Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is widely … Read Full Bio ↴Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been described as minimal music, having similar qualities to other "minimalist" composers such as La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped evolve stylistically.
Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, twelve symphonies, eleven concertos, eight string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Ida (née Gouline) and Benjamin Charles Glass. His family were Jewish emigrants from Lithuania. His father owned a record store and his mother was a librarian. In his memoir, Glass recalls that at the end of World War II his mother aided Jewish Holocaust survivors, inviting recent arrivals to America to stay at their home until they could find a job and a place to live. She developed a plan to help them learn English and develop skills so they could find work. His sister, Sheppie, would later do similar work as an active member of the International Rescue Committee.
Glass developed his appreciation of music from his father, discovering later his father's side of the family had many musicians. His cousin Cevia was a classical pianist, while others had been in vaudeville.
Glass has composed many film scores, starting with the orchestral score for Koyaanisqatsi (1982), and continuing with two biopics, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985, resulting in the String Quartet No. 3) and Kundun (1997) about the Dalai Lama, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. In 1968 he composed and conducted the score for director Harrison Engle's minimalist comedy short, Railroaded, played by the Philip Glass Ensemble. This was one of his earliest film efforts.
The year after scoring Hamburger Hill (1987), Glass began a long collaboration with the filmmaker Errol Morris with his music for Morris's celebrated documentaries, including The Thin Blue Line (1988) and A Brief History of Time (1991). He continued composing for the Qatsi trilogy with the scores for Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). In 1995 he composed the theme for Reggio's short independent film Evidence. He made a cameo appearance—briefly visible performing at the piano—in Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1998), which uses music from Powaqqatsi, Anima Mundi and Mishima, as well as three original tracks by Glass. In the 1990s, he also composed scores for Bent (1997) and the thriller Candyman (1992) and its sequel, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), plus a film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1996).
In 1999, he finished a new soundtrack for the 1931 film Dracula. The Hours (2002) earned him a second Academy Award nomination, and was followed by another Morris documentary, The Fog of War (2003). In the mid-2000s Glass provided the scores to films such as Secret Window (2004), Neverwas (2005), The Illusionist and Notes on a Scandal, garnering his third Academy Award nomination for the latter. Glass's most recent film scores include No Reservations (Glass makes a brief cameo in the film sitting at an outdoor café), Cassandra's Dream (2007), Les Regrets (2009), Mr Nice (2010), the Brazilian film Nosso Lar (2010) and Fantastic Four (2015, in collaboration with Marco Beltrami). In 2009, Glass composed original theme music for Transcendent Man, about the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil by filmmaker Barry Ptolemy.
In the 2000s Glass's work from the 1980s again became known to wider public through various media. In 2005 his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1987) was featured in the surreal French thriller, La Moustache, providing a tone intentionally incongruous to the banality of the movie's plot. Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis One from Solo Piano (1989) was featured in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica in the episode "Valley of Darkness" and also in the final episode ("return 0") of Person of Interest. In 2008, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto IV featuring Glass's "Pruit Igoe" (from Koyaanisqatsi). "Pruit Igoe" and "Prophecies" (also from Koyaanisqatsi) were used both in a trailer for Watchmen and in the film itself. Watchmen also included two other Glass pieces in the score: "Something She Has To Do" from The Hours and "Protest" from Satyagraha, act 2, scene 3. In 2013 Glass contributed a piano piece "Duet" to the Park Chan-wook film Stoker. In 2017 Glass scored the National Geographic Films documentary Jane (a documentary on the life of renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall).
Glass's music was featured in two award-winning films by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014).
For television, Glass composed the theme for Night Stalker (2005).
Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, twelve symphonies, eleven concertos, eight string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Ida (née Gouline) and Benjamin Charles Glass. His family were Jewish emigrants from Lithuania. His father owned a record store and his mother was a librarian. In his memoir, Glass recalls that at the end of World War II his mother aided Jewish Holocaust survivors, inviting recent arrivals to America to stay at their home until they could find a job and a place to live. She developed a plan to help them learn English and develop skills so they could find work. His sister, Sheppie, would later do similar work as an active member of the International Rescue Committee.
