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Philip Glass Discography
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Philip Glass Opera & Music Theatre
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Phalanxes of woodwinds, organs, and voices pulse through Philip Glass's most famous opera like nothing so much as a migratory flock engaged in acrobatics overhead. There is no centre to the kinetic activity; the down beat might shift, in split-second hindsight, to the up beat, and the synthesiser might suddenly upstage the libretto of nonsense syllables. The exuberant cacophony of overlapping scripts makes the term "counterpoint" seem inadequate, antiquated. Such was Glass's hope, of course, when on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the USA, he consolidated influences as diverse as raga, minimalism and progressi
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Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Release date: 30 August 1999
EAN: 0075597943597 UPC: 075597943597
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Release date: 30 August 1999
EAN: 0075597943597 UPC: 075597943597
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