Ke hana nei ʻo Philip Glass i kahi haku mele hou e pili ana i ka kikokikona a Abraham Lincoln. Ua hoʻolaha ʻia kēia e ka mea haku mele ponoʻī i kāna haʻiʻōlelo ma ka hui makana Frontiers of Knowledge, i hāʻawi ʻia e ka BBVA Foundation, a ua loaʻa iā Glass ma ka māhele mele.
ʻO ka ʻāpana, e like me Glass ponoʻī, ua hoʻomohala ʻia ma ka gala, i mālama ʻia ma ka Hale Aliʻi ʻo Euskalduna ma Bilbao, "he hana leo a me ka orchestral hou no ka baritone soloist me ka piha symphonic accompaniment. He 50-60 mau ʻaoʻao ka helu helu piha. ʻO ia paha kaʻu symphony 15. ʻO ka kikokikona o kēia mea i pili pono i nā palapala a me nā leka uila a ʻAberahama Linekona.
Ma kahi o hoʻokahi hola ka lōʻihi a e hoʻomaka mua ʻia ma ka Kennedy Center ma Wakinekona DC ma ʻOkakopa aʻe.
“Ua manaʻo ʻia - ua hoʻopau ka mea haku mele ʻAmelika - he ʻāpana ʻaha mele, akā he nui nā ʻano o ka opera. No ka haʻi ʻana iā ʻoe i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻaʻole maopopo iaʻu e pili ana i kāna ʻāpana. Symphony? ʻOpera? E ʻike koke nō mākou."
E loaʻa iā Philip Glass kāna makana ma Bilbao - Efe
Ua ʻai ʻo Philip Glass, i hānau ʻia ma ke kaona ʻAmelika ʻo Baltimore i ka makahiki 1937, ma nā ʻano like ʻole o kāna ʻoihana mele ma kāna haʻiʻōlelo. "I koʻu hoʻomaka ʻana e hana i ka opera, ʻike wau ua hui pū ka opera i nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni āpau, nā ʻano o ka neʻe ʻana, ke ʻano o ka hana mele: nā mea a pau i hana ʻia i ka hana noʻeau ma ka opera. ʻO ka mea i hoihoi iaʻu, ʻo ia ke ʻano o ka hui ʻana o nā ʻōlelo noʻeau.
"I ka haku ʻana i nā opera - ua hahai ʻo ia i ka mea haku mele-, ua hoihoi au i nā mea like me Einstein, Gandhi a i ʻole Akhenaten, he ʻano koʻikoʻi ko lākou ʻano o ke ola. Ua hoʻololi lākou a pau i ka honua a lākou i noho ai. Ua hiki iaʻu ke lawe i nā hanana mai ko mākou manawa, a i ʻole nā hanana i hana ʻia i ka wā lōʻihi i hala aku nei a ua lilo i mea nui o ka moʻomeheu o kēia mau lā, a ua hoʻokō wau i ka hoʻohui ʻana iā lākou i loko o ke ʻano o ka opera»
Ua hāʻawi ʻia ʻo Glass i kēia paʻi o Frontiers of Knowledge me Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman a me Robert S. Langer (Biology and Biomedicine), Lonnie G. Thompson (Climate Change), Simon Levi (Ecology and Conservation Biology), Jean -François Le Gall (Basic Science), Judea Pearl (Information and Communication Technologies), Matthew O. Jackson (Economics, Finance and Business Management) a me Mark Granovetter (Humanities and Social Sciences).
