Phillip - I am not sure if you will ever see this, but thank you so much for all the work you have done over your lifetime. You music is unique, beautiful, maddening and devastating. It has been with me in some of the deepest moments of my life and has given me hope and humbled me. Thank you and I hope you had a fantastic 87th birthday.
There are millions who will say the same. For myself, a day without his music is a very, very plain day. And a day with it is filled with light. I've never heard such truly transporting sound. And I'll continue to listen every day.
87 years young and still going strong. Glassworks is such an important and moving piece of music for me. For years, when I was younger, I had terrible insomnia and the only thing that would help me sleep was to listen to Opening or Closing. Something about the rhythms - almost like the sea washing on the shore. Just beautiful. I saw Akhnaten live in London - just amazing. Thanks for producing such wonderful and moving music.
@@Gryphonbrazil Glass is polarizing; some people love his work and some hate it. If you love it, I think you're more likely to find it soothing or relaxing; if you hate it, you're going to find it jarring. Also note, the original studio recording of Glassworks has a more steady tempo and is less punctuated, so it's less attention-grabbing than this recording.
@@leif1075 sorry I don't understand what you're trying to say. I just think its cool to be alive at the same time as Philip Glass. Just like it would have been cool to be around when Mozart or Bach were actively composing/performing.
I once saw Philip Glass several years ago at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. He was talking about his approach to composition, and one of the most important things that he said that I still remember to this day was this: "Collaboration is the locomotive for change."
@@masoiaXL it was really incredible. I had seen the movie before and loved it, but seeing it live with the maestro and his orchestra was a whole new level.
Saw a live performance of Philip glass’ Cocteau trilogy this evening and I too was taken out to sea on the waves by a passage within one of the pieces. Magic stuff.
@@philipgiger9940 Why then? It's an absurdly hyperbolic statement to make! I don't find his music unpleasant but nor do I find it inspired or noteworthy.
I am an Italian composition student, so I apologize for my English. I started studying mainly thanks to your music. Years ago I started listening to your music and from there my way of seeing many things started to change. From that moment I told myself one thing: music has great power and I want this power to be able to give to others what people like you have given to me. One day we won't all be here anymore. But some of us will continue to live in the goals and ideals of the people we have influenced. When I write music I can only be inspired by you. I live on the other side of the world, but I would gladly fly on a plane just to have a chat with you and I really hope that happens. But if it doesn't, I hope that at least you read this message and can be proud of your work. Happy Birthday Maestro, a simple composition student.
Philip Glass is the Greatest Composer in history of Music. Apex of His Music is: 1. 5th string quartet 2. 2,3,5,7,8,9,11,12 symphonies 3. Partita for violin solo And many others
Philip Glass has grown on me hugely over the years. When I first encountered his music around the age of 16, 17, I was so deeply into classical composers like Mozart, Bach and Brahms that I felt like Glass’s music just did not have nearly the sophistication, complexity and impressiveness of what I thought of as the greatest classical music. Many years later I understand his place in the music world better. His music absolutely has soul, feeling and depth. It also absolutely has a kind of refined perfectionism. The repetitiveness is a basis for a variety of very subtle kinds of “development” that are going on in the composition. I can draw parallels between this work and some works by Satie and Chopin, personally.
Arvo Part, too! I started thinking of Part as I began watching this! // Friend, You should see my synesthesia edit of Spiegel Im Spiegel. // Your, _Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
My dad would play your “Low” symphony on CD in his office on repeat for years. I’m not joking: years. It was like the background noise to his environment, along with the computer fans and A/C systems. Morning, “Low”. Evening, “Low”. Even though it’s not my favorite of your pieces, I still have his CD to remember him by.
Philip Glass' Metamorphosis album has been playing in the background while I did countless essays and assignments since my high school days until my undergraduate days, and continues to do so while I do work at home. I will never stop listening to Philip Glass!
Thanks to Google, I can now pin the start of my love for the music of Philip Glass down to a specific date, January 18th 1987, when an edition of the UK TV programme "The South Bank Show" dedicated to his music aired and I heard his compositions for the first time. My life changed for the better that day. Happy birthday.
I was lucky to have seen him and his ensemble perform Glassworks when i was an undergrad. It was one of the most profound musical experiences i ever had, one of those i heard god shows. His compositions have fired my brain for four decades since.
