Philip Glass
Philip Glass Working on Opera About Walt Disney
Philip Glass, the Academy Award-nominated classical/experimental composer who's collaborated with artists ranging from Errol Morris to David Bowie to Allen Ginsberg, will compose an opera based on the life and career of Walt Disney, the New York City Opera announced today. Based on the Peter Stephan Jungk novel Der König von Amerika, the opera—named, The Perfect American, for the English translation of Mr. Jungk's work—will be Mr. Glass' 24th, and is scheduled to open City Opera's 2012-2013 season. It will also coincide with Mr. Glass' 75th birthday.
According to a press release, "Peter Stephan Jungk's novel The Perfect American imagines the final months of Walt Disney's life as recounted by the fictional Austrian cartoonist Wilhelm Dantine, who worked for Disney in the 1940s and 50s. read more »
Nonviolence at the Met; A Boldface Crowd at Zankel Hall
at the Metropolitan Opera.
Compared to the publicity blowout that preceded the season-opening production of Lucia di Lammermoor—a wild-eyed Natalie Dessay plastered over dozens of city buses—the Metropolitan Opera’s promotion of the company’s first production of Philip Glass’ 1980 opera, Satyagraha, which opened April 11, was almost restrained.
“Could an opera make us stand up for the truth?” asked one poster. “Could an opera make us warriors for peace?” asked another. read more »
STAT OF THE DAY: Blame Philip Glass for High Rents
Composer Philip Glass in the March issue of Details:
Q: I understand that in your early days as a composer, you rented a Manhattan loft for 30 bucks.
A: It was down in the Fulton fish market. I paid $30 a month. My friends paid $25, and they thought that I had betrayed the community by allowing the rent to be pushed up that high. I was deeply apologetic for having destabilized the neighborhood.
Philip Glass Recruits Sufjan Stevens to Save Tibet
Pitchfork is reporting that Sufjan Stevens will join Philip Glass at his annual Tibet House Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall. Nawang Khechog, who makes meditation music that was used in Brad Pitt's Seven Years in Tibet, and Brazilian pop star Marisa Monte are also lined up to perform on Feb. 13 . Mr. read more »
Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Chorus of Inventive Covers
Marshall’s Intimate Cloudless; Wholesale Promotion at NYCB
Marshall's Intimate Cloudless; Wholesale Promotion at NYCB
Strong Danceable Score Propels Pure Choreography
The Eight Day Week
Philip Glass Takes Former Manager and Producer to Court Again
Philip Glass, the 64-year-old composer of the minimalist read more »
