Those who consider this music repetitive just aren't listening closely enough. PG is and will always be one of the most consequential composers of our time.
I was lucky enough to see a few dress rehearsals and a few of the original performances at BAM, and the recent (albeit truncated) reprisal at New York's Joyce Theatre. Only the 5th piece was played live by the ensemble, the other 4 being prerecorded. The dancing and film were synced and beautifully seamless. Ebullient, effervescent and energizing, the performance lifted the audience on a ride to heaven and back. Miss Childs looked like a mercurial Audrey Hepburn in her two solos, but the dance ensemble were magnificent in making this massively calculated effort look effortless and joyful. Elsewhere on youtube there are fragments of the video of the performance, but it would be wonderful if the entire event could be redone again in its entirety.
1 and 3 were originally recorded by Tomato Records around the time of the dance's premiere; Tomato was also the record label on which Einstein on the Beach originally appeared. #s 2, 4, and 5 were recorded in the late-1980s by CBS/Sony. For years we only had 1 and 3 to listen to, so it was a total thrill to finally hear 2, 4, and 5 many years later. Listening to this upload now, I'm struck by the unbridled sense of joy that shines through, reminding me of why I would always play #s from this set when something great had happened in my life.
A real phenomenon, enhancing one's mood as almost nothing else ever written, this is music of sheer ascent as the booklet rightly says. It is exhilaration incarnate.
It's hard to imagine a more accomplished and sensitive performance and production, and Iris Hiskey's voice has some of the most ravishingly feminine, alluring harmonics in all singing: she touches in the notes precisely in line with understated nature of the work's radiance and ecstasy, adding to the fascination.
It has truly incredible magnetism and exhilaration, creating an insatiable fascination with the attention transfixed and mesmerized by every last detail: possibly the most unturnoffable and compulsive thing ever written its returns are almost unique in music.
Life is strange you know, i usually happen to like a lot music of a very different kind ( Boulez, Ligeti, Zappa, Feldman, Manoury, Debussy, Ravel, Strawinsky, Hindemith, Poulenc, Berio, Dusapin, Lindberg, Salonen,etc...), but i love this work so much ! Its lovely textures, its neverending vitality, its surprising shifts of rythm and its absolute determination to follow a strict pattern, i love them all ! Thanks !
I suscribe entirely here, I identically listen to almost (perhaps) all composers named and feeling specially this music, doesn't-it due particularly to the very volontary style of minimalist music ?
This music does seem to capture the excitement of the instinctive, intuitive flow of dance that is endogenous, aleatoric, intrinsic and shaped by the dancer or "conduit", as you stated.
@@birbthetopicman2851 No it wasn't a joke! I was responding to your post! I thought you were a dancer which is why I wrote my response in a specific way...
Dances Nos 1,3 & 5 are designed to be played at high volume and with an edge on the treble balance: without this, or on some steros, much of the inner detail is lost and the result can be bland- playing in the car can be ideal with the sound bouncing off the walls.
The comments section is an open forum and separate from the video. Anything goes and that's how I like it. If you believe I am handling things incorrectly than go ahead and post your own copy of this album.
And what strong melodic voice Glass has, identifiable from just a few notes. As a new genre minimalism has a somewhat limited number of great and significant works, but this is one.
Il est difficile d'imaginer une performance et une production plus abouties et plus sensibles, et la voix d'Iris Hiskey possède certaines des harmoniques les plus féminines et les plus séduisantes de tous les chants : elle touche les notes précisément en ligne avec la nature discrète de l'éclat et de l'extase de l'œuvre
Some have difficulty with the surface homogeneity in place of traditional depth structure but this piece really crushes the objections of writers like Robert Fink or Roger Scruton.
I know I'm 8 years late, but I was thinking the same thing. Reading Roger Scruton on standards of beauty and modern degeneracy, I feel like Philip Glass' music is an interesting rejoinder of sorts.
No. There is nothing accidental about Philip Glass. Every note is there deliberately. Timing is everything. It is the complete opposite of dadaism. And since when do people have to know what dadaism is to enjoy something? Anybody can enjoy whatever music they want. YEESH.
Good minimalism raises some interesting questions about how the attention works- its remarkable involving quality seems to be related to the process of strong ideas being repeated before they can begin to be processed or reconciled intellectually, focussing the mind instead on the inexhaustible fascination of the aesthetic.
