Philip Glass

The fifth string quartet by the innovative Philip Glass was originally commissioned by David and Evelyne Lennette for the Kronos Quartet and was first performed on February 15 1992.

From Einstein On The Beach-Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 3 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 3 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text. American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.' Glass' operas among them therenowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip GlassEnsemble.This eight minute piece is the third Knee Play from Einstein On The Beach and is scored for unaccompanied SATB chorus.

Internationally renowned minimalist Philip Glass composed this Piano concerto in the traditional three-movement form. The first movement titled ‘The Vision’ is classic Glass with a steamroller quality that suggests the immensedrive and ambition the two explorers needed to draw on for their journey into the wilderness. At the beginning of the second movement the theme in the solo Indian Flute musically represents the name ‘Sacajawea’ the ShoshoneIndian mother and guide who assisted the explorers on their way for whom the movement is named.The final movement entitled ‘The Land’ is an exploration of expansiveness both of the land that was being explored but also of thegeologically expanded time over which the landscape has evolved and the great changes that followed Lewis and Clark’s journey.This concerto is designated as part of The Concerto Project recording series started by Glass in theyear 2000 currently in four volumes and including eight concerti.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as aminimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small andlarge ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

Composer Philip Glass returned to composition for chamber ensemble after several years of work for films ballet opera and solo instruments. Four Movements For Two Pianos was commissioned by hislong-time advocate the conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies and pianist Maki Namakawa and after the success of this piece at the Ruhr Piano Festival the pair decided to continue performing as a duo. The piece can belocated more at the classical end of Glass’ compositional spectrum retaining all the propulsive rhythms arpeggiation and repetitiveness that are the hallmarks of the composer’s work. American composerPhilip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music withrepetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his ownperforming group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

'Another Look at Harmony' is a project started in 1975. The approach has been to link directly rhythmic and harmonic structure. In doing so easily audible root movement (chords or 'changes') was chosen in order that the clarityof their relationship could easily be heard. Here as in earlier periods of Western music melodic material is for the most part a function or result of the harmony. However it is clear that some of the priorities of Westernmusic (harmony/melody first then rhythm) have been reversed.

Spoleto Fanfare. Written for the Spoleto Festival in 2006, Philip Glass' work for carillon was premiered by Joey Brink on the carillon of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, Philip Glass?s alma mater.

Philip Glass' There Are Some Men for unaccompanied SATB choir with words by Leonard Cohen. Duration: approx. 3 minutes.

Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 5 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 5 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.' Glass' operas among them therenowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip GlassEnsemble.This four minute piece is the fifth Knee Play from Einstein On The Beach and is scored for SA chorus Violin and Organ.

Philip Glass's String Quartet No.4 was composed as part of the Memorial concert for the artist Brian Buczak. Commissioned by Geoffrey Hendricks it received its first performance on 4 July 1989 at the Emily Harvey Gallery NewYork City.