Additional Conducting: Michael Riesman & Kurt Munkacsi. Flute: Gerard Levy, John Wion. Satyagraha by Philip Glass. Scene 2 11:32 By Philip Brieler. Satyagraha. Christopher Keene, Dir. Philip Glass was born in Baltimore, Mariland, in 1937, and began his musical studies at the age of eight. Vocal text: Constance DeJong (Adapted from Bhagavad-Gita). Clarinet: Mitchell Estrin, Larry Guy, John Moses. The group, composed of seven musicians playing woodwinds and a variety of keyboards with amplified voices, began concertizing regularly in the early 70s, playing for free or asking for a small donation. He was one of Gandhi’s inspirations thorughout his life, and the two men carried on a correspondence that lasted until the Russian’s death in 1910. Music by Philip Glass; vocal text by Constance DeJong, adapted from the Bhagavad Gita; book by Philip Glass and Constance DeJong. Contractor for the Orchestra: Secondo Proto. The ensemble played Carnegie Hall and sold it out, there were more engagements and more critical praise. The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season begins the New Year with an inspiringand hauntingly beautiful opera, Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, an encore broadcast from 2011. The Essential Philip Glass on Sony Masterworks The multiple click tracks were needed because of the polyrhythmic nature of much of the music. Mastered by Bill Kipper, Masterdisk, New York, N.Y. Cover photo: Harry M. DeBan. It never occurred to me to try to create a standard orchestral sound. Satyagraha was completed in early 1980 and received its first performance in Rotterdam that September. Still, I don’t think anyone was prepared for the sheer beauty and spiritual propulsion of Satyagraha. “Foundation support was out of the question, and the established composers thought I was crazy. Email Signup. Cello: Robert Gardner, Alla Goldberg, Esther Gruhn, Eleanor Howells, Charles Moss, Bruce Rogers. Artists. English National Opera at the London Coliseum 22/2/18. The keyboard guide track was then discarded and replaced by the organ/synthesizer part called for in the score. In the First Act, the symbol is Count Leo Tolstoy. Part 1 15:35 Free shipping for many products! Mrs. Naidoo (Indian co-worker): Sheryl Woods, soprano. After the woodwinds, we recorded the chorus, and finally the soloists. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Glass Philip / Satyagraha (3LP Black) at the best online prices at eBay! Lighting: Richard Riddell. Set & Costume Design: Robert Israel. Musical America chose Glass to be the “Musician of the Month” in April 1979. His three operas — Einstein on the Beach (1975), Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten (1983) — have been produced by several leading opera houses while the composer and his ensemble are capable of selling out Carnegie Hall one night and a mid-western rock club the next. The opera deals with Mahatma Gandhi's early years in South Africa and his development of non-violent protest into a political tool. But for anyone willing to brave shows like Satyagraha, his music is immediately recognisable and redeeming. On the other hand, making these decisions on the spot means that they don’t have to be made later, which avoids the typical problems of mismatched tempos and dynamics which plague editors of conventional recordings. Prince / Furst Arjuna (Mythological character from the Bhagavad-Gita): Robert McFarland, baritone. Keyboards: Michael Riesman. (We had used overdubbing occasionally on Einstein on the Beach, somewhat more on Glassworks, and throughout on The Photographer). Although overdubbing has been used for many years in the popular music field, it is almost never used for classical recordings. — Tim Page. Glass prefers to speak of his work as “music with repetitive structures.” His busy, tonal, aggressively rhythmic compositions would seem to mark a spiritual break with the spare, atonal and largely arhythmic world of the 50s and 60s avant-gardists. Clarinet & Bass Clarinet: Aldo Simonelli. Scenario by Achim Freyer. Satyagraha, Philip Glass's second opera, with the tenor Richard Croft, standing center, as Gandhi, along with puppets and other cast members in this Metropolitan Opera production. Album design: Geoffrey Winston. Oboe: Livio Caroli, Leonard Arner. We proceeded as follows: after consultation with Christopher Keene and the composer about tempos, cuts, ritards, and so on, I recorded a set of guide tracks for the entire opera, consisting of a keyboard reduction track, two or sometimes three click (metronome) tracks, and a cue track (announcing important measure numbers). The first two acts each contain three scenes; the last is one continuous scene. Satyagraha by Staatsoper Stuttgart (Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor), BOOKS: Einstein broke the rules with Modernist zeal: Satyagraha touches all the bases, adapting the rules to the composer’s own aesthetic. Music published by Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc.. New York, N.Y. © 1985 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. Instead, taking advantage of the technology at our disposal, we chose to build up a performance in layers, through overdubbing. Oboe & English Horn: Doris Goltzer. The Sense of Peace Glass Masters on Sony Masterworks Find The Metropolitan Opera on … Compositional material is usually limited to a few elements, which are then subjected to transformational processes. Digital Engineer: Mark Good. However, Glass believes that the results are still distinctly his: “The orchestra in Satyagraha sounds quite a bit like the Philip Glass Ensemble. CAST: 2S, 2Mz, 2T, Bar, 2B; SATB (large chorus) 3 (pic).3.3(bcl).2/0.0.0.0/eorg/str, COMMISSION: Commissioned by the City of Rotterdam, PREMIERE: September 5, 1980 in Rotterdam by the Netherlands Opera and the Utrechts Symfonie Orkest, Conducted by Christopher Keene. Constance DeJong and Philip Glass. Besides providing state-of-the-art sound, this machine has the added advantage of providing noise— and dropout-free entry and exit from record mode while rolling. The 2019 Met premiere of Glass' Akhnaten will stream June 20, with Satyagraha available the following day. LA Opera’s presentation of Satyagraha by Philip Glass marked the company’s completion of the composer's “portrait trilogy” of operas about powerful thinkers who changed the world, following Einstein on the Beach (2013) and Akhnaten (2016), the first major American opera company to complete this cycle.