His composition teachers included Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma. I'd taken everything out with my early works and it was now time to decide just what I wanted to put in—a process that would occupy me for several years to come. This piece was in other ways a turning point for Glass, as it was his first work since 1963 scored for symphony orchestra, even if the most prominent parts were still reserved for solo voices and chorus. 3), it features extended solo writing. Juni 2013 | (printed program, German), Tim Page, Liner Notes to the album "Music with Changing Parts, Nonesuch Music, 1994, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, opera on the life of astronomer Galileo Galilei, Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, Piano Concerto No. [98], Glass's 12th symphony was premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under John Adams at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on January 10, 2019.[99]. Its six movements are symphonic reworkings of themes by Glass, David Bowie, and Brian Eno (from their album "Heroes", 1977); as in other works by the composer, it is also a hybrid work and exists in two versions: one for the concert hall, and another, shorter one for dance, choreographed by Twyla Tharp. Glass is a vegetarian. The Concerto is dedicated to the memory of Glass's father: "His favorite form was the violin concerto, and so I grew up listening to the Mendelssohn, the Paganini, the Brahms concertos. [15]:15, Glass developed his appreciation of music from his father, discovering later his father's side of the family had many musicians. Two symphonies, Symphony No. 2002) and Marlowe (b. Philip Glass was born on January 31 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Jewish immigrant parents, Benjamin Charles Glass and Ida, née Gouline. 8, the piece was conducted by Glass's long-time collaborator Dennis Russell Davies, who noted "in his recent operas the bass line has taken on an increasing prominence,... (an) increasing use of melodic elements in the deep register, in the contrabass, the contrabassoon—he's increasingly using these sounds and these textures can be derived from using these instruments in different combinations. Utilizing a haunting score by Philip Glass, Undertow gradually builds its low-key tension to a power that becomes riveting. 1, 1966).[29]. 9 (2010–2011), Symphony No. [2][3][4] Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. F… Shortly after completing the score in August 1979, Glass met the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, whom he helped prepare for performances in Germany (using a piano-four-hands version of the score); together they started to plan another opera, to be premiered at the Stuttgart State Opera.[25]. The work, which premiered in June 2007 in Toronto, is a piece for seven instruments and a vocal quartet, and contains recorded spoken word performances by Cohen and imagery from his collection. [123] Ira interviewed Glass onstage at Chicago's Field Museum; this interview was broadcast on NPR's Fresh Air. The "Portrait Trilogy" was completed with Akhnaten (1982–1983, premiered in 1984), a vocal and orchestral composition sung in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Ancient Egyptian. This interest in writing for the string quartet and the string orchestra led to a chamber and orchestral film score for Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1984–85), which Glass recently described as his "musical turning point" that developed his "technique of film scoring in a very special way".[47]. In 2007, Glass also worked alongside Leonard Cohen on an adaptation of Cohen's poetry collection Book of Longing. [86][87][88][89], The opera The Perfect American was composed in 2011 to a commission from Teatro Real Madrid. Glass also turned to other media; two multi-movement instrumental works for the Philip Glass Ensemble originated as music for film and TV: North Star (1977 score for the documentary North Star: Mark di Suvero by François de Menil and Barbara Rose) and four short cues for the children's TV series Sesame Street named Geometry of Circles (1979). In the four movements of his Third Symphony, Glass treats a 19-piece string orchestra as an extended chamber ensemble. Glass describes himself as a "classicist", pointing out he is trained in harmony and counterpoint and studied such composers as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Nadia Boulanger. While composing for symphonic ensembles, Glass also composed music for piano, with the cycle of five movements titled Metamorphosis (adapted from music for a theatrical adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis), and for the Errol Morris film The Thin Blue Line, 1988. Glass has collaborated with recording artists such as Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega,[103] Mick Jagger,[104] Leonard Cohen, David Byrne, Uakti, Natalie Merchant,[105] S'Express (Glass