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Glass/Wilson - Monsters of Grace

~ Philip Glass (Artist), Robert Wilson (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (29 Oct 2007)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Orange Mountain Music
  • ASIN: B000VR0552
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 84,330 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Where Everything Is Music
2. The Needle
3. Don't Go Back To Sleep
4. In the Arc Of Your Mallet
5. My Worst Habit
6. Like This
7. Stereo Gram
8. Let the Letter Read You
9. Boy Beach And Ball
10. They Say Paradise Will Be Perfect
11. The New Rule
12. An Artist Come To Paint You
13. Boy On Fire

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Starting with their monumental collaboration in 1976 with 'Einstein on the Beach', Philip Glass and Robert Wilson later became internationally known as leading creators of new music theater. In 1997, 'Monsters of Grace', which was billed as a "digital opera in 3-D", once again brought together these two creative giants in a production which included animated visuals of Robert Wilson's designs - viewed by the audience through 3-D glasses - with music by Philip Glass performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble and a cast of four singers. The 70-minute work was premiered at the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles in April 1998.

This world premiere recording, with a 26-page booklet featuring Wilson's original 'Monsters of Grace' sketches, presents a transcendent Glass score which marries exotic sounds to the 13th century Sufi mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi's words (translated/adapted from the original Persian by Coleman Banks) in a completely unique theatrical experience. Rumi's poems are meditations on the range of human experience: inspiration for Art, companionship and compassion, ruminations on earthly pleasures, questions of heaven, the secrets of life, joy, mortality, recognition of the self, and the nature of God.

As were all the other Glass/Wilson collaborations, 'Monsters of Grace' is ultimately forward looking and ambitious despite the difficulties and frustrations that occurred during its creation, mostly due to the challenge of new digital technology (the animation was ultimately extremely expensive, time consuming and inflexible). So this new recording represents a unique opportunity to re-assess a very unusual work. [The epilogue from Monsters of Grace is also on Paul Barnes' solo piano disc for Orange Mountain Music, 'The Orphée Suite for Piano.'


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best since Hydrogen Jukebox, 2 Dec 2007
By Master Jacques (London, England, UK) - See all my reviews
Philip Glass's output has perhaps become a little anodyne since the glory days of "Einstein...", "Satyagraha" and the wondrous "Akhnaten". One of his very best works from after that period was the Ginsberg stage song cycle "Hydrogen Jukebox", a haunting nocturnal evocation of the Great American Road-movie culture. If you enjoyed that then "Monsters of Grace" (director Robert Wilson's rich mishearing of the line "Ministers of Grace defend us" from "Hamlet"!) will most likely please you also. These 1998 settings of Sufi texts, many of them meditating on the twin poles of Art and Love, have that same shimmering delicacy and gentle poise which made the earlier cycle so satisfying. The musical imagery may not be so varied, but many of these songs have a clarity and point which deepens on closer acquaintance. For me, "Monsters of Grace" deserves a place amongst Glass's very best works: and neither recording nor the performers let him down.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Glass at his very best, 7 Jan 2008
By Mr. Warren M. Fisher (East Grinstead, West Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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A long overdue release for Glass's 1997/8 opera. Dark, sinuous and exotically compelling this is a must for all Glass fans and the perfect intro for newcomers to his unique musical world. I'd give it six out of five stars if I could, this ranks up there with the best works from the master.
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