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Philip Glass

Opera Feature: Should We Be Updating Operas So They Address Present-Day Issues?

Philip Glass’s librettist Arthur Yorinks offers his thoughts on whether and how to update an opera as the Boston Lyric Opera releases its revamped and filmed version of The Fall of the House of Usher.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: Arthur Yorinks, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Philip Glass, Ralph P. Locke, The Fall of the House of Usher

Opera Preview: Boston Lyric Opera Revamps Philip Glass’s “Fall of the House of Usher” for Today

How do you make filmed opera relevant in the Age of COVID? The BLO isolated the performers from one another and made E.A. Poe’s story the dream of an immigrant child in detention on the US/Mexico border.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Opera, Preview Tagged: Boston-Lyric-Opera, Fall of the House of Usher, Philip Glass

Classical CD Reviews: Philip Glass, “Music in Eight Parts,” Thomas Adès, “In Seven Days,” and Anna Clyne, “Dance”

Music in Eight Parts is a welcome and inviting addition to the Philip Glass canon; the Summer of Thomas Adès continues with a stirring new recording of the British composer’s keyboard work; Anna Clyne’s Dance is, without a doubt, one of the finest pieces I’ve heard this year.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Anna Clyne, Avie, Inbal Segev, Kirill Gerstein, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin-Alsop, Music in 8 Parts, Myrios, Orange Mountain Music, Philip Glass, Thomas Ades

Concert Review: Koyaanisqatsi Live! — Apocalypse Then … and Now

modern world out of control is more perceptive and chilling than ever.

By: Erik Nikander Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review Tagged: Erik Nikander, Global Arts Live, Godfrey Reggio, Koyaanisqatsi Live!, Philip Glass

CD Reviews: Philip Glass Piano Works and Dessay’s Pictures of America

There have been lots of recordings of Philip Glass to hit the market recently. One of the highlights is Víkingur Ólafsson’s Piano Works.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Deutsche Grammophon, Natalie Dessay, Philip Glass, Piano Works, Pictures of America, Sony Classical, Víkingur Ólafsson

Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s “Glass Works”

It was a treat to experience Philip Glass’s orchestral music live and in-person.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil-Rose, Glass Works, Philip Glass

Classical Concert Review — A Far Cry’s “All-American” Finale

One takeaway from the concert: music can be forward-looking and even provocative without being off-putting and ugly.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, All-American program, Anthony Marwood, Derek Bermel, Leonard Bernstein, Mark O’Connor, Philip Glass

Classical Music Sampler: June 2012

Far from being a down month, June marks the start of New England’s summer classical music season.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: A Far Cry, Boston Pops, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Musica-Viva, Bruce Brubaker, Calder Quartet, Chorus pro Musica, Hilary Hahn, ICA, John Bruce Yeh, John Cage, John Williams, Katherine Jacobson Fleischer, Leon Fleischer, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mohawk Trail Concerts, Philip Glass, Rockport Chamber Music Series, Silfra, Silk Road Ensemble, Tanglewood, Volker Bertelmann, Yo-Yo Ma

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