Philip Glass - 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (full album)

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1000 Airplanes on the Roof is a so called “science fiction music drama” with music by Philip Glass, story by David Henry Hwang and holographic set projections by Jerome Sirlin’s. And an incredible lead vocal performance from Linda Ronstadt.
Tracklist:
0:00 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
5:55 City Walk
8:08 Girlfriend
14:05 My Building Disappeared
15:51 Screens of Memory
19:24 What Time is Grey
21:41 Labyrinth
27:51 Return to the Hive
32:42 Three Truths
36:32 The Encounter
45:14 Grey Cloud Over New York
47:05 Where Have You Been asked The Doctor
51:00 A Normal Man Running
Music by Philip Glass.
Text by David Henry Hwang.
CAST:
Actor (speech only) S; fl (pic, bcl, wind syn). fl (ssx). ssx (asx, tsx)/ 2 syn
COMMISSION:
Commissioned by the Donau Festival Niederoesterreich, the American Music Theather Festival, Philadelphia, PA and Berlin, Cultural City of Europe 1988
PREMIERE:
July 15, 1988 at the Vienna International Airport, Hangar No. 3
SYNOPSIS:
The character “M” recalls encounters with extra-terrestrial life forms, including their message, “It is better to forget, it is pointless to remember. No one will believe you.” Are the surrealistic details an accurate recollection of a voyage through space, part of a drug-induced nightmare, or the beginning of a mental breakdown?

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  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly3 жыл бұрын

    I love that it is Linda Ronstadt providing the ethereal voice that is the most appreciated musical element in "Labyrinth" (21:41) and the following track "Return to the Hive"

  • @musiquemacabre

    @musiquemacabre

    Жыл бұрын

    @Jesus Christ Thank you, Jesus.

  • @robtempe

    @robtempe

    8 ай бұрын

    yes, it is sublime. Linda is fantastic. Also love her appearances on Songs For Liquid Days. btw firefly, love the videos on your youtube channel. right up my alley!

  • @rr7firefly

    @rr7firefly

    8 ай бұрын

    @@robtempe a kindred soul. Good to know you, Rob. Best to you. There are quite a few vids on KZread that are worth saving into a Playlist. Percentage-wise small but still a lot.

  • @anadaeeffro7437
    @anadaeeffro74372 жыл бұрын

    In “Labyrinth” which begins @21:41 if it isn’t abundantly clear for y’all to discern, what the Visitor is articulating to M. are these words, “It is better to forget. It is pointless to remember. No one will believe you. You will have spoken a heresy. You will be outcast.” Y’all’re welcome. Safe journeys, everybody. And Linda Ronstadt, we all really miss your presence. You’re just incomparably magnificent in this. Vaya con Dios.

  • @sherifatamusa7436
    @sherifatamusa74363 ай бұрын

    Feels like a 90s sci-fi soundtrack

  • @matthewsonnenberg303

    @matthewsonnenberg303

    Ай бұрын

    To accompany that great score for BUCKAROO BONZAI, perhaps?

  • @jamesfinn8186
    @jamesfinn81864 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting. I have this in cd form, and have just ordered vinyl of it. I consider myself lucky that I saw a touring production of this at the Madison Civic Center. It was absolutely brilliant.

  • @CheekyFest

    @CheekyFest

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have cd and vinyl too.

  • @arranwalk

    @arranwalk

    2 жыл бұрын

    I saw the touring production in 1988 or 1989, whenever it was, at McFarlin Auditorium, SMU campus, in Dallas, TX. My mom only had it on cassette. Met him in 1995 or 1996 and got the cassette signed.

  • @nielsaxelsson

    @nielsaxelsson

    Жыл бұрын

    I saw it here in Copenhagen - what an impressive stage show that was! 🤩 Unfortunately, my record collection was stolen a few years later😥, and with it this record😞. It's not on any streaming services, and it is nowhere to be found here in Denmark. Where did you order the vinyl from?

