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Philip Glass
How Now Strung Out
| Player | Philips Glass(organ) Dorothy Pixley Rothchild(amplified violin) |
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| Composer | VA |
| Label | OMM |
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| Catalog | OMM0093 |
| Format | CD |
| Discs | 1 |
| Category | Contemporary Music |
| Street Date | 2014-03-11 |
| Origin: | USA |
- Philip Glass: How Now/Strung Out - the recordingfrom Philip Glass first concert ever， May 19， 1968.
The recording has Philip Glass playing the solo organ work How Now， and the solo violin piece Strung Out performed by Dorothy Pixley-Rothchild
This new release from Orange Mountain Music presents Philip Glass first concert ever in what the composer considers his debut.
The concert took place on May 19， 1968 at the film Makers Cinematheque at 80 Wooster Street in Soho，New York City. The performance was the first all glass concert ever and featured solo works and duets withvisual elements.
This recording captures two of the solo works on theprogram including Glass himself performing How Now for solo organ and Strung Out for solo amplified violin performed by the legendary Dorothy Pixley Rothchild for whom Glass had previously written a violin concerto for in 1960.
It was soon after this concert that Glass started his own
ensemble for which he wrote many new works.
Strung out has the sheet music strung out in an L shape and the performer walks along the music as he/ she goes father into the piece.
This is the oldest recording of any kind of Glass early music.
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1. How Now for organ
2. Strung Out for solo amplified violin
