Philip Glass - Opening (Official Video)
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- Philip Glass performs Opening, celebrating his new piano album, Philip Glass Solo, on his 87th Birthday. Filmed in Brooklyn, NY, 2021.
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► Credits:
Film By Four/Ten Media
Presented By Dunvagen Music Publishers
Film Production and Post-Production by Evan Chapman and Kevin Eikenberg of Four/Ten Media
Music Recorded by Caley Monahon-Ward
Assistant Engineer Albert Goold
Mixed by Caley Monahon-Ward
Music Supervisor, Alex Gray
Publicity, Sacks and Co. PR
Executive Producer Drew Smith
Producer Adrienne White
Production Manager Richard Guerin
Recorded at the Marc Agger Navy Yard Warehouse 269
Opening
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Philip Glass, Piano
Music Video by Philip Glass performing Opening. © Dunvagen Music Publishers.
► About Opening: Glass composed Opening for his 1981 album Glassworks, capturing the intimacy of solo piano. Opening went on to become one of his most entrancing works - so much so that in the many recordings available Opening has been streamed over 100 million times and is often the piece most emblematic of the composer’s music. - Hudba
Phillip - I am not sure if you will ever see this, but thank you so much for all the work you have done over your lifetime. You music is unique, beautiful, maddening and devastating. It has been with me in some of the deepest moments of my life and has given me hope and humbled me. Thank you and I hope you had a fantastic 87th birthday.
There are few people that I think of who truly make the world a better place because of the work they do. Philip Glass is one of them. His piano solos can smooth over the roughest of days. Thank you, happy birthday and I hope you have many more.
It is incredible how such simple, repetitive and minimalist music can evoke so many memories, reflections, landscapes... it can only be the work of a talented composer.
I like to lay on my sofa with eyes closed and listen to Phillip play. I also like to play this on my 114 year old baby grand piano myself, although I'm not as gifted as Phillip.
Like a seagull in the winds over the waves, I close my eyes and fly, thank You 🙏
Saw a live performance of Philip glass’ Cocteau trilogy this evening and I too was taken out to sea on the waves by a passage within one of the pieces. Magic stuff.
My favorite musician of all time! Happy Birthday, Philip!!!
same - and my favourite of his works ❤
@@popmonkey Nice!
Gosh, you're easily pleased!
@@finlybenyunes8385 lol, no! It was not because of this beautiful piece that I chose him as the greatest of all... ;)
@@philipgiger9940 Why then? It's an absurdly hyperbolic statement to make! I don't find his music unpleasant but nor do I find it inspired or noteworthy.
I once saw Philip Glass several years ago at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. He was talking about his approach to composition, and one of the most important things that he said that I still remember to this day was this: "Collaboration is the locomotive for change."
87 years young and still going strong. Glassworks is such an important and moving piece of music for me. For years, when I was younger, I had terrible insomnia and the only thing that would help me sleep was to listen to Opening or Closing. Something about the rhythms - almost like the sea washing on the shore. Just beautiful. I saw Akhnaten live in London - just amazing. Thanks for producing such wonderful and moving music.
So you are telling that his song makes you sleep? Lol
Love the analogy with the sea washing on the shore, very revealing.
So you're saying, his music puts you to sleep.
My sentiments exactly.
@@Gryphonbrazil Glass is polarizing; some people love his work and some hate it. If you love it, I think you're more likely to find it soothing or relaxing; if you hate it, you're going to find it jarring.
Also note, the original studio recording of Glassworks has a more steady tempo and is less punctuated, so it's less attention-grabbing than this recording.
@@davehorne7207 Are you just here to show us how clever you are?
Happy birthday, maestro, and 87 more years for you. And us.
♥
Happy Birthday. Forever greatful for your music.
I had the pleasure of seeing Philip Glass and his orchestra perform live to the film Koyaanisqatsi years ago, and it was unforgettable!
I can only imagine what an experience that must've been! I saw the movie not too long ago and it was very touched by it
@@masoiaXL it was really incredible. I had seen the movie before and loved it, but seeing it live with the maestro and his orchestra was a whole new level.
