Category: Glass notes

“We honor musicians like Philip Glass. Like his own life like a New York City Juilliard trained cab driver, Philip’s work is filled with contradictions that cross genres and cultures.  When the music he made strayed from neat conventions audiences didn’t know always how to react. I understand that there have been some eggs thrown occasionally. But as Philip says…
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WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday morning, September 22, 2016, President Obama will award the 2015 National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to distinguished recipients in the East Room. The first Lady will also attend. 2015 National Medal of Arts · Philip Glass, Composer (New York, NY) · Mel Brooks, Actor, Comedian, & Writer (New York, NY) ·…
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On Saturday, November 26, iconic American composer Philip Glass will be awarded The Eleventh Glenn Gould Prize at an exclusive concert in his honour presented by The Glenn Gould Foundation and the National Arts Centre.  Conductor Dennis Russell Davies, a life-long proponent of the music of Philip Glass and collaborator on numerous commissions, will lead the NAC Orchestra. Details…

PHILIP GLASS’S ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVELY ON APPLE MUSIC AUGUST 19th. Orange Mountain Music and Philip Glass are proud to announce the availability of the Orange Mountain Music catalogue exclusively on Apple Music. Philip Glass is perhaps the most recognized composer of serious music living today having had a profound impact on the musical world of his time. Launched…
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The world learned yesterday that Doris Lessing passed away at age 94.  An extraordinary woman with an extraordinary life, she penned the libretti for two Glass grand operas "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8" in 1988 and "Marriages between Zones 3,4, and 5" in 1997.  These were two parts of a proposed trilogy by Glass drawn from Lessing's…
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