The Last Dalai Lama? - music composed by Philip Glass and Tenzin Choegyal

• The Last Dalai Lama? - Music Composed By Philip Glass And Tenzin Choegyal
• Product type: ABIS MUSIC
• Language: English

Orange Mountain Music presents the original soundtrack to the documentary THE LAST DALAI LAMA? Over the period of many years, filmmaker Mickey Lemle set about capturing a portrait of His Holines the Dalai Lama, now in his mid-80s, as he travelled the world talking about his life, compassion, his discilines, and his work. The film presents a number of captivating testimonials from clerics not in the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, to advocates and allies, to a former president of the United States. The film commissioned original music from Philip Glass and Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal. The score is performed by Glass and Michael Riesman on pianos, Tenzin Choegyal on vocals and various Tibetan instruments like lingbu and dranyen, Tim Fain on Violin, Robert Black on double bass, and the Scorchio String Quartet and Choegyal performing Snow Lion. Another quintessential traditional offering Om Ma Mi Phad may Hum can be heard in Heart Strings, sung by 150 Tibetan children from the Tibetan Childrens Village School in Dharmasala, India. The album ends with Philip Glasss own performance of Mad Rush, performed live on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. Glass is featured in the film discussing the Dalai Lama and playing Mad Rush, a piece which was composed for the Dalai Lamas first public address in New York in 1978. Back then, the organizers asked Glass for a piece of indeterminate length and the composer was happy to oblige.