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post #16 of 20
10/25/08 at 2:04pm
I am still kicking myself for not seeing PG and the Kronos Quartet perform their Dracula soundtrack while the 1931 movie played. I believe this was a few years back in Boston.
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post #17 of 20
10/25/08 at 2:30pm
I did some work with Phil about 20 years ago and spent a fascinating dinner and lunch with him talking about everything under the sun. Back in the day he and reilly and Reich certainly did some interesting things. Afellow colleague, now deceased, conducted a nuber of Phil's premieres.

Unfortunately I strongly feel Glass got stuck in a very limted rut and his music became rather derivative and duplicative of... itself.

Some of his better work these days is in film. I personally think the work that will best stand the test of time, and some of his most beautiful harmonic work is in Satyagraha. The male soprano parts are spine tingling.
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post #18 of 20
10/25/08 at 2:30pm
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Originally Posted by pscolari View Post
I am still kicking myself for not seeing PG and the Kronos Quartet perform their Dracula soundtrack while the 1931 movie played. I believe this was a few years back in Boston.

yeah... Kronos has sure jumped the shark.
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post #19 of 20
10/25/08 at 6:04pm
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Originally Posted by aportnoy View Post
The Tharp choreography and Norma Kamali costumes make this one my all time favorites. I still viscerally remember seeing it for the first time 20+ years ago.
How would you compare it to Rabbit and Rogue? I want to see In the Upper Room, and everyone I know who knows dance says I should see it, but ABT has not brought it out west on their tours. --Andre
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post #20 of 20
10/25/08 at 11:09pm
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How would you compare it to Rabbit and Rogue? I want to see In the Upper Room, and everyone I know who knows dance says I should see it, but ABT has not brought it out west on their tours.

--Andre

Rabbit and Rouge is also great and the two share a lot in common. Dancers seem to swoop in out of nowhere at exhilarating pace. The Glass music gives The Upper Room a more ethereal feel where Elfman's music has more of a driving sense of urgency.

They both keep you on the edge of your seat for certain but in slightly different ways. If I had to choose to see one, it would be the Upper Room but that's as much because of m ylove for Glass as it being a better piece.
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