Author: Richard

Six Operas, One Week: Brooklyn, NY – Madrigal Opera – National Sawdust April 28 & 29 with Johnny Gandelsman, Choral Chameleon, dir. R.B.Schlather Seville, Spain – The Fall of the House of Usher (La Caida de la Casa Usher) April 26th- Teatro Central Seville Binghamton, NY – Hydrogen Jukebox – Tri-Cities Opera April 21-30th Basel, Switzerland – Satyagraha – Theater Basel April…
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April, usually a quiet month in terms of music, the sort of stretch of the season when the weather is getting nice and the indoor seasons are winding down, has turned out to be a hotbed for music featuring Glass’ music. All throughout the month Gidon Kremer’s Kremerata Baltica has been touring Glass’ music from Violin Concerto No.2, to the…
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It was just announced that next month, Trinity Wall Street will be performing Philip Glass’ mammoth Symphony No.5 conducted by Julian Wachner. Glass’grand millennial symphony hasn’t been heard in New York since the year 2000 with Dennis Russell Davies leading the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The piece received sporadic performances, mostly in Europe, but seems to be making something of a comeback…
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Orange Mountain is proud to announce the release of the world premiere recording of LIFE: A Journey Through Time with The Hague Philharmonic (Residentie Orkest) under the direction of Carolyn Kuan. Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and conceived of by nature photographer Frans Lanting, LIFE: A Journey Through Time is a multimedia experience with images by Lanting…
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Seven or Eight Pieces?  Which is it?  In fact it’s twelve pieces?  In the early 1990s, Philip Glass composed a piece for the ballet company Grupo Corpo.  The ballet itself was originally called “Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet” because the penultimate piece Glass composed ran seamlessly into the last piece of the set. Unsure of where the break…
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Friday night Maki Namekawa presented her first solo performance of The Complete Piano Etudes in Brooklyn with the composer in attendance at National Sawdust in collaboration with Ars Electronica who provided visuals choreographed the the music.  Parts of the evening were caught on Periscope. Namekawa and her piano duo partner then headed to our nation’s capital for a two piano…
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Saturday night’s performance of Symphony No.2 (1994) and the Tirol Concerto (2000) was an artistic triumph.  The Boston Globe captured it in saying “the highlight of the evening, really — was that slow movement, anguish turning agitated and then noble, both pianist and orchestra playing as if it were Schubert, or late Beethoven.”  The Boston Musical Intelligencer went on about…
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On Feb.18th, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project under the direction of its leader Gil Rose will perform the Boston premieres of the Tirol Concerto for piano & orchestra (2000) with pianist Anton Batagov, and Glass’s Second Symphony. The concert will also feature “The Drawf Planets” by composer Benjamin Park. In many respects this is an interesting concert.  As a Boston…
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“More of a quest than an arrival”  I began working for Orange Mountain Music, Philip Glass’ record label, 11 years ago in January 2006. I was hired only weeks after the world premiere of Symphony No.8 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.   Symphony No.8 and its quiet ending was perhaps the draw for ticket sales but it was rightly placed…
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On January 31st, 2017 Philip Glass will turn 80 with a celebratory concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall featuring the world premiere of Glass’s Symphony No.11 and the NY premieres of Three Ifè Songs with Angelique Kidjo and “Days & Nights in Rocinha” with the Bruckner Orchester Linz under Dennis Russell Davies. More Info on The Carnegie Hall Birthday Concert…
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