When ''Einstein on the Beach'' had its premiere in 1976 at the Metropolitan Opera House, it changed everything, on both sides of the footlights. It redefined what opera could be: forget about narrative, dramatic conflict, arias and conventional orchestration; this was a work about ideas, both quirky and elevated, explored in microscopic detail over...
In classical music, a landmark birthday for a composer of note is nearly always celebrated with a concert (more likely, concerts) stuffed full of significant works. Philip Glass, true to his status as an idiosyncratic maverick, adopted a different approach in helping to program the second annual Tune-In Music Festival, which ran from Thursday...
AS with many other composers Philip Glass's style has -- so far at least -- developed over three periods. The first, that of a young composer learning the ropes, is almost entirely unknown. Examples of his early works occasionally come to light. Most recently a quartet from the late 1950s turned up on a recording made at the Juilliard School that...
Philip Glass (født 31. januar 1937 i Baltimore, USA) er en amerikansk klassisk komponist, fløjtenist og pianist.
Han er en af de mest succesrige og omtalte komponister inden for ny musik i den sidste fjerdedel af 1900-tallet, og hans navn er tæt forbundet med minimalismen.
Han skabte sit eget ensemble, The Philip Glass Ensemble i 1968. Skønt overvejende traditionelt besat mht. instrumenter adskiller det sig fra de fleste andre kammerensembler ved bl.a. brug af elektrisk forstærkning.
Philip Glass har også optrådt inden for jazz og rock. Han har skrevet flere operaer, 8 symfonier og instrumentalmusik samt teater- og filmmusik.