Philip Glass

Philip Glass is a composer that was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 31, 1937. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuana, he grew up in his father’s record shop where he had an early exposure to music and boasted a pretty extensive record collection, especially of classical Western composers like Beethoven and Schubert. This obviously left an impression on him as he went to study the flute at a young age at the prep school he attended. While he attended the University of Chicago’s accelerated program at the age of 15, he composed a twelve tone string trio. In his first trip to Paris he was strongly impacted by the movies of Jean Coucteau which lead to his love for the art studio type lifestyle. In March of 1967, after he arrived in New York from his…

Mid-Term Project (Philip Glass) For my mid-term project I chose to do topic Four and that was to select an artist and give some brief history about him and incorporate his music and how it connects to our class. The famous classical composer I chose to select was Philip Morris Glass. I feel as though he is an artist that caught my eye and really wanted to talk about. Philip Glass was born January 31st, 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland. That’s one main reason he stood out to me because he comes…

From scraping by as a New York taxi driver to being an internationally-renowned composer with over 20 operas to his name, the journey of Philip Glass is an interesting one. Despite a shaky start, Glass has become one of the 20th century’s most influential composers. The influence of composers such as Ravi Shankar and Aaron Copland on Glass can be seen through his music which features complicated orchestration with repetitive structures. Philip Glass was born on January 31, 1937, in…

Philip glass is an American composer, one who could be considered the most influential music maker of the later half of the twentieth century. He was born January 31st, 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland. Philip is the son of Ida and Benjamin Charles Glass, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. Benjamin was the owner of a record store, one that sold western classical, and modern music. Philip’s first instrument was a flute, one in which he studied while attending a preparatory school. He later entered a…

He continued his education to Yale and studied for a Master of Fine Arts at the Art and Architecture School there. Yale helped change his focus to photorealism. In the late 1960’s Close’s photo realism were ingrained in New York city. In 1969 one of his most known art pieces was shown, this was his portrait of composer Philip Glass. By the time the 1970’s rolled around his artwork could be found in some of the world’s finest galleries. He was also considered one of America’s best contemporary…

“There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart.”(page 1, paragraph 1) The narrator felt these sickening feelings of fear and disgust but knew not why he felt them, he said he doesn’t know what makes him feel so “unnerved” about the house. “ What was it that so unnerved me about the contemplation of the house.” In contrast, the movie version of the story displays a man, a man who is now not unknown within the storyline. He is the main character of the movie, and he goes by the name of…

Deconstruction of Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983) by Natalie Bakeer Koyaansiqatsi is paced and sequenced in an interesting manner. The way the shots are sequenced, affect how people think and feel about the film. The pace of the shots, along with the powerful score, by Phillip Glass, determine the feelings viewers get as they watch it. Sometimes Reggio decided what to shoot only after Glass came up with the music that would end up energizing Reggio’s films. Reggio chose to shoot unscripted…

As Truman proceeds to his car to go to work in a closed form frame (6), a barking Dalmatian charges him. The composition changes at this moment depicting a point of view shot (8) of the neighbor’s Dalmatian through Truman’s eyes. The dog is close to Truman’s face, as if to signify his fear of the animal. This psychological technique allows for the audience to witness an emotion more carefully, in this case, the emotion is fear. The low camera angles exhibited the enlarged action of the dog and…

Polymodality and Dual Modality Concepts and Definitions According to Vincent Persichetti, “polymodality involves two or more different modes on the same or different tonal centers. The modal strands may be melodic or harmonic.” In the most traditional conception a melodic line in order to be considered modal, apart from being diatonic to a mode (traditional or synthetic), needs to contain no alterations. This also applies to modal harmonic content. Persichetti states that “a pure modal…

Observation Summary I enter room 105 which is a three year old room, I took a seat near the corner of the room, next I begin my observation I observe a teacher and three children playing with some small beads and strings, the teachers being to introduce the beads to the children, she engaged them in a conversation about the different color beads and the different sizes of the beads as well as the shapes of the beads, she looked over and notice one child who was stringing the beads and said,…