Composer's Notes : Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
Author | : Philip Glass |
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Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Philip Glass |
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Release | : 1986 |
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Philip Glass provides an intimate look at the inspiration, development, and production of his third opera, *Akhnaten*. Two productions of the opera premiere almost simultaneously, at the Stuttgart Opera and the Houston Grand Opera. Their dramatically different interpretations of *Akhnaten* make for a fascinating contrast in American and European theatrical values. Filmed at rehearsals and performances in Germany and the United States. In Egypt, where he visits remaining evidences of Akhnaten, in Armana where he had moved his palace from Luxor to pursue his monotheistic worship. And in India, a country whose music influenced Glass in his formative years when he collaborated with Ravi Shankar. The film also looks back at two earlier Glass music-theater works: Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha. Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival**
Author | : Philip Glass |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-03-21 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780306806360 |
Author | : Philip Glass |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1631490818 |
New York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Award Finalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing "Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet in Words Without Music, his critically acclaimed memoir, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in Baltimore to his student days in Chicago and at Juilliard, to his first journey to Paris and a life-changing trip to India, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his creative consciousness. Whether describing working as an unlicensed plumber in gritty 1970s New York or composing Satyagraha, Glass breaks across genres and re-creates, here in words, the thrill that results from artistic creation. Words Without Music ultimately affirms the power of music to change the world.
Author | : Robert F. Waters |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2022-08-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 110704975X |
Glass's stage works have attracted wide popular acclaim. This book assesses critical approaches to them and explores Glass's creative philosophy.
Author | : Phil G. Goulding |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 1999-08-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0449005666 |
In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's centerpiece is what Goulding terms "the collection"--85 classics, among them Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, and Madama Butterfly, that have been packing the world's opera houses for years. This entertaining, meticulously researched book also includes a fascinating chapter on American opera from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach and a discussion of the gems of twentieth-century opera featuring works like Leos Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen, Alban Berg's Lulu, and Serge Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges. Whether you're a curious neophyte, a music lover interested in branching out, or an aficionado eager to compare notes with a brilliant fellow opera buff, you'll prize Ticket to the Opera as an essential volume in your music library.
Author | : John Richardson |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1999-03-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780819563422 |
Illuminates the aesthetics of a major American composer.
Author | : Thomas Robert May |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781574671322 |
This collection of 59 essays--comprising the first full-length book in English on the music of American composer John Adams--contains mostly reprints by critics and musicologists. Also compiled are new interviews with Adams, his colleagues, collaborators, and performers of his music; program and liner notes on his works from 1978 to 2005; and secti
Author | : Keith Potter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2002-04-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521015011 |
Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.
Author | : Philip Glass |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith Publishers |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Drama |
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