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Akhnaten
Philip Glass · 1987
A low, dark opera built by deleting violins — and a Western fantasy dressed as ancient ritual.
Artist
Philip Glass
- 4
- briefs
- 9:38
- average
- 39 min
- in total
On music.briefs
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Einstein on the Beach
Philip Glass · 1979
Einstein on the Beach is a 1979 recording of Philip Glass’s 1976 opera—the first of his portrait trilogy—composed in 1975 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in close collaboration with Robert Wilson. It incorporates Parts 1 and 2 of Another Look at Harmony. The 1979 recording features Paul Zukofsky on solo violin.
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Glassworks
Philip Glass · 1982
The material confirms only three facts: Glassworks (1982, CBS Records) contains unused film music—including 'Façades'—and broadened Glass’s audience. Nothing else is verified.
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Satyagraha
Philip Glass · 1985
Satyagraha is Philip Glass’s 1979 opera, recorded in 1985, based on Gandhi’s early South African years. It uses Sanskrit text, symphony orchestra, chorus, and solo voices to embody the concept of satyagraha — not narrate it. Repetition is its grammar. Resistance is its rhythm. It does not explain. It insists.