Now Philip Glass wins a literature prize
mainFirst Bob Dylan with the Nobel.
Now the minimalist composer has been presented with the 2016 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize.
What the heck’s going on?
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This is a specific prize for a specific year, in several categories. Glass won for his 2015 memoir (did that get noted here? Don’t recall seeing about it). Other musicians have won it similarly: Sondheim, Patti Smith. He was probably favoured in part because of his Chicago associations. Possibly because of the quality of the book, which is an interesting account of the progress of a composer over the course of most of the 20th century.
I’ve read the book, so I’ll have to go with the “Chicago associations” hypothesis.
“It was a dark and stormy night… It was a dark and stormy night… It was a dark and stormy night… It was a dark and stormy night…”
You gave me the best laugh of the day, Greg….
Indeed. It is music for people for whom Mozart is too complex (too many notes, as the emperor said).
On the contrary, it’s music for people for whom music is too complex.
No, it’s to help music catch up, after decades of a dearth of repetition in serial music. Eventually, it’ll be a wash.
Well, the Chicago Tribune (editorial board) endorsed Gary Johnson for president, a man who didn’t know what Aleppo was, so that may or may not shed some insight…
Perhaps, but it definitely sheds lots of light on the quality of the other presidential candidates.