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A guide to Philip Glass's music

4818 days ago
Guardian MusicSome of his later music makes my toes curl, but there's no denying the huge importance of Glass's compositions with their unique combination of experimentalism and listener-friendlinessI'm trying, I really am. But I can't hear anything in Philip Glas... more info

Shorties (Chris Ware on Comics, An Interview with Beck and Philip Glass, and more)

4837 days ago
LargeHeartedBoyChris Ware talks to the National Post about his new comics collection, Building Stories. Comics themselves, as a medium, are "an imperfect generalized system to try to get at specifics," and yet, he allows, "it seems to work pretty well."... more info

Peter Duggan's Artoons: Philip Glass turns into an axe-wielding maniac

4838 days ago
Guardian MusicHigh culture gets a horror-genre overhaul in Peter Duggan's take on the 1979 collaboration between artist Sol LeWitt and composer Philip Glass more info

Richard Robbins obituary

4838 days ago
Guardian MusicComposer who scored nearly every Merchant Ivory film from The Europeans onwards and was an integral part of the brandThe Guinness Book of Records notes that the 44-year collaboration between the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the American direct... more info

A guide to Morton Feldman's music

4839 days ago
Guardian MusicDon't be daunted by his five-hour-long string quartet – Feldman offers a truly intimate encounter with the substance of soundSomething strange starts to happen when you listen to American composer Morton Feldman's long, long – and I mean long –... more info

Review: Philip Glass' and Robert Wilson's wondrous, exhausting 'Einstein on the Beach'

4855 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaThe 4½-hour 'Einstein on the Beach,' which is in Berkeley for three sold-out performances, is part of a tour of the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Having emerged from downtown New York's performing arts scene in 1976 as a hip emblem of the avant-ga... more info

5 things to know about 'Einstein on the Beach'

4855 days ago
Mercury News, California1. It was composed by Philip Glass in 1975; the opera premiered in Avignon, France, in 1976.2. The new touring production is the opera's first full staging in 20 years. more info

Philip Glass talks about his breakthrough work, 'Einstein on the Beach'

4857 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaNow in a touring production, 'Einstein on the Beach,' which premiered in 1976, plays Oct. 26-28 at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall in its West Coast debut. more info

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's 'Einstein on the Beach' arrives on the West Coast 36 years after its world premiere

4860 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaA 41/2-hour 'opera' with no narrative, no orchestra, no arias and no intermission, composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson's 'Einstein on the Beach' is best described as a spectacle -- an imaginary landscape of music, dance, gesture and l... more info

A guide to Steve Reich's music

4860 days ago
Guardian MusicWithout Steve Reich's rhythms, pulses and phasing, contemporary culture would be a much poorer placeIt's rare that one says this about a contemporary composer, but it's become too easy to take Steve Reich for granted. Of course, that's a sign of just... more info

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