, to some maddeningly, avant-garde. In the 1960s and '70s, the spare sound and long, slow pace of his work - sometimes just an electronic keyboard repeating a simple scale or phrase dozens of times - sent some listeners rushing to the
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