{"id":4753,"date":"2014-11-10T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/10\/phillip-glass-discusses-about-the-music-business\/"},"modified":"2014-11-10T05:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:57:11","slug":"phillip-glass-discusses-about-the-music-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/11\/10\/phillip-glass-discusses-about-the-music-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Glass discusses about the music business"},"content":{"rendered":"


Phillip Glas was recently interviewed byThe Independent and he discussed abouut the music publishing and other aspects of the music industry:
\u201cWhen I have young assistants who write, I\u2019m making sure they know how to take care of the music, because you don\u2019t know when you\u2019re going to get your hit,\u201d he says. \u201cThere was the Beatles\u2019 first album which sold for a ridiculously low amount of money, but mostly in the pop music world they\u2019re more smart about that. In the world of art music, concert music and opera a lot of the voices are still not willing to think about the business part of it.
\u201cThere\u2019s an idealism in the people under 30 that I haven\u2019t seen in decades. No one\u2019s thinking about careers or money; they\u2019re just trying to make work, writing music and playing concerts in small places. That was how it was when I was beginning in the Sixties. It\u2019s a vocation, a calling, and they have a passion for it that I haven\u2019t seen in a while. I do think when the ship of state is sinking, the ship of art is going up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor future composers,\u201d Glass adds, \u201cthe money will be in performing and in the way music is used commercially. I know some young composers who write music for video games. It makes them enough money that they have time to write their art music. Sometimes people ask me how they can get into that, and I say: you have to know your harmony and counterpoint really well. If you have no problem with the basics of music, you can work quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also decided to be his own publisher: \u201cOtherwise I wouldn\u2019t get the income. At the beginning I made most of my living playing and I wasn\u2019t going to give the material to somebody else,\u201d he points out. \u201cIf you want to have a retrospective concert then you have to hire my group. That\u2019s still true today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve encouraged my colleagues to own the publishing, not just to give it away. Some of them, instead of doing it themselves, have asked me to be their publisher. And I say: no, that\u2019s not the idea \u2013 you be the publisher. Sometimes I\u2019ve taken on their music because I wanted to make sure it was being taken care of; I knew who they were and I wanted it to work out for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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