Philip Glass | Interview | TimesTalks

[@peppertree8244]

I love his wit, his sense of self, and his willingness to let the creation inside him just come out. The music pieces I've heard are, to me, intelligent AND meditative, even expansive - needs big spaces to flow into. Just listen long enough to let it show itself.

[@jimdoherty6506]

Funniest moment: 45:20 - 45:32. I had the chance to interview Philip Glass via phone about his early film scores back in 1988. Although I had immersed myself in his music for several years before I even considered contacting him, I'm sure a couple of my questions might still have been a little simplistic, but he seemed to appreciate my knowledge of his most of his work. He was the perfect interviewee. If you gave him a 15-second question, he gave you a five-minute answer. He even gave great answers to the not-so-great questions. I feel the same way when I watch this video. Not always the greatest questions, but really fantastic answers.

[@billinrio]

Interviewers and journalists have been remiss in not asking Philip Glass a very important question. Does he or does he not know that his work Itaipu celebrates an ecological disaster? The Itaipu Dam, constructed on the Paraná River without any public input during the Brazilian military dictatorship, drowned forever, upriver from the dam project, a spectacular series of waterfalls called in Portuguese Sete Quedas (Seven Falls). These falls had an even larger volume of water than the famous Iguaçu Falls. While in Brazil where he visited Itaipu and was wined and dined by Brazilian television soap opera stars, Glass apparently made no attempt to learn about the environmental impacts of the project. Brazil's most famous poet of the time, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, wrote a poem that was an elegy to the forever lost natural wonder that the clueless composer disregarded.

[@napoleonsittingonvegemite6234]

billinrio lol its not that important

[@amesea]

yaay

[@kelvinsmith6854]

She's bloody rude and too over familiar, one of his wives died of cancer for christ sakes.

[@johnbacsa1616]

Don't worry, he is very confident and sometimes needed to be challenged in the interview to get to the true information.