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Orion

90′ Work by Philip Glass composed in collaboration with Ravi Shankar, Mark Atkins, Wu Man, Foday Musa Suso, Ashley MacIsaac, and Uakti. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Commissioned by the Athens 2004 Cultural Olympiad. Soloist(s): sitar, pipa, didgeridoo, kora, violin, alto, soprano; Orchestration: 3 wind players (I=fl, picc, ssx / II=fl, ssx, cl / III=tsx), 2perc.3pf Athens, Greece, June 2004….
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Orphee Suite

29′ Music by Philip Glass. Transcribed for piano by Paul Barnes. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. piano April 19, 2001 by Paul Barnes in New York City. The disarming simplicity of Glass’s music idiom is especially suited to communicating the unique tension that exists between the spiritual and the physical worlds. And this fascinating intercourse is the basis for Jean…
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Olympian: Lighting of the Torch and Closing

5′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Commissioned by the 1984 Olympic Committee for the Opening of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. 3.0.2.bcl.2/4.3.4.1/perc (SD, BD, tgl, cymb, t.bells)/str/(SATB Chorus optional) 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. I can think of no event to compare with the Olympic games which makes us so conscious of our…
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One Plus One

undetermined duration Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. for one player and amplified table top The player performs “1 + 1” by tapping the table top with his fingers or knuckles. Two rhythmic units, which build the block of “1 + 1”, are combined in regular arithmetic progressions. 1+1 at Wise Music Classical RECORDINGS: Early Keyboard Music…
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1000 Airplanes On The Roof

90′ Music/theater work in one act. Music by Philip Glass. Text by David Henry Hwang. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Commissioned by the Donau Festival Niederoesterreich, the American Music Theather Festival, Philadelphia, PA and Berlin, Cultural City of Europe 1988. Actor (speech only) S; fl (pic, bcl, wind syn). fl (ssx). ssx (asx, tsx)/ 2 syn July 15, 1988 at…
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O Apostolo

Directed by Dirk Simon. Theme by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. This stop-motion animation film is directed by the newcomer Fernando Cortizo. A convict who escaped from jail takes off to a remote village to recover an old loot that was hidden years earlier. But what he finds there involves him in a fate much worse than the…
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Now, So Long After That Time

6′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Written for the WNYC 50th anniversary concert at Alice Tully Hall. solo piano June 13, 1994. Now, So Long After That Time at Wise Music Classical COMPOSITIONS: Études RECORDINGS: The WNYC Commissions Volume 1 on Digital Chips

Nosso Lar (Our Home)

Directed by Wagner de Assis. Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. When Andre, a prominent physician and father of three, dies after a long battle with cancer, instead of rising to what he believed would be heaven, he wakes up in a valley of devastation. Living as a castaway and struggling to avoid the “vampire” spirits who…
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North Star

35′ Music by Philip Glass. Suggested by Barbara Rose for the film “Mark diSuvero, Sculptor”. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. farfisa, yamaha and hammond organs, fender rhodas piano, arp synthesizer, s sax, t sax, flute, vox ECORDINGS: REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed on Orange Mountain Music Circles on Materiali Sonori North Star on Virgin FILMS: North Star: Mark di Suvero by François…
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Notes On A Scandal

50′ Score by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Music for the film by Richard Eyre written by Patrick Marber from the novel by Zöe Heller and starring Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Phil Davies, Michael Maloney and Bill Nighy in a story of loneliness, loyalty, envy and love about a pottery teacher entering into an affair with one of…
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