Philip Glass

Un opéra en quatre actes pour ensemble, choeur et solistes de partition complète du compositeur minimaliste Philip Glass. Il est le premier opéra de longue et de verre, en prenant environ cinq heures pour terminer, sans entracte. Etant donné la nature de la musique - la répétition de longues petits éléments, le développement très progressif et de changement, modèles récurrents - les membres du public sont libres d'entrer et sortir comme ils le souhaitent. / Scores

'Another Look at Harmony' is a project started in 1975. The approach has been to link directly rhythmic and harmonic structure. In doing so easily audible root movement (chords or 'changes') was chosen in order that the clarityof their relationship could easily be heard. Here as in earlier periods of Western music melodic material is for the most part a function or result of the harmony. However it is clear that some of the priorities of Westernmusic (harmony/melody first then rhythm) have been reversed.

From Einstein On The Beach-Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 3 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 3 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 eight minute piece is the third Knee Play from Einstein On The Beach and is scored for unaccompanied SATB chorus.