remixed their track Hey Music Lover in 1989)[106] and Aphex Twin (yielding an orchestration of Icct Hedral in 1995 on the Donkey Rhubarb EP). Among recent collaborators are Glass's fellow New Yorker Woody Allen, Stephen Colbert,[127] and poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen. The Hours (2002) earned him a second Academy Award nomination, and was followed by another Morris documentary, The Fog of War (2003). The operatic Symphony No. These pieces were performed by The Philip Glass Ensemble in the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969 and in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1970, often encountering hostile reaction from critics,[19] but Glass's music was also met with enthusiasm from younger artists such as Brian Eno and David Bowie (at the Royal College of Art ca. [75], 2008 to 2010 Glass continued to work on a series of chamber music pieces which started with Songs and Poems: the Four Movements for Two Pianos (2008, premiered by Dennis Davies and Maki Namekawa in July 2008), a Sonata for Violin and Piano composed in "the Brahms tradition" (completed in 2008, premiered by violinist Maria Bachman and pianist Jon Klibonoff in February 2009); a String sextet (an adaption of the Symphony No. "[128] The National Endowment for the Arts, while noting that many of his operas have been produced by the world's leading opera houses said, "He is the first composer to win a wide, multigenerational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film, and in popular music. The concerto celebrates the pioneers' trek across North America, and the second movement features a duet for piano and Native American flute. If you see something that doesn't look right on this page, please do inform us using the form below: © 2021 Dead or Kicking / All Rights Reserved. Upon learning this, Glass and conductor Dennis Russell Davies visited the playhouse, placing music stands around the pit to determine how many players the pit could accommodate. In 2005 his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1987) was featured in the surreal French thriller, La Moustache, providing a tone intentionally incongruous to the banality of the movie's plot. "Part Two" and "Part Four" were used (and hence renamed) in two dance productions by choreographer Lucinda Childs (who had already contributed to and performed in Einstein on the Beach). [73] Glass himself pointed out "in many ways it owes more to Schubert than to Bach".[74]. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, twelve symphonies, eleven concertos, eight string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores. His cousin Cevia was a classical pianist, while others had been in vaudeville. In the mid-2000s Glass provided the scores to films such as Secret Window (2004), Neverwas (2005), The Illusionist and Notes on a Scandal, garnering his third Academy Award nomination for the latter. Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations in the U.K. and a leading moral theologian, has died at age 72. Glass lives in New York and in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Glass defined the work as a "social/political opera", as a critique on the Bush administration's war in Iraq, a "dialogue about political crisis", and an illustration of the "power of art to turn our attention toward the human dimension of history". Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. Selected discography. Another collaboration was a collaborative recording project with Ravi Shankar, initiated by Peter Baumann (a member of the band Tangerine Dream), which resulted in the album Passages (1990). This was one of his earliest film efforts. Pendulum (2010, a one-movement piece for violin and piano), a second Suite of cello pieces for Wendy Sutter (2011), and Partita for solo violin for violinist Tim Fain (2010, first performance of the complete work 2011), are recent entries in the series. Those early works of Stockhausen are still beautiful. He referred to the music of Honegger, Milhaud, and Villa-Lobos as possible models for his symphony. ", "Philip Glass wishes he had time to take a four-hour hike", "Singers Distinguish Themselves for Visitor", "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra on ChesterNovello website", "Entertainment | Philip Glass opera gets ovation", "New CDs From Musicians Who Play the Field", "There will be people who are horrified by these ideas", "London Philharmonic Orchestra April 17, 2010", "Philip Glass talks about his Carmel Valley festival this summer and hoped-for Big Sur center", "American Composers Orchestra – Tuesday, January 31, 2012", "Music is a place; Philip Glass in Hobart – ABC Hobart", Kevin Smith, Glass's Players Warm Up for a Festival in August, "LAPO and John Adams perform West coast premiere of Philip Glass' Symphony No. 3 (1995), a Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (1995), written for the Rascher Quartet (all commissioned by conductor Dennis Russel Davies), and Echorus (1994/95), a more transparent, refined, and intimate chamber-orchestral style paralleled the excursions of his large-scale symphonic pieces. [102] In the 1990s, Glass composed the aforementioned symphonies Low (1992) and Heroes (1996), thematically derived from the Bowie-Eno collaboration albums Low and "Heroes" composed in late 1970s Berlin. 