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Originally Posted by terminal pharmacy
The Cave and Three Tales are fine works Glice, if you haven't heard them check them out...
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I haven't heard Three Tales but I thought the Cave was simply
hideous. Not as bad as the Glass/ Ginsberg record (which officially makes me hate minimalism) but just profoundly un-interesting. You can call me a purist, but opera simply has to be done by completely ridiculous personalities, it's too absurd a format for reasonable people. Glass' Einstein is an act of madness, but the Cave was far too
reasonable.
Obviously, it's a shame to compare Glass and Reich, and there's obviously a world of differences in their music, but I feel they both come from a very similar cultural space, an attempt to consolidate repetitious music against the inherited indeterminacy of the New York school (or the post-Cageian axis, if you will).