Jealous!!!
That sounds wonderful!! Gotta say I'm kinda jealous!!! 😁
Same! 😄 Muziekgebouw Frits Philips Eindhoven, The Netherlands
I’ve been listening to this piece for forty-two years and it never gets old. Thank you Philip Glass.
Este som é mágico, or this Magic sound.
it should have been like this for us, but ...
My dad would play your “Low” symphony on CD in his office on repeat for years. I’m not joking: years. It was like the background noise to his environment, along with the computer fans and A/C systems. Morning, “Low”. Evening, “Low”. Even though it’s not my favorite of your pieces, I still have his CD to remember him by.
Philip Glass' Metamorphosis album has been playing in the background while I did countless essays and assignments since my high school days until my undergraduate days, and continues to do so while I do work at home. I will never stop listening to Philip Glass!
You are definitely right because this is not music but a noise like PC fans.
@@cheapa-n-quickawindowclean8774 It's music that helps me stay inspired to reach my goals, I do not consider it to be "noise like PC fans".
필랩 글래스의 음악은 늘 마음 한 구석을 어루만져준다. 젊었을 때나 지금이나 늘.
Philip Glass has grown on me hugely over the years. When I first encountered his music around the age of 16, 17, I was so deeply into classical composers like Mozart, Bach and Brahms that I felt like Glass’s music just did not have nearly the sophistication, complexity and impressiveness of what I thought of as the greatest classical music. Many years later I understand his place in the music world better. His music absolutely has soul, feeling and depth. It also absolutely has a kind of refined perfectionism. The repetitiveness is a basis for a variety of very subtle kinds of “development” that are going on in the composition. I can draw parallels between this work and some works by Satie and Chopin, personally.
Arvo Part, too! I started thinking of Part as I began watching this! // Friend, You should see my synesthesia edit of Spiegel Im Spiegel. // Your, _Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Happy birthday mr Glass. Your music is mesmerizing. It gets under your skin.
What an honor it is to share a timeline with one of the world's best composers and musicians of all time.
Why do you say that? Why isn't it aj honor to share with meir yourself? I'm a composer too.
@@leif1075 sorry I don't understand what you're trying to say. I just think its cool to be alive at the same time as Philip Glass. Just like it would have been cool to be around when Mozart or Bach were actively composing/performing.
I have this thought regularly!
No comparison.
@@tr7938I wouldn’t go that far but he’s pretty cool
There is certain kindness in this music.
But also a sweet and poignant melancholy. Glass manages to touch the strings of the soul
I share my birthday with Mr. Glass and will celebrate our birthdays with a listen of his gorgeous solo album today.
Me, too
I am an Italian composition student, so I apologize for my English. I started studying mainly thanks to your music. Years ago I started listening to your music and from there my way of seeing many things started to change. From that moment I told myself one thing: music has great power and I want this power to be able to give to others what people like you have given to me. One day we won't all be here anymore. But some of us will continue to live in the goals and ideals of the people we have influenced. When I write music I can only be inspired by you. I live on the other side of the world, but I would gladly fly on a plane just to have a chat with you and I really hope that happens. But if it doesn't, I hope that at least you read this message and can be proud of your work.
Happy Birthday Maestro, a simple composition student.
Philip Glass is played best by...Philip Glass. 🙏
Speaks of an eternal underlying reality and the pain, loss, separation we all have to live with.
I hear you! // This may sound crazy but it seems the music wants to be in E-flat, but it never resolves. Even the very end it remains open. // But the crazy part is that I see E-flat as an golden yellow. And shape of a sort of tall trapezoid. I believe Eb is the key if mysticism. It’s mystical. Also, it’s pre-consciousness. A sort of stirring or waking-up to consciousness. // Therefore my analysis is that he doesn’t want to remain in the dream. Floating around the edges. A meditation in the golden twilight. // Thanks for your comment! Hope you will visit me at: _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
Thanks to Google, I can now pin the start of my love for the music of Philip Glass down to a specific date, January 18th 1987, when an edition of the UK TV programme "The South Bank Show" dedicated to his music aired and I heard his compositions for the first time. My life changed for the better that day. Happy birthday.