The intense onward lines and intoxication parallel sexual and narcotic experience and the solfage syllables sung have erotic overtones. Such is its communicative power it's the sort of piece that would be rather interesting to play at a nightclub with a massive sound system to see people's reaction, with the gripping rhythms and motivic fragments recognizable by the pop crowd.
Richard Wagner should be jealous , now I'm not only a Glass fan, but a yippie - minimalistic fan !! The vocalists are true gymnastics , just take a look to a glass live opera!!!
you are probably right, philip glass can't be tied down to merely the 'miminal' sub-genre. I'm only not sure, since I haven't heard any of what has been officially termed, 'dada ist' music (don't even know if there is such a thing). I wonder sometimes what kurt schwiters work would sound like if translated from visual to audio. Hum...maybe Nurse With Wound?
I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. Richard Brautigan
Since when does someone asking an innocent question and trying to start a conversation about the music's artistic connotations require that people respond snidely? Personally, I don't really see dada in the music. Indeed, it is very structured and seems fairly high-minded and bourgeois, aimed at mass audience. It doesn't too much challenge the listener's standard appreciation of "beauty", besides exhibiting minimalist schemes. If any dadaists came along today, I think Glass is who they'd attack.
If you are referring to Dada-ism,ist As in black /orange , red /orange , yellow,black /orange. It is certainly there.On /off On,on,on off,B,O...R,O...Y,B,O.It's wonderful
A previous contributor has described this music as Dadaist. My wife agrees, it goes dadadadadada for bloody ages Then mercifully stops. I absolutely love the composition 'Passages' written with Ravi Sankra performed at the Proms this year.
You should have seen the performances at Bam thirty years ago. Heavenly is the only description. Put this music on, take off your shoes and dance in the grass.
3 & 5 are a little less interesting: 3 is built around a powerful hypnotic sequence but is more simply repetitive and less developed, and the ideas in 5 aren't quite as strong or inevitable- it's also not sung by Hiskey. Nos.2 & 4 are for solo organ, again full of interest and intelligence.
@@sidolanters1394 Only Riesman is listed. I get there is the possibility of "ghosting" (unwritten rhythms emerging from out of the combination of what the hands are playing) but even that would only account for part of it. I'm guessing over overdub but would love to see the score to see how its notated.
I guess you didn't read the whole thing. Look for context before losing your cool. When kademan said no in his response, julwk said that because he doesn't agree that it's 'dadaistic' kademan isn't the right person to 'upload and manage Glass' music.' AKA, in his own mind, kademan doesn't get glass like julwk. There's no monopoly on who can enjoy what, and that's why people are harping on him. So once again... OY.
The most incredible thing about Philip Glass music is that it's equally perfect for working and also for resting
Those who consider this music repetitive just aren't listening closely enough. PG is and will always be one of the most consequential composers of our time.
This is one of Philip Glass' best compositions. *He said for the 17th time*
*slow clap*
I was lucky enough to see a few dress rehearsals and a few of the original performances at BAM, and the recent (albeit truncated) reprisal at New York's Joyce Theatre. Only the 5th piece was played live by the ensemble, the other 4 being prerecorded. The dancing and film were synced and beautifully seamless. Ebullient, effervescent and energizing, the performance lifted the audience on a ride to heaven and back. Miss Childs looked like a mercurial Audrey Hepburn in her two solos, but the dance ensemble were magnificent in making this massively calculated effort look effortless and joyful. Elsewhere on youtube there are fragments of the video of the performance, but it would be wonderful if the entire event could be redone again in its entirety.
1 and 3 were originally recorded by Tomato Records around the time of the dance's premiere; Tomato was also the record label on which Einstein on the Beach originally appeared. #s 2, 4, and 5 were recorded in the late-1980s by CBS/Sony. For years we only had 1 and 3 to listen to, so it was a total thrill to finally hear 2, 4, and 5 many years later.
Listening to this upload now, I'm struck by the unbridled sense of joy that shines through, reminding me of why I would always play #s from this set when something great had happened in my life.
Dance 1 0:00:00
Dance 2 0:19:20
Dance 3 0:42:18
Dance 4 1:00:53
Dance 5 1:24:25
*Dance 2 is at 19:19
Thanks for the timestamps though!
A real phenomenon, enhancing one's mood as almost nothing else ever written, this is music of sheer ascent as the booklet rightly says. It is exhilaration incarnate.