I heard this masterpiece more than 30 years ago, when I first watched "Breathless ", starring Richard Gere. And I never forgot it since them. One of the best and the most touching piece Mr Glass has ever composed.
Dear Philip, when I was young (around 1978) I heard Einstein on the beach.... on Dutch radio. My first introduction to your music. I stood up and started to dance, could not stop. And at that time I didn't like dancing at all. You know, being an akward teenager. But suddenly I was filled with such joy and power. Sir, thank you for this incredible precious moment.
It is incredible how such simple, repetitive and minimalist music can evoke so many memories, reflections, landscapes... it can only be the work of a talented composer.
@@Rachab7 I tried to study music theory as a child, but I never managed to understand the musical notation: I was bored by music conceived as an exact technique with written times and precisions. My thing was always to listen to music as something emotional, even if I never got to play an instrument myself...
Thank you Philip Glass for writing this masterpiece! This has been one of my favorites over the years and has helped me a lot in tough times. Over time, this motivated me to start playing the piano, and now I play it for myself and my family almost every day.
On the upper West side of New York City, this man toiled in obscurity. And, through hard work and nimbus, he climbed the Mount of Olympus. Happy Birthday, Philip Glass!
I once worked in a building on Broadway in NoHo and one day Phillip Glass got into the elevator going up. I think no one recognized him except me (I think my tastes were more sophisticated than my contemporaries back then) but I didn’t say a word. He had a huge sheaf of sheet music, I may have noticed the word “Vampire” on one of them. He got off his floor, some studio, Sunshine? Sunrise? I don’t remember so well now but that might be because this was back in the 90s. Someone who’s work I admired as a kid growing up in the 80s in the UK and then a decade later I’m running into him thousands of miles away in NYC. It made my day 😏
I have a dear friend from childhood, whose voice I love, and every time I hear Philip Glass bring some music to the world, I hear his voice and I get the same feeling - the ongoing feeling of friendship in sound.
It's like the waves of the sea, just in open sea or on the beach: everyone is similar, but all are different... you cannot predict exactly the next, but you can be sure of the predictable continuity of the whole.... like our lifetimes...; random individually, predetermined in the mainline. Thanks for it, Master! 💚
There are few people that I think of who truly make the world a better place because of the work they do. Philip Glass is one of them. His piano solos can smooth over the roughest of days. Thank you, happy birthday and I hope you have many more.
I can have the works of Philip Glass on all day long and often even at night when I'm sleeping. Since 2021, when I truly discovered the composer. They never get bored.
I have been remixing a naive form of this song + the main theme from Koyaanisqatsi on Guitar for my own amusement. I am amazed at how well this musical concept meshes with jazz, bluegrass and blues. The variable tempo between measures is next level skills. (I cannot even get close to that without what is basically a flowstate of focus. And even then, I can only hold that for a few minutes at best. Phillip Glass can do that for 7+ minutes apparently, and what seems like effortlessly) This dude is a master of music, in my opinion. As a conductor,, as a composer, as pianist and as a synthesizer nerd.
I am delighted to have purchased the new Album Solo , Philip Glass plays his early compositions with his own phrasing and flluidity , blissful . thank you 🙏💓 Happy Continuation !
I really would like to hear Philip's rehearsal and creation tapes, if such exist. In the same way that I don't think I'm alone in saying that I very much enjoy a lot of John Lennon's rehearsal tapes, apart from a few goofy duds: the roots of many of his A grade work is revealed and the sheer dedication to the work is impressive. I can't imagine Philip's music regimen to be anything less enthusiastic and fully fledged. We learn so much from following along with a major composer, without worrying about end-product polishing and so forth, about how much work is needed to bring something up from out of the bottomless depths of the grey ocean of noise into something memorable. Like this piece - it's so very evocative without being maudlin - it's got regrets, but seemingly no greater than anyone else. And that deceptively simple progression of ideas within it. Concealed complexity can make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. In the pop world we had people listening to Tubular Bells when it came out, and saying, "o yes, that's easy, all he's doing is . . . " Right . . ! Get back to me when you've done anything remotely interesting or as beautiful as 'Opening' and much, much more of Philip's work.
