Thomas
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Posted: June 29 2004, 04:38 |
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Information for all who want to know it:
Music in 12 parts
• Original music composed by Philip Glass.
• Performed by The Philip Glass Ensemble.
• Music In 12 Parts - Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6:
? Philip Glass: keyboards.
? Michael Riesman: keyboards.
? Richard Landry: flute, soprano saxophone.
? Jon Gibson: flute, soprano saxophone.
? Richard Peck: alto & tenor saxophones.
? Joan La Barbera: voice.
? Recorded May, 1975 at Greene Street Studios, New York City.
? Recording Engineer: Kurt Munkacsi.
? Assistant Engineer: Blaise Dupuy.
• Music In 12 Parts - Parts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12:
? Martin Goldray: keyboards.
? Michael Riesman: keyboards.
? Jack Kripl: flute, soprano saxophone.
? Jon Gibson: flute, soprano saxophone.
? Richard Peck: alto & tenor saxophones.
? Dora Ohrenstein: voice.
? Recorded December, 1987 at The Living Room Studio, New York City.
? Recording Engineer: Miles Green.
? Assistant Engineer: Blaise Dupuy.
I have to add: "keyboards" means on tracks 1 - 6 "electric organ" (I guess Farfisa), maybe in the new recording 7 - 12, too. Not sure.
"All of my works which predate 1976 fall within the highly reductive style known as minimalism. I feel that minimalism can be traced to a fairly specific timeframe, from 1965 through 1975, and nearly all my compositions during this period may be placed in this general category. All such categories are arbitrary, however, and can be misleading. For example, although Music in 12 Parts would most likely be classified as a minimal work, it was a breakthrough for me and contains many of the structural and harmonic ideas that would be fleshed out in my later works. It is a modular work, one of the first such compositions, with twelve distinct parts which can be performed separately in one long sequence, or in any combination or variation."
- Philip Glass
found at:
http://www.glasspages.org/12parts.html
In 1996 a new recording of "Music in 12 parts" has been made. I didn't have this one.
I also have the single LP version from the seventies of part one & two (same cover design in red). Interesting to state: some (but not all) parts are chained on the LP version, so part two starts on side one at the very end, lasting about one minute or so and ends as cutted with a razor, starting at side two from exact this point. Isn't it typical for the 70s? Today nobody wants to confront his listeners with such harsh cuts ... ;-)
"Rainbow in a curved air"? Must listen again. I remember soprano sax, organs, Rocksichord, no drums, recording techniques with tape loops (recording phrases on top of the other till saturation of the tape; like Robert Fripp). Interesting other way of Minimal Music. It's more "hippy-esk" than the mathematical structure of Phillip Glass.
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