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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
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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 noteworthy shows that are worth watching. Philip Glass concert reviews describe live shows and performances as eccentric, stunning, minimalist, and transcendent.
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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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
Steve Reich had a detached bebop cool Terry Riley came across as a spiritual guru La Monte Young as an eccentric performance artist but in the words of Alex Ross Glass's ensembles had the extrovert energy of a rock band.
Among those who confuse accessibility with populism Glass is derided as a pop classicist a misguided criticism motivated by a desire to preserve the classical realm for the privileged few.
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.
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.
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.
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