It's hard to imagine a more accomplished and sensitive performance and production, and Iris Hiskey's voice has some of the most ravishingly feminine, alluring harmonics in all singing: she touches in the notes precisely in line with understated nature of the work's radiance and ecstasy, adding to the fascination.
This music touches my soul and intrigues my mind.
Same here.
It has truly incredible magnetism and exhilaration, creating an insatiable fascination with the attention transfixed and mesmerized by every last detail: possibly the most unturnoffable and compulsive thing ever written its returns are almost unique in music.
Life is strange you know, i usually happen to like a lot music of a very different kind ( Boulez, Ligeti, Zappa, Feldman, Manoury, Debussy, Ravel, Strawinsky, Hindemith, Poulenc, Berio, Dusapin, Lindberg, Salonen,etc...), but i love this work so much ! Its lovely textures, its neverending vitality, its surprising shifts of rythm and its absolute determination to follow a strict pattern, i love them all ! Thanks !
I suscribe entirely here, I identically listen to almost (perhaps) all composers named and feeling specially this music, doesn't-it due particularly to the very volontary style of minimalist music ?
why do you like boulez?
clarinetjo WinneWinne
welcome to Philip Glass :)
I love the fact that timbres are so important here, and the insistence of rhythm!
Absolutely entrancing! I had the privilege of seeing Maestro Glass conduct his ensemble in a small venue in Bozeman, MT circa Glassworks. Stunning!
You are lucky. Wait, in Bozeman?!
I keep listening to it, and it keeps being beautiful ! such à joy to listen to !
Something about this particular Philip Glass really touches my heart. The progression of the harmonies.
I am a Dancer, That is to say a conduit.
I don't define movement, movement defines me.
Every dance tells a story, a Human mind.
EXXPLORHESHIOOON!!!!
This music does seem to capture the excitement of the instinctive, intuitive flow of dance that is endogenous, aleatoric, intrinsic and shaped by the dancer or "conduit", as you stated.
@@crescentsi I am unsure if your comment is also a joke, but my comment is a reference to a different joke video which has those words
@@birbthetopicman2851 No it wasn't a joke! I was responding to your post! I thought you were a dancer which is why I wrote my response in a specific way...
I like Phillip Glass a lot.
Folks say, great; show me something.
Then they tell me i.m crazy.
absolutely beautiful music to relax with your thoughts
Iconic
Dances Nos 1,3 & 5 are designed to be played at high volume and with an edge on the treble balance: without this, or on some steros, much of the inner detail is lost and the result can be bland- playing in the car can be ideal with the sound bouncing off the walls.
The comments section is an open forum and separate from the video. Anything goes and that's how I like it. If you believe I am handling things incorrectly than go ahead and post your own copy of this album.
And what strong melodic voice Glass has, identifiable from just a few notes. As a new genre minimalism has a somewhat limited number of great and significant works, but this is one.
Pure magic.
Il est difficile d'imaginer une performance et une production plus abouties et plus sensibles, et la voix d'Iris Hiskey possède certaines des harmoniques les plus féminines et les plus séduisantes de tous les chants : elle touche les notes précisément en ligne avec la nature discrète de l'éclat et de l'extase de l'œuvre
If you like this, I recommend "Music in 12 Parts" also from that period.
Love number 2...
Magnífico!
Some have difficulty with the surface homogeneity in place of traditional depth structure but this piece really crushes the objections of writers like Robert Fink or Roger Scruton.
I know I'm 8 years late, but I was thinking the same thing. Reading Roger Scruton on standards of beauty and modern degeneracy, I feel like Philip Glass' music is an interesting rejoinder of sorts.
belíssimo, leve e rápido.
Simplemente excelente !
Thank you for uploading this. It's working.
No. There is nothing accidental about Philip Glass. Every note is there deliberately. Timing is everything. It is the complete opposite of dadaism. And since when do people have to know what dadaism is to enjoy something? Anybody can enjoy whatever music they want. YEESH.
Awesome upload brother.
Good minimalism raises some interesting questions about how the attention works- its remarkable involving quality seems to be related to the process of strong ideas being repeated before they can begin to be processed or reconciled intellectually, focussing the mind instead on the inexhaustible fascination of the aesthetic.
Thank God for "nut" who creates beautiful music. As for you "Lord PlatePus", you are the downer who's world is without joy.
