Philip Glass - Knee 5, from Einstein on the Beach.
K. and I listened to this today, and I was reminded of my mother’s amusement at the strangely intoned description of the lovers at the end. My intellectual ambivalence about Glass has never interfered with my fondness for his music.
See also: Glass’ contribution to Sesame Street.
ye77a likes this
06151990 reblogged this from mills and added:
thank you marc jacobs for introducing this song into my life. god bless your soul.
a-place-in-the-sun likes this
petrichloroform likes this
youredoingitincorrectly reblogged this from mills and added:
I did a lecture on this piece for one of my classes. Just incredible. Glass is the soundtrack to the world’s...
sunnycyl likes this
markbringelson likes this
absurdlakefront likes this
oxahau likes this
uncertaintimes likes this
sansfin likes this
donotfind likes this
wooliebear likes this
umanesimo reblogged this from mills
littlepotato likes this
tesslynch likes this
beautifulordinaire likes this
tsparks likes this
bryanmckay likes this
minou likes this
counterforce likes this
mills posted this
Hello! My name is Mills Baker. I write about art, culture, love, philosophy, memory, history, and more. Here are some relatively better posts. This site has been featured on Tumblr Tuesday and is listed in the Spotlight, but it pines for its youth as a coloring book. (Header lettering by the amazing Chirp).
Email
Twitter
Facebook
Vimeo
Flickr
last.fm
LinkedIn
Quora
Random post
Subscribe via RSS
Follow on Tumblr