I'll admit when people ask me to think of music in my head, I don't think of a snazzy rock beat with a funky bass riff, screaming guitars and athletic vocals, I think of this.
I heard this masterpiece more than 30 years ago, when I first watched "Breathless ", starring Richard Gere.
And I never forgot it since them.
One of the best and the most touching piece Mr Glass has ever composed.
Me too ;)
Thank you Philip Glass for writing this masterpiece! This has been one of my favorites over the years and has helped me a lot in tough times. Over time, this motivated me to start playing the piano, and now I play it for myself and my family almost every day.
I have a dear friend from childhood, whose voice I love, and every time I hear Philip Glass bring some music to the world, I hear his voice and I get the same feeling - the ongoing feeling of friendship in sound.
The sheer discipline he has not to tweak this song even slightly with age (I’m constantly reinventing the crappy songs I write over time). Philip, thank you for existing
It strikes your soul, your music is an "opening."
I can have the works of Philip Glass on all day long and often even at night when I'm sleeping. Since 2021, when I truly discovered the composer. They never get bored.
I have been remixing a naive form of this song + the main theme from Koyaanisqatsi on Guitar for my own amusement. I am amazed at how well this musical concept meshes with jazz, bluegrass and blues.
The variable tempo between measures is next level skills. (I cannot even get close to that without what is basically a flowstate of focus. And even then, I can only hold that for a few minutes at best. Phillip Glass can do that for 7+ minutes apparently, and what seems like effortlessly)
This dude is a master of music, in my opinion. As a conductor,, as a composer, as pianist and as a synthesizer nerd.
From the movie Breathless which I saw as a kid, I remembered one piece that filled me with melancholia, lost love, deep love, longing for "her" even though I never experienced these emotions in reallife for any girl I met since I was simply too young. Two decades later with internet and its possibilities I decided to look for that song. "Opening"...And a couple of years later I actually had a short conversation with its creator, Philip Glass, who I met after a concert. Very humble, kind person willing to talk about things, about the old days and even asking me for my opinion on the accoustics of they venue. I thought they were excellent and so did he. Two years later they did recordings there (we were told since I was there too) but whatever came out of it I don't know. Anyway: opening and also closing which is somewhat different, are still some of my favourite pieces of him.
Finding healing and peace in repetition. I love this music.
Happy Belated Birthday Maestro. Thank you for the music you have created.
If one thing is going to keep me sane in my later years, it is music, and especially music like this. Thanks for sharing!
Happy Birthday Papa
Wow. Is he really 90 (2024, assuming January). A Forever melody and style for all of us of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and now. 💥💫💘
He's 87, and next year he'll be the same age as the number of keys on a keyboard :)
On the upper West side of New York City, this man toiled in obscurity.
And, through hard work and nimbus, he climbed the Mount of Olympus.
Happy Birthday, Philip Glass!
I am delighted to have purchased the new Album Solo , Philip Glass plays his early compositions with his own phrasing and flluidity , blissful . thank you 🙏💓 Happy Continuation !
I forgot how soothing Phillip Glass music can be. Such bad news in the world. This helped. Thank you.
I really would like to hear Philip's rehearsal and creation tapes, if such exist. In the same way that I don't think I'm alone in saying that I very much enjoy a lot of John Lennon's rehearsal tapes, apart from a few goofy duds: the roots of many of his A grade work is revealed and the sheer dedication to the work is impressive. I can't imagine Philip's music regimen to be anything less enthusiastic and fully fledged. We learn so much from following along with a major composer, without worrying about end-product polishing and so forth, about how much work is needed to bring something up from out of the bottomless depths of the grey ocean of noise into something memorable. Like this piece - it's so very evocative without being maudlin - it's got regrets, but seemingly no greater than anyone else. And that deceptively simple progression of ideas within it. Concealed complexity can make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. In the pop world we had people listening to Tubular Bells when it came out, and saying, "o yes, that's easy, all he's doing is . . . " Right . . ! Get back to me when you've done anything remotely interesting or as beautiful as 'Opening' and much, much more of Philip's work.
