{"id":926,"date":"2013-03-22T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2013-03-22T00:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T04:43:12","slug":"mth-v-philip-glass-ensembles-eotb-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/mth-v-philip-glass-ensembles-eotb-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"MTH-V: Philip Glass Ensemble’s ‘EOTB’ (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers know of my fondness for\u00a0Einstein on the Beach<\/em><\/a>. (And if you’re curious, go here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>.) I won’t sit and gush about my seeing it live last year. But it’s still with me. Constantly. I’ve been on the road a lot this last week for gigs and\u00a0EOTB<\/em> has regularly kept me company in the car. There are a number of videos I’d like to include, but I’ll instead be breaking this up into separate posts.<\/p>\n

This week’s videos are clips of a 1982 concert performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble of “Train” and “Spaceship.” They’re the first and last scenes, respectively, of the work (save for the knee plays<\/a>). There are interesting interview segments with Philip Glass at the end of each clip.<\/p>\n

Of course, keep in mind that these are abbreviated versions. \ud83d\ude42 The staging is fascinating for both sections, but it’s interesting to see this in concert performance. Excuse the fuzzy video quality; this is from a VHS transfer.<\/p>\n

“Train”
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dl0BSh7RXPc<\/p>\n

“Spaceship”
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F0SgFg7OstI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers know of my fondness for\u00a0Einstein on the Beach. (And if you’re curious, go here,\u00a0here, and\u00a0here.) I won’t sit and gush about my seeing it live last year. But it’s still with me. Constantly. I’ve been on the road a lot this last week for gigs and\u00a0EOTB has regularly kept me company in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[262,158,263,272],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mthv","tag-einstein-on-the-beach","tag-mth-v","tag-philip-glass","tag-philip-glass-ensemble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}