Passages is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi … Read Full Bio ↴Passages is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990. This historic collaboration of two of the most notable figures of late twentieth century Eastern and Western classical music brought full-circle a process which began when the promising young American minimalist musician & composer Philip Glass met Indian sitar maestro & composer Ravi Shankar in Paris in 1965. That year, Glass, studying with the great Nadia Boulanger, was earning pocket money doing notation and conducting a recording session for the soundtrack of Conrad Rook's film Chappaqua. The score's composer, Ravi Shankar, was directing his ensemble from the sitar. The album's content is a hybrid of Hindustani classical music and Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary classical style, each experimenting with, and borrowing the other's style.

The Glass encounter was a rare instance of classical music reciprocity, unlike previous Shankar musical "collaborations" .Those were actually elaborate sessions with masters of other musical traditions joining Ravi to "jam" on his own music. Here, each composer presented thematic material to the other as raw material from which these finished pieces were fashioned. Passages contains four such co-ventures: a) two Glass compositions on themes by Shankar (Shankar / Glass); b) two Shankar compositions on themes by Glass (Glass / Shankar), c) as well as one piece from each composer completely of his own devising.

The result was an arresting example of musical collaboration.

Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass / Channels and Winds
Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass:

Offering The sun cannot compare to the glory of Your love There…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Alex Schrijnemaekers

4y↑4

Saudoso Diomedes...

Lisboa, sabes...
Eu sei. É uma rapariga
descalça e leve,
Um vento súbito e claro
nos cabelos,
algumas rugas finas
a espreitar-lhe os olhos,
a solidão aberta
nos lábios e nos dedos,
descendo degraus
e degraus
e degraus até o rio.

Eu sei. E tu, sabias?

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R. Roden

7y↑6

What a brilliant collaboration of two modern day musical geniuses! A real treat for the ears! Bravo Shankar and Glass.

Vince Asbjornsen

10y↑5

Absolutely hypnotizing. Combining the talents of Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass is like eating an aromatic and delectable korma.

k4ir0s

8y↑3

excellent collaboration! Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, who would have thought?

Sam Jones

12y↑3

Only 2000 people have had the pleasure of listening to this. I think I'm going to make it my mission that this song is to grace at least a thousand more sets of ears. :)