Symphony No. 11 (Glass)

Symphony No. 11 is the eleventh symphony by the American composer Philip Glass. The work was commissioned by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Istanbul International Music Festival and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and premiered January 31, 2017, Glass's 80th birthday, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Bruckner Orchestra Linz at Carnegie Hall in New York City.[2][3]

Symphony No. 11
Period	Contemporary
Style	Postmodern, minimalist
Form	Symphony
Composed	2016
Duration	40 minutes[1]
Premiere
Date	January 31, 2017 (2017-01-31)
Location	Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, New York City
Conductor	Dennis Russell Davies
Performers	Bruckner Orchestra Linz

References

Symphony No. 11, philipglass.com
Robin, William (27 January 2017). "Philip Glass Celebrates His 80th Birthday With an 11th Symphony". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
Bruckner Orchestra Linz – Celebrating Philip Glass's 80th Birthday, Carnegie Hall, January 31, 2017

Philip Glass
List of compositions
Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 (Company) Koyaanisqatsi Powaqqatsi String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak) The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia Naqoyqatsi
Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Fall of the House of Usher The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Orphée Les Enfants Terribles La Belle et la Bête Monsters of Grace In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American The Trial
Symphonies	No. 1 (Low) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 ("Heroes") No. 5 (Choral) No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) No. 7 (A Toltec Symphony) No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 (Lodger)
Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Piano Concerto No. 3 Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
Related articles	Philip Glass Ensemble Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Minimal music Robert Wilson Dennis Russell Davies David Henry Hwang Errol Morris La Monte Young Steve Reich Terry Riley Kronos Quartet Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread
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Symphonies by Philip Glass
No. 1 (Low) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 (Heroes) No. 5 (Choral) No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) No. 7 (A Toltec Symphony) No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 (Lodger) List of compositions by Philip Glass

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