I hope you will see this comment someday. You are my favourite composer. I love all the soundtracks you composed and these piano pieces which are so deep, fascinating, mesmerizing. They lead you to think over your life. I can see deep in my soul when I listen to you. And, your music creates landscapes and evoke memories and reflections. Thank YOU for all the music you composed over your lifetime. I'm grateful for living a part of my life with you. Always with me. You'll be never forgotten, Phil. ❤
Been listening to this dude for decades already, since i saw Koyaanisqatsi first time, i was 15 years old or something. Following to him since then. My greatest respect
I love the idea that this musical genius (who I got to ask questions of in a Sydney performance) is so natural and down to earth) that he would be comfortable being called a dude! He’s a dude and a genius. And affable and modest. I love him as much as Wagner or Rach
Wonderful heartful & timelesI Music" was 15 at the time...and this wonderful piece of Music was the beginning of intensive music istening for me...it opened my heart and my ears... Thank you so much Mr. Glass 🧡💛💙❤💜🤎🧡
I'll admit when people ask me to think of music in my head, I don't think of a snazzy rock beat with a funky bass riff, screaming guitars and athletic vocals, I think of this.
We will always wonder where all this beauty came from, and feel blessed that we were here with it. My days are never complete until I hear something, anything, of his music. I have no musical education. My appreciation is totally visceral. But the musicians who perform Mr. Glass' works certainly have one up on me. Their hearts must be full.
I hear you! // This may sound crazy but it seems the music wants to be in E-flat, but it never resolves. Even the very end it remains open. // But the crazy part is that I see E-flat as an golden yellow. And shape of a sort of tall trapezoid. I believe Eb is the key if mysticism. It’s mystical. Also, it’s pre-consciousness. A sort of stirring or waking-up to consciousness. // Therefore my analysis is that he doesn’t want to remain in the dream. Floating around the edges. A meditation in the golden twilight. // Thanks for your comment! Hope you will visit me at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
He can really make that Steinway D sing! I first came across Philip's music when I picked up Songs from Liquid Days in 1986 and I've enjoyed it since. There's real genius in his compositions, I'm grateful to have "discovered" him and will continue to enjoy his amazing variety of music.
Always love Glass, brings me home and true tranquility and to all the world, too bad the rest do not listen and get the beautiful message of love and compassion.
There's something just so ineffable and deeply moving about hearing a composer play their own work. From the Rachmaninoff "Piano Rolls" to Philip Glass. This is simply one of those moments... the mind's ear and the heart's mind open. *literally tears of quantum joy* Thank you so very much, Maestro. --- a fan since 1980. 🙏
Perfect comment. I also love the Mahler recording of him on a piano player (not played piano which can’t reproduce the dynamic range. Worth finding a copy. Utterly beautiful work.
PG has been my hero since I was in high school. I'm approaching 60 now. The journey he has taken me on has been simply amazing. I've made it to ninety PG concerts of all types since 1987, all over the country. I've experienced "Music in 12 Parts" live four times, and each time felt like 45 minutes when the entire concert lasted at least five hours. He is a super cool and wonderful man. His staff has been so nice to me as well. He used to have a recording studio on Broadway in NYC called Looking Glass Studios. Besides recording PG music there, other musicians would record there as well, such as Bowie's "Heathen" album. It was so cool visiting it several times. PG's music takes me places that I don't get to with any other composer. And it often is so joyous, such as the "Australia" and "Brazil" sections of "Orion", and the last piece on the "Songs from Liquid Days" album, "Forgetting".
Dear Sir, thank you for this and for all the wonderful music over the years. I had the privilege of meeting you once at thet Met Museum after one of your performances. It was you and two other pianists playing three concert grands on stage. That was rad! Thanks again. Wish you all the best
Thank you soooo very much Maestro Glass!!! It is just a joy to Listen to your wonderful play and your gorgeous Music 🙏🙏🙏, that peace is old how I am 1981 😊 May joy and health and happiness always for you to be there!!! All the beloved best to you!!!🙏🙏🙏🍀🍀🍀🌷⚘️🎼🎶 Kind regards from 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Black Forest Region to the US 🇺🇸 Yours, Josha Blatzheim
Mange smukke hyldest hilsner og personlige berøringer med Philip Glass og hans musik læser jeg herunder - lige så rørende, som at høre hans Opening spillet af ham selv; fuld af længsel og håb hører jeg den!!!!!!!!! (tårer)
I saw Philip Glass playing 6 of the Etudes at The Chan Centre in Vancouver some 20 years ago (when he had not yet completed the Etudes) and it was an incredible evening. These are glorious pieces.
