Philip Glass: Classic or Dud? Search and Destroy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Io2Jta1Nc

wow, thanks. this is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DczFkofRtuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQgj2kv8QxE

Music with Changing Parts at Carnegie Hall in 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsKPL35s89I

Excellent, thanks so much!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swYXuGYFmXE

Wow, so I guess the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed a Glass symphony last night *for the first time ever*? Not a premiere, apparently literally the first time a Glass symphony has ever been performed by the CSO. Wild. He was there, too:

https://preview.redd.it/l76gc1pqgti81.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=392d3b46d2b32c975298118212bcd898d930b454

There was a nice posting on his FB page.

"While a student at the University of Chicago in the 1950’s, Philip Glass would spend Friday afternoons at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This weekend, Philip has the great joy of attending Symphony No. 11 conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkIPQUraD7c

East Village with friends, July 2022 pic.twitter.com/pB2pGSUvzY

— Philip Glass (@philipglass) July 27, 2022

So that's what happened to Mitch Pileggi of The X-Files. Unless that actually is Mitch Pileggi, in which case this joke doesn't work. I don't really care about Mitch Pileggi.

I have a Philip Glass anecdote. Many years ago I took the train to Montpellier, and in the foyer of the station was a big poster for a production of Einstein on the Beach at the local opera house. It struck me that the date was that day's date! I remember thinking "that's today's date". And the production was happening in about twenty minutes. So I went to the opera house and stood outside it. But I've never been to an opera and I have no idea of the etiquette. Can you just buy tickets at the door? I have no idea.

That is my Philip Glass anecdote. According to Google it was 16 March 2012. I remember thinking "I will never have this chance again because he must be in his seventies". Instead I walked around Montpellier and found a free exhibition of photographs by W Eugene Smith. Little tiny prints with red crop marks on them.

I remember he did a remix of a song by S'Express. Philip Glass, not W Eugene Smith. Of an S'Express song. Which made sense because I remember reading that he was an early adopter of samplers - EMU EMUlators - that he used as a compositional aid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCH2WJ_lvY

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg "in concert" version of Einstein on the Beach with Suzanne Vega doing the spoken bits.

I never noticed the similarities between "Building" and Pink Floyd's "On the Run" before.

Great, thanks for sharing, I immediately scrolled forward to see if SV says 'Kalamazooooooo', sadly not :)

My local Regal cinema is showing Akhnaten on July 26 as part of The Met's summer encore series. Maybe they all are, not certain.

https://www.metopera.org/season/summer-events/live-in-hd-summer-encores

I'm going to try to go!

nice, its showing at a theater near me thank u regal cinema