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I'd like more piano transcriptions from the soundtracks, that I think contain suitable music to be transcribed, as Riesman and Glass himself have already done. I think of The Fog of War, Roving Mars, A Brief History of Time, Jenipapo.
Musical Re-Use
Glass Notes publishes an update every week on Mondays. Since I started following Philip Glass, about 17 years ago, I have noticed that an ancillary benefit for me in listening to his music has been how my own concepts about art and its role in the world have been challenged and formed by Gla...
Sono Arrivati i Filosofi e Il Gioco del Teocono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFMnwoRyy4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvX5VrFaat4
Per i Bambini: The Witches of Venice - A children's opera-ballet
Glass Notes publishes an update every week on Mondays. In 2006 Don Christensen and I were perusing the 'Philip Glass Recording Archive,' the cornerstone on which Orange Mountain Music was built, and we came upon a 2CD/100 minute highly-produced recording of a children's opera-ballet called "Le...
I listen to Itaipu as a choral symphony. Days and Nights in Rocinha and The Canyon seem to me as a one-movement symphonies.
Whereas the Requiem or Number 5 symphony seems to me a sort of oratorio, and Hero symphony as an orchestra song cycles.
Glass Notes: No Man is An Island (Philip Glass and Collaboration)
Glass Notes publishes an update every week on Monday mornings. Starting this past spring, I started to toy with the idea of writing a book on Philip Glass. Perhaps it was in response to the excitement of his new book, Words without Music. Or perhaps it was because of what's not written in...
There are striking similiarities and differences in the professional and private life of Handel and Glass, my two favourite composers:
- They have been prolific composers, in different genres, mostly in the theater field.
- They have been successful in their time, they have been recognised as outstanding composers along their career, even though they had to work hard in a difficult environment.
- Glass was encouraged by their parents to study music, whereas Handel, in the first years, had to practice in secret.
- Both had good teachers in their formation years: Friedrich Zachow was an accomplished composer who taught Handel when he could practice music with the father permission.
- Both have had an acumen for the financial and diplomatic aspect of the music world
establishment.
- Glass has written and spoken a lot of his private life, whereas Handel in this regard has been almost in silence.
- Glass was married four times , whereas it is not known of important or stable sentimental relationship in the Handel life.
- They traveled a lot to enrich their compositional skill.
- They were quite funny and charming in the conversation.
- They have given benefit concert
- Handel was a virtuoso player at the keyboards, whereas Glass gives intensity in the
interpretation of his own music, but does not excell as a player.
- They both reused their music ideas in different context. Handel also used extensively
other music ideas, as a common practice at that time, whereas Glass has rewritten just David Bowie music.
However Glass music can be more easely associated to Bach, but in several compositions, for example in the Requiem, the penetrating arias and choruses, the powerful, rich and elegant orchestration can be associated to Handel music. Infact, in La Belle et la Bete booklet, he says: "It's from Handel that I've learned more than any other composer for the voice about how to exercize the voice"
Words Without Music Reviews (UPDATED (again))
Words Without Music is released This Week! Huffington Post BookFilter Slate Magazine "In its dissonances..Philip Glass's Memoir finds its form" Philadelphia Inquirer "Glass Singing His Own Song" Jewish Daily Forward "Glass Settles Some Old Scores" NY Times Review NPR Fresh Air Long Intervie...
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