From jalopnik.com
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The music of minimalist-art-music composer Philip Glass shows up in sort of predictable places like the Qatsi trilogy, the film The Illusionist, and a number of documentaries. Recently, the hyper modern music has shown up in some strange places. Recently, his "Metamorphosis for Piano" was the creepy backdrop to an episode of the new Battlestar Galactica rapidly spinning out of control. Another song also appeared in the trailer for Watchmen...
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"The worlds of music and science, as Mr. Glass sees it, are not that far apart. For starters, he is skeptical of science's claim to objectivity. 'Mathematicians are subject to the same kinds of enthusiasms as everybody else,' " he says....
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From artsjournal.com
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'“Kepler” is his most chromatic, complex, psychological score...“Kepler” is a wise, major opera.' (Mark Swed/LA Times) "It's fantastically self-referential. By that I mean that there are familiar gestures in the music, but by and large the piece itself is a...
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From rgable.typepad.com
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by Andrew Frisicano Mode Records has etched its name in the annals of music history, producing the avant-garde and modern classical music of influential composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis, and Harry Partch. In its twenty-fifth year,...
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From brooklynvegan.com
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