1971) are his children from his first marriage, to theater director JoAnne Akalaitis (married 1965, divorced 1980). 2 is described by Glass as a study in polytonality. Philip Glass is a staunch supporter of the Tibetan independence movement and describes himself as "a Jewish-Taoist-Hindu-Toltec-Buddhist." [81], In August 2011, Glass presented a series of music, dance, and theater performances as part of the Days and Nights Festival. Philip Smith, the beloved Brooklyn-born theater enthusiast who climbed from movie usher to the chair of the Shubert Organization, the largest Broadway theater company, died … In 1968 he composed and conducted the score for director Harrison Engle's minimalist comedy short, Railroaded, played by the Philip Glass Ensemble. "I had broken the rules of modernism and so I thought it was time to break some of my own rules", according to Glass. Glass built a sizable record collection from the unsold records in his father's store, including modern classical music such as Hindemith, Bartók, Schoenberg,[16] Shostakovich and Western classical music including Beethoven's string quartets and Schubert's B♭ Piano Trio. The characters are depicted by both singers and dancers. Lee is survived by his wife and artistic partner Maude Mitchell, daughter Clove Galilee, sons Lute Ramblin Breuer, Alexander Tiappa Klimovitsky, Mojo Lorwin, and Wah Mohn, daughters - in- law Jenny Rogers and Martha Elliot and grandchildren Bella, Ruma and Jack Breuer. Juliet (b. Glass's and Wilson's opera includes musical settings of Latin texts by the 1st-century-Roman playwright Seneca and allusions to the music of Giuseppe Verdi and from the American Civil War, featuring the 19th century figures Giuseppe Garibaldi and Robert E. Lee as characters. [19] In 1954 Glass traveled to Paris, where he encountered the films of Jean Cocteau, which made a lasting impression on him. [84], Other works completed since 2010 include Symphony No. For the Record …. It was all intricacy, exotic harmonics". Glass counts many artists among his friends and collaborators, including visual artists (Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Fredericka Foster), writers (Doris Lessing, David Henry Hwang, Allen Ginsberg), film and theatre directors (including Errol Morris, Robert Wilson, JoAnne Akalaitis, Godfrey Reggio, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Hampton, Bernard Rose, and many others), choreographers (Lucinda Childs, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp), and musicians and composers (Ravi Shankar, David Byrne, the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, Foday Musa Suso, Laurie Anderson, Linda Ronstadt, Paul Simon, Pierce Turner, Joan La Barbara, Arthur Russell, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Roberto Carnevale, Patti Smith, Aphex Twin, Lisa Bielawa, Andrew Shapiro, John Moran, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly). [95], His 11th symphony, commissioned by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Istanbul International Music Festival, and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, premiered on January 31, 2017, Glass's 80th birthday, at Carnegie Hall, Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Bruckner Orchestra. Featuring guest artists from around the world, and from the safety of their own homes, experience Glass’ music remotely while practicing social distancing and isolation. [83] Glass hopes to present this festival annually, with a focus on art, science, and conservation. "Part Two" was included in Dance (a collaboration with visual artist Sol LeWitt, 1979), and "Part Four" was renamed as Mad Rush, and performed by Glass on several occasions such as the first public appearance of the 14th Dalai Lama in New York City in Fall 1981. We Are at War - Philip Glass. Glass's most recent film scores include No Reservations (Glass makes a brief cameo in the film sitting at an outdoor café), Cassandra's Dream (2007), Les Regrets (2009), Mr Nice (2010), the Brazilian film Nosso Lar (2010) and Fantastic Four (2015, in collaboration with Marco Beltrami). Managed by: Deanna Victoria Younger: Last Updated: June 11, 2015 [72] Another critic, Anne Midgette of The Washington Post, noted the suite "maintains an unusual degree of directness and warmth"; she also noted a kinship to a major work by Johann Sebastian Bach: "Digging into the lower registers of the instrument, it takes flight in handfuls of notes, now gentle, now impassioned, variously evoking the minor-mode keening of klezmer music and the interior meditations of Bach's cello suites". [79][80] Other orchestral projects of 2010 are short orchestral scores for films; to a multimedia presentation based on the novel Icarus at the Edge of Time by theoretical physicist Brian Greene, which premiered on June 6, 2010, and the score for the Brazilian film Nosso Lar (released in Brazil on September 3, 2010). Glass also collaborated again with the co-author of Einstein on the Beach, Robert Wilson, on Monsters of Grace (1998), and created a biographic opera on the life of astronomer Galileo Galilei (2001). [5] Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures",[6] which he has helped evolve stylistically.