Written for orchestra.
Written for orchestra. Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC, Leonard Slatkin, musical director.
Philip Glass' Piano Concerto No 2 was composed in 2004 and has a duration of approximately 34 minutes. Commissioned by the Nebraska Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, Board of Regents of the Uni...
The 'Low' Symphony, composed in the spring of 1992, is based on the record 'Low' by David Bowie and Brian Eno first released in 1977. The record consisted of a number of songs and instrumentals and us...
The Trial is an opera by renowned composer Philip Glass, featuring a libretto by Christopher Hampton. The opera is based on Franz Kafka's classic surreal tale of a man arrested by an unknown authority...
A choral work by Philip Glass from his opera Einstein On The Beach in Glass's trademark minimal style. The work is based upon overlapping repeating rhythmic motives, with 5 Knee Play pieces used to pu...
Another Look at Harmony Part 4 was written while Glass was working on Einstein on the Beach, and it is easy to hear similarities between the two works. In Harmony, the Voices use solfege and nonsense...
An opera in four acts for ensemble, chorus and soloists in full score from minimalist composer Philip Glass. It is Glass's first and longest opera, taking approximately five hours to complete, with no...
Another Look at Harmony is a project started in 1975. The approach has been to link directly rhythmic and harmonic structure. In doing so, easily audible root movement (chords or 'changes') was chosen...