The long-awaited work had its premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this past weekend, bringing the 16th president to ...

Music director Roberto Kalb, who is also functioning as artistic director, says the company is putting its recent financial ...

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln,” at Tanglewood, alongside a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1994, Philip Glass wrote six seemingly ordinary piano etudes for conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies on the occasion of ...

The cello is the most human of stringed instruments. Its span encompasses both male and female ranges, from basso profundo to coloratura soprano; grasped between the knees, it is not so much possessed ...

Composer Philip Glass remains a leading figure in American classical music after a fruitful career spanning six decades. Creator of symphonies, chamber music, operas and soundtracks, Glass has ...

Philip Glass turns 83 today. In honor of the prolific composer’s achievements in music for stage and screen, here is a quiz about the minutiae of Glass’s life and work — assembled (how else?) in ...

The composer withdrew his Symphony No. 15, "Lincoln," from its scheduled premiere in Washington D.C., after Donald Trump took ...