How are we to make sense of composer Philip Glass’s musical minimalism? At his most accessible, his works have found their way into movies like “The Truman Show” and “The Hours.” Yet his more ...

In 1994, Philip Glass wrote six seemingly ordinary piano etudes for conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Glass also wrote them for himself. Etudes are ...

Words Without Music: A Memoir Philip Glass 432 pages ISBN: 0871404389 Liveright 2015 While composer John Cage is the first name in contemporary classical music that most people will likely know, the ...

Philip Glass’s Company turns quiet repetition into psychological drama. Written to accompany Samuel Beckett’s haunting text, ...

The latest tease from this fall's upcoming collection of remixed Philip Glass tunes comes from Beck. The 20-minute song, "NYC: 73-78," includes snippets from more than 20 Glass songs, which Beck cut ...

Portrait of American composer Philip Glass, on stage at Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands, 14th December 1987. (Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns) This column originally appeared in the May 1985 issue of ...

For the annual Tibet House concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, Philip Glass curated a range of performers, from chanting Buddhist monks dressed in saffron robes with golden Mohawk-like headdresses ...

Philip Glass is one of those composers for whom, all it takes is just a few notes to recognize his work. He is the master of minimalism, though Glass himself doesn't like the term. He prefers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joanne Shurvell writes about travel, food, culture and fashion. In early 2018 the score was obtained by Glass’s publishers, ...

In his 1980 short story “Company,” Samuel Beckett begins one paragraph with the sentences: “Another trait its repetitiousness. Repeatedly with only minor variants the same bygone.” When he wrote those ...

Glass’s Fourth String Quartet, written after the death of the artist Brian Buczak, will be performed at the New York City AIDS Memorial. By Joshua Barone Hear tracks by Mumford & Sons and Pharrell ...

The choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber will put their own spin on “Satyagraha” by Philip Glass for its Paris Opera premiere. By David Belcher Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, ...