A surprising statement about Philip Glass’ “La Belle et la Bête” (Beauty and the Beast): “When it begins and you see the film and hear the singing, you don’t know where to look, you don’t understand ...

Koyaanisqatsi, also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists ...

One of the most important, interesting and intriguing relationships in the world of film is the one shared by a director and composer. As is known, music is an important component of cinematic ...

NORTH ADAMS — The last time that Michael Riesman was at Mass MoCA he was walking backstage at the Hunter Center when he saw a familiar poster. It was from July 1999, advertising a performance by The ...

The music of Philip Glass is generally based on simple rippling lines repeated over and over, with slow metamorphoses. In the process the ideas, which are not necessarily interesting to begin with, do ...

In an unprecedented move, multi-Oscar nominated American composer and pianist Philip Glass (“The Hours”) has contributed key music to Mexican documentary “Cartas a Distancia” (“Letters from a Distance ...