The equation between Baroque music and minimalism is often repeated but superficial, and the players here struggle in the textual material to justify it. Philip Glass, while admitting that Bach was not consciously in his mind as he composed his new Piano Concerto No. 3, asserts that since Bach was part of his training (of which musician would this not be true?), Bach's is "by definition a part of mine." Pianist Simone Dinnerstein makes the rather general points that both Bach's and Glass' music involves repetition, and that ...
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The equation between Baroque music and minimalism is often repeated but superficial, and the players here struggle in the textual material to justify it. Philip Glass, while admitting that Bach was not consciously in his mind as he composed his new Piano Concerto No. 3, asserts that since Bach was part of his training (of which musician would this not be true?), Bach's is "by definition a part of mine." Pianist Simone Dinnerstein makes the rather general points that both Bach's and Glass' music involves repetition, and that she and the players of the conductorless Boston orchestra A Far Cry sat in a circle, with the piano at the center, while making the recording. As it happens, the performance of the Bach, despite or because of the unconventional forces and their deployment, is tentative, and the first two movements of the Glass concerto seem to lack focus. But, as is so often true with the music from the later parts of Glass' career, the persistent are rewarded: the large final movement (the longest...
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