This was gorgeous! Thanks so much for uploading,@Kademan! What else of Philip Glass does anyone recommend? I'm unfamiliar with him.
deathtokoalas
i think you need to be very careful with glass. some of it is really moving, while large amounts sort of run on a treadmill. he talks so much about tonal freedom, but often seems caged within his so-called revolution.
a lot of people will suggest his bloated 70s pieces. i can't concur. he honed in a little in the 80s, but it wasn't until the 90s that he really became a fully coherent composer. there's a record with shankar called 'passages' that is quite gorgeous, and both explores indian classical music and electronic music (in addition to the dark gothic stuff). he also released a few symphonies in the 90s that present his ideas in a more concise and coherent manner than any of his month long operas ever did. two & three, specifically.
i'd also suggest the truman show over the hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4WlNj1TTqA
Oh man calm down death koala. This isn't your blog.
deathtokoalas
all the world's a blog...
vermeer5
That's just silly. Glass works within a form, much like Feldman's lush minimalism or Adam's reiterations. Koyaanisqatsi is unique in Glass' oeuvre in that the circumstances were so straightened that everything that wasn't necessary was pared out and it was created hand in hand with the cinematographer of the film over the course of several years.
deathtokoalas
i don't really disagree, but i don't see how you're addressing anything i said or how anything i said is "silly". if it's a question of what period glass was most concise in, it's clear that it's his work after koyaanisqatsi that is the answer.
it was very fashionable to be bloated and pretentious in the 70s, but it's something that is really contained to the period and that neither contemporary nor future audiences are going to interpret as much more than a chore, whether the topic is glass or stockhausen.
