Sélection Le Monde - to listen to: the repetitive trend made in the USA

Mixed voices methodically reeling off a string of onomatopoeias and numbers, an organ – an electronic version – that ensures long sustains of notes, sometimes in the bass, sometimes in the treble… The characteristics of Enstein on the Beach, an opera created in 1976 by Bob Wilson with music by Philip Glass, also constitute the foundations of Another Look at Harmony. Part IV, a score of about fifty minutes composed a year earlier by the leader (with Steve Reich) of the repetitive trend made in the USA. However, we will be careful not to consider this page with its minimalist carillon appearance as a prelude to the stage work that has entered history since its creation at the Avignon Festival because it is very different from it from an aesthetic point of view. Particularly in the "overexpressive" interpretation of Métaboles (recorded live), which, far from the mechanical abstraction of Einstein..., makes it a sort of great hippie mass. The confrontation with the very soaring but rigorous Canon, by Andre Basili (1705-1777) then seems anecdotal.