... as how music is used in the depiction of human identities. With focus on a range of musical portraits by composers including Peter Ablinger, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, György Ligeti, and Virgil Thomson, and through studies of director Robert Wilson’s ongoing series of video portraits...

...0 27 01 2025 This chapter focuses on Freeman’s support of American forms of minimalism. The musical figures featured here include Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Contemporary opera becomes a major theme in these salons, as does the development of minimalism as style and movement, thanks in part...

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... work, Moby-Dick, as a case study. Comments from American composers John Adams, Philip Glass, Mark Adamo, Stewart Wallace, and the late Daniel Catán also inform the chapter, which takes into consideration how composers choose stories for operas, how commissions work, and how opera...

...Chapter 2 considers the connections between musical and visual modes of representing identity through the study of musical portraits of visual artists, with special focus on Morton Feldman’s “de Kooning” and Philip Glass’s “A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close.” Considering these musical portraits...

... Julia Venice Biennale Robert Wilson Philip Glass Albert Einstein Einstein on the Beach Michael Galasso theater Tom Waits opera Winona Ryder Robert Downey Jr. The pictures that I am known for are not really my image, they’re always the photographer’s vision of me. I can look a hundred...

...Well known for his Qatsi Trilogy (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi—“qatsi” means life in the Hopi language), Reggio works with composer Philip Glass on each of his feature projects. Visitors is a meditation on people and place in the new millennium...

...This chapter examines the relationship between loose and tight audiovisual synchronization in two recent instances, both of which speak to an aesthetic of repurposing in new audiovisual expression. The case studies discuss Philip Glass's cinematic opera La Belle et la Bête...

...This chapter discusses the history of minimalism and the work of Philip Glass in music theater and opera, notably his influential Einstein on the Beach with Robert Wilson. It considers the influence of minimalism on opera, particularly in the work of John Adams. Steve Reich's multi...

... minimalist direction also came from tape experimentation. Reich's Clapping Music can be compared with Philip Glass's One Plus One; both are characterized by simple scores consisting only of tapping or clapping. Dissonance East Coast U S composers and Partch Serialism...

... Fantasia (1991), followed by the incorporation of Philip Glass’s score to the film Koyaanisqatsi in Grand Theft Auto IV. Citizen Kane film film Welles Orson Bleszinski Cliff cutscenes Dragon’s Lair The Elder Scrolls series Elfman Danny Gears of War 2...