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Beck to produce Philip Glass remix album

4819 days ago
Guardian MusicComposer's 75th birthday to be celebrated with compilation featuring Memory Tapes, Amon Tobin and Tyondai BraxtonSome of the world's best electronic musicians are to celebrate composer Philip Glass's 75th birthday on a new remix album.Produced by Bec... more info

Brad Mehldau/Kevin Hays: Modern Music – review

4837 days ago
Guardian Music(Nonesuch)As he showed at the Wigmore Hall in duet with mandolinist Chris Thile recently, the US piano star Brad Mehldau treats one-to-one musical encounters as invitations to creativity outside his comfort zone; chances to explore worlds between con... more info

Lucinda Childs: top five dance clips

4838 days ago
Guardian MusicJudith Mackrell chooses her favourite videos of legendary choreographer Lucinda Childs – from her collaborations with Philip Glass to a tribute to the great Merce CunninghamThis Einstein on the Beach documentary comes in three segments on YouTube, ... more info

TV music: the top 10 worst cliches

4839 days ago
Guardian MusicWe run down the most overused repeat offenders, from REM's Everybody Hurts to Blur's Song 2 – but which did we miss?No one expects experimental new music to accompany TV montages of people sobbing in slow motion or wearily sanding floors. But latel... more info

1,000 Airplanes on the Roof – review

4848 days ago
Guardian MusicNational Museum of Flight, East FortunePhilip Glass's 1988 "science fiction music drama", as he termed it, has remained a rarity despite the current fad for Glass revivals. Maybe that's because it's hard to match the original site-specific setting: 1... more info

Review: Pin-wheeling bliss from the Philip Glass Ensemble, at the composer's own festival

4863 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaThe first of two retrospectives of the composer's music showed him to be a '60s boy at heart: exploding suns, rattling riffs, Indian-inspired rhythms more info

Review: Terrific, intimate opening for Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival in Carmel Valley

4877 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaOther musicians bring out detail at Days, Nights event more info

Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review

4877 days ago
Guardian MusicVarious venues, EdinburghA short stint in Edinburgh during festival time, even in fine weather which for the most part it decidedly wasn't, can leave you like a ship struggling against a powerful headwind. On day one, the experience of fighting off a... more info

Opera in the modern age

4878 days ago
Guardian MusicWhat of opera today? We look at the last few decades and find not only the stories, but the music and the very form itself have been reinventedAt the beginning of the 20th century, when modernism began to undermine the basic grammar of music, some of... more info

Edinburgh Festival 2011: The Qatsi Trilogy , Edinburgh Playhouse, review

4882 days ago
The TelegraphSomething grand and moving was created in Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio's collaboration at the Edinburgh Playhouse. more info

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