Philip Glass live in concert.
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Philip Glass

15
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

88
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Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Philip Glass is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 15 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Philip Glass is rated as an exceptional live performer, with many notable strengths. Philip Glass concert reviews describe live shows and performances as eccentric, stunning, minimalist, and transcendent.

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Glass: Melodies for Saxophone: No. 1 (Arr. for Tubax by Pat Posey) (October 6, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
experimental
ORIGIN
Baltimore, United States (1/31/1937)
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.
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CRITIC concert REVIEWS

Gigwise (UK)

August 16, 2017
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Just as their original collaboration, released in 1990, is a blissfully brilliant melding of two cultures, so too does its live performance offer an abundance of cross-continental delights.

Ottawa Citizen (Canada)

November 27, 2016
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Were some composers like those actors who claim they never see their own films because they can’t stand watching themselves?Philip Glass certainly didn’t appear to have any such insecurities on Saturday night.

Music-News.com (UK)

November 19, 2016
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The Barezzi Festival takes place in Parma aiming to attract top artists to play in its beautiful theatres situated in town and its province. The final night of the 2017 festival had maestro Philip Glass no less, at the majestic Teatro Regio, along with three splendid pianists, from Moscow, Anton Batagov, an I

Gaffa (Norway)

May 21, 2016
100
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Click Festival, Helsingor, Denmark

Orlando Sentinel (USA)

February 20, 2016
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His three-day residency, which included a film screening, piano recital and conversations with faculty and students, was as a pioneer of minimalist music, which composers at the university were not alone in scorning in its heyday during the 1970s.

Independent (Ireland)

May 6, 2015
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Dublin National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland

The Line Of Best Fit (UK)

May 5, 2015
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But what was remarkable about hearing all 20 of Glass’s Etudes performed together for the first time in London tonight (29th April) was quite how transcendentally involved each of the pianists seemed in their playing.

Past critic reviews published in

The Guardian (UK), The Village Voice (USA), State Magazine (Ireland), The Musical Box (USA), Exclaim (Canada)

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