Peabody Institute Alumni - Philip Glass, Richard Cassilly, Hilary Hahn, Dominick Argento, Alan Shulman, Park Bom, Michael Hedges, David Spelman (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Philip Glass, Richard Cassilly, Hilary Hahn, Dominick Argento, Alan Shulman, Park Bom, Michael Hedges, David Spelman, Virgil Fox, John Charles Thomas, Igor Zubkovsky, Michael Hersch, Martha Clarke, Awadagin Pratt, Kevin Kenner, Lillian Smith, Andre Watts, Martha Goldstein, Tommy Newsom, Richard Wayne Dirksen, James Stovall, Sanjay Mishra, Carter Brey, Carolyn Long, Joshua Fineberg, Randy Van Horne, Angelin Chang, Hugh Wolff, James Morris, Lee Byung-woo, Alicia Berneche, Ellis Larkins, Custer LaRue, Denoe Leedy, Charles A. Zimmerman, Mem Nahadr. Excerpt: Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein). Although his music is often (controversially) described as minimalist, for his later work he distances himself from this label, describing himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures." Though his early mature music shares much with what is normally called 'minimalist', he has since evolved stylistically. Currently, he describes himself as a "Classicist," pointing out that he is trained in harmony and counterpoint and studied such composers as Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Nadia Boulanger. Glass is a prolific composer: he has written works for his own musical group which he founded, the Philip Glass Ensemble (with which he still performs on keyboards), as well as operas, musical theatre works, ten symphonies, ten concertos, solo works, chamber music including string quartets and instrumental sonatas, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards. Glass counts...