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	Philip Glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glass is extremely prolific as a composer; he has written ensemble works, operas, symphonies, concertos, film scores and for the piano.
		Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland as the son of Jewish migrants from Lithuania.
		Glass described his Symphony No.2 as a study in polytonality and referred to the music of Honegger, Milhaud and Villa-Lobos as possible models for his symphony, but the gloomy, brooding, dissonant tone of the piece seems to be even more evocative of Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Glass (4872 words)

	Philip Glass Ensemble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		After Glass wrote his first opera, Einstein on the Beach, for the Ensemble in 1976, he began to compose for other instrumentation more frequently.
		The Philip Glass Ensemble continues to perform and record, under the musical direction of keyboardist Michael Riesman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Glass_Ensemble (167 words)

	Philip Glass - film and concert composer
		Philip Glass was born in Baltimore in 1937.
		Glass was attracted to the "Candyman" film by the director's original concept of a film based on the Clive Barker story.
		Glass wasn't pleased when the director was replaced on the project and the film became more of a traditional "blood and gore" movie.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Philip-Glass.htm (1780 words)

	BMOP :: Philip Glass
		Philip rapidly became familiar with Beethoven quartets, Schubert sonatas, Shostakovitch symphonies and other music then considered "offbeat." It was not until he was in his late teens that Glass encountered more "standard" classics.
		Glass has also collaborated with a variety of artists in a range of projects and expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film.
		Glass also has produced concertos for violin and orchestra, saxophone quartet and orchestra, two timpanists and orchestra, and harpsichord and orchestra.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=98 (826 words)

	MTV.com - Philip Glass
		Philip Glass was unquestionably among the most innovative and influential composers of the 20th century.
		Glass' admitted artistic breakthrough came while working with Ravi Shankar on transcribing Indian music; the experience inspired him to begin structuring music by rhythmic phrases instead of by notation, forcing him to reject the 12-tone idiom of purist classical composition as well as traditional elements including harmony, melody, and tempo.
		While Glass quickly staked out territory in the blooming downtown art community, his work met with great resistance from the classical establishment, and to survive he was forced to work as a plumber and, later, as a cab driver.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/glass_philip/bio.jhtml (791 words)

	Philip Glass
		At 19, Glass graduated from the University of Chicago and, determined to become a composer, moved to New York and the Julliard School.
		In Paris, Glass was hired by a filmmaker to transcribe the Indian music of Ravi Shankar in notation readable by French musicians, and in the process, discovered the techniques of Indian music.
		Glass promptly renounced his previous music and, after researching music in North Africa, India, and the Himalayas, returned to New York and began applying Eastern techniques to his own work.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Glass.shtml (547 words)

	Philip Glass - Biography
		American composer Philip Glass returns to the Sony Classical label this Fall with the release of the original soundtrack recording of Naqoyqatsi, completing a trilogy of visionary films – beginning with Koyaanisqatsi (1983) and Powaqqatsi (1988) –; on which the composer has collaborated with the American filmmaker Godfrey Reggio.
		Philip rapidly became familiar with Beethoven quartets, Schubert sonatas, Shostakovich symphonies and other music then considered “offbeat.” It was not until he was in his upper teens that Glass encountered more “standard” classics.
		Glass is currently touring Philip on Film, featuring new short films created specifically for this project as well as classics like Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, La Belle et La Bête and Dracula that Glass has invented for live performance with his ensemble.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/glass/bio.html (1001 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Philip Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the first composers to meld the sounds of the Western and Eastern classical music traditions, Philip Glass is largely responsible for creating the Minimalist movement in music.
		By his mid-20s, Glass was frustrated not only with his own compositions' lack of expressiveness, but with the entire Western musical framework.
		This live chat with Philip Glass from SonicNet covers the rerelease of the "Koyaanisqatsi" soundtrack as well as future plans, reflections on past works, and his views on computerized music.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=26 (459 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Music & Nightlife
		Philip Glass has written an awful lot of music, in many different genres, and listeners who enjoy some of his works may not respond to others.
		Glass found himself increasingly dissatisfied with the music he was writing and, indeed, with the prevailing musical milieu of the time, which was a sort of cross between the scrappy, anarchic chance music of John Cage and the densely complicated work of the dissonant modernists.
		In 1968 he put together the first Philip Glass Ensemble, an aggregate consisting of amplified keyboards, voices, saxophones and flutes (also, on occasion, trumpets and violin) that would remain his principal means of musical expression for more than a decade and is still a key element of his creative life.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/music/features/glass0823.htm (2588 words)

