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Brilliant! Just absolutely brilliant! The epic tension creates drama, emotion, and excitment all throughout!
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i always find glass beeing onedimensional ,but this differs
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An Incredible work, truly a masterpiece of contemporary classical music
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One can only marvel at what has become of this once very interesting and talented composer. This is really mediocre music, completely lacking the inspiration and urgency of, say, 'Einstein on the beach', sounding like it's written on automatic pilot (like most of Glass's recent works).
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This is brilliant. Glass brings the word music to life.
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where is part 2 ?
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Glass has really tapped into the Zeitgeist of our times to create his excellent music. It is a talent in itself to find the spirit of one's own time period.
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@Orlymusicboy race. condition. I come from films, so take blade runner for example. very few would argue that it is an artistic masterpiece, it's personal expression and technical competence are uncommon to find in films. Well that film would not have happened without Star Wars being a success or indeed without the technical training Ridley Scott the director earned from advertising. I hope that answers your question:)
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@Orlymusicboy In numerous ways, though don't think that I don't know that commerce often hurts the artist, but if the right balance is there in the artist and commercial it can lead to inspiration. For example; commercial can keep an artist disciplined and not indulgent and anal, to make his point. In a way, commercial is representative of the human race at a certain point, so if the artist can find the right balance, he can find certain commercial things can feed into an understanding of human
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@6JohnRedmond6 how did it help?



The music is nice... the video part is great !
ruudzwart 2 years ago 24
He is 'not going to last'? What does this mean? Who cares? Popular consensus is what we should oppose; not cite as a basis for our taste and preference.
PhilosopherEight 2 years ago 10