With Linda Brumbach

With Alisa E. Regas

On Sale: Nov 7, 2023
Page Count: 136 pages
Publisher: Artisan
ISBN-13: 9781648291883

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A monumental gift for music lovers: a deluxe boxed set of Philip Glass’s most personal body of work, along with Studies in Time, a book of essays from notable fellow artists

Philip Glass is one of the most influential artists of our time. In his long and staggeringly creative career as a composer, he’s transformed how we listen to music. He’s written more than 30 operas, 14 symphonies, 13 concertos, and 35 film scores. But his most personal work is a series of 20 piano etudes, originally created to “address the deficiencies in my own playing,” in Glass’s words. The etudes have taken on a life of their own as a modern masterpiece. Majestic and intimate at the same time, these compositions for solo piano have been performed and recorded by dozens of artists and streamed over 100 million times.

Philip Glass Piano Etudes is in every way a one-of-a-kind tribute to this singular work. This deluxe boxed gift set includes the complete etudes (1–20), which have each been newly engraved, printed on oversize heavy stock, and sewn-bound into individual folios ideal for both beginner and experienced pianists; plus a hardcover book, Studies in Time, which explores Philip Glass’s music, the art of composition, and the meaning of practice through essays by Alice Waters, Angélique Kidjo, Ari Shapiro, Ira Glass, Justin Peck, Laurie Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Pico Iyer, and more.

In its heirloom box, Philip Glass Piano Etudes is to be cherished by music lovers, piano students and players, and anyone attuned to contemporary culture, savored for its beauty and insights, and, of course, explored at the keyboard.

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Philip Glass

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Philip Glass is the first composer to win a wide, multigenerational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, film, and popular music simultaneously. Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen to David Bowie, Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact on the musical and intellectual life of his times. Born in Baltimore, Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. By 1974, he had created a large collection of music for the Philip Glass Ensemble. The period culminated in the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach. Since Einstein, Glass’s repertoire has grown to include music for opera, dance, theater, orchestra, and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun, The Hours, Notes on a Scandal) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show). Glass received the Praemium Imperiale in 2012 and the US National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2016, and was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2018.

Linda Brumbach and Alisa E. Regas are independent creative producers based in New York City working across mediums of performance, visual art, and film. In 1998, they founded their company, Pomegranate Arts. Realizing an artist’s vision is the center of their practice, and they support ambitious, provocative work that often falls outside traditional genres and structures. Pomegranate Arts has produced the award-winning productions of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, Lucinda Childs’s Dance and Available Light, Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music for stage and film, Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store, Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet’s Landfall, and many more. Brumbach and Regas’s long association with Philip Glass has been one of their closest partnerships. Including the piano etudes, they have produced and toured over one thousand Philip Glass performances in fifty countries. This is their first publication.

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Linda Brumbach

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Linda Brumbach founded Pomegranate Arts in 1998 dedicated to the development of international performing arts projects working closely with artists to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. As creative and executive producers, Pomegranate Arts produced Taylor Mac’s multi-award winning 24-Decade History of Popular Music and Holiday Sauce, Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store, and the Olivier Award winning production of Einstein on the Beach with Philip Glass, Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs. Over the decades, Pomegranate has developed and toured many new works and touring productions with Philip Glass, Bassem Youssef, Hal Willner, Leonard Cohen, The Kronos Quartet, Virginia Rodriques, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Ohad Naharin, Ushio Amagatsu, and many others. Prior to that time, Linda was producing director at International Production Associates (IPA) working closely with Twyla Tharp, Spalding Gray, Diamanda Galas, Elizabeth Streb, Karen Finley, Richard Foreman, Meryl Tankard and the Serious Fun! Festival at Lincoln Center. Current projects in development are The Bark of Millions: A Parade Trance Extravaganza for the Living Library of the Deviant Theme by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray, newly commissioned dance works by Lucinda Childs, Justin Peck, Bobbi-Jean Smith, Chanon Judson and Leonardo Sandoval, Akoma in collaboration with composer Jlin and visual artist Florence To, Metamorphosis with Aya Ogawa and Saori Tsukada, and the Cavafy Festival with curator Paula Prestini and the Onassis Foundation. Linda received the 2016 ISPA Patrick Hayes Award for long standing achievement in the performing arts, has served on the board of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), the advisory board for Celebrate Brooklyn and is a founding member of CIPA (creative and independent producer alliance). She is a graduate of the Indiana School of Music and lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband, Marty, and children, Jonah and Molly.

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Alisa E. Regas

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An independent creative production company based in New York, Pomegranate Arts is dedicated to the development of international contemporary performing arts projects. Joining Pomegranate as a principal immediately upon its formation in 1998, Alisa has developed projects by Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Taylor Mac, Bassem Youssef, Improbable, Hal Wilner, Virginia Rodrigues, Collective:Unconscious, Sankai Juku, Goran Bregovic, Lucinda Childs and Dan Zanes. She was the Associate Producer of the 2012 production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, Available Light by John Adams, Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry. Current projects include Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store, and Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

Alisa is an active board member of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) and a member of the Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA). She has served as a consultant for the National Dance Project/NEFA and Creative Capitol. She has been a guest lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Michigan and the United Nations International School.

Previously Alisa has worked at International Production Associates (IPA) as a project manager working with Philip Glass, Spalding Gray, Twyla Tharp, Meryl Tankard, Sankai Juku, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, Elizabeth Streb, Lisa Kron and Diamanda Galás. Alisa began her career on the producing team of the International Theatre Festival of Chicago after graduating from Northwestern University with a BA in English Fiction Writing and a Certificate in Integrated Arts

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