	Floridian: 2 Composers: Philip Glass
		Last year, Philip Glass released a five-CD boxed set of his work on movie scores, including his acclaimed collaborations with director Godfrey Reggio on his haunting Koyaanisqatsi (1983) and Powaqqatsi (1988).
		Glass won a Golden Globe for 1998's The Truman Show, an Oscar nomination for Kundun and a Cannes jury prize for Mishima.
		Philip Glass Ensemble presents Philip on Film at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Tuesday through Saturday, $15 each night, $65 for five-night Glass Pass; for more information, call the Phillips Center Box Office, toll-free 1-800-905-2787; tickets also available through Ticketmaster.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/01/27/Floridian/2_Composers__Philip_G.shtml (877 words)

	pomegranate arts - PHILIP GLASS
		Established by composer Philip Glass, the first performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble was held in May 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, City.
		Philip rapidly became familiar with Beethoven quartets, Schubert sonatas, Shostakovitch symphonies and other music then considered "offbeat." It was not until he was in his upper teens that Glass encountered more "standard" classics.
		Glass film scores include Godfrey Reggio's trilogy Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi; Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time and the upcoming release, The Fog of War; Paul Shrader's Mishima; Bernard Rose's Candyman and Bill Condon's Candyman II; and an original score for the re-release of the 1930 Dracula with Bela Lagosi.
	www.pomegranatearts.com /project-philip_glass/artists.html (4025 words)

	Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach
		Glass, became aware of Wilson's stage work during an overnight performance of the twelve-hour Life and Times of Josef Stalin, presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1973.
		Glass defines rhythmic cycles as the simultaneous repetition of two or more different rhythmic patterns, which, depending on the length of the pattern, will eventually arrive together back at the starting points, making for one complete cycle.
		It is surely not one of the most radical works of Philip Glass, but surely one of his best-known, and it is the work, that made him and Robert Wilson, who was responsible for the whole non- musical part of this "opera", famous in the whole world of arts.
	www.glasspages.org /eins93.html (3141 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Philip Glass
		Philip Glass had slipped off my radar in recent years, until, that is, a couple of years ago when I popped the five discs included in the 2002 box set Philip on Film into the CD player.
		Glass' latest score is for Undertow (Orange Mountain Music), David Gordon Green's new thriller about two generations of brothers caught up in a family vendetta.
		This is Glass at his most somber, using his ubiquitous arpeggios both to build the tension and elevate the listener to a heightened psychic plane.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/11.17.04/glass-0447.html (692 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Glasscuts: Philip Glass Remixed Soundtrack
		Philip Glass' independent record label Orange Mountain brings us the fruits of one such effort: Glasscuts - Philip Glass: Remixed, a compilation of tracks from 12 Americans (USA, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Argetina) and one Australian.
		Glass' compositional minimalism and predilection for simplicity and repetition make it an obvious source of inspiration for electronic producers and musicians; it is no surprise that Orange Mountain received unsolicited remixes of Glass' compositions.
		The notes for this CD say, "it has been said that Philip Glass is the 'Godfather of Trance'".
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=4035 (492 words)

