Philip Glass didn’t premiere his first symphony until 1992, at age fifty-five. To prepare, he turned to David Bowie’s album Low to create his own Low Symphony. A few years later, he returned to ...
Back in 1977 singer David Bowie released two groundbreaking records, Low (EMI, 1977) and Heroes, (EMI, 1977) which together with Lodger constitute (EMI, 1979) a famous triptych of records or the ...
Philip Glass has withdrawn his symphony based on Abraham Lincoln from the Kennedy Center, with the award-winning composer writing to the board of the arts institution that its values conflict with the ...