DVDizzy. com New and Upcoming DVD Bluray Schedule Current Month Next Month 2 Months from Now Upcoming Cover Art Search This Site Click any heading to. Fall North Carolina Festivals. Find a North Carolina fall festival to attend in 2017. Our events calendar for September, October and November 2017 has things to do. Baby Einstein is a line of multimedia products, including directtovideo programs, CDs, books, flashcards, and toys that specialize in interactive activities for. Playhouse_Disney_Website_2008.png/revision/latest' alt='Little Einstein Games Playhouse Disney' title='Little Einstein Games Playhouse Disney' />Philip Glass Wikipedia. Philip Morris Glass born January 3. American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 2. Glasss compositions have been described as minimal music, similar to other minimalist composers including La Monte Young, Steve Reich and Terry Riley. However, Glass has described himself instead as a composer of music with repetitive structures,6 which he has helped evolve stylistically. Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, eleven symphonies, eleven concertos, seven string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards. Life and workedit1. Beginnings, early education and influenceseditGlass was born in Baltimore, Maryland,91. Ida ne Gouline and Benjamin Charles Glass. His family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. His father owned a record store and his mother was a librarian. In his memoir, Glass recalls that at the end of World War II his mother aided Jewish Holocaust survivors, inviting recent arrivals to America to stay at their home until they could find a job and a place to live. She developed a plan to help them learn English and develop skills so they could find work. His sister, Sheppie, would later do similar work as an active member of the International Rescue Committee. Glass developed his appreciation of music from his father, discovering later his fathers side of the family had many musicians. His cousin Cevia was a classical pianist, while others had been in vaudeville. He learned his family was also related to Al Jolson. Glasss father often received promotional copies of new recordings at his music store. He spent many hours listening to them, developing his knowledge and taste in music. This openness to modern sounds affected Glass at an early age My father was self taught, but he ended up having a very refined and rich knowledge of classical, chamber, and contemporary music. Typically he would come home and have dinner, and then sit in his armchair and listen to music until almost midnight. I caught on to this very early, and I would go and listen with him. The elder Glass promoted both new recordings and a wide selection of composers to his customers, sometimes convincing them to try something new by allowing them to return records they didnt like. His store soon developed a reputation as Baltimores leading source of modern music. Glass built a sizable record collection from the unsold records in his fathers store, including modern classical music such as Hindemith, Bartk, Schoenberg,1. Shostakovich and Western classical music including Beethovens string quartets and Schuberts. B Piano Trio. Glass cites Schuberts work as a big influence growing up. He studied the flute as a child at the university preparatory school of the Peabody Institute. At the age of 1. 5, he entered an accelerated college program at the University of Chicago where he studied mathematics and philosophy. In Chicago he discovered the serialism of Anton Webern and composed a twelve tone string trio. In 1. 95. 4 Glass traveled to Paris, where he encountered the films of Jean Cocteau, which made a lasting impression on him. He visited artists studios and saw their work the bohemian life you see in Cocteaus Orphe was the life I. I hung out with. 2. Glass studied at the Juilliard School of Music where the keyboard was his main instrument. His composition teachers included Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma. Fellow students included Steve Reich and Peter Schickele. In 1. 95. 9, he was a winner in the BMI Foundations BMI Student Composer Awards, an international prize for young composers. In the summer of 1. Darius Milhaud at the summer school of the Aspen Music Festival and composed a violin concerto for a fellow student, Dorothy Pixley Rothschild. After leaving Juilliard in 1. Glass moved to Pittsburgh and worked as a school based composer in residence in the public school system, composing various choral, chamber and orchestral music. PariseditIn 1. 96. Glass received a Fulbright Scholarship his studies in Paris with the eminent composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, from autumn of 1. The composers I studied with Boulanger are the people I still think about mostBach and Mozart. Glass later stated in his autobiography Music by Philip Glass 1. Pierre Boulezs Domaine Musical concerts in Paris lacked any excitement for him with the notable exceptions of music by John Cage and Morton Feldman, but he was deeply impressed by new films and theatre performances. His move away from modernist composers such as Boulez and Stockhausen was nuanced, rather than outright rejection That generation wanted disciples and as we didnt join up it was taken to mean that we hated the music, which wasnt true. Wed studied them at Juilliard and knew their music. How on earth can you reject Berio Those early works of Stockhausen are still beautiful. But there was just no point in attempting to do their music better than they did and so we started somewhere else. He encountered revolutionary films of the French New Wave, such as those of Jean Luc Godard and Franois Truffaut, which upended the rules set by an older generation of artists,2. Glass made friends with American visual artists the sculptor Richard Serra and his wife Nancy Graves,2. Jo. Anne Akalaitis, Ruth Maleczech, David Warrilow, and Lee Breuer, with whom Glass later founded the experimental theatre group Mabou Mines. Together with Akalaitis they married in 1. Glass in turn attended performances by theatre groups including Jean Louis Barraults Odon theatre, The Living Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble in 1. These significant encounters resulted in a collaboration with Breuer for which Glass contributed music for a 1. Samuel Becketts Comdie Play, 1. The resulting piece written for two soprano saxophones was directly influenced by the plays open ended, repetitive and almost musical structure and was the first one of a series of four early pieces in a minimalist, yet still dissonant, idiom. After Play, Glass also acted in 1. Breuer production of Brechts Mother Courage and Her Children, featuring the theatre score by Paul Dessau. In parallel with his early excursions in experimental theatre, Glass worked in winter 1. Chappaqua, Conrad Rooks, 1. Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha, which added another important influence on Glasss musical thinking. His distinctive style arose from his work with Shankar and Rakha and their perception of rhythm in Indian music as being entirely additive. Igi 5 Full Game. He renounced all his compositions in a moderately modern style resembling Milhauds, Aaron Coplands, and Samuel Barbers, and began writing pieces based on repetitive structures of Indian music and a sense of time influenced by Samuel Beckett a piece for two actresses and chamber ensemble, a work for chamber ensemble and his first numbered string quartet No. Glass then left Paris for northern India in 1. Tibetan refugees and began to gravitate towards Buddhism. He met Tenzin Gyatso, the 1. Dalai Lama, in 1. Tibetan independence ever since. Minimalism From Strung Out to Music in 1.