Author: Richard

On the heels of Piano Concerto No.3, which continues to roll thanks to its dedicatee and champion Simone Dinnerstein, we have (at least) three new releases coming out from Orange Mountain this summer, the first of which is Glass’s first composition for solo piano in five years: DISTANT FIGURE: Coming 20 July – DISTANT FIGURE (Passacaglia for Solo Piano) was…
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By any measure 2017 was a very productive year in terms of major new pieces by Philip Glass. The year began in January with his latest grand Symphony, the Eleventh, largely composed the previous year, premiered at Carnegie Hall on his 80th birthday. Symphony No.11 turned out to be the first of a series of major works premiered in the…
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A number of orchestra’s have announced their 2017-18 seasons and many of them are part of the commission of the new Piano Concerto No.3 by Philip Glass who has composed the new concerto for the phenomenal Simone Dinnerstein. Glass composed his first piano concerto, the Tirol Concerto for piano & orchestra in 2000 for pianist/conductor Dennis Russell Davies and the Stuttgart…
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In celebration of Philip Glass’ 81st birthday on January 31, 2018, OMM is proud to announce three new titles including a thrilling new recording of MUSIC WITH CHANGING PARTS in celebration of the NYC and San Francisco performances of this seminal early Glass work.  Performed by the Salt Lake Electric Ensemble, this marks the first recording to incorporate electronic performance…
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From the program notes to the concert on December 9th, 2017 at Roulette in Brooklyn with pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies: The relationship between Philip Glass and the piano is a very interesting one and to no small degree is connected in a very direct way to the conductor/pianist Dennis Russell Davies, pianist Maki Namekawa, and the composer’s…
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On a July afternoon in 2006 while I was living in Brooklyn, only a few months after I started working for Orange Mountain Music, I saw listed in the magazine Time Out New York that Glass’ String Quartet No.3 “Mishima” would be performed at Barge Music. For those who don’t know, Barge Music is what it sounds like.  It’s a…
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Since their publication in December 2014, Philip Glass’ piano études have been enthusiastically embraced by pianists around the world.  At the outset of Glass’ career as a composer part of his professional strategy was holding back scores from publication. The idea had two motivations behind it: independence and pecuniary.  Regarding independence, it wasn’t at all attractive to Glass to spend…
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            The summer of love continues.  On June 15 Philip Glass will appear at the New York City Public Library as part of “A Mind of Music” with Paul Holdengraeber. Then on June 22, Glass will perform with Matt Haimovitz at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA in a special concert presenting the world premiere of…
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On the heels of the big Symphony No.5 performances in New York which were recorded and continue to be video streamed on the Trinity Wall Street website, the two big events happening this week are the opening of Les Enfants Terribles with Opera Parallele in San Francisco and the continuing tour of Gidon Kremer’s Kremerata Baltica and their performances of Philip…
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FREE Friday, May 19, 8pm Saturday, May 20, 8pm Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Downtown Voices, Trinity Youth Chorus, and NOVUS NY Julian Wachner for More Information Click here Written to mark the turn of the millennium, Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 manifests Gustav Mahler’s opinion that “The symphony must be like the…
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