1959 Julliard 1st Recordings Philip Glass 1st Composit.

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870

It is hard to imagine a more important recording of Philip Glass, one of the most important composers of his time. You are bidding on a great original copy  Philip Glass'  "1959 Julliard School of Music Recordings", from the Julliard Acoustics Department Recording Studio, then on Claremnont Ave, in New York. The titles are written by hand in pen and may be in Glass' own hand.

This is an ultra scarce, and most likely one-of-a-kind, recording of Phillip Glass compositions when he was 22 years old. Cut in 1959, the recording is from the same year that Glass won the prestigious BMI Student Composer Award, an may have been used in preparation for that award.

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated American Western classical-music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (along with precursors such as Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein).

Glass's music is frequently described as minimalist, though he has distanced himself from that description, calling himself a composer of "music with repetitive structures." Although his earliest music could be called minimalist, his style has evolved enough that the label is inappropriate for many of his more recent works.

He went on to the Juilliard School of Music where the keyboard became his main instrument. His composition teachers included Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma. During this time, in 1959, he was a winner in the BMI Foundation's BMI Student Composer Awards, one of the most prestigious international prizes for young composers. In the summer of 1960, he studied with Darius Milhaud and composed a Violin Concerto for a fellow student, Dorothy Pixley-Rothschild

Glass is a prolific composer: he has written ensemble works, operas, 8 symphonies, 8 concertos, film scores, and solo works. Glass counts many visual artists, writers, musicians, and directors among his friends, including Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Doris Lessing, Allen Ginsberg, Errol Morris, Robert Wilson, JoAnne Akalaitis, John Moran, actors Bill Treacher and Peter Dean, Godfrey Reggio, Ravi Shankar, Linda Ronstadt, Paul Simon, David Bowie, the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, and electronic musician Aphex Twin, who have all collaborated with him. Among recent collaborators are Glass' fellow New Yorkers Leonard Cohen, and Woody Allen.

Glass describes himself as "a Jewish-Taoist-Hindu-Toltec-Buddhist"[9], and a strong supporter of the Tibetan cause. In 1987 he co-founded the Tibet House with Columbia University professor Robert Thurman and the actor Richard Gere. Glass lives in New York and in Nova Scotia. He is the first cousin once removed of Ira Glass, host of the nationally syndicated radio show This American Life. Philip Glass's father is Ira Glass's great uncle

This recording features 4 pieces:

String Quartet
Sonatino No. 2 for Piano
Contrasts for Solo Violin, Winds, Brass and Percussion
Arias for Strings

I have played the recording and the music is very exciting stuff and sounds very ahead of it's time for 1959. The sound is very good over all. It has some surface noise and pops but doesn't skip. I would recommend a professional cleaning. The mix is not to today's standards of course and indeed this was really a student recording. It may have been intended as a master recording. The music is incredible and it would be interesting to hear it remastered.

Cover: Very Good over all. No marks, has only an original "audiodisc" paper cover only

Record: Very Good, almost no visible scratches, clean white label with no wear, songs written in pen.

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