An amazing record, and one that forever transformed the sound of opera in the US – the amazing summation of all the many musical ideas that Philip Glass had been cooking up since the 60s, done as a mindblowing stage presentation with Robert Wilson! Voices, organ, reeds, and piano come together in wonderful lines that go on and on, seemingly forever, in endless variations and rivulets of sound – as simple in structure as the leaner small combo minimalist work from Glass – but with a very different style in the fuller setting, with a sonic quality that still is as groundbreaking today as it was back in the 70s! (Out Sound, Classical)LP, Vinyl record album
With Ndugu Chancler on persussion, Bill Kanengiser on guitar, and Bob Magnusson on bass on "New Earth Sonata"; and with John Beasley on Yamaha DX7 and Dorothy Ashby on harp on "Amazing Grace". (Jazz, Classical)LP, Vinyl record album
Pieces include Scarlatti's "Three Sonatas", CPE Bach's "Wurttemberg Sonata No 1", Gould's "So You Want To Write A Fugue", Scriabin's "Two Preludes Op 57", Strauss' "Ophelia Leider Op 67", and Beethoven-Liszt's "Pastorale Symphony"; plus a panel interview conducted in 1980. LP, Vinyl record album