In 1994, Philip Glass wrote six seemingly ordinary piano etudes for conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Glass also wrote them for himself. Etudes are ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances. By ...

Composer David Rakowski loves to write piano etudes. He’s created 100 of them. Etudes developed in the 19th century as short practice pieces. They help musicians focus on a technique or build strength ...

For some listeners, three hours of music by Philip Glass — at least the sound that springs to mind when they hear the words “Philip Glass” — is like one hour of regular music recycled for six hours.

The year was 2014. "I got a call from my agent saying, 'Philip Glass is looking for pianists and you're on the list,'" recalls Jenny Lin. It was a call that changed her life. In December of that year, ...

The music of Philip Glass has long been catnip to choreographers, his clean patterns serving as graph paper upon which they can inscribe their own ideas of order. Now, as part of Van Cleef & Arpels’s ...

The idea of late style in creative works has long fascinated critics. Commentators have noted that for many artists and thinkers — from Beethoven to Einstein — the most groundbreaking, innovative, and ...