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Sound of Silence (arr. for solo piano)

5′ Music by Paul Simon. Arranged for solo piano by Philip Glass. piano May 22, 2007 in Washington D.C. at the Warner Theater. As part of the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song which was awarded to Paul Simon on May 22, 2007, Philip Glass performed his arrangement of Simon’s famous song “The Sound of Silence.” The performance,…
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Six Hundred Lines

20′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. PGE 600 Lines and How Now were the first compositions written for the Philip Glass Ensemble which began to rehearse and perform regularly in 1968. The purpose of this early ensemble music was two-fold — first, to extend and develop the music I had begun in 1965 based on repetitive…
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Songs From Liquid Days

40′ Music by Philip Glass. Lyrics by David Byrne, Paul Simon, Laurie Anderson, and Suzanne Vega. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Changing Opinion: voice, flute, and piano Lightning: voice, piano (or voice, flute , soprano sax and tenor sax) Freezing: voice and piano (or string quartet) Liquid Days: voice and piano Open the Kingdom: voice and piano Forgetting: voice and…
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Songs Of Milarepa

25′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Commissioned by the Sagra Musicale Umbra Festival. Soloist(s): Baritone; Orchestration: 2 + pic.22 + bcl.2/2200/hp.pf/perc.chm/str Septmeber 13, 1997 in Perugia, Italy. Songs of Milarepa at Wise Music Classical

The Secret Agent

25′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. fl(pic), eh, hp, str, perc Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad. London of the late 19th Century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts – refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian government, while simultaneously providing information to the London police. When…
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Secret Window

Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Music for the film directed by David Koepp, and starring Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Ving Rhames, Charles Dutton, John Turturro based on a Stephen King novella. FILMS: Secret Window by David Koepp

Short Films

Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. The Man in the Bath (2001) An Audiovisual Work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway. Music Composed by Philip Glass 11′ 09″ Diaspora (2001) An Audiovisual Work by Philip Glass and Atom Egoyan. Visual Direction by Atom Egoyan. Music Composed by Philip Glass 7′ 47″ Notes (2001) An Audiovisual Work by Philip Glass and Michal…
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Sarabande in Common Time

Music by Philip Glass. Written for violinist Jennifer Koh. solo violin May 24, 2016 at the National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Satyagraha

180′ Music by Philip Glass. Text adapted from the Bhagavad-Gita. Libretto (Sanskrit) by the composer and Constance DeJong. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Commissioned by the City of Rotterdam. 2S, 2Mz, 2T, Bar, 2B; SATB (large chorus) 3 (pic).3.3(bcl).2/0.0.0.0/eorg/str September 5, 1980 in Rotterdam by the Netherlands Opera and the Utrechts Symfonie Orkest, conducted by Christopher Keene. The second in…
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Screens

60′ Music by Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Commissioned by the Guthrie Theater. Piano, Kora, Flue, Piccolo, clrainet, Cello, Keyboards, Percussion RECORDINGS: REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed on Orange Mountain Music The Screens on Point Music The World of Philip Glass on Decca The Music of Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso