PHILIP GLASS

Philip Glass - ENMÉXICO, GUANAJUATO
Octubre/1993
Powaqqatsi - live! - ENMÉXICO, GUANAJUATO
Octubre/1993
Powaqqatsi - live! - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Octubre/1993
Philip Glass - ENMÉXICO, LEÓN
Agosto/1994
Estudios y otras obras para Piano Solo - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Diciembre/1999
On Film - Shorts - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Febrero/2002
On Film - Drácula - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Febrero/2002
On Film - La Belle et la Bete - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Febrero/2002
On Film - Koyaanisqatsi - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Febrero/2002
Festival Cervantino - ENMÉXICO, GUANAJUATO
Octubre/2005
Retrospectiva de treinta años - ENMÉXICO, MONTERREY
23/Marzo/2004
Nunca Más: Un Concierto por la Vida - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Enero/2006
Voailá Acoustic - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Noviembre/2009
Einstein on the beach - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Noviembre/2012
Concert + Intervention - ENMÉXICO, MÉRIDA
Noviembre/MÉXICO
The etudes - ENMÉXICO, MORELIA
Noviembre/2013
Expo Bicentenario León - ENMÉXICO, GUANAJUATO
16/Octubre/2010
Philip Glass /Orions - ENMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
18/Octubre/2010 - 19/Octubre/2010
Dracula - ENMÉXICO, MORELIA
Noviembre/2013
Obras para pianoMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
Noviembre/2015
La Bella y La BestiaMÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
30/Enero/1997 - 2/Febrero/1997
Sinfonía 7MÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
11/Mayo/2018 - 13/Mayo/2018
Philip Glass De Estreno a los 80MÉXICO, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
12/Mayo/2018

Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.

The operas – “Einstein on the Beach,” “Satyagraha,” “Akhnaten,” and “The Voyage,” among many others – play throughout the world’s leading houses, and rarely to an empty seat. Glass has written music for experimental theater and for Academy Award-winning motion pictures such as “The Hours” and Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun,” while “Koyaanisqatsi,” his initial filmic landscape with Godfrey Reggio and the Philip Glass Ensemble, may be the most radical and influential mating of sound and vision since “Fantasia.” His associations, personal and professional, with leading rock, pop and world music artists date back to the 1960s, including the beginning of his collaborative relationship with artist Robert Wilson. Indeed, Glass is the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music – simultaneously.

He was born in 1937 and grew up in Baltimore. He studied at the University of Chicago, the Juilliard School and in Aspen with Darius Milhaud. Finding himself dissatisfied with much of what then passed for modern music, he moved to Europe, where he studied with the legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger (who also taught Aaron Copland , Virgil Thomson and Quincy Jones) and worked closely with the sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar. He returned to New York in 1967 and formed the Philip Glass Ensemble – seven musicians playing keyboards and a variety of woodwinds, amplified and fed through a mixer.

The new musical style that Glass was evolving was eventually dubbed “minimalism.” Glass himself never liked the term and preferred to speak of himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures.” Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragments that wove in and out of an aural tapestry. Or, to put it another way, it immersed a listener in a sort of sonic weather that twists, turns, surrounds, develops.

There has been nothing “minimalist” about his output. In the past 25 years, Glass has composed more than twenty five operas, large and small; twelve symphonies, thirteen concertos; soundtracks to films ranging from new scores for the stylized classics of Jean Cocteau to Errol Morris’s documentary about former defense secretary Robert McNamara; nine string quartets; a growing body of work for solo piano and organ. He has collaborated with Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Yo-Yo Ma, and Doris Lessing, among many others. He presents lectures, workshops, and solo keyboard performances around the world, and continues to appear regularly with the Philip Glass Ensemble.

“If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new.” “The point was that the world of music—its language, beauty, and mystery—was already urging itself on me. “You practice and you get better. “Openings and closings, beginnings and endings. Philip Glass

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