	Philip Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the late 1970s, composer Philip Glass and cinematographer Ron Fricke set out to help Godfrey Reggio complete what was supposed to be his first and last film, Koyaanisqatsi.
		Glass won several honors for his work on the film, including a Golden Globe for Best Score back when it was first released.
		Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble will accompany a screening of Koyaanisqatsi next Friday, January 15, at 8 p.m.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/01/07/PHILIP_GLASS.html (1675 words)

	PHILIP GLASS
		Glass' hypnotic use of arpeggios beautifully complemented Reggio's slow-motion and time-lapse images of modern life in transition.
		Glass has been deemed a minimalist by numerous critics, because many of his compositions feature repetitive, slowly evolving passages that tend to transfix listeners and make them lose their sense of time.
		Glass crosses over numerous boundaries in his music without sticking to a formula, even if there is an identifiable sound or style to many of his releases.
	mixonline.com /recording/interviews/audio_philip_glass/index.html (2693 words)

	Beckett - Music: Philip Glass
		The grandchild of Lithuanian and Russian Orthodox Jewish immigrants, Philip Glass was born in Baltimore in 1937.
		Although Glass had been interested in avant-garde theater prior to his relocation in Paris, it was here that the seeds came to blossom, fertilized by such rich sources of Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Bertold Brecht.
		Both Glass and Wilson ascribed to the aesthetic that the audience must essentially "complete the work," bringing their own associations to the piece in order to discover a personal sense of meaning.
	www.themodernword.com /beckett/beckett_glass.html (2587 words)

	Philip Glass melds musical urgency to images in 'Qatsi' film triology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Philip Glass is often knocked or mocked for writing the same music over and over.
		The score that Glass wrote for Godfrey Reggio's 1983 film "Koyaanisqatsi" is a collection of the composer's trademark gestures in their purest form -- the familiar rippling arpeggios and portentous minor chords, repeated in square but shifting phrases.
		Glass' musical signature can be as much a shtick as a style, as some of his more throwaway creations demonstrate; faux Glass is not that hard to come up with if you try.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/20/DDGKGHA3TR1.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment (600 words)

	Philip Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Glass began the violin at six and became serious about music when he took up the flute at eight.
		Glass also produced a five string quartets as well as concertos for violin and orchestra, saxophone quartet and orchestra, two timpanists and orchestra, and harpsichord and orchestra.
		Glass continues to regularly tour with Philip on Film, performing live with his ensemble to a series of new short films as well as classics like Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, La Belle et La Bête, and Dracula.
	www.chesternovello.com /composer/561/main.html (905 words)

	Philip Bradbury Glass, etched and stained glass for period restoration, new work, repairs, commissions, design
		Philip Bradbury Glass, established in 1976, is proud to offer a large range of authentic styles of high quality decorative glass at affordable rates.
		Whilst, over the years, a great deal of the original glass has been lost, people now realise that there are attractive and practical alternatives to utilitarian and inappropriate obscure glass.
		Philip Bradbury Glass is run by a team of 5 experienced craftsmen with a collective experience in the glass business of over 50 years.
	www.philipbradburyglass.co.uk (304 words)

	CNN.com - Philip Glass: 'Be careful what you want' - June 4, 2001
		At 64, Glass' name is tied to popular film scores including "The Truman Show" and "Kundun"; to one of modern theater's most challenging works, "Einstein on the Beach"; and to the aural-spectacle performance pieces "Koyaanisqatsi," "Powaqqatsi" and the coming third installment in that trilogy, "Naquoyqatsi." He's one of the United States' most honored composers.
		In fact, much of Glass' music is surprisingly approachable, harmonically lush and sometimes achingly dramatic, as in his compositions for the Kronos Quartet or the sinewy strains of the "Aguas da Amazonia" music he collaborated on with the Brazilian ensemble, Uakti.
		Glass and Foday Musa Suso had traveled together on preparations for Glass frenetically urgent film "Powaqqatsi" in the mid-1980s.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/CAREER/jobenvy/06/04/glass (1502 words)

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