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The Philip Glass Ensemble: LIVE IN GLASS' HOUSE
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When the Philip Glass Ensemble appears in Pittsburgh this week, the inimitable American composer will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of his best-known works, the film Koyaanisqatsi, and approaching the 30th anniversary of the Ensemble he formed to perform his own works. The Ensemble will perform the score to the Godfrey Reggio film, as well as other shorter films that Glass has scored, as live accompaniment to the films' screenings.
In a display of synergy beyond most of th...
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Philip Glass Ensemble packs a wallop with chamber performance
Chicago Sun-Times
; Philip Glass and his Philip Glass Ensemble proved Sunday that intimate chamber performances can pack the same sort of wallop as full-blown orchestral concerts. Playing in the unlikely setting of Centre East in Skokie, Glass and his seven-member ensemble dazzled the audience with high-energy,
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ARTS FESTIVAL WILL FEATURE PHILIP GLASS.(DAILY BREAK)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: STAFF REPORT AVANT-GARDE composer Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble will take next spring's Virginia Arts Festival into the multimedia realm. Glass and his group will present two live concert screenings of films that he scored, 1983's ``Koyaanisquatsi'' and 1931's ``Dracula''
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Glass Ensemble makes film spring to life at the Wang.
The Boston Herald
; Koyaanisqatsi, featuring the Philip Glass Ensemble, at the Wang Center, Boston, Friday night. The fluid cinematic ballet of Koyaanisqatsi, originally released in 1983, has made the film something of a mind-altering classic. Philip Glass' hypnotic score and director Gregory Reggio's extraordinary
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Piano recital proves that with Philip Glass more is clearly better
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... Opening" from his hit album "Glassworks" and the newer "Planet News." This isn't a matter of returning to musical roots, however ... straight out of a Protestant hymnal. (The opening of "Planet News," designed to accompany an Allen Ginsberg poem about a trip to ...
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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REVIEW: CLASSICAL: Philip Glass Ensemble: Orion Barbican London oooo9.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: Robert Maycock An irony of timing brought Philip Glass's latest epic to the Barbican Hall while his former collaborator Robert Wilson's show, The Black Rider, was on at the theatre next door. It was their Einstein on the Beach, that put both artists into the world spotlight three decades
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MUSIC: Philip Glass; RFH, London
The Independent - London
; For a style that excels in endless repetitions and a sense of going nowhere, East-coast minimalism has shown remarkable staying power, as Philip Glass, one of its founding fathers, proved last week. Packing London's Festival Hall to capacity on Thursday and Friday, he offered a package tour of his
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Review Philip Glass
The Scotsman
; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall THIS was Philip Glass in the raw. No amplification, no sax and synth cushioning from the dynamic Philip Glass Ensemble, just the world's most famous minimalist alone on stage with a piano. It centres your thoughts on the music - in this case the 1980s Mad Rush and
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THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE: LOVELINESS AMID THE POLLUTION
The Boston Globe
; ... likewise the wispy, gnomic Op. 9 Bagatelles from a few years later. It was the Pro Arte who in 1980 gave the probable premiere (news to us) of an earlier, more expansive version of Beethoven's Opus 18 No. 1 Quartet -- the differences are in material, tempos ...
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Spotlight; Philip Glass, Scoring With `Koyaanisqatsi'
The Washington Post
; The time has never been more right, said composer Philip Glass on the phone from Montreal last week. So he's embarked on a four-week tour of "Koyaanisqatsi Live which makes its Washington debut at Lisner Auditorium tomorrow and Friday nights as part of District Curators' Multi Kulti series. The
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PHILIP GLASS
Musical Opinion
; Christopher Monk meets the composer, discusses his new opera and aspects of composition Philip Glass, enfant terrible and now grand old man of modern contemporary music is nearing 70 bur shows no sign of slowing down, quite the reverse in fact. He is now reckoned by EMI as the 20th-Century's most
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