Tagged: Philip Glass

Flash Choir Video!
4:39 pm
Tue July 10, 2012

A Flash Choir Sings Philip Glass in Times Square

Conductor Kent Tritle leads an impromptu choir in the world premiere of Philip Glass' "A New Rule" in New York's Times Square.

Watch a "flash choir" descend upon Times Square to sing a world premiere of music by Philip Glass, commissioned by NPR Music in honor of the composer's 75th birthday. Watch and listen here.

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Classical Headlines
12:41 pm
Sun April 8, 2012

Around The Classical Internet: April 6, 2012

Credit Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
Not a new Food Network show: tenor Jay Hunter Morris, as Siegfried forging his sword, in the Metropolitan Opera's controversial Ring cycle.

Originally published on Fri April 6, 2012 5:08 pm

  • New York's Metropolitan Opera is gearing up to launch Wagner's complete Ring cycle, but just how "revolutionary" is the $16 million, 45-ton production? New York Times' Anthony Tommasini talks with Met GM Peter Gelb about the embattled Robert Le Page production, a conversation Parterre Box views as "damage control" on Gelb's part.
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