I listen to Philip Glass's music every day, or try to. I guess everyone has a talisman that helps in the quest to be "centered". I become so taken up sometimes that I don't know where I am. It's very visceral. This piece has become a mainstay for me. After a couple of hours I'm ready to face an ugly world. mow the lawn, walk the dog.
@@mariomarchitti Hi Mario, I envy you. I have no musical skills at all. So, I'm out in the gallery, in the cheap seats. But, I can't ever get enough of this music. Not just this piece, but almost all of Glass' work. Except for one piece, which I feel is just too dissonant for me, the Plutonian Ode. I'm sure that real musicians would understand it. But I don't. The operas, the songs, the symphonies are "transporting" for me in a way that I'm not able to completely communicate, let alone understand. Aren't we lucky to hear this in our time here in this existence. One day , "All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain".
Great piece! Thanks to all the musicians, and the conductor. I hope you enjoyed performing it as much as I did listening, and watching, to it! Greetings from Germany :-)
There is a lot of love in this concerto. Philip Glass may have benefited from his partner Wendy Sutter, who plays the cello. This concerto is also linked to the movie score. I believe this is one of Glass major opus, for its lyricism, originality, structure and boldness. The soloist is treated as a star.
Or glass very, very full . I'm pretty partisan when on the subject of this music. I've never heard ant sounds as truly beautiful as this music. Those who participated in it must have achieved a great accomplishment.
je ne sais pas si c'est l'enregistrement ou l’orchestration mais ça ne "sonne" pas, la musique n'est pas désagréable mais le son qui en résulte est, "artisanalement" parlant , très amateur : un stage d'orchestration pour monsieur Glass?
There seem to be three basic attitudes to Glass's music. 1 - He reached his peak in the early 80s, and it's been downhill ever since. 2 - He just gets better and better. 3 - He was always a case of emperor's new clothes. I'm in the first group.
"To each his taste" as the saying goes. There are millions who enjoy the work of Mr. Glass in ALL of his periods. It has all been of one fabric, and while the various compositions may have more mellifluous or more apparently cacophonous presentations, his work is a wonder for us. Just as those who heard the work of Stravinsky or Wagner or Mozart for the first time and went away in a daze, so do today's listeners have some work sometimes to do in comprehending his work. Great music, poetry, painting, and literature are occasionally challenging. I keep listening, and hear more each time.
So Philip Glass is America's greatest composer and Jean-Michel Basquiat is America's greatest painter. I guess that makes Donald Trump America's greatest president. So let it be written!
Is it widely claimed that Phillip Glass is America's greatest composer? If you mean out of all American composers, dead or living, I doubt there are many who would agree. I mean, are you really trying to compare Glass with a composer like Aaron Copeland or the great American film composers? I find this cello concerto to be a little inconsistent; nevertheless, Glass clearly knows how to get a signature sound out of the orchestra. When he is at his best, Glass' textural juxtapositions and rhythmic changes, which create considerable drama, are able to summon forth wisps and flashes of emotion.
@@mr.wizard9785 OK. I was only kidding. Philip Glass is not America's greatest composer and I am not even sure if that award can even be given. I myself am a minimalist composer and find his music to be severely limited by his poor keyboard skills and lack of imagination . I do, however, salute him for having made a career for himself out of very little. He is certainly not in the same league as Ives, Copland, and Gershwin. And, by the way, Trump is not America's greatest president. He may, in fact, be the worst. He is handicapped by his inability to read or write and a serious attention deficit disorder.
@@stephenjablonsky1941 Who claimed Trump is the USA's greatest president? I don't agree with you that he is dumb, however. Steve Bannon isn't dumb either. The fact Trump is finally challenging the CCP and PLA is refreshing. Based on that fact alone I can forgive his crude mannerisms or 'political' indiscretions. Also, I think you can defend Western Judeo-Christian culture stretching back to Grego-Roman civilization without being a white supremacist. You, as a composer, should appreciate its value and the threat 'Woke' culture or militant multiculturalism poses to it. Students in the humanities are graduating with theses like Bach and Mozart represent dead white culture that must be erased. Personally, I couldn't live in a world without J.S. Bach's music.