We are so priviledged to watch this played by the composer of such wonderful music.You are so fortunate to still have all your faculties and the use of your fingers.Long may it continue.Happy birthday maestro.
watching the movie "breathless" in 1983 with Richard Gere and hearing this as the soundtrack, especially the getting ready for dinner scene...so beautiful. Perfect for that scene with Valerie Kaprisky...
I have followed your work for as long as I can remember. I wouldn't want to leave this life without being able to give you a hug. You have served as my greatest inspiration. Thank you.
Thank you Philip Glass, I feel good with your magical music , I forget all... you enchant me like Bach... thank you to make me fly... thank you from Italy
Thank You! Dear Mr. Glass! I saw you perform in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1986 ish? Songs from Liquid Days introduced me to your music. I ecstatically loved it!! I had never heard anything like it before...or since...it touched me in a way I can't describe! Bravissimo!!!! You are the absolute best!!! Happy Birthday!!! Thank you, thank you , thank you !!!
Warmest imaginable greetings to you Mr Glass, you have enriched my life immeasurably, the piano which your music inspired me to buy has opened up another dimension for me, I simply cannot thank you enough, life is so, so, so very good!
Phillip - I am not sure if you will ever see this, but thank you so much for all the work you have done over your lifetime. You music is unique, beautiful, maddening and devastating. It has been with me in some of the deepest moments of my life and has given me hope and humbled me. Thank you and I hope you had a fantastic 87th birthday.
There are millions who will say the same. For myself, a day without his music is a very, very plain day. And a day with it is filled with light. I've never heard such truly transporting sound. And I'll continue to listen every day.
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@@PavelDGromnic i agree with you so much
Hey do u know about ABA structure? If u do can u tell me where the B section starts in this?
87 years young and still going strong. Glassworks is such an important and moving piece of music for me. For years, when I was younger, I had terrible insomnia and the only thing that would help me sleep was to listen to Opening or Closing. Something about the rhythms - almost like the sea washing on the shore. Just beautiful. I saw Akhnaten live in London - just amazing. Thanks for producing such wonderful and moving music.
So you are telling that his song makes you sleep? Lol
Love the analogy with the sea washing on the shore, very revealing.
So you're saying, his music puts you to sleep.
My sentiments exactly.
@@Gryphonbrazil Glass is polarizing; some people love his work and some hate it. If you love it, I think you're more likely to find it soothing or relaxing; if you hate it, you're going to find it jarring.
Also note, the original studio recording of Glassworks has a more steady tempo and is less punctuated, so it's less attention-grabbing than this recording.
@@davehorne7207 Are you just here to show us how clever you are?
What an honor it is to share a timeline with one of the world's best composers and musicians of all time.
Why do you say that? Why isn't it aj honor to share with meir yourself? I'm a composer too.
@@leif1075 sorry I don't understand what you're trying to say. I just think its cool to be alive at the same time as Philip Glass. Just like it would have been cool to be around when Mozart or Bach were actively composing/performing.
I have this thought regularly!
@@tr7938I wouldn’t go that far but he’s pretty cool
I'm glad to be alive with Trump.
There is certain kindness in this music.
But also a sweet and poignant melancholy. Glass manages to touch the strings of the soul
I’ve been listening to this piece for forty-two years and it never gets old. Thank you Philip Glass.
Este som é mágico, or this Magic sound.
it should have been like this for us, but ...
Happy Birthday. Forever greatful for your music.
The sound of infinity.
Thank you Philip Glass.
I once saw Philip Glass several years ago at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. He was talking about his approach to composition, and one of the most important things that he said that I still remember to this day was this: "Collaboration is the locomotive for change."
I had the pleasure of seeing Philip Glass and his orchestra perform live to the film Koyaanisqatsi years ago, and it was unforgettable!
I can only imagine what an experience that must've been! I saw the movie not too long ago and it was very touched by it
@@masoiaXL it was really incredible. I had seen the movie before and loved it, but seeing it live with the maestro and his orchestra was a whole new level.
Jealous!!!
That sounds wonderful!! Gotta say I'm kinda jealous!!! 😁
Same! 😄 Muziekgebouw Frits Philips Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Like a seagull in the winds over the waves, I close my eyes and fly, thank You 🙏
Saw a live performance of Philip glass’ Cocteau trilogy this evening and I too was taken out to sea on the waves by a passage within one of the pieces. Magic stuff.
