Glassworks

I was introduced to Philip Glass’s music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi which I saw in 1984 in Cupertino, CA. I absolutely loved his style.

Next came the music for the movie Mishima. Rarely a week goes by for me without listening to Glass. Brilliant stuff. He’s done the music for quite a few movies, including the movie Kundun, which is a biopic of the 14th Dalai Lama. Continue reading “Glassworks”

Sundance & Matsuri by Kitaro

I first heard Kitaro in the mid-80s. We used to go to Tower Records in Mt. View to buy CDs. Tower Records is now only an online store. But Kitaro’s music lives on. I even got to see Kitaro in concert at the Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. 

Wiki describes it as “a multi-venue performance facility on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, completed in 1968. The facility consists of two primary performance spaces: the 1,984-seat Zellerbach Auditorium, and the 500-seat Zellerbach Playhouse. … suitable for dance, theater, and opera, and has a built-in concert shell that provides an excellent acoustical enclosure for symphonic and other classical music performances.” Continue reading “Sundance & Matsuri by Kitaro”