Why composer Philip Glass viewed David Bowie's 'Lodger' with skepticism
LOS ANGELES - The final time composer Philip Glass talked to his friend David Bowie, they discussed "Lodger," the concluding album of Bowie's self-described "Berlin Trilogy," a series of collaborations with Brian Eno.
The 1979 work had been a bridge connecting Bowie and Glass since the 1990s, when Glass had based symphonies on Bowie's 1977 albums "Low" and "Heroes" and had expressed interest in an eventual focus on "Lodger."
The composer had spoken with Bowie in 2015 to offer an update on what is now called "Symphony No. 12, Lodger, From the Music of David Bowie and Brian Eno," which the Los Angeles Philharmonic will unveil as a world premiere on Thursday at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Glass told him that he was "finally getting around
