"Glasspieces", with choreography by Jerome Robbins, was first performed by … Read Full Bio ↴"Glasspieces", with choreography by Jerome Robbins, was first performed by the New York City Ballet on May 12, 1983.
"Rubric" and "Façades", the first two parts of Glasspieces, are the fifth and sixth sections of Glass's first CBS recording, Glassworks. At the ballet they were played in Glass's revised version for full orchestra; they are heard here, as they were on the earlier record, in their original scoring for the Philip Glass Ensemble.
The third part was the first music ever heard in public from Glass's opera Akhnaten, which received its full premiere in Stuttgart almost exactly a year after the first performance of the ballet. It's the opening scene of the Opera, and depicts a solemn ceremony in ancient Egypt, the funeral of Pharaoh Akhnaten's father. The music, originally for full orchestra, is heard here in the reduced version that the Philip Glass Ensemble plays on its concert tours.
The collaboration of Philip Glass and Twyla Tharp united two stars of contemporary music and dance. Commissioned by Tharp for her newly structured company Twyla Tharp Dance, "In the Upper Room" premiered as an untitled work-in-progress on July 7, 1986, at the Saratoga Arts Center Little Theater. Divided into nine segments (five of which were chosen by Glass for this album), "In the Upper Room" features thirteen dancers, whose costumes evolve from black and white to dominant red, in a variety of groupings and abstract styles that culminates in a dazzling finale for the entire ensemble.
"Rubric" and "Façades", the first two parts of Glasspieces, are the fifth and sixth sections of Glass's first CBS recording, Glassworks. At the ballet they were played in Glass's revised version for full orchestra; they are heard here, as they were on the earlier record, in their original scoring for the Philip Glass Ensemble.
The third part was the first music ever heard in public from Glass's opera Akhnaten, which received its full premiere in Stuttgart almost exactly a year after the first performance of the ballet. It's the opening scene of the Opera, and depicts a solemn ceremony in ancient Egypt, the funeral of Pharaoh Akhnaten's father. The music, originally for full orchestra, is heard here in the reduced version that the Philip Glass Ensemble plays on its concert tours.
The collaboration of Philip Glass and Twyla Tharp united two stars of contemporary music and dance. Commissioned by Tharp for her newly structured company Twyla Tharp Dance, "In the Upper Room" premiered as an untitled work-in-progress on July 7, 1986, at the Saratoga Arts Center Little Theater. Divided into nine segments (five of which were chosen by Glass for this album), "In the Upper Room" features thirteen dancers, whose costumes evolve from black and white to dominant red, in a variety of groupings and abstract styles that culminates in a dazzling finale for the entire ensemble.
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Alan Bleier
on Kuru Field of Justice
I couldn't find them anywhere on the internet, so I'm posting them here:
(they are simply passages of the bhagavad-gita)
GHANDI:
yotsyamanan avekse 'ham ya ete 'tra samagatah
dhartarastrasya durbuddher yuddhe priya-cikirsavah
evam ukto hrsikeso gudakesena bharata
senayor ubhayor madhye sthapayitva rathottamam
(kirpaya parayavisto visidann idam abravit)
ARJUNA:
karpanya-dosopahata-svabhavah
prcchami tvam dharma-sammudha-ceta
yac chreyah syan niscitam bruhi tan me
sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam
(kirpaya parayavisto visidann idam abravit)
KRISHNA:
atha cet tvam imam dharmyam sangramam na karisyasi
tatah sva-dharmam kirtim ca hitva papam avapsyasi
hato va prapsyasi svargam jitva va bhosyase mahim
tasmad uttistha kaunteya yuddhaya krta-niscayah
sukha-duhkhe same krtva labhalabhau jayajayau
tato yuddhaya yujyasva naivam papam avapsyasi
CHORUS:
tam tatha krpayavistam asru-purnakuleksanam
visidantam idam vakyam uvaca madhusudanah
kutas tva kasmalam idam visame samupasthitam
anarya-justam asvargyam ¡akirti-karam arjuna!
GHANDI:
sukha-duhkhe same krtva labhalabhau jayajayau
tato yuddhaya yujyasva naivam papam avapsyasi