Philip Glass

Tibet House Benefit

Frank Ocean, Hannibal Buress, Lee Ranaldo - All Tomorrow's Parties - 9/21 -9/23

Better than: That cousin of yours who has fantastic taste and knows he has fantastic taste coming to your house and playing you fantastic music and showing you a great time, and every so often you catch him looking at you in a condescending way and you want to enjoy yourself less but you just can't ... More >>

Tyondai Braxton On His ATP Collaboration With Philip Glass

A collaboration between 33-year old former Battles leader Tyondai Braxton and 75-year old minimalist forefather Philip Glass takes place today at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival. It hardly falls under the header of WTF. In fact, it likely would have only taken a few dozen monkeys with a few doze ... More >>

Fall Arts Guide 2012: Einstein Heads Back to the Beach

BAM hosts the return of a now classic avant-garde opera

'Einstein on the Beach'

Live: Philip Glass Shows Off His Influence At ISSUE Project Room

Philip Glass w/Nate Wooley, Antoine Silverman, and Stephin Merritt ISSUE Project Room Wednesday, June 13 Better than: The sound of one hand clapping. Philip Glass spoke briefly. It was to be expected from a minimalist so staunch that he chooses not to identify himself with the movement he helped d ... More >>

'Verboten Disasters' w/ Kate Simko+Recloose

'Philip Glass: Music with Friends'

Live: Philip Glass And Tim Fain Play The Temple Of Dendur

Philip Glass and Tim Fain Play Chamber Works The Temple Of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art Saturday, April 21 Better than: Battling tourists to enjoy what may be the most beautiful room in New York City. The Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, containing the more than two-millenniu ... More >>

Sonic Youth (5) Gets Experimental With Philip Glass (4) In SOTC's March Madness

Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. During the first sound of SOTC' March Madness, Sonic Youth drowned Arthur Russell in feedback, and The Fugs were no match f ... More >>

Live: Ki Purbo Asmoro Sheds Some Light On His Puppetry (And Pays Tribute To Barack Obama) At The Asia Society

Ki Purbo Asmoro's Wayang Kulit: Shadow-Puppet Theater of Indonesia Asia Society Friday, March 16 Better than: Goldman Sachs's sucker "muppets." The first surprise to be revealed on Friday night at the Asia Society: Modern classical Javanese shadow puppetry isn't so much about shadows anymore. Du ... More >>

SOTC March Madness: Philip Glass (4) And The Fugs (13) Have It Out Downtown

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

Q&A: Philip Glass On The Meaning Of Love

We've spent the past month publishing our conversations with East Village and Voice neighbor Philip Glass. For our last installment, we pulled a question out of our hat from our days traveling around the country in recording oral history in an Airstream trailer... I spent a year working for the NPR ... More >>

Live: Philip Glass Brings Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, And Music In 12 Parts To The Park Avenue Armory

The Park Avenue Armory on Friday night. ​This year's Park Avenue Armory Tune-In Music Festival was dedicated to honoring composer Philip Glass (who, in turn, turned over a large chunk of it to honoring Allen Ginsberg). Sound of the City attended three of the weekend's five offerings, which clo ... More >>

Clip Job: Tom Johnson's Original 1972 Voice Review Of Philip Glass's "Music in 12 Parts"

​Throughout this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we dial back to longtime Vo ... More >>

Q&A: Philip Glass On The Economics of Art And Music

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. In this segment of our interview, we disc ... More >>

Philip Glass & Patti Smith

Live: Das Racist, Rahzel, Laurie Anderson And Many Others Play Philip Glass's Tibet House Benefit At Carnegie Hall

Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel Carnegie Hall Monday, February 13 Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live. Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>

Q&A: Das Racist's Dapwell On Tibetan Independence And Playing Carnegie Hall

Every day this month, Sound of the City has been publishing pieces about Philip Glass turning 75 years old, in conjunction with the Voice's cover story on the composer. Naturally, of course, this has led to an interview with Dapwell (Ashok Kondabolu) of Das Racist, who's performing Monday night at t ... More >>

Q&A: Philip Glass On Friendship, The Film Biz And Collaborating With Woody Allen And Martin Scorsese

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Earlier this week, we published our inter ... More >>

Q&A: Philip Glass On Black Music And African-American History

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we're publishing the portion of our ... More >>

Q&A: Koyaanisqatsi Director Godfrey Reggio On Dragging Philip Glass Into Film Scoring

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we are publishing the first of seve ... More >>

Q&A: Glassbreaks Auteur dj BC On Mashing Up Philip Glass With The Beastie Boys, Kanye And The Fugees

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we're publishing our interview with ... More >>

Q&A: Kronos Quartet Founder David Harrington On Collaborating With Philip Glass

Every day this month, in conjunction with our Feb. 1 cover story "Philip Glass, An East Village Voice," Sound of the City will post excepts of interviews with Glass and his collaborators, as well as reviews of several concerts celebrating his 75th birthday. Today we're publishing our interview wit ... More >>

Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice

The world-renowned composer is still a neighborhood staple

This Week in the Voice: Philip Glass, an East Village Voice

This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher profiles Philip Glass, tracing the 75-year-old composer's career and love for New York, "Regardless of success, neither Glass's life nor his music have ever abandoned their East Village sensibilities. He worked as a cab driver and furniture mover un ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: Philip Glass Turns 75; Lana Del Rey At Long Last Debuts; Björk Takes New York To School

The cover of this week's Village Voice is occupied by the famed composer Philip Glass, who turned 75 this week and whose birthday will be celebrated with a series of events taking place throughout February; Steven Thrasher went in-depth with the man and his legacy. Elsewhere in the music section, I ... More >>

Live: How Exciting Were The Premieres Of Arvo Pärt And Philip Glass's New Works? Someone Fainted!

American Composers Orchestra Carnegie Hall Tuesday, January 31 Better than: A date with Justin Bieber for a 13-year-old girl. Last night at Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra ("the only orchestra in the world" dedicated to music by American composers) celebrated Philip Glass's 75th bi ... More >>

Happy (Happy Happy) 75th Birthday, Philip Glass

East Village resident Philip Glass, the prolific composer of film scores, symphonies, operas and ensemble music, turns 75 years old today. The Village Voice and Sound of the City will be looking at Glass over the next month, beginning with covering the premiere of his Symphony No. 9 at his Carneg ... More >>

'Philip Glass's 75th Birthday'

'Koyaanisqatsi'

TIME MACHINE

Go back to when Soho was cool

Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit

Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.​21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>

'Juilliard Annual Student Composers Recital'

The Necks

Why?+Owen Weaver+Flexible Trio

Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt ‘Dance' at Bard's Summerscape

GOTHAM GREATS

The coolest BFFs on this island or any other

Glass, Shattered

A stupefying dull portrait of a composer

Flops and Monks

Philip Glass's handpicked humanitarians keep it unstuffy

Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Downtown Sensorial Celebration

Everybody Plays

A Modest Proposal From Downtown Musicians

Departing From Recipe

Philip Glass Writes the Best of Music and the Worst of Music

They Sing of Voyages

Veteran Travelers Assail Time and Space

Machine Dreams

Kafka's Torturing Genius

Philip Glass and JoAnne Akalaitis Adapt ‘In the Penal Colony’

Classical

Composing the Perfect Season

I’ll Take Paradise

Philip Glass’s New Symphony Eases Us Into the Millennium

When 2+2 Isn’t 4

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