Orange Mountain Music presents the first advance track from the forthcoming soundtrack album to THE LAST DALAI LAMA?, the 2016 film by director Mickey Lemle featuring an original score composed by Tenzin Choegyal and Philip Glass. For the film Glass was interviewed and discussed his composition MAD RUSH, originally written on and for the organ of the cathedral of St.John…
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POSTPONED: Aguas da Amazonia Premiere In Brooklyn. An interview with conductor Olivier Glissant of the Brooklyn Orchestra
On March 13th across the Brooklyn Bridge near the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, the newly born Brooklyn Orchestra will premiere a new orchestral arrangement of Philip Glass’s AGUAS DA AMAZONIA. Originally composed as sketches for piano (Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet) – then later interpolated by the Brazilian percussion group UAKTI. In 2015 arranger Charles Coleman…
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KOYAANISQATSI Special Record Store Day 2020 Release
Orange Mountain Music is proud to announce the special RECORD STORE DAY 2020release of the complete soundtrack to the classic film KOYAANISQATSI for the first time on vinyl and limited to 1500 numbered units. Directed by Godfrey Reggio with an iconic score by Philip Glass, KOYAANISQATSI premiered in 1982 and quickly became a cult classic. With cinematography by Ron Fricke…
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NEW VIDEO: Maki Namekawa plays Glass’s First Piano Sonata
Maki Namekawa, piano – www.makinamekawa.com Real time visualization : Cori O‘lan Directed and produced by Julian Pixel Schmiederer julianpixel.at Director of photography Gregor Franz gregorfranz.com Edited by Johannes Rass johannesrass.at Gaffer Eliam Lauppert eliam.at
NEW VIDEO: Aaron Diehl Trio performs Glass Etude No.16
On Philip Glass’s First Piano Sonata and the performer Maki Namekawa
(On 4 July 2019, Philip Glass’s First Piano Sonata will have its world premiere at the Klavier Festival Ruhr) In February 2017 in Washington DC, the piano duo of Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies had just finished a performance at the Philips Collection and were heading to a restaurant in the neighborhood. Davies is known as one of Philip…
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A Note on Itaipu
In 1988, at the time he was composing Itaipu, Philip Glass was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to compose a new work to to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus “discovery” of America. When asked by the New York Times about the work, Glass said that the opera would be “‘an allegorical opera in three acts telling its story…
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Quelques Evenments à Paris starting in Spring 2019:
February 8: Iveta Apkalna Organ Concert: Glass and Bach May 6: Practique Orchestrale (education) at the Philharmonie de Paris May 16 Dracula film with piano music (two shows) May 16: Philip Glass: Portraits des 20th and 21st centuries (education) May 17 Piano Etudes Integrales (sold out): May 18 Piano Etudes Integrales (sold out): May 18: Glass Forms (sold out) piano/electronics…
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Glass Notes: Glass at the end of 2018 into 2019
On December 26th CBS broadcast the annual Kennedy Center Honors which included a tribute to honoree Philip Glass. Jon Batiste performed “Opening” from Glassworks, Jennifer Koh and St. Vincent performed music from Mishima, and the Philip Glass Ensemble played a bit of Koyaanisqatsi, and Knee Play 5 from Einstein on the Beach. This was followed on January 6th with the…
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Eroticism, Beauty and Longing for Death: Maki Namekawa plays Philip Glass’ MISHIMA
Mishima Solo Piano Press Release: On September 7th, 2018, Maki Namekawa premieres the piano version of Philip Glass’ soundtrack to Paul Schrader’s film MISHIMA – A Life in Four Chapters. The 1985 film by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, American Gigolo), produced by Francis Ford Coppola, employs a highly stylized aesthetic to portray the life of the Japanese poet and three-time…
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