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Glass: Einstein On The Beach

Description: Genre: Classical - Opera / Audio CD released 1993-11-01 at Nonesuch / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Knee 2 Train ... more

Glass: Einstein On The Beach ... Train/Trial
3 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. In many ways the opera is a contradiction. ...more

Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach Price Comparison

Sony Classical, March 10, 2003, Catalog Number: SM4K87970 Einstein On The Beach	£ 26,99	Postage & Packaging: Availability:
Nonesuch, January 02, 1995, UPC: 0075597932324 Glass: Einstein on the Beach [BOX SET]	£ 40,98	Postage & Packaging: Availability:
Nonesuch, August 30, 1999, UPC: 0075597943597 Einstein on the Beach	£ 10,98	Postage & Packaging: Availability:

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Glass: Einstein On The Beach: Einstein on the Beach (1757 words)
by no_name - written on 08.12.06 (Very useful, 273 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 ...

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