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 Glass: Einstein On The Beach
 Glass: Einstein On The Beach ... Train/Trial3 Entrance 4 Mr Bojangles 5 All Men Are Equal 6 Knee 7 Dance 8 Night Train 9 Knee/Trial/Prison 10 Prematurely Air Conditioned Supermarket 11 Ensemble 12 I Feel The Earth Move 13 Dance 14 Knee 15 Building/Bed 16 Cadenza 17 Prelude 18 Aria 19 Spaceship 20 Knee Newest Review: ... four/one two three four five six/one two three four five six seven eight". The counting is that of the time signature ... more ... of the music. Perhaps this seems pretentious but is it? Again, we have to think who Einstein was: of course he was mathematician and thus in that context it makes perfect sense. Also, as Glass is using vocals for effect rather than meaning the chant of the time signature is also effective just as it is in the Trains (just as there are ‘Knee’s there are ‘Train’s and ‘Trial’s) where the vocals are almost indistinguishable from the organ in their spiralling repetitions.
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Glass: Einstein On The Beach: Einstein on the Beach (1757 words)
by - written on 08/12/06 (Very useful, 330 readings)
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Trying to describe Einstein on the Beach is a little like attempting to explain away the impossible. It was premiered at the Festival d'Avignon in 1975. The opera is credited to both Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, though Wilson was himself responsible for the design of the opera. Philip Glass, for the uninitiated, is one of the most successful classical composers of what is commonly termed minimalist music. Meaning that he embraces rhythm rather than composing via jarring stridulations or dissonant clashing noise without structure. Einstein on the Beach is the first in Glass’ portrait trilogy of operas and was designed to be a continuing opera ... Read the complete review
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