Philip Glass: Classic or Dud? Search and Destroy

XP - On this tour you mean? Yes, possibly not on others

They do seem to be cracking through it at a fair old pace though, the site says durée 3'20" which is odd, when I saw it it was at least four hours long.

What's killing me is how it's the same people now who have been touring this for what, nearly 2 years? What does their head sound like when they go to bed at night, that poor kid.

It's already been on for close to 3 hours

We still have New Age Sax Terror, Radio Ga-Ga Vid and Driving Miss Daisy (on a train) to go

don't forget Dan Flavin Space Aria

Haha, currently watching Levitating Polo Mint V3.

Had to turn off, don't want "Knee 4" to leave me a wreck while at w3rk.

it's gonna be available on the site for a while, I think

OH THANK GLASS.

Dan Flavin Space Aria. Awesome.

Hai-Ting Chinn bloody rules

Yeah this is so beautiful

HERE WE GO

That organ transition gives me goosebumps

*weeps silently*

RETRANSMISSION DU SPECTACLE

stream is repeating for those who want to begin at the beginning again

says it's available until may 7th

Fuckin' A!

oh sweet

The kid keeps a blog -

http://theboyofeob.wordpress.com/

I wonder how his skateboarding skills are coming along! When I saw the NY show I kinda laughed because he seemed unsteady. I'd imagine after X amount of performances he'd be doing ollie's off the stage by now.

Anyone got a link to a download of this? Would rather not stream it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9TeVdW8sYA

Trial 2: Prison (Supermarket) @ 2:36:15

have watched twice since the stream went up

Wonder if this will actually be any good (the 1968 recording, not the fucking didgeridoo thing)

http://philipglass.typepad.com/glass_notes/2014/01/two-new-omm-releases-philip-glass-debut-concert-1968-voices-for-didgeridoo-organ.html

Wonder if this will actually be any good (the 1968 recording, not the fucking didgeridoo thing)

I actually really want to hear the fucking didgeridoo thing, but only out of morbid curiosity.

Attempted to listen to the fucking didgeridoo thing on Youtube. Interminable. Your suspicions were correct.

Glass up until Einstein <<<<<<<<<< Glass from Einstein through the Dance pieces >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Glass ever since. the only outliers are Music For Twelve Musicians and the Candyman soundtrack, both of which kick much ass.

thought he died when saw thread bump, imagined him cold with a needle in his arm

Saw a documentary about him. Watched him cook and do tai chi. He will outlive us all.

Music For Twelve Musicians

what is this?

It's sorta like Music For Eighteen Parts

So half of them are pulling double-duty?

jamescobo u got some inequality sign issues here breh

Originally it was a collaboration with Steve Reich called Music for 30 Musicians but they got into a big fight and everybody took sides.

music for COOL PEOPLE ONLY (parts I-XXIV)

I like La Belle et le Bete, Symphony no 8, and The Illusionist a lot out of later Glass stuff.

Glass up until Einstein <<<<<<<<<< Glass from Einstein through the Dance pieces >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Glass ever since. the only outliers are Music For Twelve Musicians and the Candyman soundtrack, both of which kick much ass.

this is completely otm though I find the lesser post-Dance stuff more interesting/listenable than I used to.

I rly like the 3rd Qatsi score too... can't remember if that's Naqoy or Powwa. Basically the first and third Qatsi scores are great and the middle one sucks.

The new Reggio one, Visitors, was interesting enough on first listen to warrant a second. Will say more later.

I def recognize that what he has to contribute at this stage is not unique or epoch making in the way he once was but it also just pleases me on an animal level.

This was new to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0

Visitors: the album is about 2x too long but there is some really moving stuff here. Recommend paring it down to tracks 1,4,5 and 6.

uh how come nobody mentioned that UCLA is putting on three days of Glass pieces in early May

5/2: Beauty and the Beast: http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/event_detail.asp?id=398
5/3: Music In Twelve Parts (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!): http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/event_detail.asp?id=399
5/4: some new thing called Etudes: http://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/event_detail.asp?id=400

I bought a ticket dead center for Twelve Parts. this means that in the last calendar year I will have seen Einstein on the Beach, Music In Twelve Parts, Music For 18 Musicians, and Drumming all performed live. now I just need to see performances of The Photographer and Bryars' Sinking of the Titanic and I can go ahead and leave the planet. hard to believe anything's going to top Drumming though.

sometimes i think part one of 12 parts is the most sublime ambient piece ever composed

it pisses me off so much that they're sticking an intermission in the middle of it. fuk the wusses who can't handle the whole thing in one go. then again I saw Einstein twice without ever getting up to go to the bathroom so maybe my kidneys just appreciate minimalism.

hahaha p glass should compose potty break music

just looking at Music in 12 Parts on iTunes and am confused. There are two releases, both on Orange Mountain Music, sort of. One is from 2013 and is a single 25 dollar release. The other is 12 separate 19 or so minute releases, each labeled by which part it is. I'm too lazy to preview now to see if they're the same. Anybody know if they're the same recording?

wait, it's more confusing than that.

There's this:

http://philipglass.com/music/recordings/twelve_parts.php

Then there's this live version from 2008:

http://www.philipglass.com/music/recordings/musicin12parts.php

and I think the split up version comes from that.

Yes, the split up version comes from this one:

http://www.philipglass.com/img/covers/225/MUSIC-in-12-Parts-225.jpg

This one was recorded in 1993 and originally released on Nonesuch in 1996:

http://www.philipglass.com/img/covers/225/music-in-12-parts_225.jpg

However, this 3-CD set from Virgin Records in 1989 was the first release of all 12 parts. Parts 1 - 6 were recorded in 1975 (1 & 2 released on a LP at the time), parts 7 - 12 recorded in 1987. This version isn't listed on the philipglass.com website, which probably means it's out of print:

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-917837-1172643543.jpeg