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Inside the Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective

The 10-disc compilation Glass Box surveys 40 years of the work of Philip Glass: groundbreaking early solo pieces, the revolutionary Einstein on the Beach, film scores, etudes, symphonies, and much more. The elegantly designed "interim report," as critic Tim Page writes in his liner note, traces the evolution of "the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music—simultaneously."

The box features extensive liner notes, performance credits, librettos, and appreciations from fellow artists like Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, and Paul Simon. The composer’s longtime colleague, the artist Chuck Close, selected the artwork for each of the individual discs; Close and other artists—Francesco Clemente, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe and Robert Wilson–interpret Glass’s image for each side of the cube in which the discs are encased.

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