Uncut Interview with Philip Glass - Part 1

[ajittffcure]

Interesting interview with Philip Glass. His stories are lovely.

[invictorium]

he is an absolute genius.

[octopusoranje]

how rad it would be to have glass as yer (musical) grandfather - what a cool grandpa he would be!

[K2nsl3r]

"My musical mother was Nadia Boulanger and my musical father was Ravi Shankar, and I was their musical child" .. this is a very important fact to remember for those people who try to understand Philip Glass.

[opusnumberken]

There is a tour of the Glass/Wilson production of Einstein on the Beach in the works for 2011, I hope it becomes a reality.

[eldruidacosmico]

I love Phillip Glass.. I think there should be more Glass-Shankar colaborations in the future.. I loved Passages.. now, is it me or the interviewer looks just like Martin Luther King??

[theycallmefibb]

Quite a suggestive title for a network.

[brotherkarloz]

He's the best!!

[theemceemurdah]

I love you Philip!!!! Much love and respect from Canada!!!!

[cripfripp]

i figured he must've gotten confused. thank you for correcting me. god i feel so much better now, knowing he's not lying, and or, getting so old he's forgetting things.

[cripfripp]

he's lying. the juilliard quartet recorded the schoenberg: quartets for strings album in 1978. he would have been 41.

i hope i am wrong, but i'm almost 100% sure about this.

i still love you philip.

[Diamonddavej]

The famed Schoenberg Quartets for Strings was recorded by The Juilliard String Quartet in 1951/52 and released several times, including 1978 on CBS Sony.

Glass maybe talking about Columbia ML4735 or SL188, "The complete string quartets of Arnold Schönberg, vol. I" both released in 1954.

From Google News: "Chicago Tribune - Jan 31, 1954 - On a world of disorientation might be a V subtitle for the Juilliard String Quartet's brilliant recordings of the four quartets of Arnold Schoenberg..."

[cripfripp]

thanks diamonddavej!

[augmentedant]

what the hell?! I can not understand half of what he is saying! great composer but could work on his diction :D

[DIEZAUBERFLOTEMENSCH]

my voice teacher called him "a charlatan". i pretended to agree and didn't tell him that I had been listening to Glass for years. need to start sticking up for him because i deeply love the music he makes

[kbdkbd99]

thanks for posting your story.

I find it amazing that anyone could consider Glass a charlatan.

However I'm also intrigued. Can you say why your teacher thought this. I don't dismiss other's opinions out of hand, I'm interested in what might be in someone's mind for them to reach such a conclusion.

Thanks and Good luck.

[DIEZAUBERFLOTEMENSCH]

etude no. 5

[hartnell114]

stop typing ffs

[retrocareermelted]

i love that guy

[charliejsanders]

The first song that he plays is Mad Rush

[natales]

Thank you for uploading this. Very interesting :) What's the name of the song at the begining?

Best regards!!