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The Stage Works of Philip Glass

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Stage Works of Philip Glass
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert F. Waters
SeriesComposers on the Stage
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:335
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 158
Category/Genre20th century and contemporary classical music
ISBN/Barcode 9781107049758
ClassificationsDewey:780.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 4 August 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Stage Works of Philip Glass is the first publication to exclusively examine Glass's stage works from 1976 to the present day. Glass, who is regularly acclaimed as the most popular living classical composer, created stage works that have had a mesmerizing effect on younger generations. Robert Waters analyses Glass and his music for the theatre in the context of other composers interested in so-called minimalist features. His discussion includes three introductory chapters that address the validity versus invalidity of terms such as minimalism, post-minimalism, postmodernism, and neo-Romanticism, together with a brief overview of Glass's life and works. Waters examines the different types of theatre responsible for Glass's impact, including Robert Wilson's Theater of Images. He sheds light on Glass's philosophy regarding staging, text, and other theatrical components, which includes a defiance of conventional narrative, visual and aural dissociation as a theatrical technique, and deconstructionist concepts.

Author Biography

Robert F. Waters teaches at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He also held faculty positions at Seton Hall University and Wake Forest University. His published research focuses on nineteenth-and twentieth-century music in France and America, and he has lectured and presented papers throughout the United States as well as in the UK, Europe and Australia. Waters also wrote as a music critic for the Washington Post for ten years and has performed as a pianist.