Philip Glass

40 pieces since 2010 — at 1 company, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

40 pieces
1 company
17 years

1 piece as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Philip Glass.

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Glass, Gandhi, Occupy: Action

As suggested in Part I of this piece, to experience Glass’s Satyagraha as a purely aesthetic experience is unfortunately to succumb to a romantic ideology promoting detached reflection on art which is wholly inapplicable to such a politically-charged opera. The idea that Gandhi’s action-oriented philosophy would be packaged and sold for the sake of passive […]

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