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EXCLUSIVE: Philip Glass Scores Harry Smith's 'Early Abstractions' @ Film-Makers' Cooperative Benefit
New American cinema, meet standard-issue Glass. Penciled in between Elliott Sharp's guitar accompaniment to Paul Sharits' Ray Gun Virus and the sex type skronk of Transgendered Jesus, Philip Glass doing Harry Everett Smith was touted as headlining the Eighth Annual Music and Film Benefit Concert and Art Auction for the Film-Makers' Cooperative. Plácido Domingo Named Praemium Imperiale, with 15 Million Yen, by the Japan Art Association
Awarded in fields of achievement not covered by the Nobel Prizes, the Praemium Imperiale is given in memory of Prince Takamatsu (1905–87), younger brother of Emperor Shōwa who reigned from 1926 through 1989.