Thank you so much for commenting Einstein on the Beach.This is one of the albums that changed my ideas about music fundamentally. I can rembember still the moment I heard this for the first time, 37 years ago. I was deeply impressed. After so many years I still love this.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching ♥️!

I know this is from 2 years ago, but you can see Philip Glass in the audience. At 2:17 that is Philip Glass right behind the conductor with his hand on his face.

Oh my God! I love this performance. It's just fabulous. I recommend Knee Play 5 as well.

Omg who suggested this? I never thought I'd see Philip Glass again so soon. Fantastic! I have a piano rendition of this on my channel.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed Allo!

@sexy_wrecksy

2 жыл бұрын

That was me, struck whiile the Glass was hot.

@allotrope2978

2 жыл бұрын

@@sexy_wrecksy Right on, Glass bro.

Now try something from "Songs from Liquid Days" .... Glass's collaboration with popular songwriters (including Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson).

Yes they were counting, and then they were using solfege syllables like you said. :) The idea behind a lot of Glass's pieces are that the repetition causes every audience member to have an emotional reaction at different times, rather than at the same time. The reason they were motionless and expressionless is because that's how the piece is performed in the original opera. By the way, that wasn't Philip Glass conducing, but his decades-long collaborator Michael Riesman. He plays the organ on Rubric. Please do more Glass. :)

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info Allo♥️. We’ll see what the patrons say!

"Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday Wednesday..." No, you're right. It is just the numbers, "one two three" or "one two three four" depending on the time signature, or the solfeggio notes (Do Re Mi) for the slow parts. It's the simplest elements of music, of rhythm and tonality, broken down into these hypnotic patterns. I think the image of it "going straight through you" is right. You can't think about it. There isn't that much to think about. But has an affect on you and you feel it. I saw the 2012 revival of Einstein on the Beach in London and it was an amazing experience, over 4 hours of very strange, theatrical thing that isn't at all easy to describe, a mixture of music, dance, stream-of-consciousness poetry, odd stories. There was a railway train, a trial, and a nuclear explosion. Not easy to say what it meant, but it stays with you, whatever it is. It was co-created by avant-garde director Robert Wilson, who produces these very long abstract theatre experiences that don't have breaks in them, but the sections are seperated by "joints" of short pieces of music that he calls "knee plays". So this piece is a like an intermission between Acts 3 and 4. Finally, the guy conducting isn't actually Glass but his long time collaborator Michael Riesman. But Glass is in the front row of the audience, if not visible in this video then in others in the same concert, (all of which I think are available on youtube and all worth checking out).

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clarification Donald!

You should check out the whole opera (preferably on the 1978 recording) it conjours up a post apocalyptic landscape where computerised voices spout meaningless gibberish before going insane and generating a lot of numerals instead. I accidentally discovered it tuning into a radio station back in the early 80's and it blew me for six. There is a full staged performance on here as well but nothing beats just going into the music blind. It was part of a movement (which happened both musically and artistically) called "minimalism" which was about presenting the same often ver basic object over and over again with a few small changes in structure. Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt and Carl Andre are the visual equivalents. Musically you should also check out Steve Reich. His "Octet" is another good example of the aesthetic in action.

"Fucking madman" is an apt description of Glass in the very best sense of the term.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

We agree!

My gosh, the control and precision is exceptional. The second lady from the right does appear to be fighting back from breaking out in laughter though. The ambiguity of the words is an intentional part of the composition with subtle changes and evolving meanings.

it warms my heart to see people reacting to Philip Glass.

Been watching your videos for a few months here and there but this got me to subscribe. Keep up the hard work and would love to see some more Yes music.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much KMAs Korner! Check out our link below for the latest Yes reaction. m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/equc0thyiLW5frg.html

That was great! I like most of the stuff by Philip Glass. He is also a nice man. I saw a few interviews with him.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Oh cool, thanks Thomas!

@thomasvieth6063

2 жыл бұрын

@@SightAfterDark I don't know how to send them to you, but those Philip Glass interviews can be found right here on KZread should you be interested

Glad you guys liked it, you can hear the sweat in this one.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

😆definitely! Thanks again Derek♥️!

I am HERE for the Glass Dive. Floe, Mad World, any of the Metamorphosis pieces. onetwothreonetwothreeonetwothreeeeeee

The only thing I like more than watching Einstein on the Beach, is watching artists watching Einstein on the Beach ... thank you for sharing your "take" on the performance!

@SightAfterDark

10 ай бұрын

Our pleasure! Thanks for watching!

Great song for a react.. very interesting selection. I’ve always thought it would be nice to see a react to some Philip Glass or Steven Reich as a break from more conventional pop tones. I’d love to see a react to Knee Play 5, and “It could be Frankie, It could be very fresh and clean. For these are the days my friends, and these are the days my friends”.. but won’t hold my breath, as there’s likely quite a number of react requests, so I’m surprised to see this one make the playlist even among Patreon donors. Choice cut, thanks! 😎👍

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

speaking of pieces which don't really sound like anything until you put it all together, y'all gotta listen to 'Spem in Alium' by Thomas Tallis. It's a masterpiece of sound for . . . 8 choirs of 5 individual voices, SSATB, if I recall correctly, totalling 40 individual voices all singing different lines of counterpoint. It's WILD.

@SightAfterDark

9 ай бұрын

THOMAS TALLIS "SPEM IN ALEM" (reaction) kzread.info/dash/bejne/hZpozbJydqmsc7w.html

@vrixphillips

9 ай бұрын

Oh good! I'll have to watch it after class :D@@SightAfterDark hope y'all enjoyed it!

Disc 4 of Einstein on the Beach practically encompasses the whole opera.

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@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

😆

Hostage video LOL! Good one! Yea , I heard "what to be, what to be...you lookin at me.. lookin at me...so you see...what it be... what it be....." This could be used for subliminal thought implantation!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

😆for sure

Love Einstein on The Beach! I'm sure you'll do Koyaanisqatsi soon enough....

9:57 😂!!!

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

😆couldn’t resist!

Glass' voice/choral work is always interesting to me. It's his preference for short, repetitive patterns (track after track) that I struggle with.

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

Understandable

Wanadi Wanadi Wanadi Wanadi, Wanadi Wanadi Wanadi, wanadifo, Wanadifo Wanadifo Oh, sorry guys, just pacticing haha. This is why i like your channel so much. This never was on dutch radio. All kind of music on this channel. Love you guys 👍😁❤🌷

@SightAfterDark

2 жыл бұрын

😂 thanks for watching Peter! Love you too!

That wasn't Glass.