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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 center to the kinetic activity; the down beat might shift, in split-second hindsight, to the up beat, and the synthesizer 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 U.S. he consolidated influences as diverse as raga, minimalism, and progress
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Manufacturer: Sony
Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0074643887526 UPC: 074643887526
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Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0074643887526 UPC: 074643887526
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