Any Philip Glass fans here?
 

I am listening to Einstein on the Beach right now. He is one of my favorite living composers. Any other fans of his music here?

Who isn't? I was surprised to see that he scored the film "The Secret Window"....very well done....but "Music In Twelve Parts" is a personal favorite.

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Glass is fantastic. without a doubt one of the great and most influential composers of this century.

Yes.. love him. Einstein on the Beach is one of my favourites.

I loved the music in Kundun.

It appears that his music for Secret Window is just a bunch of other stuff that he did mixed together for the movie. I heard him talk about this. He says he just licenses his music because he can't rewrite his own music, which is what they want him to do. Either that, or he know it would be a stinker and didn't want to be really associated with it.

Music in 12 Parts is one of my favorites too. Well, pretty much everything he wrote is a favorite. The one work that I love the most, however, is his score to Koyaanisqatsi. That was the first CD that I bought of his. Loved it since I bought it.

I know very little by him, but I saw "10,000 Airplanes on the Roof", which was pretty intense, and his music seemed to match perfectly for it.

I really need to watch Koyaanisqatsi. It seems really interesting.

If you like Glass, you might also want to try Steve Reich.

I don't know enough about their music to be able to back this up, but a music teacher I had once said that Phillip Glass is to Steve Reich as Green Day is to the Ramones.

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warrrreagl:

Excellent. Nicely done.

warrrreagl - thats fantastic. thanks.

From the little I've heard of him, yes. I came to my school one year too late though....the year before I came here we did the North American Premeire of Glass's opera "The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five"

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Kundun is great too.

Also, if you guys have liked Koyaanisqatsi, try the other two, Powaqqatsi and (the other one, ending is -tsi).

And if you like that, there is a play called all in the timing which has a short section that has "Philip Glass buying a loaf of bread" and it is incredible, if done right. Sounds like a philip glass with the repeating minimalist actions. Not to mention it is hilarious if you are a PG fan.

Didn't he also compose some of the music that's in Witness?

I love Philip Glass!
He came to our campus many years ago, and I got to hear him give a talk, followed by our orchestra playing some of his compositions...amazing.
If you haven't already, check out Songs From Liquid Days, his collaboration with some amazing lyricists (Paul Simon, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, and Suzanne Vega)