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Since it is free for the first seven days, I'm playing with the newly available Rhapsody iPhone app. I don't know how large their catalog of streaming tracks is but I count 99 albums with Philip Glass music. Can I listen to all 99 without my head exploding? I probably won't take that chance. Still, the idea of listening to an infinite amount of music without ultimately being tethered to a computer is at least mind-expanding. My iPod Classic now seems archaic.
The only Glass recording I don't particularly recognize is a single on Nonesuch from 2005 of the original Music with Changing Parts. From the composer's web site:
To the mix, Glass now adds a sense of the epic — Music With Changing Parts was plotted as an evening-length piece and some early performances went on for up to two hours — and he allows both himself and the players a certain impulsive, almost Romantic, creative freedom that is markedly absent in the stark, formalist rigor of the preceding works.
Update: This recording is also on lala, along with an indication that I've already uploaded it which means I actually own it:
rhapsody: philip glass. music with changing parts. lala: philip glass. philipglass.com: music with changing parts
I've been a Rhapsody subscriber off and on for some years now. Outside of the famous ones you know about (Beatles, Led Zep, Metallica), they have enough streaming music to keep you occupied for several years.
Posted by: Steven | September 11, 2009 at 12:22 AM