[7][8]. Critic Allan Kozinn described the symphony's chromaticism as more extreme, more fluid, and its themes and textures as continually changing, morphing without repetition, and praised the symphony's "unpredictable orchestration", pointing out the "beautiful flute and harp variation in the melancholy second movement". We'd studied them at Juilliard and knew their music. Glass also continued his series of operas with adaptations from literary texts such as The Juniper Tree (an opera collaboration with composer Robert Moran, 1984), Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (1987), and also worked with novelist Doris Lessing on the opera The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1985–86, and performed by the Houston Grand Opera and English National Opera in 1988). Philip Glass Signature Candy P. Jernigan (1952 – June 5, 1991) was an American multimedia artist, graphic designer, and set designer, instrumental in the avant-garde art scenes of Provincetown and New York City in the late 1970s and 1980s. [39] As with Another Look at Harmony, "Einstein added a new functional harmony that set it apart from the early conceptual works". 3 of 1995 made by Glass's musical director Michael Riesman) followed in 2009. His second marriage was to Luba Burtyk; the two were later divorced. American superstar Philip Glass (The Hours, The Truman Show), 83, recently became the latest internet celebrity death hoax victim when news about his death circulated on social networking sites. [12][13] His father owned a record store and his mother was a librarian. Cell phones may prevent Alzheimer's, the FDA approves a jet lag remedy, and a new drug boosts the female libido. [20] The final part of the triptych returned again to a more traditional setting with the "Dance Opera" Les Enfants Terribles (1996), scored for voices, three pianos and dancers, with choreography by Susan Marshall. Philip Glass does not have the coronavirus. Glass also continued to write for the orchestra with the score of Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1981–1982). John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune writer[18], Shortly after arriving in New York City in March 1967, Glass attended a performance of works by Steve Reich (including the ground-breaking minimalist piece Piano Phase), which left a deep impression on him; he simplified his style and turned to a radical "consonant vocabulary". [58] Some of the pieces also appeared in different versions such as in the theatre music to Robert Wilson's Persephone (1994, commissioned by the Relache Ensemble) or Echorus (a version of Etude No. Ira interviewed Glass a second time at a fundraiser for St. Ann's Warehouse; this interview was given away to public radio listeners as a pledge drive thank you gift in 2010. The musical scores were tacked on the wall, and the performers had to move while playing. 8 (2005),[48] and Songs and Poems for Solo Cello (2006). It premiered simultaneously at the Houston Opera in a production directed by David Freeman and designed by Peter Sellars. His opera The Lost [fr], based on a play by Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke, Die Spuren der Verirrten (2007), premiered at the Musiktheater Linz [de] in April 2013, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies and directed by David Pountney. ... what he gives them to play is very organic and idiomatic. How on earth can you reject Berio? Matthew Glass was a … 1" and "Dance No. 2 in four movements was commissioned by violinist Robert McDuffie, and subtitled "The American Four Seasons" (2009), as an homage to Vivaldi's set of concertos "Le quattro stagioni". 