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4 American composers. Glass [Videorecording] : Philip Glass / produced by Trans Atlantic films for Channel Four Television.

Contributor(s): Greenaway, Peter [drt.] | Glass, Philip. Instrumental music. Selections | Philip Glass Ensemble [prf.] | Trans Atlantic Films | Channel Four (Great Britain)Material type: FilmFilmReference number:31524813Publisher number: UPX7014776234Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Inner Dimension ; Mystic Fire Video [distributor], 1997. Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 inISBN: 1561762342Other title: Glass | Philip GlassSubject(s): Glass, Philip | Composers -- United States | Piano music | Instrumental ensembles
Partial contents:
Music in similar motion -- Passages from Einstein on the Beach and Glassworks.
Production credits: Producer, Revel Guest ; director, Peter Greenaway.Philip Glass ; Philip Glass Ensemble.Summary: 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.
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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.

Philip Glass ; Philip Glass Ensemble.

Producer, Revel Guest ; director, Peter Greenaway.

Music in similar motion -- Passages from Einstein on the Beach and Glassworks.

Based on a performance by Philip Glass at Sadler Wells Theatre London as part of a New York/Almeida Festival, 1983.

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.

VHS format.

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