Philiph Glass é um dos grandes músicos do nosso tempo....que bom que ainda está na ativa!!!!
Happy Birthday Phil. I met you in the late-70s on the LES at a party and you (already a star in my artwork mind) were so sweet.
So much music emanating from just a small area of the keyboard. A true minimalist master!
Sometimes I wonder if freedom really exist but this music assure me it does❤️🌼
I hope you had a lovely celebration, dear Philip. 🎊
Happy Birthday Philip! Thank you for your amazing music!
Philip Glass is the Greatest Composer in history of Music.
Apex of His Music is:
1. 5th string quartet
2. 2,3,5,7,8,9,11,12 symphonies
3. Partita for violin solo
And many others
beautiful
Thank you for existing. ♥️
Been listening to this dude for decades already, since i saw Koyaanisqatsi first time, i was 15 years old or something. Following to him since then. My greatest respect
I love the idea that this musical genius (who I got to ask questions of in a Sydney performance) is so natural and down to earth) that he would be comfortable being called a dude! He’s a dude and a genius. And affable and modest. I love him as much as Wagner or Rach
Joyeux Anniversaire Maître Glass
Since seeing the film 'Koyaanisqatsi' I have Loved Your Music. Your 'Voice' is like no other. Thank-You! so much!.
I' m glad to see you : happy 87 years Maestro , from France
🌳
Warmest imaginable greetings to you Mr Glass, you have enriched my life immeasurably, the piano which your music inspired me to buy has opened up another dimension for me, I simply cannot thank you enough, life is so, so, so very good!
I once worked in a building on Broadway in NoHo and one day Phillip Glass got into the elevator going up. I think no one recognized him except me (I think my tastes were more sophisticated than my contemporaries back then) but I didn’t say a word. He had a huge sheaf of sheet music, I may have noticed the word “Vampire” on one of them. He got off his floor, some studio, Sunshine? Sunrise? I don’t remember so well now but that might be because this was back in the 90s. Someone who’s work I admired as a kid growing up in the 80s in the UK and then a decade later I’m running into him thousands of miles away in NYC. It made my day 😏
Cool story
Maybe you saw his scores for the 1931 Dracula movie :)
@@d3nt391 The timeline lines up: I was working in that building in NoHo at the end of the 90s and the Quartets were released in 98 or 99.
I've seen him perform twice here in New Mexico. Once in Santa Fe and Once in Albuquerque. Met him at the Santa Fe show, a very friendly, kind,person.
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Happy birthday to you!❤
Composition instructor - where's the space, the use of silence ?
Philip - everywhere. Can't you feel it ?
CONGRATULATIONS eres mi mejor medicina
este tema me parece una obra de arte
eres mi referente de como llegar a 84 años manteniendo esta sensibilidad que para mi ...se ha convertido en una grandísima obra de arte
from Spain
aficcionado autodidata que solo vive para crear melodías y musica ....con la calidad que mi ser me permite ,,,
no son grandes musicas pero lo que siento cuendo creo...se ha convertido en lo mejor de toda mi vida
gracias señor
I interviewed Glass in 1992 or 1993 and we talked about expression in his music. He said at the time that he would play "Opening" without rubato, but that maybe Michael Riesman would be a little freer. I'm glad his view has developed since then.
That is interesting.
1. Thank you for teaching me a new classical music term ("rubato").
2. That sort of makes sense. Phillip Glass was very much an arpeggio addict and a synth nerd. He was essentially using the piano roll before FL studio existed lol.
3. Moooooooogz
Happy birthday Philip
His piano works are the paramount of contemporary music.....
There's something just so ineffable and deeply moving about hearing a composer play their own work. From the Rachmaninoff "Piano Rolls" to Philip Glass. This is simply one of those moments... the mind's ear and the heart's mind open. *literally tears of quantum joy*
Thank you so very much, Maestro.
