On a July afternoon in 2006 while I was living in Brooklyn, only a few months after I started working for Orange Mountain Music, I saw listed in the magazine Time Out New York that Glass’ String Quartet No.3 “Mishima” would be performed at Barge Music. For those who don’t know, Barge Music is what it sounds like.  It’s a…
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Since their publication in December 2014, Philip Glass’ piano études have been enthusiastically embraced by pianists around the world.  At the outset of Glass’ career as a composer part of his professional strategy was holding back scores from publication. The idea had two motivations behind it: independence and pecuniary.  Regarding independence, it wasn’t at all attractive to Glass to spend…
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            The summer of love continues.  On June 15 Philip Glass will appear at the New York City Public Library as part of “A Mind of Music” with Paul Holdengraeber. Then on June 22, Glass will perform with Matt Haimovitz at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA in a special concert presenting the world premiere of…
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On the heels of the big Symphony No.5 performances in New York which were recorded and continue to be video streamed on the Trinity Wall Street website, the two big events happening this week are the opening of Les Enfants Terribles with Opera Parallele in San Francisco and the continuing tour of Gidon Kremer’s Kremerata Baltica and their performances of Philip…
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FREE Friday, May 19, 8pm Saturday, May 20, 8pm Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Downtown Voices, Trinity Youth Chorus, and NOVUS NY Julian Wachner for More Information Click here Written to mark the turn of the millennium, Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 manifests Gustav Mahler’s opinion that “The symphony must be like the…
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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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