10 (2012), Cello Concerto No. Birthday: January 31, 1937How Old - Age: 83. He's definitely developed more skill as an orchestrator, in his ability to conceive melodies and harmonic structures for specific instrumental groups. [113] Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis One from Solo Piano (1989) was featured in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica in the episode "Valley of Darkness"[114] and also in the final episode ("return 0") of Person of Interest. Appomattox, an opera surrounding the events at the end of the American Civil War, was commissioned by the San Francisco Opera and premiered on October 5, 2007. In the same way the triptych is also a musical homage to the work of the group of French composers associated with Cocteau, Les Six (and especially to Glass's teacher Darius Milhaud), as well as to various 18th-century composers such as Gluck and Bach whose music featured as an essential part of the films by Cocteau. Arnold Weinstein, the poet, playwright and librettist who wrote works performed on and off Broadway, taught playwriting at Yale and Columbia, and collaborated with … "[132], Michael White of The Daily Telegraph described Glass' Violin Concerto No. [33] (Glass returned the compliment in 2005 with A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close for piano. "[67], Apart from this large-scale opera, Glass added a work to his catalogue of theater music in 2007, and continuing—after a gap of twenty years—to write music for the dramatic work of Samuel Beckett. 01/12/2010. As he pointed out: "I had worked for eight or nine years inventing a system, and now I'd written through it and come out the other end. In 1999, he finished a new soundtrack for the 1931 film Dracula. This work originated in one of many theater music collaborations with the director JoAnne Akalaitis, who originally asked the Gambian musician Foday Musa Suso "to do the score [for Jean Genet's "The Screens"] in collaboration with a western composer". Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937)[1] is an American composer and pianist. Musical Opinion said, "Philip Glass must be one of the most influential living composers. Waiting for the Barbarians, an opera from J. M. Coetzee's novel (with the libretto by Christopher Hampton), had its premiere performance in September 2005. [60], For the second opera, La Belle et la Bête (1994, scored for either the Philip Glass Ensemble or a more conventional chamber orchestra), Glass replaced the soundtrack (including Georges Auric's film music) of Cocteau's film, wrote "a new fully operatic score and synchronize[d] it with the film". He is considered one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century. This concert included the first work of this series with Strung Out (performed by the violinist Pixley-Rothschild) and Music in the Shape of a Square (performed by Glass and Gibson). The musical material is cut from familiar fabric, but it's striking that the composer forgoes the expected bustling conclusion and instead delves into a mood of deepening twilight and unending night. [101] Aside from composing in the Western classical tradition, his music has ties to rock, ambient music, electronic music, and world music. The symphony's first performance took place on August 9, 2012 at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence under Dennis Russell Davies. [18] In Chicago he discovered the serialism of Anton Webern and composed a twelve-tone string trio. In the same year Glass met the poet Allen Ginsberg by chance in a book store in the East Village of New York City, and they immediately "decided on the spot to do something together, reached for one of Allen's books and chose Wichita Vortex Sutra",[50] a piece for reciter and piano which in turn developed into a music theatre piece for singers and ensemble, Hydrogen Jukebox (1990). [27] These significant encounters resulted in a collaboration with Breuer for which Glass contributed music for a 1965 staging of Samuel Beckett's Comédie (Play, 1963). In January 2011, Glass performed at the MONA FOMA festival in Hobart, Tasmania. The Colbert Report S6 E6. Jon Gibson, … 1980–1986: Completing the Portrait Trilogy: 1987–1991: Operas and the turn to symphonic music, 1991–1996: Cocteau trilogy and symphonies, 1997–2004: Symphonies, opera, and concertos, 2008–present: Chamber music, concertos, and symphonies, Personal life, friends, and collaborators, Naxos Classical Music Spotlight podcast: Philip Glass Heroes Symphony, Jonathan Cott, "Conversation Philip Glass on, Joan La Barbara: "Philip Glass and Steve Reich: Two from the Steady State School" in, Glass in conversation with Chuck Close and William Bartman, in, Joanne Kesten (ed. 1970). Glass's Ninth Symphony was co-commissioned by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the American Composers Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2013 Glass contributed a piano piece "Duet" to the Park Chan-wook film Stoker which is performed diegetically in the film. As in Waiting for the Barbarians, Glass collaborated with the writer Christopher Hampton, and as with the preceding opera and Symphony No. In parallel with his early excursions in experimental theatre, Glass worked in winter 1965 and spring 1966 as a music director and composer[28] on a film score (Chappaqua, Conrad Rooks, 1966) with Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha, which added another important influence on Glass's musical thinking. Glass's compositional influence extends to musicians such as Mike Oldfield (who included parts from Glass's North Star in Platinum), and bands such