@@mr.wizard9785 It was Mr. Trump himself who claimed he was America's greatest president. If his lips are moving he is usually fabricating a reality that is not based on truth. Since becoming resident of the White House he has lied over 14,000 times according to unbiased fact checkers. The man is a charlatan and that is the reason he has not released his tax returns because he has only limited wealth and owes the Russians billions in loans because no American bank would extend him credit. If only he had someone read him the Constitution before he swore to defend it he would know how many times he has violated its tenets. How does one defend a man who establishes a charitable foundation and then becomes its only recipient of benefit? The courts found that Trump University was a fraud and he had to pay a $25 million fine. There is no other president I can think of who was this deep in crime and corruption, even Tricky Dicky..
@@stephenjablonsky1941 all politicians the world over lie and utilize their elected positions to enrich themselves. As if the Clintons don't lie, steal and murder. Can't you cast aside your anger for a brief moment to save your culture and help ensure a future in which Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, etc. are still relevant? If the future gets hijacked by AOC and her ilk, the West will fall and future generations will be composing the same anthem to the CCP over and over for eternity.
@@Michael-cl9mb Pretty hypocritical of you to defend yourself with free speech if you're looking down upon with someone who is calmly disagreeing with you.
Phillip glass is truly remarkable. But watching and listening to this being played is even more incredible. Steven Schick and the Cello very moving…
This is good aside from a typical philip glass bad ending
I listen to Philip Glass's music every day, or try to. I guess everyone has a talisman that helps in the quest to be "centered". I become so taken up sometimes that I don't know where I am. It's very visceral. This piece has become a mainstay for me. After a couple of hours I'm ready to face an ugly world. mow the lawn, walk the dog.
Every day I play, listen to or think of Glass's music.
@@mariomarchitti Hi Mario, I envy you. I have no musical skills at all. So, I'm out in the gallery, in the cheap seats. But, I can't ever get enough of this music. Not just this piece, but almost all of Glass' work. Except for one piece, which I feel is just too dissonant for me, the Plutonian Ode. I'm sure that real musicians would understand it. But I don't. The operas, the songs, the symphonies are "transporting" for me in a way that I'm not able to completely communicate, let alone understand. Aren't we lucky to hear this in our time here in this existence. One day , "All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain".
Very similar.
Great piece! Thanks to all the musicians, and the conductor. I hope you enjoyed performing it as much as I did listening, and watching, to it!
Greetings from Germany :-)
A lot of people don't know that Ron Howard is in this orchestra. Bassoon left at 10:30
Made my day, Will! Good catch!
Now that was funny
Damn good eye Bro!
What?
The father, not the actor/director son.
Belíssimo!
There is a lot of love in this concerto. Philip Glass may have benefited from his partner Wendy Sutter, who plays the cello. This concerto is also linked to the movie score. I believe this is one of Glass major opus, for its lyricism, originality, structure and boldness. The soloist is treated as a star.
You can look at all his works as either Glass is half full or half empty.
Or glass very, very full . I'm pretty partisan when on the subject of this music. I've never heard ant sounds as truly beautiful as this music. Those who participated in it must have achieved a great accomplishment.
je ne sais pas si c'est l'enregistrement ou l’orchestration mais ça ne "sonne" pas, la musique n'est pas désagréable mais le son qui en résulte est, "artisanalement" parlant , très amateur : un stage d'orchestration pour monsieur Glass?
There seem to be three basic attitudes to Glass's music. 1 - He reached his peak in the early 80s, and it's been downhill ever since. 2 - He just gets better and better. 3 - He was always a case of emperor's new clothes. I'm in the first group.
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3 ish. Sometimes he nails it.. sometimes not so much
You forgot the attitude 0 for the people who are into minimalist music and consider "Einstein on the beach" as his masterpiece
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"To each his taste" as the saying goes. There are millions who enjoy the work of Mr. Glass in ALL of his periods. It has all been of one fabric, and while the various compositions may have more mellifluous or more apparently cacophonous presentations, his work is a wonder for us. Just as those who heard the work of Stravinsky or Wagner or Mozart for the first time and went away in a daze, so do today's listeners have some work sometimes to do in comprehending his work. Great music, poetry, painting, and literature are occasionally challenging. I keep listening, and hear more each time.
