TY - ADVS AU - Greenaway,Peter AU - Glass,Philip ED - Philip Glass Ensemble. ED - Trans Atlantic Films. ED - Channel Four (Great Britain) TI - 4 American composers: Philip Glass SN - 1561762342 PY - 1997/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Inner Dimension, Mystic Fire Video [distributor] KW - Glass, Philip. KW - Composers KW - United States KW - Piano music KW - Instrumental ensembles N1 - Originally produced 1985; Series titles on container: 4merican composers; Four American composers; title on cassette label: Philip Glass; On container and set slip case: Mystic Fire Video; Island Visual Arts; manufactured and distributed to the video trade by PolyGram Video; on first frame and stamped on videocassette: Inner Dimension; Copyright dates vary: on video tape, c1983, TransAtlantic Films and Channel 4; stamped on videocassette, c1985, Transatlantic Films, c1997, Inner Dimension; on container and set slip case, c1985, Transatlantic Films, c1991, Mystic Fire Video; Music in similar motion -- Passages from Einstein on the Beach and Glassworks; Producer, Revel Guest ; director, Peter Greenaway; Philip Glass ; Philip Glass Ensemble; Based on a performance by Philip Glass at Sadler Wells Theatre London as part of a New York/Almeida Festival, 1983 N2 - Insights into the music and ideas of American composer Philip Glass, incorporating performance and conversations with and about the artist, whose "systems music" has been described as a "high mass on Mars." Combining the Western disciplines of the classical music tradition with Eastern influences and visceral rock, Glass' music has a hypnotic, rhythmic sound appreciated by rock, jazz, and classical audiences alike ER -