The Second International Conference on Music and Minimalism will occur September 2-6, 2009, at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, directed by Kyle Gann and David McIntire.
All scholars in this area are invited to submit papers. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

both American and European (and other) minimalist music;
early [...]

In this classic clip, South Park Elementary presents the happy, non-offensive, non-denominational school play, with compositions by Philip Glass.
Bogus, but funny!

The IBM Glass Engine is designed to enable deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass. Personal interests, associations, and impulses guide the listener through an expanding selection of over sixty Glass works.
The interface is unusual, and takes a few moments to understand, but it lets you navigate Glass’s music in a variety of ways, such [...]

The LA Times has a review of seminal minimalist composer Terry Riley’s Sunday performance at the Walt Disney concert hall.
“Minimalist” is a strange tag for Riley. It suits him in that he has never lost his love for interlocking repetitive figures imbued with the strength to send the brain into psychedelic reverie. But Riley is [...]

Peter Aidu plays Steve Reich’s Piano Phase, a work for two pianists, with with his left hand on one instrument and his right hand on the second.
While this is a unique performance and is a feat, the result seems to emphasize the synchronized phases of the two piano lines over the shifting phase relationships and [...]

German Composer and Guitarist Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze) will be part of the  line-up of a free genre-spanning multimedia event organized by New York’s Lincoln Center, 800 Years of Minimalism - The Spiritual Transcendent.
On Friday, August 15, 2008, Damrosch Park Bandshell will be turned into a place of intense listening thanks to [...]

Classical minimalist composer Philip Glass, who wrote music for both the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2004 Athens Games, isn’t looking forward to the competitions in Beijing.
“I think that we should pull out,” says Glass. “The Chinese are supposed to be taking care of human rights; they haven’t done it. The only reason we [...]

With this book, Eric Tamm takes one of the deepest looks ever put to paper about an electronic musician.
Tamm’s book, Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound, is divided into two main sections. The first is a review of Brian Eno and his work in the context of modern music. This looks [...]

This CD is a gift for fans of the music of Philip Glass. The music captures the lyricism of his best work, and showcases the full range of his style within a collection of short piano pieces.
The Etudes are an interesting collection. As etudes, they explore a range of piano technique. They also explore the [...]

This is a set of minimal tone poems that feature instruments combined with electronic arrangements. The pieces depict the skys of the composer’s northern home.
Mychael Danna is extremely prolific. His work includes dozens of film scores, including The Antwone Fisher Story, Monsoon Wedding, and many other art-house flicks.
Each of the movement is made up of [...]