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There is something lacking in this performance... I believe is the quality of the performers plus a shitty mic placement, mixing...
You must have excruciatingly good ears. Maybe too good.
What ? !!!!!!! It's your own speakers. This is as close to perfect as anything gets.
No. No. No.
So Philip Glass is America's greatest composer and Jean-Michel Basquiat is America's greatest painter. I guess that makes Donald Trump America's greatest president. So let it be written!
Is it widely claimed that Phillip Glass is America's greatest composer? If you mean out of all American composers, dead or living, I doubt there are many who would agree. I mean, are you really trying to compare Glass with a composer like Aaron Copeland or the great American film composers? I find this cello concerto to be a little inconsistent; nevertheless, Glass clearly knows how to get a signature sound out of the orchestra. When he is at his best, Glass' textural juxtapositions and rhythmic changes, which create considerable drama, are able to summon forth wisps and flashes of emotion.
@@mr.wizard9785 OK. I was only kidding. Philip Glass is not America's greatest composer and I am not even sure if that award can even be given. I myself am a minimalist composer and find his music to be severely limited by his poor keyboard skills and lack of imagination . I do, however, salute him for having made a career for himself out of very little. He is certainly not in the same league as Ives, Copland, and Gershwin. And, by the way, Trump is not America's greatest president. He may, in fact, be the worst. He is handicapped by his inability to read or write and a serious attention deficit disorder.
@@stephenjablonsky1941 Who claimed Trump is the USA's greatest president? I don't agree with you that he is dumb, however. Steve Bannon isn't dumb either. The fact Trump is finally challenging the CCP and PLA is refreshing. Based on that fact alone I can forgive his crude mannerisms or 'political' indiscretions. Also, I think you can defend Western Judeo-Christian culture stretching back to Grego-Roman civilization without being a white supremacist. You, as a composer, should appreciate its value and the threat 'Woke' culture or militant multiculturalism poses to it. Students in the humanities are graduating with theses like Bach and Mozart represent dead white culture that must be erased. Personally, I couldn't live in a world without J.S. Bach's music.
@@mr.wizard9785 It was Mr. Trump himself who claimed he was America's greatest president. If his lips are moving he is usually fabricating a reality that is not based on truth. Since becoming resident of the White House he has lied over 14,000 times according to unbiased fact checkers. The man is a charlatan and that is the reason he has not released his tax returns because he has only limited wealth and owes the Russians billions in loans because no American bank would extend him credit. If only he had someone read him the Constitution before he swore to defend it he would know how many times he has violated its tenets. How does one defend a man who establishes a charitable foundation and then becomes its only recipient of benefit? The courts found that Trump University was a fraud and he had to pay a $25 million fine. There is no other president I can think of who was this deep in crime and corruption, even Tricky Dicky..
@@stephenjablonsky1941 all politicians the world over lie and utilize their elected positions to enrich themselves. As if the Clintons don't lie, steal and murder. Can't you cast aside your anger for a brief moment to save your culture and help ensure a future in which Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, etc. are still relevant? If the future gets hijacked by AOC and her ilk, the West will fall and future generations will be composing the same anthem to the CCP over and over for eternity.
Look at their faces. They are not even concentrated. Bored out of their minds from this anti-art, beaurocracy grind set to score.
@philglassfan I comment for free speech. If this is monotonous and wastefulness of artistry it needs to be acknowledged.
@@Michael-cl9mb opinions will never be acknowledge as facts
@@Michael-cl9mb Pretty hypocritical of you to defend yourself with free speech if you're looking down upon with someone who is calmly disagreeing with you.
@@peenut169 Is he not free to express his looking down upon with his speech? Although I myself shall lock down upon him as well :)
@@jehbarninoibarra8644 I cannot argue that. :)