My favorite musician of all time! Happy Birthday, Philip!!!
same - and my favourite of his works ❤
@@popmonkey Nice!
Gosh, you're easily pleased!
@@finlybenyunes8385 lol, no! It was not because of this beautiful piece that I chose him as the greatest of all... ;)
@@philipgiger9940 Why then? It's an absurdly hyperbolic statement to make! I don't find his music unpleasant but nor do I find it inspired or noteworthy.
Happy birthday, maestro, and 87 more years for you. And us.
♥
I am an Italian composition student, so I apologize for my English. I started studying mainly thanks to your music. Years ago I started listening to your music and from there my way of seeing many things started to change. From that moment I told myself one thing: music has great power and I want this power to be able to give to others what people like you have given to me. One day we won't all be here anymore. But some of us will continue to live in the goals and ideals of the people we have influenced. When I write music I can only be inspired by you. I live on the other side of the world, but I would gladly fly on a plane just to have a chat with you and I really hope that happens. But if it doesn't, I hope that at least you read this message and can be proud of your work.
Happy Birthday Maestro, a simple composition student.
Your English is just fine, and it's a lovely message.
Don't worry about your english at all, it's better than mine!
Thank you for existing. ♥️
Philip Glass is the Greatest Composer in history of Music.
Apex of His Music is:
1. 5th string quartet
2. 2,3,5,7,8,9,11,12 symphonies
3. Partita for violin solo
And many others
Happy birthday mr Glass. Your music is mesmerizing. It gets under your skin.
Philip Glass has grown on me hugely over the years. When I first encountered his music around the age of 16, 17, I was so deeply into classical composers like Mozart, Bach and Brahms that I felt like Glass’s music just did not have nearly the sophistication, complexity and impressiveness of what I thought of as the greatest classical music. Many years later I understand his place in the music world better. His music absolutely has soul, feeling and depth. It also absolutely has a kind of refined perfectionism. The repetitiveness is a basis for a variety of very subtle kinds of “development” that are going on in the composition. I can draw parallels between this work and some works by Satie and Chopin, personally.
Arvo Part, too! I started thinking of Part as I began watching this! // Friend, You should see my synesthesia edit of Spiegel Im Spiegel. // Your, _Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
My dad would play your “Low” symphony on CD in his office on repeat for years. I’m not joking: years. It was like the background noise to his environment, along with the computer fans and A/C systems. Morning, “Low”. Evening, “Low”. Even though it’s not my favorite of your pieces, I still have his CD to remember him by.
Philip Glass' Metamorphosis album has been playing in the background while I did countless essays and assignments since my high school days until my undergraduate days, and continues to do so while I do work at home. I will never stop listening to Philip Glass!
You are definitely right because this is not music but a noise like PC fans.
@@cheapa-n-quickawindowclean8774 It's music that helps me stay inspired to reach my goals, I do not consider it to be "noise like PC fans".
I can’t explain how good this music makes me feel.
I forgot how soothing Phillip Glass music can be. Such bad news in the world. This helped. Thank you.
There's an undeniable magic in Glass' music and playing!
Thank you for your music Philip Glass
I share my birthday with Mr. Glass and will celebrate our birthdays with a listen of his gorgeous solo album today.
Me, too
Thanks to Google, I can now pin the start of my love for the music of Philip Glass down to a specific date, January 18th 1987, when an edition of the UK TV programme "The South Bank Show" dedicated to his music aired and I heard his compositions for the first time. My life changed for the better that day. Happy birthday.
I was lucky to have seen him and his ensemble perform Glassworks when i was an undergrad. It was one of the most profound musical experiences i ever had, one of those i heard god shows. His compositions have fired my brain for four decades since.
I heard this masterpiece more than 30 years ago, when I first watched "Breathless ", starring Richard Gere.
And I never forgot it since them.
One of the best and the most touching piece Mr Glass has ever composed.
Me too ;)
Dear Philip, when I was young (around 1978) I heard Einstein on the beach.... on Dutch radio. My first introduction to your music. I stood up and started to dance, could not stop. And at that time I didn't like dancing at all. You know, being an akward teenager. But suddenly I was filled with such joy and power. Sir, thank you for this incredible precious moment.
It is incredible how such simple, repetitive and minimalist music can evoke so many memories, reflections, landscapes... it can only be the work of a talented composer.
