![]() ![]() All that and the reams of music for the Philip Glass Ensemble, which he founded 49 years ago and is still going strong, as it demonstrated at the Ace on Sunday. His dozens of movies are only a small part of his prolific output, which includes music for well over 50 operas, dance works and music theater pieces 11 symphonies hoards of concertos and other orchestra and chamber pieces. For all a director’s authority, film is the most collaborative art form, and Glass is surely the most collaborative artist in history. Operas by Philip Glass 1 Einstein on the Beach (1976) 2 A Madrigal Opera (1980) 3 Satyagraha (1980) 4 The CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when. Akhnaten is the third in Glass thematically related Portrait Trilogy, along with Einstein On The Beach and Satyagraha. His success leads to ridicule by fellow poets, ending in a creatively crippling isolation. Plus, thanks to new technology that makes it easy to remove film scores from the soundtrack and that permits films to be vividly projected in concert halls, the trend of screening everything from musicals to “Star Wars” with live orchestral accompaniment has caught on big time. Based on Cocteau’s fascinating retelling of the Orpheus myth, Orphe, the first opera of Philip Glass’ Cocteau Trilogy, is an extended parable on the life of an artist, a poet harassed and misunderstood by peers. That should actually go down pretty easily in our age of DJs and free internet when everything is material for refashioning. But in another sense, what Glass has done is what theater artists and musicians do, which is to make everything at their disposal newly alive for the moment. but as the title for philip glass’ first opera written for the forces of an opera company and finally reaching los angeles on saturday night, 38 years after its premiere, in a must-see magnificent. ![]() ![]() And don’t think that that hasn’t outraged cineastes and critics who admire the original artistry of both films. In one sense, this might seem like a pushy composer simply taking over these movies, their directors no longer able to talk back.
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