Philip Glass

Violinist Maria Bachmann and pianist Jon Klibanoff premiered Philip Glass' three-movement work Sonata For Violin And Piano on February 28th 2009 at Whitaker Center in Harrisburg Pennsylvania.The piece was commissioned by retired architect Martin Murray to commemorate the 70th birthday of his wife Lucy Miller Murray.

Violin Part-Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 4 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 4 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.' Glass' operas among them therenowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip GlassEnsemble.This is the Violin part for the fourth Knee Play from Einstein On The Beach.