People who review Philip Glass should not throw stones

People who review Philip Glass should not throw stones

Album Of The Week

norman lebrecht

July 16, 2021

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

…. People who review Philip Glass should never throw stones (it only encourages him). Muhly and Kuusisto make short shrift here of a Glass film score from The Screens, and Kuusisto creates a new score for the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with an expanded setting of Glass’s third string quartet, a filmic meditation on the life and violent death of the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima. I mean no disrespect to Glass to say that he’s a better composer than he often sounds. The musical intelligence is razor-sharp. If only he changed the tune now and then.

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