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Music with Changing Parts (1970). Philip Glass /dee-dee-dee-mistake/

Alex V. Cook has an interview of Dickie Landry, a founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble.

I particularly liked the part on helping Glass understand the value of accomplished musicians:

Landry pulls out a picture of one of the early Philip Glass Ensemble rehearsals noting the talented composers in the group but comments, “Philip and them were great composers but not the best technicians. They could play, but they really couldn’t play. We were rehearsing music for changing parts and it was like dee-dee-dee-mistake, dee-dee-dee-mistake. Oh God, I thought, this is like torture. I finally convinced him to get rid of these guys and told him I got some friends coming up to New York City; let’s rehearse with them and see what happens. We can read and play it faster and we can do this.”

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Keep in mind the work embedded from lala above is over an hour long.

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aworks: prior post on music with changing parts

Music with Changing Parts (1970). Philip Glass /mind-expanding/

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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:

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Music with Changing Parts (1970). Philip Glass

Cognitive Daily has a post about the Mozart effect where listening to Mozart may increase learning. Here's the relevant excerpt describing a study of the effect:

Jackson and Tlauka’s participants did the task twice: once after listening to Mozart’s piano sonata, and once while listening to Philip Glass’s Music with Changing Parts. None of the participants did the task following a period of silence. While the participants were able to learn the maze, the Mozart music did not lead to an improvement compared to the Philip Glass.

Hmm, scientific proof Mozart isn't superior to Glass...

David Hurwitz on Amazon suggests Music with Changing Parts as a less extreme alternative to Music in Twelve Parts although a reviewer calls it a "house clearer." I find La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano best for removing infidels from the premises...

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