Glass developed his appreciation of music from his father, discovering later his father's side of the family had many musicians. His cousin Cevia was a classical pianist, while others had been in vaudeville.
Glass has composed many film scores, starting with the orchestral score for Koyaanisqatsi (1982), and continuing with two biopics, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985, resulting in the String Quartet No. 3) and Kundun (1997) about the Dalai Lama, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. In 1968 he composed and conducted the score for director Harrison Engle's minimalist comedy short, Railroaded, played by the Philip Glass Ensemble. This was one of his earliest film efforts.
The year after scoring Hamburger Hill (1987), Glass began a long collaboration with the filmmaker Errol Morris with his music for Morris's celebrated documentaries, including The Thin Blue Line (1988) and A Brief History of Time (1991). He continued composing for the Qatsi trilogy with the scores for Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). In 1995 he composed the theme for Reggio's short independent film Evidence. He made a cameo appearance—briefly visible performing at the piano—in Peter Weir's The Truman Show (1998), which uses music from Powaqqatsi, Anima Mundi and Mishima, as well as three original tracks by Glass. In the 1990s, he also composed scores for Bent (1997) and the thriller Candyman (1992) and its sequel, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), plus a film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1996).
In 1999, he finished a new soundtrack for the 1931 film Dracula. The Hours (2002) earned him a second Academy Award nomination, and was followed by another Morris documentary, The Fog of War (2003). In the mid-2000s Glass provided the scores to films such as Secret Window (2004), Neverwas (2005), The Illusionist and Notes on a Scandal, garnering his third Academy Award nomination for the latter. Glass's most recent film scores include No Reservations (Glass makes a brief cameo in the film sitting at an outdoor café), Cassandra's Dream (2007), Les Regrets (2009), Mr Nice (2010), the Brazilian film Nosso Lar (2010) and Fantastic Four (2015, in collaboration with Marco Beltrami). In 2009, Glass composed original theme music for Transcendent Man, about the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil by filmmaker Barry Ptolemy.
In the 2000s Glass's work from the 1980s again became known to wider public through various media. In 2005 his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1987) was featured in the surreal French thriller, La Moustache, providing a tone intentionally incongruous to the banality of the movie's plot. Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis One from Solo Piano (1989) was featured in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica in the episode "Valley of Darkness" and also in the final episode ("return 0") of Person of Interest. In 2008, Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto IV featuring Glass's "Pruit Igoe" (from Koyaanisqatsi). "Pruit Igoe" and "Prophecies" (also from Koyaanisqatsi) were used both in a trailer for Watchmen and in the film itself. Watchmen also included two other Glass pieces in the score: "Something She Has To Do" from The Hours and "Protest" from Satyagraha, act 2, scene 3. In 2013 Glass contributed a piano piece "Duet" to the Park Chan-wook film Stoker. In 2017 Glass scored the National Geographic Films documentary Jane (a documentary on the life of renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall).
Glass's music was featured in two award-winning films by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014).
For television, Glass composed the theme for Night Stalker (2005).