Hey do u know about ABA structure? If u do can u tell me where the B section starts in this?
@@Rachab7 I tried to study music theory as a child, but I never managed to understand the musical notation: I was bored by music conceived as an exact technique with written times and precisions. My thing was always to listen to music as something emotional, even if I never got to play an instrument myself...
Thank you Philip Glass for writing this masterpiece! This has been one of my favorites over the years and has helped me a lot in tough times. Over time, this motivated me to start playing the piano, and now I play it for myself and my family almost every day.
On the upper West side of New York City, this man toiled in obscurity.
And, through hard work and nimbus, he climbed the Mount of Olympus.
Happy Birthday, Philip Glass!
I once worked in a building on Broadway in NoHo and one day Phillip Glass got into the elevator going up. I think no one recognized him except me (I think my tastes were more sophisticated than my contemporaries back then) but I didn’t say a word. He had a huge sheaf of sheet music, I may have noticed the word “Vampire” on one of them. He got off his floor, some studio, Sunshine? Sunrise? I don’t remember so well now but that might be because this was back in the 90s. Someone who’s work I admired as a kid growing up in the 80s in the UK and then a decade later I’m running into him thousands of miles away in NYC. It made my day 😏
Cool story
Maybe you saw his scores for the 1931 Dracula movie :)
@@d3nt391 The timeline lines up: I was working in that building in NoHo at the end of the 90s and the Quartets were released in 98 or 99.
I have a dear friend from childhood, whose voice I love, and every time I hear Philip Glass bring some music to the world, I hear his voice and I get the same feeling - the ongoing feeling of friendship in sound.
Happy Birthday Papa
It's like the waves of the sea, just in open sea or on the beach: everyone is similar, but all are different... you cannot predict exactly the next, but you can be sure of the predictable continuity of the whole.... like our lifetimes...; random individually, predetermined in the mainline.
Thanks for it, Master!
💚
There are few people that I think of who truly make the world a better place because of the work they do. Philip Glass is one of them. His piano solos can smooth over the roughest of days. Thank you, happy birthday and I hope you have many more.
Happy Birthday, dear Mr. Glass! Thank you for all what you've shared.
Since seeing the film 'Koyaanisqatsi' I have Loved Your Music. Your 'Voice' is like no other. Thank-You! so much!.
So beautiful, I’m weeping, I hear the rain, I hear my heart
I can have the works of Philip Glass on all day long and often even at night when I'm sleeping. Since 2021, when I truly discovered the composer. They never get bored.
I have been remixing a naive form of this song + the main theme from Koyaanisqatsi on Guitar for my own amusement. I am amazed at how well this musical concept meshes with jazz, bluegrass and blues.
The variable tempo between measures is next level skills. (I cannot even get close to that without what is basically a flowstate of focus. And even then, I can only hold that for a few minutes at best. Phillip Glass can do that for 7+ minutes apparently, and what seems like effortlessly)
This dude is a master of music, in my opinion. As a conductor,, as a composer, as pianist and as a synthesizer nerd.
Today I did about a half hour of beautiful Tai Chi movements to Opening. It was marvelous pleasure.
Joyeux Anniversaire Maître Glass
Thank you, Maestro
Happy Belated Birthday Maestro. Thank you for the music you have created.
If one thing is going to keep me sane in my later years, it is music, and especially music like this. Thanks for sharing!
I am delighted to have purchased the new Album Solo , Philip Glass plays his early compositions with his own phrasing and flluidity , blissful . thank you 🙏💓 Happy Continuation !
So much music emanating from just a small area of the keyboard. A true minimalist master!
Thank you so much Mister Glass.
One of Americas living treasures
Happy Birthday Philip! Thank you for your amazing music!
It strikes your soul, your music is an "opening."
Love the tempo. Thank you Philip for enriching our lives with your music. Been listening to your music for 40 years.
I really would like to hear Philip's rehearsal and creation tapes, if such exist. In the same way that I don't think I'm alone in saying that I very much enjoy a lot of John Lennon's rehearsal tapes, apart from a few goofy duds: the roots of many of his A grade work is revealed and the sheer dedication to the work is impressive. I can't imagine Philip's music regimen to be anything less enthusiastic and fully fledged. We learn so much from following along with a major composer, without worrying about end-product polishing and so forth, about how much work is needed to bring something up from out of the bottomless depths of the grey ocean of noise into something memorable. Like this piece - it's so very evocative without being maudlin - it's got regrets, but seemingly no greater than anyone else. And that deceptively simple progression of ideas within it. Concealed complexity can make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. In the pop world we had people listening to Tubular Bells when it came out, and saying, "o yes, that's easy, all he's doing is . . . " Right . . ! Get back to me when you've done anything remotely interesting or as beautiful as 'Opening' and much, much more of Philip's work.
