![]() Stream David Bowie’s Complete Discography in a 19-Hour Playlist: From His Very First Recordings to His Last The “David Bowie Is” Exhibition Is Now Available as an Augmented Reality Mobile App That’s Narrated by Gary Oldman: For David Bowie’s Birthday Today The Lodger symphony will make its European premier at the Southbank Centre in London in May of this year, and we should hope to see a recording released soon. Times “with what Bowie would have thought of his method,” but he remembers Bowie was most struck in his other symphonies by “the parts that didn’t sound very much like the original.” At the top of the post, hear “Warszawa” from Glass’s Low symphony and listen to his other Bowie-inspired pieces on Spotify. He’s “unconcerned,” writes Randal Roberts at the L.A. Glass takes these “poems” as he calls them and weaves them into his own musical fabric. Employing the unique voice of singer Angélique Kidjo, Glass made what he calls “a song symphony” using seven of the “texts” (he left off “Look Back in Anger,” “D.J.” and “Red Money”). While Glass’s other Bowie symphonies drew directly from the albums’ music (the Low symphony opens with the cinematic theme from “Subterraneans”), “What I was going to do on Lodger,” says Glass, “had nothing to do with the music that was on the record.” He realized that he had been given “a whole piece by a very accomplished writer and artist who had a vision of the world” in the lyrics. It was someone who had created a political language for themselves.” This had a lot to do with my being distracted by personal events in my life,” he says, though “I would still maintain thought that there are a number of really important ideas on Lodger.” It is on the ideas that Glass seized. Bowie himself felt that “Tony lost heart a little” during the recording “because it never came together as easily as both Low and “Heroes” had. Though Glass never shared his thoughts about Lodger with Bowie, he may not have needed to. Removed from Bowie’s time of soaking up krautrock and producing his roommate Iggy Pop’s solo albums, recorded as his marriage dissolved, it is the sound of jaded cultural and relational dislocation. Talk about alienation.” The feeling pervades all three albums to different effect, but Lodgertakes things in a far edgier, more cacophonous direction. He took an apartment above an auto parts store and ate at the local workingman’s café. Well, not about an English rock singer, anyway.”īowie’s wife Angela remembers that “he chose to live in a section of the city as bleak, anonymous, and culturally lost as possible…. For some reason Berliners just didn’t care. But they were almost all written in, around, and about Berlin, where Bowie found what he was looking for-a more rarified form of isolation-or as he puts it, “virtual anonymity…. The first album in the Berlin Trilogy, Low, was mostly recorded in France, and the last album of the trilogy, Lodger, in Montreaux in 1979. In 2013 Namekawa premiered in Perth and in 2017 performed again Glass's entire cycle of 20 etudes for solo piano in Linz.We might have been calling it the Lake Geneva Trilogy, given David Bowie’s recuperative sojourn in Switzerland after the emptiness he felt in L.A. The Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa, a mediator of contemporary music and also an accomplished Glass interpreter, is also based in Linz and has close ties with Glass. Some of his numerous symphonies and operas had their world or European premieres in Linz. At the opening of the Linz Music Theatre in 2013, Glass came in person and interpreted his own compositions on the piano. ![]() ![]() 2009 Linz became the provincial capital of culture and Glass composed his opera "Kepler" especially for this event the celestial physicist Johannes Kepler worked in Linz for 16 years. During this time, he also conveyed Glass's musical work. His particularly close relationship with Linz is probably also due to his friendship with the pianist and conductor Dennis Russel Davies, one of the most competent Glass interpreters, was opera director and principal conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz for 15 years. The US-American Philip Glass is one of the most productive and most performed composers of our time.
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