He wrote Einstein on the Beach with director Robert Wilson in 1976, to major acclaim. Later operas include Satyagraha (about Mahatma Gandhi) and Akhnaten (about the famously monotheistic Egyptian Pharaoh of the same name) Orphée and La Belle et la Bête (both based on films by Jean Cocteau), and the Fall of the House of Usher (based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe). His albums feature David Byrne (frontman for Talking Heads), Paul Simon, Linda Rhonstadt and the Kronos Quartet. Performance collaborators include Patti Smith, Alan Ginsberg, Twyla Tharp, and Doris Lessing. He’s written scores for many movies including Koyaanisqatsi (1982), The Truman Show (1998), Secret Window (2002), The Hours (2002), Notes on a Scandal (2006), The Illusionist (2006) and Fantastic Four (2015). However, Glass has written an impressive number of symphonic and chamber works, including nine symphonies, five string quartets, two violin concertos and two piano concertos.
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On September 2016, President Barack Obama presented Glass with a National Medal of Arts, describing him as “one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential artists of our time”. In an interview with Bryce Dressner for Interview magazine, Glass had this to say about his breadth of projects, “I think you'd be surprised to know how little I think about these things. I kind of do what's in front of me, and I try to keep what's in front of me interesting. And the other thing I do—and this is actually very conscious—is that I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing—I just go to something else.” |
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