Philip Glass Ensemble
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From Glass, a new sense of balance...history. Shortly after "Koyaanisqatsi" came out, the orchestra gave a concert performance of Glass' score for the "Rome" Segment of "the CIVIL warS," Robert Wilson's ill-fated epic international operatic project commissioned for 1984 Olympic... In this article: Philip Glass Ensemble, Koyaanisqatsi, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Godfrey Reggio, Hollywood Bowl, The Civil WarS, and Phillip Glass |
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New York Times | November 30, 2007
Einstein on the Beach - Music - New York Times
...humming to the lobby bar. Indeed, there is no intermission. If you are bored or in need of the necessary, Mr. Glass and Mr. Wilson invite you to create your own private intermission. Take your time getting back to your seat. You probably won t...
In this article: Einstein on the Beach, Albert Einstein, Robert Wilson, Lucinda Childs, Gerard Mortier, Western music, Lipitor, and Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Times Online | August 07, 2009
Philip Glass on Classic FM and getting a Prom
Back in America in the Sixties and early Seventies, he worked as a plumber and cab driver while writing and performing music for the Philip Glass Ensemble and befriending Manhattan artists, such as Chuck Close, who painted an iconic...
In this article: Philip Glass, Nadia Boulanger, Samuel Beckett, Ravi Shankar, The Hours, Manhattan, Einstein on the Beach, Chuck Close, and Paris
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Classical Music/Opera Listings - New York Times
...for members. (Kozinn) ★ EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH (Thursday) Excerpts from this mind-bending, epoch-making 1976 musical theater piece from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson will feature Lucinda Childs and Melvin van Peebles. Michael Riesman...
In this article: Anne Midgette, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Igor Stravinsky, Harry Partch, Manhattan, and Metropolitan Opera House
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Einstein on the Beach
...functioning as the opening and closing scenes. Glass defines a "Knee Play" as an interlude between acts and as "the 'knee' referring to the joining function that humans' anatomical knees perform." While the "Knee Plays" helped to create the...
In this article: Einstein on the Beach, Albert Einstein, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Akhnaten, Satyagraha, Orchestration, and Lucinda Childs
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Pitchfork | August 22, 2008
Philip Glass Releases Retrospective Glass Box Pitchfork
...of live appearances scheduled over the next several months, including discussions, a solo piano performance, shows with Patti Smith and his Philip Glass Ensemble, and performances of his Leonard Cohen collaboration, "Book of Longing". Music...
In this article: Chuck Close, David Byrne, Einstein on the Beach, Book of Longing, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Leibovitz, and Errol Morris
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Transformed by the Tonic of 'Einstein'
...string them together to make up larger time values. � Mr. Glass�s going-nowhere-fast school of music synchronizes with the glacial going-somewhere-slowly visual art of Robert Wilson. In �Einstein,� the pace of physical movement acts in...
In this article: Albert Einstein, Einstein on the Beach, Robert Wilson, Gerard Mortier, Lipitor, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Europe
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The Philip Glass Ensemble is a musical group founded by composer Philip Glass in 1968 to serve as a performance outlet for his experimental minimalist music. The Ensemble's instrumentation became a hallmark of Glass' early minimalist style. After Glass wrote his first opera, Einstein on the Beach, for the Ensemble in 1976, he began to compose for other instrumentation more frequently.
While the Ensemble's exact instrumentation has varied over the years, it has generally consisted of amplified woodwinds, keyboard synthesizers, and solo soprano voice (singing solfege). The Philip Glass Ensemble continues to perform and record, under the musical direction of keyboardist Michael Riesman.
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