I hope you will see this comment someday. You are my favourite composer. I love all the soundtracks you composed and these piano pieces which are so deep, fascinating, mesmerizing. They lead you to think over your life. I can see deep in my soul when I listen to you. And, your music creates landscapes and evoke memories and reflections. Thank YOU for all the music you composed over your lifetime. I'm grateful for living a part of my life with you. Always with me. You'll be never forgotten, Phil. ❤
I hope you had a lovely celebration, dear Philip. 🎊
Been listening to this dude for decades already, since i saw Koyaanisqatsi first time, i was 15 years old or something. Following to him since then. My greatest respect
I love the idea that this musical genius (who I got to ask questions of in a Sydney performance) is so natural and down to earth) that he would be comfortable being called a dude! He’s a dude and a genius. And affable and modest. I love him as much as Wagner or Rach
Wonderful heartful & timelesI Music"
was 15 at the time...and this wonderful piece
of Music was the beginning of intensive music
istening for me...it opened my heart and my ears...
Thank you so much Mr. Glass 🧡💛💙❤💜🤎🧡
Composition instructor - where's the space, the use of silence ?
Philip - everywhere. Can't you feel it ?
I' m glad to see you : happy 87 years Maestro , from France
🌳
Philiph Glass é um dos grandes músicos do nosso tempo....que bom que ainda está na ativa!!!!
Happy Birthday to one of the greats!
I'll admit when people ask me to think of music in my head, I don't think of a snazzy rock beat with a funky bass riff, screaming guitars and athletic vocals, I think of this.
We will always wonder where all this beauty came from, and feel blessed that we were here with it. My days are never complete until I hear something, anything, of his music. I have no musical education. My appreciation is totally visceral. But the musicians who perform Mr. Glass' works certainly have one up on me. Their hearts must be full.
Speaks of an eternal underlying reality and the pain, loss, separation we all have to live with.
I hear you! // This may sound crazy but it seems the music wants to be in E-flat, but it never resolves. Even the very end it remains open. // But the crazy part is that I see E-flat as an golden yellow. And shape of a sort of tall trapezoid. I believe Eb is the key if mysticism. It’s mystical. Also, it’s pre-consciousness. A sort of stirring or waking-up to consciousness. // Therefore my analysis is that he doesn’t want to remain in the dream. Floating around the edges. A meditation in the golden twilight. // Thanks for your comment! Hope you will visit me at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Happy Birthday Phil. I met you in the late-70s on the LES at a party and you (already a star in my artwork mind) were so sweet.
He can really make that Steinway D sing! I first came across Philip's music when I picked up Songs from Liquid Days in 1986 and I've enjoyed it since. There's real genius in his compositions, I'm grateful to have "discovered" him and will continue to enjoy his amazing variety of music.
Thank you Philip. I'm glad to be alive at the same moment as you.
Phillip Glass is the GOAT
Dear Philip, Thank you so much for giving us so much joy with your music!
I've seen him perform twice here in New Mexico. Once in Santa Fe and Once in Albuquerque. Met him at the Santa Fe show, a very friendly, kind,person.
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Thank you. Your music is very enjoyable on its own, but i especially enjoyed how it was used in The Truman Show.
Wow. Is he really 90 (2024, assuming January). A Forever melody and style for all of us of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and now. 💥💫💘
He's 87, and next year he'll be the same age as the number of keys on a keyboard :)
Happy birthday to you!❤
Always love Glass, brings me home and true tranquility and to all the world, too bad the rest do not listen and get the beautiful message of love and compassion.
There's something just so ineffable and deeply moving about hearing a composer play their own work. From the Rachmaninoff "Piano Rolls" to Philip Glass. This is simply one of those moments... the mind's ear and the heart's mind open. *literally tears of quantum joy*
Thank you so very much, Maestro.
