Philip Glass
As a Guest
An Interview With Composer Philip Glass
An interview with composer Philip Glass by his cousin Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. The conversation was recorded on-stage in Chicago in 1999. Beginning next week Philip Glass is the featured composer at the Lincoln Center Festival (July 10-27) where his newest opera collaboration, White Raven premieres. Ira Glass was just named America's best radio host by Time magazine.
Ira Glass Interviews Philip Glass.
An interview with composer Philip Glass by his cousin Ira Glass, the host of "This American Life." The conversation was recorded on-stage in Chicago earlier this month.
Composer Philip Glass.
Composer Philip Glass. His latest work is a new score for the 1946 Jean Cocteau film adaptation of "La Belle et la Bête" ("Beauty and the Beast"). Glass's score includes four voices who sing a libretto, based on the screenplay. Glass has toured the live music-film event in Europe and the United States. One reviewer called it "a beautiful, superbly integrated work." (Time, Dec. 19, 1994). (The score is available on Nonesuch Records.)