  • @sidDkid87

    @sidDkid87

    4 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ *_!!!_*

  • @paulyi1315
    @paulyi1315 Жыл бұрын

    Saw the world premiere at Zellervach with Phillip Glass performing and conducting my girlfriend (now ex were together 125 years) falls asleep drools and wets herself

  • @miriambertram2448
    @miriambertram2448 Жыл бұрын

    Saw as a touring production in la with my 16 yo daughter. Who was astonished that I liked it

  • @dorkygrrl
    @dorkygrrl4 жыл бұрын

    My son performed this with the Seattle Cascades in 2017 and it is so hard to find this! Thank you!!

  • @jakerussell135

    @jakerussell135

    3 ай бұрын

    seattle cascades played this in 2017? I only knew this from 7th Regiment 2023

  • @ellix8480
    @ellix84802 жыл бұрын

    Amazing album..It really takes me back to other times. Philip Glass is genious...❤❤❤

  • @theoharis11
    @theoharis11 Жыл бұрын

    thank you - neither apple music nor spotify have the album

  • @benjamincouder1811

    @benjamincouder1811

    4 ай бұрын

    Spoti does

  • @zeenohaquo7970
    @zeenohaquo79704 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting. I heard this piece on the radio in the early 90s. Nostalgia for me.

  • @donaldb1
    @donaldb14 жыл бұрын

    I saw this in the East Fortune Flight Museum in Scotland. In the Concorde hangar. Very impressive.

  • @minzou8002

    @minzou8002

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello! I am a researcher of this play, and currently, I have difficulty accessing it. I would like to know if the museum collects the recording of the play. If so, would you mind sharing with me more details about how to access it? Thank you very much!

  • @miriambertram2448

    @miriambertram2448

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow Great venue.

  • @zurueckerfinder-ausderkris8829
    @zurueckerfinder-ausderkris88292 жыл бұрын

    One of the best pieces of the awesome trespassing new way of music of Philip Glass.

  • @djwarlock2873
    @djwarlock287311 ай бұрын

    Thanks for posting this. I hadn't heard this one before.😊

  • @sharimauriello2153
    @sharimauriello21532 ай бұрын

    I saw this live stage concert/production years ago. The sets were extremely minimal and dark…being made up of a few objects and the rest was laser show scenery that the actor interacted with through the use of the objects. The laser show kept transforming the locations. It was so cool and the music was awesome. Wish there was footage somewhere to watch. I still have the album on cassette tape 😊.

  • @musiquemacabre
    @musiquemacabre Жыл бұрын

    Listening right now for the first time in 20ish years. Since then I've learned how to play music, specifically on piano and synthesizers. Beautiful piece that hits so much different now that I can think about what the musicians are doing. Why is this one so hard to find?

  • @arranwalk
    @arranwalk2 жыл бұрын

    I got to see this live in Dallas around 1988/1989. Saw him again around 1995/1996, doing a Q&A after a viewing of Koyaanisqatsi. Got to meet him and get a cassette of 1000 Airplanes autographed. Would have been perfect, if he hadn’t poked fun of how fat I was at the time. I was in high school.

  • @brianrogers2671

    @brianrogers2671

    2 жыл бұрын

    I also saw this at SMU. I think it was 1988. It blew my mind.

  • @brianrogers2671

    @brianrogers2671

    2 жыл бұрын

    I would love to have a video of that performance

  • @povertyspec9651

    @povertyspec9651

    2 жыл бұрын

    PG made fun of your weight? LOL He is a very nice guy and I find it hard to believe he did that.

  • @marcpeycker

    @marcpeycker

    Жыл бұрын

    @@povertyspec9651 Even the nicest of people can have their low moments. 😶

  • @pylgrym

    @pylgrym

    6 ай бұрын

    He performed for two hundred patrons and me at the Saint Louis Art Museum in the Spring of 1972, emptying close to half the auditorium.

  • @philippecirse4872
    @philippecirse487226 күн бұрын

    Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🍍🌴

  • @kenend3258
    @kenend32582 жыл бұрын

    Very underrated this.

