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Music Review: Various Artists - The Essential Philip Glass
Essential is in the mind of the beholder, or in the case of The Essential Philip Glass, Sony's three-disc release in celebration of the 75th birthday of the distinguished composer, in the ear of the listener. If by essential you mean a representative sel 2/14/12 from Seattle Post Intelligencer Read more »
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Virginia Opera captures spirit of Philip Glass' 'Orphee'
Philip Glass secured his notable place in the history of 20th century opera with such epic works as "Einstein on the Beach" and "Satyagraha." But the composer's stage works of more modest dimension would have been enough to earn him stature. "Orphee," fr from Baltimore Sun Blogs Read more »
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Links: Two Orpheuses heard in DC region
“Orphee” at the Virginia Opera demonstrated, above all, just what a fine composer Philip Glass is, and was a bold step for a company that hasn’t done anything like this in the past: I reviewed Friday night’s performance . Tom Huizenga reviewed another Or from The Washington Post Read more »
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Virginia Opera presents Philip Glass’s ‘Orphee’ at George Mason University
Prolific composers, during their lifetimes, are thought to be unserious. It happened to Mozart; it’s happened to Philip Glass. And in Glass’s case, as in Mozart’s, posterity will probably override contemporary opinion. It’s true that there are some emine from The Washington Post Read more »
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Philip Glass: In the Penal Colony – review
Based on Kafka's 1914 short story, Philip Glass's chamber opera explores the circumstances of a condemned man awaiting execution. The Officer (Omar Ebrahim) believes in upholding the old methods of torture and killing; the Visitor (Michael Bennett) is ap from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
