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

5275 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

5289 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

5289 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

5290 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

5294 days ago
The TelegraphSomething grand and moving was created in Philip Glass and Godfrey Reggio's collaboration at the Edinburgh Playhouse. more info

Philip Glass's inaugural Day and Nights Festival kicks off this week in Carmel Valley

5297 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaThis three-week event celebrates music, dance, theater, poetry and film, and the thread running through it is composer/pianist Glass, who at age 74, seems not to know the meaning of 'slow down.' more info

New band of the day – No 1,081: A Winged Victory for the Sullen

5300 days ago
Guardian MusicDustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie mix classical, ambient and post-rock sounds to create music with grand (piano) ambitionsHometown: California/Berlin.The lineup: Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie.The background: You may have heard that there's a ri... more info

Steve Reich at 75: the rebel who changed classical music

5301 days ago
Guardian MusicThe American composer has never compromised to fit in with classical music. Instead, it has changed to accommodate himOn Wednesday 10 August, Steve Reich has a 75th birthday concert at the Proms. He's celebrating with Germany's finest new-music group... more info

Readers recommend: songs about a change of mind – results

5306 days ago
Guardian MusicIt was make-up or break-up time and you refused to walk away like Pretty Woman. Here are your favourite reversals of directionA change of mind, when it comes to pop lyrics, often involves ending a relationship. Or, perhaps, trying to reverse an over-... more info

Big Sur's Henry Miller Memorial Library celebrates anniversary with a season featuring Fleet Foxes, MGMT, Philip Glass

5326 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & HissBig Sur's Henry Miller Library has booked an excellent lineup of summer/fall shows including Fleet Foxes, Explosions in the Sky and Philip Glass conducting "Dracula." more info

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