NEW YORK — Philip Glass is hard to pin down. Not that he has airs; on the contrary, he’s one of the most straightforward composers you’re likely to meet. “I’m a very bad celebrity,” he says. “I’m not ...

Philip Glass performs "Book of Longing" in Milan, 2008. There have been 78 world premieres at Carnegie Hall to date, beginning with Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, the "New World Symphony," which premiered ...

Words Without Music: A Memoir Philip Glass 432 pages ISBN: 0871404389 Liveright 2015 While composer John Cage is the first name in contemporary classical music that most people will likely know, the ...

The final time composer Philip Glass talked to his friend David Bowie they discussed “Lodger,” the concluding album of Bowie’s self-described “Berlin Trilogy,” a series of collaborations with Brian ...

Let’s start with a sweeping but fairly sturdy proposition: No composer has left a more pervasive or distinctive stylistic imprint on Western classical music in the last half a century than Philip ...

This Friday, December 8, world-renowned composer Philip Glass begins his season-long Carnegie Hall residency as holder of the 2017-2018 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair with a concert by the ...

Clockwise from left: Philip Glass and Third Coast Percussion members Peter Martin, David Skidmore, Sean Connors, and Robert Dillon Credit: Rebekka Federle Philip Glass arrives in town this Friday to ...

Eminent composers through the centuries have taken to the concert stage or the opera pit to perform their own music. Who wouldn't jump at the opportunity to hear Mozart play his piano concertos or ...

In 1972, The Philip Glass Ensemble gave a concert in St. Louis and it was not a hit with a local critic. The newspaper ran a review with a headline summing it up this way: “Glass invents new sonic ...

Philip Glass, the most famous and among the most-performed of living composers, turned 80 in January, and the year is being feted with “Glass@80” celebrations all over the world. And yet, Glass ...

As one of the most influential composers in the world, Philip Glass has produced 27 operas, 11 symphonies and scored more than 50 films. Although Glass has secured his place as a legendary force in ...