"Hymn to a Great City" but what city? Part composed it for an emigre Estonian couple that first put him up in the U.S. and was first performed in New York City in 1984, then revised in 2004, and now performed here by the French piano duo Katia & Marielle. Minimalist Dream House.
More piano. Glass at his most urgent, circling, shimmeringly great TV drama theme song poptimist peak.
I have my problems with Paul Simon, who introduced instrumental group Uakti to Philip Glass. But these four Brazilians do cast the hot percussive bottom of Glasses's minimalist noir in a flattering nocturnal, a Ballet, spotlight. Come to think of it, I've had my problems with Philip Glass (sometimes he makes music that sounds like a funny melodramatic caricature of the serious composer artist, right?) but I've also come to realize I've neglected some of his work. Like this one. Delightful.
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