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 ...

In 1994, Philip Glass wrote six seemingly ordinary piano etudes for conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Glass also wrote them for himself. Etudes are ...

The latest tease from this fall's upcoming collection of remixed Philip Glass tunes comes from Beck. The 20-minute song, "NYC: 73-78," includes snippets from more than 20 Glass songs, which Beck cut ...

Portrait of American composer Philip Glass, on stage at Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands, 14th December 1987. (Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns) This column originally appeared in the May 1985 issue of ...

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson during rehearsals of “Einstein on the Beach” in Avignon, France, 1976 (photo courtesy Philippe Gras, all images courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum) Of all the ...

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 ...

Philip Glass turns 83 today. In honor of the prolific composer’s achievements in music for stage and screen, here is a quiz about the minutiae of Glass’s life and work — assembled (how else?) in ...

The new piece has been commissioned by Canada's National Arts Centre. Peter Jennings, the ABC News journalist whose voice was known to millions, will be honored by a new work from composer Philip ...

Nearly a century and a half after its conclusion and long after anyone who witnessed it is gone, the Civil War remains the defining event of American history. It's the wound that refuses to heal, the ...

The cello is the most human of stringed instruments. Its span encompasses both male and female ranges, from basso profundo to coloratura soprano; grasped between the knees, it is not so much possessed ...

In his 1980 short story “Company,” Samuel Beckett begins one paragraph with the sentences: “Another trait its repetitiousness. Repeatedly with only minor variants the same bygone.” When he wrote those ...

The choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber will put their own spin on “Satyagraha” by Philip Glass for its Paris Opera premiere. By David Belcher Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, ...