Like the familiar, undulating chords of his compositions, Philip Glass is in a state of perpetual motion. At 81, the world’s most famous taxi driver-turned-composer is busy traveling, composing, ...
Productions of Philip Glass’ opera “Satyagraha,” a meditation on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi and his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, always seem to arrive right on time. When “Satyagraha” had ...
It happens so quickly that you are left wondering if it ever happened at all. During a frenzied onslaught of music dominated by a manic piano line, 11 massive puppets seemingly float onstage above the ...
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Philip Glass is one of those artists who make you work for the satisfaction that is ultimately to be found in his music. His 1980 opera Satyagraha is no exception. Although it is based on Mahatma ...
The upcoming weekly lineup in the Metropolitan Opera's Nightly Met Streams series includes filmed presentations of two Philip Glass operas, neither of which are usually cataloged in the New York City ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Glass' style is rebellious in nature, a kind of prog-rock or punk rock answer to ...
Following the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary American composer and musician Philip Glass soon turned to another great figure of the 20th century for ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook “Satyagraha,” one of the Metropolitan Opera’s greatest stagings of the 21st century, has been released on DVD and CD. By Seth Colter ...
Listening to Philip Glass’s music is like stroking a cat: intensely soothing, unless you happen to be allergic. The purring repetitions, the warm, silken surface, the incantatory gestures, the ...