The Hours
Philip Glass Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'The Hours' by these artists:
Alphabeat I'm just waiting for the hands to take me till…
Baron Von Bear I walk outside to the public eye and I finnd my…
Beach House Ahh Ahh Can I wait the hours 'til you find me? Climb up…
Beach House攀 Ahh Ahh Can I wait the hours 'til you find me? Climb up…
Dekker & Johan Like birds in the wind Spiral again Reach for an answer Reme…
Duster It's the rarest of times When we can spend the night But…
Farao Give me what you've waited for Every night and day All I…
Instrumental Now is the hour When we must say goodbye. Soon you'll be…
KITCHEN 1 - Beach House Ahh Ahh Can I wait the hours 'til you find me? Climb up…
Max Cady We're on the wave And I gotta say man That all this…
Neeti Mohan & Rashid Ali रे DJ वाले भाई साहब लगा दू कोई डोपचिक डोपचिक तू…
Nits When the hours When the hours of the day Grow long like…
Ofln - Beach House Ahh Ahh Can I wait the hours 'til you find me? Climb up…
Silent and Listen นั่งมองดูรูปเราที่โต๊ะทำงาน นั่งคิดเรื่องวันวานจินตนาการถึงเ…
The Hours - Ali In The Jungle (Extended Mix) I stay awake on countless nights Look around my room in…
The Kays Lavelle sleep don't sleep wake me up against your heartbeat breathe …
There Were Wires This must be the sole reason for cold stares, so…
Threshold Everything you want from me And everything I long to be Are…
zippy-music.net Em, may I help you Like Do we got a problem You looking…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Philip Glass:
Anthem, Part 2 Music by Philip Glass For the film by Godfrey Reggio Michael…
Changing Opinion Gradually we became aware of a hum in the room an electrical…
Creation of Sentient Beings Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto stood on the…
Forgetting A man wakes up to the sound of rain From a…
Freezing If you had no name If you had no history If you…
Knee 1 Would it get some wind for the sailboat. And it…
Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi Koy…
Let the Letter Read You Why stay so long where your words are scattered And doing…
Lightning LIGHTNING Lyrics by Suzanne Vega Lightning struck a while a…
My Worst Habit My worst habit I get so tired of winter. I became…
NYC: 73-78 High high High high Low low High high Low low High low High …
The Photographer All that white hair A Gentleman's honor And a long white b…
The Poet Acts The poet acts like if there is no present, the mind…
The Secret Agent There's a man who leads a life of danger To everyone…
Train 1 This love could be some one Into love It could be some…
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Huss
Poem I wrote to this piece (hope you enjoy):
Let the fire blaze, and shine a light of freedom,
Let the fog fade, to clear a path for redemption,
Let your clothes stain, rain blood, sweat and tears of fears for the future,
You will remain standing, no matter landing,
make us proud,
make some noise,
make it loud,
Do not search for your path let the wind blow you where it may,
do not fight it, invite it,
Wear your scars as a medal of honour, and sacrifice, of all things you've lost and conquered -what do you long for?
if I stripped you of everything you had what would you run towards?
And now that you venture into the light,
Its warmth will surprise you,
But don't let it lie to you too much and it blinds you,
and in a blink of an eye everything turns dark;
and so you will fade into the unforgiving winters trying to remind yourself of summer,
Do not fight it,
invite it,
And let the wind blow you where it may.
Vincent Vermeiren
My mother used to listen to this specific track when she got chemo.. It was a sound she could relate to in some way, used it to find peace in her mind, in her situation.. I hope she found peace listening to it when we played it at her funeral. Beautiful music
Daniel Cascalheira
I m sure your Mother found her peace. ❤️
Sepehr Shafizadeh
Lots of love for your angelic mum
Juan J L de Guevara
I used to play some Philip Glass music on my old hi-fi and my mum loved it. I can't help thinking of her everytime I listen to The Hours soundtrack.
natasha price
😭😭😭........... I am so sorry to hear this....... it is peace and I find when I listen to it too. Sending you all the love and peace you need at this moment #LoveIsAllThereIs ❤️❤️❤️
Sags K
May she rest in peace Vincent.. it is such a beautiful piece!
Huss
Poem I wrote to this piece (hope you enjoy):
Let the fire blaze, and shine a light of freedom,
Let the fog fade, to clear a path for redemption,
Let your clothes stain, rain blood, sweat and tears of fears for the future,
You will remain standing, no matter landing,
make us proud,
make some noise,
make it loud,
Do not search for your path let the wind blow you where it may,
do not fight it, invite it,
Wear your scars as a medal of honour, and sacrifice, of all things you've lost and conquered -what do you long for?
if I stripped you of everything you had what would you run towards?
And now that you venture into the light,
Its warmth will surprise you,
But don't let it lie to you too much and it blinds you,
and in a blink of an eye everything turns dark;
and so you will fade into the unforgiving winters trying to remind yourself of summer,
Do not fight it,
invite it,
And let the wind blow you where it may.
Mahmel1
Most eloquent.
Huss
@Martha Cunningham thanks! I sent this poem to my highschool english teacher and she really liked it as well.
Martha Cunningham
Beautiful