Philip Glass has announced a new piano album called Philip Glass ... an organ piece composed for the Dalai Lama in 1978, ... I had time at home to practice the works I have played for many years.

Philip Glass is one of the great creative ... Premiered by Glass on the organ for the Dalai Lama’s first public address in New York City, this most celebrated of his piano works builds imposingly ...

Essential Philip Glass • "Music in Twelve Parts" (Nonesuch, 1996): The culmination of Glass' early explorations in Minimalism, written 1971-74, is a song cycle built around electric organ ...

As an orchestrator, Glass has an ear for unique combinations of sounds, like in his piece Voices written for organ and didgeridoo. His symphonic works ... the next tune. Philip Glass's thinking ...

The final time composer Philip Glass talked to his friend David ... Those songs and others became new Glass works. Due to performance limitations, he chose seven of the album’s 10 songs for ...

Another way to put it: Glass’s piano works surround you and can overwhelm your senses if you let them. Philip Glass Solo revisits many of the 87-year-old composer’s most famous pieces ...

How are we to make sense of composer Philip Glass’s musical minimalism? At his most accessible, his works have found their way into movies like “The Truman Show” and “The Hours.” ...

Captain Obvious once said, "The appeal of Philip ... Glass, as well as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich, produces music that uses limited or minimal musical materials, or as defined by ...

Chicago will be seeing and hearing a good deal of Philip Glass this year and next. In 2000, Chicago Opera Theater will join with Boston Lyric Opera to coproduce the American composer’s 1984 oper ...

Glass’ new album Philip Glass Solo is similarly contemplative. It revisits some of his most famous works for keyboard, which he recorded at home—on the same piano on which he wrote many of the ...