定音鼓協奏曲:
Concerto Fantasia for 2 timbales : An Intriguing Minimal Concerto which does not sound minimal or repetitive at all !
Phillip Glass ( 1937--)
Philip Morris Glass[1][2][3] is an American composer. He is one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century.[4][5][6] His music is also often controversially described as minimalist, along with the work of the other "major minimalists" La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich.[7]
He has distanced himself from the "minimalist" label, describing himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures
Glass was born and educated in Maryland, USA, and in1964 went to Paris for Fulbright Scholarship, he then left Paris for northern India in 1966, where he came in contact with Tibetan refugees and began to gravitate towards Buddhism. He met Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in 1972, and has been a strong supporter of the Tibetan independence ever since.
2008 to 2010 Glass continued to work on a series of chamber music pieces which started with "Songs and Poems": the Four Movements for Two Pianos (2008, premiered by Dennis Davies and Maki Namekawa in July 2008), a Sonata for Violin and Piano composed in "the Brahms tradition" (completed in 2008, premiered by violinist Maria Bachman and pianist Jon Klibonoff in February 2009); a String sextet (an adaption of the Symphony No.3 of 1995 made by Glass's musical director Michael Riesman) followed in 2009. Pendulum (2010, a one-movement piece for violin and piano), a second Suite of cello pieces for Wendy Sutter (2011), and Partita for solo violin for violinist Tim Fain (2010, first performance of the complete work 2011), are recent entries in the series.[74]
In 2009 and 2010, Glass returned to the concerto genre. Violin Concerto No. 2 in four movements was commissioned by violinist Robert McDuffie, and subtitled "The American Four Seasons" (2009), as an homage to Vivaldi's set of concertos "Le quattro stagioni". It premiered in December 2009 by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and was subsequently performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2010.[76]
Films about Philip Glass
- 1983–Philip Glass. From Four American Composers. Directed by Peter Greenaway.
- 1985–A Composer's Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera. Directed by Michael Blackwood.
- 1986–Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera. Directed by Mark Obenhaus.
- 2005–Looking Glass. Directed by Éric Darmon.
- 2007–glass: a portrait of Philip in twelve parts. Directed by Scott Hicks.
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