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Originally Posted by Glice
I haven't heard Three Tales but I thought the Cave was simply hideous. Not as bad as the Glass/ Ginsberg record (which officially makes me hate minimalism) but just profoundly un-interesting. You can call me a purist, but opera simply has to be done by completely ridiculous personalities, it's too absurd a format for reasonable people. Glass' Einstein is an act of madness, but the Cave was far too reasonable.
Obviously, it's a shame to compare Glass and Reich, and there's obviously a world of differences in their music, but I feel they both come from a very similar cultural space, an attempt to consolidate repetitious music against the inherited indeterminacy of the New York school (or the post-Cageian axis, if you will).
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I am not a fan of Glass at all, I mixed Einstein on the Beach Part i-iv a few years back and it drove me insane, particularly 'cos it was an opera/modern dance thing and i utterly despise the choreographer. Anyhow I did mix the shit out of it but the music itself kinda shits me. I'm not sure if you are calling the Cave opera or not, if you are I find that kinda strange as we may have differing opinions on what opera is, however you are more knowedgable about classical and modern classical than me. The only Glass piece I really like is The Thin Blue Line OST.