The Kiss of the Sphinx - Franz von Stuck
Music I like - from my vinyl collection
PHILIP GLASS - SONGS FROM THE TRILOGY
(The minimalist beauty of contemporary opera)
Philip Morris Glass - born January 31, 1937 - Baltimore
Along with Steve Reich, Terry Riley, John Adams and Michael Nyman, he is one of the minimalist composers. However, he himself prefers the term music with repetitive structures to the term minimalism.
He is the last of the “classical” representatives of the American minimalist school. Since the 1970s, he has been using elements in his compositions, such as ostinato repetition of simultaneously sounding motifs of different lengths, creating a polyrhythmic structure or the additive principle – the gradual lengthening or shortening of phrases, changing the rhythmic and melodic content.
Early period compositions include Music in Fifths, Music in Similar Motion, Music With Changing Parts, Music In Twelve Parts, Northstar, the opera Einstein on the Beach, etc. His later works include chamber music, orchestral music, vocal music, opera, stage music and film music.
Source: Czech Wikipedia