Whose*
Also, who's Lord PlatePus? I'm curious
glorious.
Stellar!!!
awesome
Bravo
Track one reminds me of The Field's "Thought vs. action"
I wonder if The Field listens to Glass.
The intense onward lines and intoxication parallel sexual and narcotic experience and the solfage syllables sung have erotic overtones. Such is its communicative power it's the sort of piece that would be rather interesting to play at a nightclub with a massive sound system to see people's reaction, with the gripping rhythms and motivic fragments recognizable by the pop crowd.
ditto, when i started to hear "fuck me, fuck me, fuck me, fuck me", in dance 1 or 3 i think,lol.
Wasn't this part of "In the Upper Room"?
No, but you are sooooo smart and soooo hip for using big words.
Richard Wagner should be jealous , now I'm not only a Glass fan, but a yippie - minimalistic fan !! The vocalists are true gymnastics , just take a look to a glass live opera!!!
you are probably right, philip glass can't be tied down to merely the 'miminal' sub-genre. I'm only not sure, since I haven't heard any of what has been officially termed, 'dada ist' music (don't even know if there is such a thing). I wonder sometimes what kurt schwiters work would sound like if translated from visual to audio. Hum...maybe Nurse With Wound?
Album cover = Einstein on the Beach teaser, got them blue converse sneakers on display!
Einstein on the Beach came before Dances 1-5, but the Dances in EoB are certainly a precursor!
The sound of Krishna's Rasa Dance
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
Richard Brautigan
Wonderful sounds. Takes a minute to adjust to its uniqueness. Daring
153,144
144 perfection
Questo album è SANTO
Since when does someone asking an innocent question and trying to start a conversation about the music's artistic connotations require that people respond snidely? Personally, I don't really see dada in the music. Indeed, it is very structured and seems fairly high-minded and bourgeois, aimed at mass audience. It doesn't too much challenge the listener's standard appreciation of "beauty", besides exhibiting minimalist schemes. If any dadaists came along today, I think Glass is who they'd attack.
If you are referring to Dada-ism,ist As in black /orange , red /orange , yellow,black /orange. It is certainly there.On /off On,on,on off,B,O...R,O...Y,B,O.It's wonderful
I'm also barley 8 minutes in
01:07:17 somebody should sample that and put a hip hop beat to it!
I'd do it, but i'm lazy :)
#2021
this whole entire piece is one, gigantic mushroom trip.
My country of origin is a party to the proposed TPP and am very much against it. I'll check EFF.org for sure.
50:52 Timestamp for myself
A previous contributor has described this music as Dadaist. My wife agrees, it goes dadadadadada for bloody ages Then mercifully stops. I absolutely love the composition 'Passages' written with Ravi Sankra performed at the Proms this year.
You should have seen the performances at Bam thirty years ago. Heavenly is the only description. Put this music on, take off your shoes and dance in the grass.
I am a dancer, that is to say a conduit.
3 & 5 are a little less interesting: 3 is built around a powerful hypnotic sequence but is more simply repetitive and less developed, and the ideas in 5 aren't quite as strong or inevitable- it's also not sung by Hiskey. Nos.2 & 4 are for solo organ, again full of interest and intelligence.
28:13 onwards . Still can't work out how that is being played. Unless its a nose job.
maybe it's performed by two musicians?
@@sidolanters1394 Only Riesman is listed. I get there is the possibility of "ghosting" (unwritten rhythms emerging from out of the combination of what the hands are playing) but even that would only account for part of it. I'm guessing over overdub but would love to see the score to see how its notated.
me too. ;)
The sheet music for this one as well as Dance 4 is definitely available for purchase if you’re interested
I'm a dancer that is to say a conduit
Dance no. 3 sounds like how Narnia feels.
youve been to Narnia!
philip glass invented music.
no
Where's the hook at?
TheKinoEye All.
I guess you didn't read the whole thing. Look for context before losing your cool. When kademan said no in his response, julwk said that because he doesn't agree that it's 'dadaistic' kademan isn't the right person to 'upload and manage Glass' music.' AKA, in his own mind, kademan doesn't get glass like julwk. There's no monopoly on who can enjoy what, and that's why people are harping on him. So once again... OY.
Pepsi está muy feliz en los países hispanoparlantes después de esto.
Mièvrerie ? Glass se moque-t-il ?
As they said about Mozart: It was music I had never heard before!