--- a fan since 1980. 🙏
Perfect comment. I also love the Mahler recording of him on a piano player (not played piano which can’t reproduce the dynamic range. Worth finding a copy. Utterly beautiful work.
Buon Compleanno, Maestro! Ascolto la sua musica sin dai primi anni 70 e da allora la porto sempre nel cuore❤❤❤
Happy birthday Mr. Glass ! I wish you as much joy and light as your music has brought into my life.
Another masterpiece by Mr.Glass. Absolutely beautiful.
How wonderful is it! It's my favourite play performed by a genius! I have all your albums, I hope the world will admire your genius!
I listen to this, and his other works, so often I've started to call him, "Phillip." Oh Phillip, strikes again! Wishing you all a good morning.
A true Classic Master
« Bouleversante mélodie 🎵 d’un grand hommage à ce « géant de la musique 🎶
watching the movie "breathless" in 1983 with Richard Gere and hearing this as the soundtrack, especially the getting ready for dinner scene...so beautiful. Perfect for that scene with Valerie Kaprisky...
Dear Philip, Thank you so much for giving us so much joy with your music!
I have followed your work for as long as I can remember. I wouldn't want to leave this life without being able to give you a hug. You have served as my greatest inspiration. Thank you.
Happy Birthday, dear Mr. Glass! Thank you for all what you've shared.
Joyeux Anniversaire Philip 🎉
В интернете много музыки ... много музыки и музыка разная в том числе и исполнение на рояле ... тут я не смог,просто пролестнуть,вот что значит МАСТЕР,ХАРИЗМА,ВДОХНОВЕНИЕ и ГЕНИЙ ОТДЕЛЬНОГО ЧЕЛОВЕКА,МУЗЫКАНТА ... игра,исполнение оригинальны и есть свой подчерк,я всегда радуюсь за людей способных самим что то делать и делать ЗАМЕЧАТЕЛЬНО,спасибо !
The Mad Genius @ Work 😊❤
Happy birthday, Mr Glass ! I love your music ! I have been buying your CD's for years and never tire of listening to them. Thank you, sir, for making music that makes our hearts and minds soar ! The music of the spheres is not in Heaven. It's here on Earth. With you !
Could listen to him play all day
Its cool that I'm reading about Philip Glass in my Music Appreciation book "the enjoyment of music." I searched for more songs by him after listening to one that I really liked, and it lead to this gem. I can see his personality that I read about. Philip is such an awesome composer!
The sound of infinity.
Thank you, Maestro
Happy Birthday to one of the greats!
My favourite piece of music ever!!! Love IT! ❤
Thank you Philip Glass.
Je viens d'être emportée par une magnifique vague musicale 🎶 🌊🎶Merci pour ce beau moment 🎶
Bravo! We are lucky to be alive while you are, Sir.
Happy birthday! You wrote this piece the year of my birth! Here we all are still loving it & celebrating you this many years later. ❤
Dreaming of the day to see you perform live, if it ever happens. Happy birthday!
The Photographer is my favorite of his early music for a small ensemble. It's a masterpiece as well as Glassworks.
Act 3 of The Photographer is also my favorite Philip Glass work.
🏇🏇🏇📸🏇🏇🏇
First thing this morning and I am crying from the memories. Thank you Philip.
Oh yeah? I bet I’m crying harder than you! Nobody cries better than me!! I’m the *best* at crying!!!
Toujours aussi somptueux, sa musique m'a accompagné pendant plus de 40 ans
Thank you. Your music is very enjoyable on its own, but i especially enjoyed how it was used in The Truman Show.
One of Americas living treasures
You've done good work. Thank you.
Phillip Glass is the GOAT
Que bella música !!! Que talento tan grande !!!
Sublime piano composition ❤😊Happy Birthday!🎉
Such an emotional trip is this piece of work, thank you Mr. Glass, had a rough time lately, this help me healing!
Feliz cumpleaños Philip, siempre formaras parte de mi vida.
Bello/Magnifico.🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