Category: Glass notes

Twyla Tharp tours her new dance production featuring a vibrant suite of works by Philip Glass – Aguas da Amazonia. Music will be performed live by Third Coast Percussion on a unique collection of custom-designed percussion instruments. Event dates run between January and April, 2025. Tickets now on sale. Additional dates to be announced. January 26, 2025 Minneapolis, MN –…
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The British Film Institute hosts a series of film screenings to showcase Philip Glass’s unique contribution to the history of cinema. Event dates and ticket information below. August 2, 2024 The Thin Blue Line Showtime – 20:45Errol Morris began his hugely successful, long-term collaboration with Philip Glass on this pioneering documentary, which combines interview footage with striking crime-scene re-enactments as…
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The Philip Glass Ensemble tours the world premiere of Naqoyqatsi Live for Cello, Orchestra, and Philip Glass Ensemble; in Ravenna present the Qatsi Trilogy in whole; and Early Works and Glassworks programs across Europe. Tour dates and ticket information below. More dates to be announced. June 14, 2024 Early Works and Glassworks · Uppsala, Sweden The Philip Glass Ensemble presents Glassworks…
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Since 2022, Quatuor Molinari has embarked on a process to record all of the Philip Glass string quartets. Volume 1 featured Glass’s First Quartet from 1966 through his Fourth in 1989. The newest volume which was released at the end of November 2023 features Glass’s Fifth from 1991 through his Seventh in 2013. Quatuor Molinari spoke with Richard Guérin about…
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Philip Glass Solo Album artwork; credit: Luis Álvarez Roure: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Philip Glass shares a new album, Philip Glass Solo, January 26 via Orange Mountain Music. The collection is an intimate portrait of the renowned pianist at 84, as he takes a new look at some of his most enduring and beloved piano works. Now available everywhere:…
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November 7, 2023: Philip Glass Piano Etudes published by Artisan Books is now available online and at your local bookstore. About the book: Philip Glass Piano Etudes is a one-of-a-kind tribute to Philip Glass’ 20 piano etudes. A deluxe boxed gift set, it was designed as an heirloom to be cherished by music lovers, piano students and players, and anyone attuned to…
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Once Within A Time Godfrey Reggio’s Once Within a Time is now playing in select theaters this October from Oscilloscope Laboratories. Tickets are on sale now for select Q&A events at the IFC Center in New York and Brain Dead Studios Fairfax in Los Angeles featuring co-director Jon Kane & EP Steven Soderbergh. Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) returns after ten years with a…
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Sep 26 – Oct 4 Godfrey Reggio Philip Glass Retrospective · MoMA MoMA presents Total Cinema of Sight and Sound, a retrospective including all of the features the duo has collaborated on. The retrospective is organized around a weeklong run of their latest work, Once Within a Time (2022), which is screening in its New York premiere. Nine years in the making since its…
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INTERVIEW WITH JILLON STOPPELS DUPREE This weekend, Early Music Seattle presents Philip Glass’s Harpsichord Concerto with soloist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, who performed the premiere back in 2002. Richard Guérin: “What do you remember about the premiere of the piece?  I recall there being a flourish of soloists in the mix around the premiere and that you had something like one…
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