PHILIP GLASS

From: Musical Opinion | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Monk, Christopher | Copyright information

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 commercially successful classical composer.

We met in Erfurt on the morning of the World Premiere of his new opera, his twentyfirst, Waiting for the Barbarians. Situated in what was ...

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