--- a fan since 1980. 🙏
Perfect comment. I also love the Mahler recording of him on a piano player (not played piano which can’t reproduce the dynamic range. Worth finding a copy. Utterly beautiful work.
PG has been my hero since I was in high school. I'm approaching 60 now. The journey he has taken me on has been simply amazing. I've made it to ninety PG concerts of all types since 1987, all over the country. I've experienced "Music in 12 Parts" live four times, and each time felt like 45 minutes when the entire concert lasted at least five hours. He is a super cool and wonderful man. His staff has been so nice to me as well. He used to have a recording studio on Broadway in NYC called Looking Glass Studios. Besides recording PG music there, other musicians would record there as well, such as Bowie's "Heathen" album. It was so cool visiting it several times. PG's music takes me places that I don't get to with any other composer. And it often is so joyous, such as the "Australia" and "Brazil" sections of "Orion", and the last piece on the "Songs from Liquid Days" album, "Forgetting".
Dear Sir, thank you for this and for all the wonderful music over the years. I had the privilege of meeting you once at thet Met Museum after one of your performances. It was you and two other pianists playing three concert grands on stage. That was rad! Thanks again. Wish you all the best
Thank you soooo very much Maestro Glass!!! It is just a joy to Listen to your wonderful play and your gorgeous Music 🙏🙏🙏, that peace is old how I am 1981 😊
May joy and health and happiness always for you to be there!!! All the beloved best to you!!!🙏🙏🙏🍀🍀🍀🌷⚘️🎼🎶
Kind regards from 🇪🇺🇩🇪 Black Forest Region to the US 🇺🇸
Yours,
Josha Blatzheim
Happy birthday Mr. Glass ! I wish you as much joy and light as your music has brought into my life.
Bravo! We are lucky to be alive while you are, Sir.
Mange smukke hyldest hilsner og personlige berøringer med Philip Glass og hans musik læser jeg herunder - lige så rørende, som at høre hans Opening spillet af ham selv; fuld af længsel og håb hører jeg den!!!!!!!!! (tårer)
I saw Philip Glass playing 6 of the Etudes at The Chan Centre in Vancouver some 20 years ago (when he had not yet completed the Etudes) and it was an incredible evening. These are glorious pieces.
We are so priviledged to watch this played by the composer of such wonderful music.You are so fortunate to still have all your faculties and the use of your fingers.Long may it continue.Happy birthday maestro.
watching the movie "breathless" in 1983 with Richard Gere and hearing this as the soundtrack, especially the getting ready for dinner scene...so beautiful. Perfect for that scene with Valerie Kaprisky...
I have followed your work for as long as I can remember. I wouldn't want to leave this life without being able to give you a hug. You have served as my greatest inspiration. Thank you.
Thank you Philip Glass, I feel good with your magical music , I forget all... you enchant me like Bach... thank you to make me fly... thank you from Italy
Could listen to him play all day
I was a weird infj working class kid who see the movie wreckless with Richard gere and fell in love with the rain in piano form, cheers Phillip 😇💓🙏
First time I hear this piece and I am mindblown
F/W 시즌에 딱! 디 아워스에서 영화와 음악이 너무 찰떡!이었어요~ 저 멜로디
중독성있어요~ 걷기/읽기/쓰기할때 죙일 무한반복!~~~
First thing this morning and I am crying from the memories. Thank you Philip.
Oh yeah? I bet I’m crying harder than you! Nobody cries better than me!! I’m the *best* at crying!!!
Formidable!!!!
I'm grateful with UA-cam for guiding me to this awesome video.
Sir, I can't explain how my soul feels with just listening to this masterpiece.
How wonderful is it! It's my favourite play performed by a genius! I have all your albums, I hope the world will admire your genius!
Thank You! Dear Mr. Glass! I saw you perform in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1986 ish? Songs from Liquid Days introduced me to your music. I ecstatically loved it!! I had never heard anything like it before...or since...it touched me in a way I can't describe! Bravissimo!!!! You are the absolute best!!! Happy Birthday!!! Thank you, thank you , thank you !!!
Warmest imaginable greetings to you Mr Glass, you have enriched my life immeasurably, the piano which your music inspired me to buy has opened up another dimension for me, I simply cannot thank you enough, life is so, so, so very good!
My favourite piece of music ever!!! Love IT! ❤
Sometimes I wonder if freedom really exist but this music assure me it does❤️🌼
Amazing
Happy Birthday! Great Music!