In an unprecedented move, multi-Oscar nominated American composer and pianist Philip Glass (“The Hours”) has contributed key music to Mexican documentary “Cartas a Distancia” (“Letters from a Distance ...

Philip Glass, the composer most associated with the term “minimalism,” is no stranger to film music. He’s scored nearly 50 pics, most recently “The Hours,” a favored Oscar contender. Yet Glass likened ...

New Music, it seems, faces one of the same problems that other explorative genres do — how to expand the audience without putting a serious crimp in a musician’s ability to take chances. Recent ...

American composer Philip Glass turns 80 years old on January 31. To mark the occasion, we asked several of Glass' colleagues and collaborators to pick a piece of his music and write about it. You can ...

His beginnings may have been inauspicious and much of his work divisive, but there’s no denying that the composer Philip Glass (above) is a seminal figure in the history of music. The former plumber ...

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 ...

Philip Glass was a young boy in Baltimore when all the men in the family went off to serve in World War II. "My memory of the war is the women, the sorrow of women, the anxiety of women," says the ...