Satyagraha
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Performer: Robert McFarlandPerformer: Scott Reeve
Composer: Philip Glass
Conductor: Christopher Keene
Performer: New York City Opera
Orchestra: New York City Opera Orchestra
Orchestra: New York City Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Claudia Cummings
Performer: Sheryl Woods
Performer: Douglas Perry
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Act 1 - Tolstoy. Scene 1
- Act 1 - Tolstoy. Scene 2
- Act 1 - Tolstoy. Scene 3
- Act 2 - Tagore. Scene 1
- Act 2 - Tagore. Scene 2
- Act 2 - Tagore. Scene 3
- Act 3 - King. Part 1
- Act 3 - King. Part 2
- Act 3 - King. Part 3
Music reviews of Satyagraha
Music Review: It's The Third Act ..
Rating: 4 Stars
...that makes this recording so compelling.
The first 2 acts are early Glass minimalism. The third act's music is trancendent.
Description of Satyagraha
Satyagraha remains, decades after its composition, one of Philip Glass's most traditional works. An emphasis on strings and on courtly, European-toned small choruses lends the opera a sense of musical familiarity rarely evidenced in the composer's extensive catalog. The libretto, though written in Sanskrit, is often mistakable, sonorously, for Italian. Satyagraha's relative independence from the internecine Indian raga-like patterns of the composer's other long-form work is particularly ironic given the opera's subject: Mahatma Ghandi, whose native country's ritual culture and spiritual heritage have long informed Glass's music. This is no dramatic biography; following a mythological gambit, the scenes focus on a handful of specific events in Ghandi's long life (the construction of a communal farm, his tumultuous arrival in Durban, the publication of the weekly broadside Indian Opinion). Pointedly, the opera is an international affair, each of its three acts referencing a major cultural figure: Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Martin Luther King Jr. The music is most interesting when Glass draws parallels between his patented, minimalist patterns and standard classical mode. --Marc WeidenbaumGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( G ) > Glass, Philip
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Glass, Philip
- General Modern
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Modern & 20th Century
- Languages > English
- Operettas
- Dance & DJ > Techno > Minimal Techno
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- Jazz > Compilations > Fusion & World Fusion
- Glass, Philip - Works by Glass
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