Philip Glass Tod Browning Kronos Quartet Philip Glass
Dracula
Starring Bela Lugosi (Tod Browning, 1931). Glass composed the intense and sweeping Dracula score for the Kronos Quartet when he was asked by Universal to create a score for this early talkie. Appearing together live along with the original horror classic shown in its entirety, Glass and Kronos perform a concert of one of the most intense and atmospheric scores Philip Glass has ever written.
DRACULA...was fitted with a tactful, lyrical Philip Glass score...with signal success. Glass's pulsing music was a perfect match for the old bloodsucker. By filling long silent passages with classic emotion in a modern vein, it restored DRACULA's urgency and dream-like dignity.