  • @charlesflint9048
    @charlesflint90483 жыл бұрын

    This is just great, thank you.

  • @laurenceschwartz8606
    @laurenceschwartz86064 ай бұрын

    I understand that this was originally the score of a theatre sci-fi piece? Ear candy

  • @beatrixvantil8623
    @beatrixvantil86233 жыл бұрын

    WOW! Wonderful !

  • @user-fb7cr8xc2f
    @user-fb7cr8xc2f3 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic music!

  • @CheekyFest
    @CheekyFest3 жыл бұрын

    One of my fav PG albums

  • @youdbesuprised8105

    @youdbesuprised8105

    3 жыл бұрын

    For sure

  • @TheKinoEye

    @TheKinoEye

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oddly, not one of Phil's

  • @CheekyFest

    @CheekyFest

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheKinoEye oh

  • @jakelichter9349
    @jakelichter93493 жыл бұрын

    Jesus GOD this upload was a long time coming, thank you!!!!

  • @jakelichter9349

    @jakelichter9349

    3 жыл бұрын

    What if I comment every time I listen..the shit never gets old!!

  • @jakelichter9349

    @jakelichter9349

    3 жыл бұрын

    back again :)

  • @jakelichter9349

    @jakelichter9349

    2 жыл бұрын

    god damn i simply can't get enough - happy october :0

  • @leohardman-hill5313

    @leohardman-hill5313

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jakelichter9349 lol you da man for this - rock on1

  • @jakelichter9349

    @jakelichter9349

    Жыл бұрын

    Another year another fucking spin on the NOW ZONING shelf baby!!!! Let’s go Phil!!!

  • @povertyspec9651
    @povertyspec96512 жыл бұрын

    Glass is underrated!

  • @bsku0765

    @bsku0765

    Жыл бұрын

    ?!

  • @CheekyFest
    @CheekyFest2 жыл бұрын

    Ive got the CD and the vinyl

  • @ScienceBox3
    @ScienceBox32 жыл бұрын

    Not just "so-called" - this is based on a sci-fi book. :) For real.

  • @pietaltenloh7982
    @pietaltenloh79823 жыл бұрын

    El Bach del digloXX

  • @guillaumebonduelle7227
    @guillaumebonduelle72272 жыл бұрын

    Special dedication to the guy (Jonah Hill? The editor?) who illustrated the 90's “five O, five O” scene with “A Normal Man Running” by Philip Glass… A particularly amazing title

  • @Plkluv

    @Plkluv

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah I love this scene

  • @jondoe7862
    @jondoe78622 жыл бұрын

    Is there any video of the original production of this? I so wanted to see it when toured in the late 80's.

  • @bbburito
    @bbburito3 жыл бұрын

  • @NoPlaceLikeHomeMaine
    @NoPlaceLikeHomeMaine2 жыл бұрын

    You must credit the incredible vocals by Linda Ronstadt.

  • @Jpgr0004

    @Jpgr0004

    Жыл бұрын

    He did. Her name is in the description.

  • @pylgrym
    @pylgrym6 ай бұрын

    Just whips the britches off of DARK SIDE oF THE M00N. But, which came first? Phil or Floyd?

  • @galore2004
    @galore20042 жыл бұрын

    What can i listen to this on besides youtube?

  • @dbmusicproductions9181

    @dbmusicproductions9181

    10 ай бұрын

    Be thankful it is on KZread right now and enjoy it while you can. Like other recordings that go out of license, it may or may not ever come back. This is the way--for now.

  • @povertyspec9651

    @povertyspec9651

    9 ай бұрын

    You can find used CD's.

  • @willemvandeursen3105

    @willemvandeursen3105

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dbmusicproductions9181 So we realise that there isn't anything that hasn't been put on KZread. It's an endless cornucopia, and one day its seams will go supernova!

  • @justinsemmel4263
    @justinsemmel4263 Жыл бұрын

    ph