as Tangerine Dream and Talking Heads. [17], He studied the flute as a child at the university-preparatory school of the Peabody Institute. This page was last edited on 21 January 2021, at 17:01. He visited artists' studios and saw their work; "the bohemian life you see in [Cocteau's] Orphée was the life I ... was attracted to, and those were the people I hung out with. So when I decided to write a violin concerto, I wanted to write one that my father would have liked. Another commission by Dennis Russell Davies was a second series for piano, the Etudes for Piano (dedicated to Davies as well as the production designer Achim Freyer); the complete first set of ten Etudes has been recorded and performed by Glass himself. Glass has nothing—though he presumably deludes himself into thinking he does: hence the preponderance of slow, reflective solo writing in the piece which assumes there's something to reflect on. In May 2015, Glass's Double Concerto for Two Pianos was premiered by Katia and Marielle Labèque, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Violin Concerto No. [40] The piece was praised by The Washington Post as "one of the seminal artworks of the century". [92] The US premiere took place on March 12, 2017 in a production by Long Beach Opera.[93]. [96][97] On September 22, 2017 his Piano Concerto No. He learned his family was also related to Al Jolson.[15]:16. In the 1990s, he also composed scores for Bent (1997) and the thriller Candyman (1992) and its sequel, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), plus a film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1996). In 1987, he co-founded the Tibet House US with Columbia University professor Robert Thurman and the actor Richard Gere at the request of the 14th Dalai Lama. In addition, this opera featured an actor reciting ancient Egyptian texts in the language of the audience. The inspiration of the first part of the trilogy, Orphée (composed in 1991, and premiered in 1993 at the American Repertory Theatre) can be conceptually and musically traced to Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Euridyce, 1762/1774),[19] which had a prominent part in Cocteau's 1949 film Orphee. In 2008, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto IV featuring Glass's "Pruit Igoe" (from Koyaanisqatsi). "Pruit Igoe" and "Prophecies" (also from Koyaanisqatsi) were used both in a trailer for Watchmen and in the film itself. Recently Passed Away Celebrities and Famous People. 1968) and Zachary (b. [19], Glass remixed the S'Express song Hey Music Lover, for the b-side of its 1989 release as a single.[52]. Steve Reich, byname of Stephen Michael Reich, (born October 3, 1936, New York, New York, U.S.), American composer who was one of the leading exponents of Minimalism, a style based on repetitions and combinations of simple motifs and harmonies.. Reich was the son of an attorney and a singer-lyricist. 3".[110][111]. [124] In June 2012, Glass was featured on the cover of issue No. Please ignore rumors and hoaxes. [119] His third wife, the artist Candy Jernigan, died of liver cancer in 1991, aged 39. He spent many hours listening to them, developing his knowledge and taste in music. He recounts installing a dishwasher and looking up from his work to see an astonished Robert Hughes, Time magazine's art critic, staring at him. Typically he would come home and have dinner, and then sit in his armchair and listen to music until almost midnight. 6 and No. We haven't heard any unfortunate news about Philip Glass having the coronavirus (COVID-19). He was 80. 2003) with his fourth wife, restaurant manager Holly Critchlow (married in 2001),[12] whom Glass later divorced. His father was a … A series of orchestral works originally composed for the concert hall commenced with the 3-movement Violin Concerto No. This turn to orchestral music was continued with a symphonic trilogy of "portraits of nature", commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: The Light (1987), The Canyon (1988), and Itaipu (1989). [19] The opera's "transparency of texture, a subtlety of instrumental color, ... a newly expressive and unfettered vocal writing"[19] was praised, and The Guardian's critic remarked "Glass has a real affinity for the French text and sets the words eloquently, underpinning them with delicately patterned instrumental textures". Philip Glass in Linz, Austria earlier this month for rehearsals of his Symphony No 11. For Glass this series demonstrated a new start, hence the title: "What I was looking for was a way of combining harmonic progression with the rhythmic structure I had been developing, to produce a new overall structure. In the 2000s Glass's work from the 1980s again became known to wider public through various media. ), The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in conversation with 27 of his subjects, A.R.T. May 27, 1971 — Jan. 24, 2020 * Bob Gulotti. 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