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Royal Opera House
2014-10-10 13:29:29
Listen: Philip Glass - 'My aim is to be a populist'
Philip Glass - Book of Longing, Immagini di Leonard Cohen © Lelli e Masotti Composer Philip Glass spoke to BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning ahead of the premiere of his new Kafka-inspired opera The Trial . Glass is one of the world's most popular living composers, writing for film and the stage as well as having collaborated with artists as diverse as David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen, and Paul Simon over a long and distinguished career. 'My aim is to be a populist,' the composer told presenter John Humphrys . 'I looked around at my friends who are painters, film-makers and writers and they had large audiences, but not the composers. I couldn't figure that out. People didn't have their music in our consciousness, and I thought there was something absolutely wrong about that. 'My generation were the ones that rebelled so to speak. We rebelled […]
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Royal Opera House
2014-07-11 15:38:38
Michael McCarthy on Philip Glass’s The Trial: ‘an intensely musical experience’
Philip Glass - Book of Longing, Immagini di Leonard Cohen © Lelli e Masotti Philip Glass ’s new opera The Trial , which features a libretto by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton , will have its world premiere in the Linbury Studio Theatre on 10 October. It is Glass’s second ‘pocket’ opera based on the writings of Kafka. The story, described by Director Michael McCarthy as a ‘parable for any society at any time and for any individual’, follows a bank clerk who is arrested one day for reasons unknown. ‘A man wakes up expecting to find his breakfast by his bed, and instead finds two men who have come to arrest him for reasons we never discover,’ explains Christopher. ‘He spends the next year desperately trying to find out why he’s been accused… and to escape his fate.’ The opera has been created specially for Music […]
2013-11-11 22:57:46
The Rest Is Noise 11: Superpower
Last weekend it was composers in Russia and the Soviet bloc; this weekend The Rest Is Noise festival focused on composers in 1970s and 80s America – which meant overwhelmingly the minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass who were both in town to perform live with their ensembles, one on Saturday, one on Sunday night. As usual, each day was crammed with lectures, presentations, discussion panels, free concerts and film screenings and it’s the work of several hours just to decide which one to go to and which ones, therefore, to miss. Saturday 9 November 2013 10.30-11.30 Robert Spitzer: Superpower? Robert Spitzer, Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, dapper in his pressed brown trousers, blue blazer and poppy, gave a learned, even-handed overview of the main themes in US politics between 1960 and the 1980s: Nuclear war The most amazing fact of the […]
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