{"id":2645,"date":"2014-01-02T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2018-02-13T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T00:13:13","slug":"glass-philip-einstein-on-the-beach-powwaqatsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipglass.com\">Glass, Philip<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000025W6\/ericallen-20\">Einstein on the Beach<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000005IZ8\/ericallen-20\">Powwaqatsi<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like repetition, get <i>Einstein on the Beach<\/i>. It&#8217;s a 4 CD long opera&#8230;very much an acquired taste. I watched the opera online in &#8217;15. <i>Powwaqatsi<\/i> is a soundtrack and much, much better-I think it&#8217;s his best work. FYI, Glass is a modern composer-he works by combining repetition and arpeggios that slowly mutate and change over a piece. It&#8217;s trancelike&#8230; There&#8217;s a DVD of the piece performed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B01KO7G96C\/ericallen-20\">Paris in 2014<\/a>-I watched it online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like repetition, get Einstein on the Beach. It&#8217;s a 4 CD long opera&#8230;very much an acquired taste. I watched the opera online in &#8217;15. Powwaqatsi is a soundtrack and much, much better-I think it&#8217;s his best work. FYI, Glass is a modern composer-he works by combining repetition and arpeggios that slowly mutate and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=2645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipglass.com\">Glass, Philip<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000025W6\/ericallen-20\">Einstein on the Beach<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000005IZ8\/ericallen-20\">Powwaqatsi<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliography"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9382,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/9382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}