Philip Glass
| Philip Glass is a jewish mind controlled composer of Lithuanian descent, used in the program Modernism (minimalism) in classical music. His mother worked with survivors of the Holocaust. He is related to Al Jolson (the Jazz Singer of Warner Bros Pictures). He was trained at the Peabody Institute of Music, University of Chicago and Julliard School of Music with Steve Reich. He was influenced by Anton Webern (student of Arnold Schoenberg). |  |
In Paris he was trained by Nadia Boulanger, who also trained Burt Bacharach, Igor Markevitch and jesuit Quincy Jones. She was a member of Sigma Alpha Iota (Gloria Estafan, Dolly Parton, Sheryl Crow) and worked with Igor Stravinsky and the Julliard School.
In 1966 he traveled to India to study Buddhism and to meet the Dalai Lama.
He is a friend of Bruce Nauman, Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close. He was promoted by Brian Eno and David Bowie. He collaborated with Mick Jagger, Ravi Shankar (Woodstock), Woody Allen and Allen Ginsberg.
In 1971 he formed the Philip Glass Ensemble.
In 1976 he premiered Einstein on the Beach (Albert Einstein) at the Festival d'Avignon, with a libretto by Robert Wilson. Wilson collaborated with William Burroughs, Willem Dafoe, Lady Gaga and Tom Waits.
He wrote music for an adaptation of a play of Samuel Beckett.
He founded the Tibet House US with Robert Thurman of Columbia University, father of Uma Thurman.
In 1980 he premiered the opera Satyagraha (funded by Rockefeller Foundation), based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1982 Glass composed the music of Godfrey Reggio's movie Koyaanisqatsi, produced by American Zoetrope of George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. The same year Sony released his album Glassworks. Reggio worked witth the WWF (the Green Church).
In 1984 his opera Akhenaten premiered, based on the life of pharao Akhenaten.
In 1985 he wrote the music of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters of Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver). He also made music for poems of Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon and David Byrne.
In 1996 he composed music to Les Enfants Terribles of Jean Cocteau.
In 1997 he wrote the music of Disney movie Kundun of Martin Scorcese.
In 1998 he wrote the music for Paramount Pictures movie The Truman Show with Jim Carrey, Laura Linney and Ed Harris.
He wrote the music for The Hours with Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Ed Harris and Julianne Moore, Notes on a Scandal with Cate Blanchett and for Tales of the Loop with Rebecca Hall.
In 2011 he wrote The Perfect American about the life of Walt Disney.
Scott Hicks and Peter Greenaway made documentaries about Glass.
born 1/31/1937, date Franz Schubert.