★★★★★
According to the notes, in 2001 Philip Glass wrote the music for the third film in a trilogy from director Godfrey Reggio, titled "Naqoyqatsi: Life as War." The film contained only images and music, and so the composer wished to create a score that was more symphonic and less abstract, one that the audience could connect with. It sounds ironic that Glass would go out of his way to be less abstract, but he did indeed write the score...
- www.classical.net
2014-03-12
★★★★★
In Peter Stephan Jungk's fictionalised story of Walt Disney's last months, cartoon colours and fairy-tale endings fall away to expose the grim realities faced by a man with cancer and a corporation in decline. Jungk expands on the rumour, circulated after Disney's death in 1966, that the business magnate wanted to be immortal (like Mickey Mouse)and requested he be cryogenically preserved...
- www.classical-music.com
2014-03-03
★★★★★
Track Listing: ACT I: "A Gentleman's Honor" (vocal); ACT II; "A Gentleman's Honor"
(instrumental); ACT III. Personnel: Music by Philip Glass; The Philip Glass Ensemble; Michael Riesman:
conductor; Paul Zukofsky: solo violin. Record Label: Music On Vinyl Style: Classical
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-02-22
★★★★★
Track Listing: Novus Ordo Seclorum; The Day Room; Off Planet, part1; Off Planet, part
2; Gone; The Reciprocal Gaze Personnel: Kurt Munkacsi: music and soundtrack producer; Michael Riesman:
conductor; score performed by Bruckner Orchester Linz Record Label: Orange Mountain Music Style: Classical
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-11-09
★★★★★
When you approach a remix album, you really shouldn't be on the lookout for cohesion. Philip Glass's compositions go way back to the '60s and were recorded by a variety of ensembles, so that's a lot of ground to cover. When you take the roster of remixers into account, that will throw things for an even bigger loop...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-14
★★★★★
Philip Glass and Beck in New York, 2011: 'an inspired meeting of minds'. Photograph: Anna Webber The disappearance of Beck Hansen must look, on the face of it, a typical case of the trendsetter who lost his cultural capital. Beck was the quintessential postmodern 90s pop star, who transitioned nicely into the noughties with more confessional albums such as 2002's Sea Change...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-10-22
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDPhilip GLASSIn the Penal ColonyM. RaffertyOrange Mountain Music2012 Based on Kafka's 1914 short story, Philip Glass's chamber opera explores the circumstances of a condemned man awaiting execution. The Officer (Omar Ebrahim) believes in upholding the old methods of torture and killing; the Visitor (Michael Bennett) is appalled by what he sees but unable to intervene as the inevitable occurs...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-02-13
★★★★★
The following dialogue comes from the Family Guy episode titled "Mr. Saturday Night", where Peter is applying for a job as a jousting knight at the local Renaissance Fair: Jousting Instructor, voiced by R. Lee Ermey: You love the middle ages, don't you? Peter Griffin: Sir, yes sir!! Instructor: The concept of a Geocentric universe gets you sexually excited, doesn't it? Peter: Sir, yes sir!! Instructor: You want to make 16th century mathematician Johannes Kepler your bitch, don't you...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-02-14
★★★★★
For me, Vivaldi's music has always been heavily predictable. Whether listening to "The Four Seasons" or something else he composed, the buoyant melodies all traveled at the same rate, arrived at the same place, and hop-scotched on chord progressions that could be seen from miles away. Despite my father's interest in this musical period, I felt Baroque music was the opposite of "interesting", no doubt a result of my spoiled ear that was used to surprise and spontaneity...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
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