The Philip Glass Ensemble

The Philip Glass Ensemble is a small chamber group mainly devoted to performing works by iconic American composer Philip Glass. In the late 1960s, Glass' minimalist music was regarded as experimental, and its unconventional instrumentation only underscored that view: most of his works then called for keyboard synthesizers, amplified winds, and a solo soprano, who sang solfeggio, often with amplification. The instrumentation of the Philip Glass Ensemble was born of this rock-tinged style. The group consists of about ten members (including a sound engineer), though the number in...