Review
Almost everyone has heard minimalist composer Philip Glass’s music: often just two alternating notes, going dweedle dweedle forever through his huge output of operas, film scores, symphonies and chamber music. Though there’s plenty of dweedling on the 10 discs in Glass Box, from 1969 until recent years, this shrewdly chosen collection maximizes his variety: robotic and romantic, Euroclassical and exotic. There are dizzying Bach-goes-Krautrock pieces for electric organs, near-swinging world-music percussion in Powaqqatsi and the emotional surges of his string quartets. Glass bared his technique in the mathematical rush of Einstein on the Beach, with numbers and notes as lyrics, revealing not only repetition but crafty expansion and contraction: “1-2-3-4, 1-2-3.” It’s openly mechanical, but at its best, it’s also ecstatic.
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