Philip Glass's inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for "truth force"), in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch's innovative 2008 production, airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances at the Met

He's worked with everyone from Scorsese to Bowie to Doris Lessing. On the eve of a major retrospective, the composer Philip Glass spills his session-room secrets As a child, the composer Philip Glass worked at his father's radio- repair shop in Baltimore, which doubled as a small record store.

By John Von Rhein, Chicago Tribune Apr. 9--Film music has been much on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's mind of late. Last weekend brought a program of Bernard Herrmann scores written for films by Alfred Hitchcock and other famous directors.

By Jeffrey Day, The State, Columbia, S.C. Jun. 13--The Spoleto Festival USA has for 17 years been my college of classical music. When I began attending in 1990, my job was to write about theater and art, but I also ended up doing big-picture stories about the festival.