Einstein on the Beach 4 LP Box Set TOM-4-2901
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Description
Vinyl VG+
Box shows some wear, but not bad
12x12 Booklet included.
Philip Glass / Robert Wilson (2) ?– Einstein On The Beach
Label:
Tomato ?– TOM-4-2901
Format:
4 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Box Set
Country:
US
Released:
1979
Genre:
Classical
Style:
Contemporary
Tracklist
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A1
Knee Play 1
A2
Act I, Scene 1: Train
B
Act I, Scene 2: Trial
C1
Knee Play 2
C2
Act II, Scene 1: Dance 1 (Field With Spaceship)
D1
Act II, Scene 2: Night Train
D2
Knee Play 3
E
Act III, Scene 1: Trial/Prison
F1
Act III, Scene 2: Dance 2 (Field With Spaceship)
F2
Knee Play 4
Bass Vocals [Small Chorus] – Sean Barker
Tenor Vocals [Small Chorus] – Philip Gavin Smith
G1
Act IV, Scene 1: Building/Train
G2
Act IV, Scene 2: Bed
H1
Act IV, Scene 3: Spaceship
H2
Knee Play 5
From wikipedia
Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts (framed and connected by five "knee plays" or intermezzos), composed by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson.[1] The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards.[2] The music was written "in the spring, summer and fall of 1975."[3] Glass recounts the collaborative process: "I put [Wilson’s notebook of sketches] on the piano and composed each section like a portrait of the drawing before me. The score was begun in the spring of 1975 and completed by the following November, and those drawings were before me all the time." [4] The premiere took place on July 25, 1976, at theAvignon Festival in France. The opera contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson andLucinda Childs.[5] It is Glass's first and longest opera score, taking approximately five hours in full performance without intermission; given the length, the audience is permitted to enter and leave as desired.[5]
The work became the first in Glass' thematically related Portrait Trilogy, along with Satyagraha (1979), andAkhnaten (1983). These three operas were described by Glass as portraits of people whose personal vision transformed the thinking of their times through the power of ideas rather than by military force.[5]
Composition and performance history[edit]
Glass and Wilson first met to discuss the prospects of a collaborative work, and decided on an opera of between four and five hours in length based around a historical persona. Wilson initially suggested Charlie Chaplin or Adolf Hitler, whom Glass outright rejected, while Glass proposed Mahatma Gandhi (later the central figure of his opera Satyagraha). Albert Einstein was the eventual compromise.[6]
1976 premiere and first tour[edit]
Einstein on the Beach premiered on July 25, 1976, at the Avignon Festival in France, performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble and presented by the Byrd Hoffmann Foundation.[1] The opera was also staged that summer in Hamburg, Paris, Belgrade, Venice, Brussels, Rotterdam. In November 1976, Einsteinwas performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.[5] Lucinda Childs, Robert Wilson pupil Sheryl S. Sutton and Samuel M. Johnson filled the primary characters; all three reappeared in the 1984 BAM revival.
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