{"id":128642,"date":"2021-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nursingstudybay.com\/2021\/12\/20\/philip-glass-einstein-on-the-beach\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T00:00:00","slug":"philip-glass-einstein-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studyproessays.com\/help\/philip-glass-einstein-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Glass \u2013 Einstein On The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> Are you tired of being constantly bombarded with meaningless pop fluff that MTV throws at your brain? Need a little something fresh and exciting? Then head to your local record store\u2019s opera section and pick up Philip Glass\u2019 4-CD epic, \u201cEinstein On The Beach.\u201d Who is Philip Glass, you may be asking? Glass is a celebrated \u201cNew Music\u201d composer who started out playing lofts in New York during the late 1960s. His groundbreaking 1975 \u201copera,\u201d \u201cEinstein \u2026,\u201d brought Glass praise and recognition almost overnight from even some of the most jaded critics. You may have heard his music underlying the visuals of movies like Candyman and The Thin Blue Line and over scoring the entire films of Koyaanis-qatsi, Powaggatsi and Anima Mundi. His most recent work, \u201cLa Belle et la Bete,\u201d an opera based on the film by Jean Cocteau, played to sold-out crowds worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Although \u201cEinstein On The Beach\u201d is considered an opera, I hesitate to call it so.<\/p>\n<p> Its libretto consists of numbers, solfege syllables, and cryptic poems written by a then l4-year-old named Christopher Knowles. The music is far from \u201cclassical,\u201d as the ensemble uses keyboards, organs, saxophones, flutes, and skillfully mixed voices which are not at the forefront of the pieces, but mixed in as if they were just another instrument. The voices themselves aren\u2019t even operatic. But all this makes \u201cEinstein\u201d more enjoyable to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>I must warn you, though, this music is not for everyone. Be prepared to be subjected to repeated patterns of four or five notes, each going through twists and turns and additive processes for about fifteen to twenty minutes. At first, it gets annoying hearing a woman singing \u201cre mi re mi re mi\u201d over hyperactive ensemble melodies for seventeen minutes. But after a while you realize the needle has not stuck, and that progress within the pieces has been made, and you can listen to the music for hours at a time. You cross from being irritated to hypnotized, and when you cross that point, you realize that you\u2019re listening to something special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEinstein On The Beach\u201d consists of five \u201cknee plays,\u201d four \u201cTrain\u201d sections, two dances, two trials, and a \u201cSpaceship\u201d scene that climaxes the opera. The \u201cKnee Plays\u201d aren\u2019t much to fawn over, except \u201cKnee Play 3\u201d which consists of a chorus, in unison, frantically singing numerals representing the beats of the music. The \u201cTrain\u201d sections are based on a four-note theme, added to and subtracted from when necessary, going through wonderful shifts. The trials are mainly speeches (like \u201cI was in this prematurely air-conditioned supermarket, and there were all these aisles \u2026 \u201c) over more singing of numbers, except for a euphoric outburst from the ensemble for the last six minutes of \u201cTrial\/Prison.\u201d The dances are the most boring of the opera\u2019s sections, only consisting of two-note figures repeated for unbearable lengths. My personal favorite, though, is the \u201cSpaceship\u201d section, which could be described as a musical nuclear holocaust. This piece holds on and doesn\u2019t let go, keeping you in a trance-like state for twelve minutes until its rousing conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>My explanations are probably making \u201cEinstein On The Beach\u201d sound mathematical and complicated, which it is not. Take my word for it. If you have any taste at all and are willing to open your mind to a fresh approach to music, then check out \u201cEinstein.\u201d I know you\u2019ll find it\u2019s well worth the time to let it sink in <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you tired of being constantly bombarded with meaningless pop fluff that MTV throws at your brain? Need a little something fresh and exciting? 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