Glass Songs From The Trilogy - Album

Glass Songs From The Trilogy (Album) by Philip Glass

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Biografie van de kunstenaar Philip Glass

Philip Glass Born January 31 1937 Is An American Composer. He Is Widely Regarded As One Of The Most Influential Musicians Of The Late 20th Century. Glass's Work Has Been Described As Minimal Music Having Similar Qualities To Other "minimalist" Composers Such As La Monte Young Steve Reich And Terry Riley. Glass Describes Himself As A Composer Of "music With Repetitive Structures" Which He Has Helped Evolve Stylistically. Glass Founded The Philip Glass Ensemble With Which He Still Performs On Keyboards. He Has Written Numerous Operas And Musical Theatre Works Twelve Symphonies Eleven Concertos Eight String Quartets And Various Other Chamber Music And Film Scores. Three Of His Film Scores Have Been Nominated For Academy Awards. Glass Was Born In Baltimore Maryland The Son Of Ida Née Gouline And Benjamin Charles Glass. His Family Were Jewish Emigrants From Lithuania. His Father Owned A Record Store And His Mother Was A Librarian. In His Memoir Glass Recalls That At The End Of World War II His Mother Aided Jewish Holocaust Survivors Inviting Recent Arrivals To America To Stay At Their Home Until They Could Find A Job And A Place To Live. She Developed A Plan To Help Them Learn English And Develop Skills So They Could Find Work. His Sister Sheppie Would Later Do Similar Work As An Active Member Of The International Rescue Committee. Glass Developed His Appreciation Of Music From His Father Discovering Later His Father's Side Of The Family Had Many Musicians. His Cousin Cevia Was A Classical Pianist While Others Had Been In Vaudeville. Glass Has Composed Many Film Scores Starting With The Orchestral Score For Koyaanisqatsi 1982 And Continuing With Two Biopics Mishima A Life In Four Chapters 1985 Resulting In The String Quartet No. 3 And Kundun 1997 About The Dalai Lama For Which He Received His First Academy Award Nomination. In 1968 He Composed And Conducted The Score For Director Harrison Engle's Minimalist Comedy Short Railroaded Played By The Philip Glass Ensemble. This Was One Of His Earliest Film Efforts. The Year After Scoring Hamburger Hill 1987 Glass Began A Long Collaboration With The Filmmaker Errol Morris With His Music For Morris's Celebrated Documentaries Including The Thin Blue Line 1988 And A Brief History Of Time 1991 . He Continued Composing For The Qatsi Trilogy With The Scores For Powaqqatsi 1988 And Naqoyqatsi 2002 . In 1995 He Composed The Theme For Reggio's Short Independent Film Evidence. He Made A Cameo Appearance—briefly Visible Performing At The Piano—in Peter Weir's The Truman Show 1998 Which Uses Music From Powaqqatsi Anima Mundi And Mishima As Well As Three Original Tracks By Glass. In The 1990s He Also Composed Scores For Bent 1997 And The Thriller Candyman 1992 And Its Sequel Candyman Farewell To The Flesh 1995 Plus A Film Adaptation Of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent 1996 . In 1999 He Finished A New Soundtrack For The 1931 Film Dracula. The Hours 2002 Earned Him A Second Academy Award Nomination And Was Followed By Another Morris Documentary The Fog Of War 2003 . In The Mid-2000s Glass Provided The Scores To Films Such As Secret Window 2004 Neverwas 2005 The Illusionist And Notes On A Scandal Garnering His Third Academy Award Nomination For The Latter. Glass's Most Recent Film Scores Include No Reservations Glass Makes A Brief Cameo In The Film Sitting At An Outdoor Café Cassandra's Dream 2007 Les Regrets 2009 Mr Nice 2010 The Brazilian Film Nosso Lar 2010 And Fantastic Four 2015 In Collaboration With Marco Beltrami . In 2009 Glass Composed Original Theme Music For Transcendent Man About The Life And Ideas Of Ray Kurzweil By Filmmaker Barry Ptolemy. In The 2000s Glass's Work From The 1980s Again Became Known To Wider Public Through Various Media. In 2005 His Concerto For Violin And Orchestra 1987 Was Featured In The Surreal French Thriller La Moustache Providing A Tone Intentionally Incongruous To The Banality Of The Movie's Plot. Metamorphosis Metamorphosis One From Solo Piano 1989 Was Featured In The Reimagined Battlestar Galactica In The Episode "Valley Of Darkness" And Also In The Final Episode "return 0" Of Person Of Interest. In 2008 Rockstar Games Released Grand Theft Auto IV Featuring Glass's "Pruit Igoe" From Koyaanisqatsi . "Pruit Igoe" And "Prophecies" Also From Koyaanisqatsi Were Used Both In A Trailer For Watchmen And In The Film Itself. Watchmen Also Included Two Other Glass Pieces In The Score "Something She Has To Do" From The Hours And "Protest" From Satyagraha Act 2 Scene 3. In 2013 Glass Contributed A Piano Piece "Duet" To The Park Chan-Wook Film Stoker. In 2017 Glass Scored The National Geographic Films Documentary Jane A Documentary On The Life Of Renowned British Primatologist Jane Goodall . Glass's Music Was Featured In Two Award-Winning Films By Russian Director Andrey Zvyagintsev Elena 2011 And Leviathan 2014 . For Television Glass Composed The Theme For Night Stalker 2005 .