Image via Wikipedia
Via Glass Notes, Music in Twelve Parts will be played in November at the festival automne en normandie:
C’est à la fois “une expérience intellectuelle et un voyage spirituel” que nous propose Philip Glass qui dirigera sur scène les “musiciens-athlètes” de son Philip Glass Ensemble.
Google translates:
It is both "an intellectual experience and a spiritual journey" that we propose Philip Glass on stage to lead the "musician-athletes" from his Philip Glass Ensemble.
I can still feel the effect from the San Francisco performance in February.
Andrew Porter on the work via wikipedia:
"A new sound and a new chord suddenly break in, with an effect as if one wall of a room has suddenly disappeared, to reveal a completely new view."
After a recent LisaH post mentioning John Adam's The Chairman Dances, I've been pondering if Music in Twelve Parts has any "narrative arc." While there is a captivating flow to three hours of all those varied structures, as suggested by Porter, I suppose the answer is no but I think it great nonetheless.
For an alternative viewpoint, here's an Amazon review from someone who didn't find the music quite as splendid:
An odd album, in that whilst it's an astonishing feat of musicianship, it's not much fun to listen to...Listened to on headphones, it will make you dive, screaming, for the 'eject' button after half-an-hour, but listened to in bits as an 'experience' it's much better - the musical equivalent of staring at clouds, or a flowing river, it changes and stays the same.
music in twelve parts: lala.
Comments