Philip Glass interview on "Einstein on the Beach" (1992)

Composer Philip Glass, reflects on the revival of his first opera, "Einstein on the Beach," influences on his music, and composing music scores for films.
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[@regfries8279]

I saw this in 2013(?) in Melbourne and it was absolutely amazing. One of the greatest things I've ever seen.

[@kyleedinger5355]

Someone explain this man to me. I've only recently discovered Einstein on The Beach and I can't learn enough about him. The Wikipedia page is unbelievably dry

[@ezraw00]

He's a tripper dude

[@mirandac8712]

he's legit. he's very courageous. at the same time he sometimes silkscreens his scores. but einstein was a true feat of imagination, and it has real interest, the way it incorporates hindustani classical music, the way it uses additive rhythms, and even I would say with its instrumentation -- not to mention its scale. but after that, he needed money and was tired of being broke (he was driving a cab, moving furniture, even after he 'trucked' einstein into the met) and so he became sappy and just started printing bullshit for richard gere and the asia society crowd. mishima is great too though. paul reworked the film around phil -- not the other way around, so it's ironic that he complains here about erroll (who is a raging egomaniac though).

[@violinsinthevoid4579]

Everybody from Christopher Hitchens to Joan Didion to Philip Glass, this channel is awesome!

[@dillongstaff5625]

I have sat through the complete Paris performance 5 times (on KZbin) ...awesome.Not quite La Boheme or La Traviata...but it wasn't supposed to be.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

You are low iq.

[@joannak1334]

💐💐

[@FreakieFan]

Did he just say film is not a collaborative medium? What, is he nuts?

[@s.a.l.1974]

ciao Guido

[@FreakieFan]

@@s.a.l.1974 Am I wrong?

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Do you call a Wagner opera a collaborative effort? If you do, your opinion doesnt matter one bit.

[@FreakieFan]

@@ToxicTurtleIsMad Why wouldn’t the production and staging of a Wagner opera be a collaborative effort? It’s less collaborative than a film production would be, sure, but still a little bit.

[@billinrio]

Interviewers and journalists have been remiss in not asking Philip Glass a very important question. Does he or does he not know that his work Itaipu celebrates an ecological disaster? The Itaipu Dam, constructed on the Paraná River without any public input during the Brazilian military dictatorship, drowned forever, upriver from the dam project, a spectacular series of waterfalls called in Portuguese Sete Quedas (Seven Falls). These falls had an even larger volume of water than the famous Iguaçu Falls. While in Brazil where he visited Itaipu and was wined and dined by Brazilian television soap opera stars, Glass apparently made no attempt to learn about the environmental impacts of the project. Brazil's most famous poet of the time, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, wrote a poem that was an elegy to the forever lost natural wonder that the clueless composer disregarded.

[@ndjubilant8391]

While I am a huge Glass fan, most people do not know the ecological harm of most all dams, to varying degrees. Dams are unnatural.

[@Jablicek]

Let's not forget that in the pre-internet days, when the cantata was written, information was much more difficult to obtain. It's entirely possible that all the people Glass spoke with only extolled the dam's virtues and none of the damage caused. None of us really knew much about Brazil in those times.

[@SandrineAnterrion]

Is he very introverted? Why does he not project his voice? Is it a speech impediment?

[@malkythealky]

Just the quiet artistic type I guess. Perhaps introverted to a degree, though I have seen him speak to large audiences in later life. I don't think he has a speech impediment.

[@SandrineAnterrion]

James McNamee thanks

[@StarsWithScars]

Why are all big people in show buis jewish?

[@tyroneslothrop6440]

Interesting question lmao