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- Philip Glass - Metamorphosis (1988)
I made this record using an old amazing (one of my favorite instrument actually) Steinway & Sons model O grand piano. (Steinway officially stopped production of the Model O in 1924, but I guess this one was built around 1925-1926 according to serial number)
"Metamorphosis One" - 00:00
"Metamorphosis Two" - 06:54
"Metamorphosis Three" - 13:59
"Metamorphosis Four" - 19:09
"Metamorphosis Five" - 26:29
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"Metamorphosis", refers to and was inspired by the 1915 short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. While all pieces were written in 1988, some were written for a staging of Metamorphosis, while others were for a documentary film called The Thin Blue Line directed by Errol Morris.
"Metamorphosis One" is played in an episode of Battlestar Galactica by Kara "Starbuck" Thrace. Within the narrative, her father composed and performed the piece. It is also played in the series finale of Person of Interest, Return 0. "Metamorphosis Two" formed the basis of one of the main musical themes in the film The Hours. It is also the song that the American rock band Pearl Jam uses as their introduction music to concerts.
*I prepared this release to celebrate 4 million streams of this composition in my interpretation on UA-cam (a bit late though, because the number of views has grown since then). After several unlucky attempts to make this recording on different instruments and in different studios I returned to the same living room and the same piano - Steinway & Sons model O made in 1926. I can not possibly explain this, but despite all the obvious technical obstacles that stand before you while recording in a regular room, with all the uncontrolled reflections, with the old piano in poor condition which makes you suffer a lot, with all the additional vibrations, rattling strings, hammers that require voicing, with a creaking chair - it turns out to be exactly how I perceive this music. So, one piano, 2 microphones, beloved Philip Glass, and my personal story with the place where this record session took place.
#Coversart
Starting today, *Metamorphosis* are available in all major streaming services
Listen / Love / Share: album.link/T6mHCbPks7X4w
I prepared this release to celebrate 4 million streams of this composition in my interpretation on UA-cam (a bit late though, because the number of views has grown since then). After several unlucky attempts to make this recording on different instruments and in different studios I returned to the same living room and the same piano - Steinway & Sons model O made in 1926. I can not possibly explain this, but despite all the obvious technical obstacles that stand before you while recording in a regular room, with all the uncontrolled reflections, with the old piano in poor condition which makes you suffer a lot, with all the additional vibrations, rattling strings, hammers that require voicing, with a creaking chair - it turns out to be exactly how I perceive this music. So, one piano, 2 microphones, beloved Philip Glass, and my personal story with the place where this record session took place.
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Since 1982, Phillip Glass has been my one inspirational musical companion while writing poetry .. this is a stunning reawakening of all the emotions that I’ve felt with every line. 🙏
Thank you so much. Philip's music transports us into another world.
How is the complete name of the pianist?
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In 1980 I worked selling toe shoes for ballet dancers in New York City. One Saturday morning this guy comes in and asked for some shoes for his daughter's ballet class. We engaged in conversation about music and he invited me to see him play the piano the next day afternoon in a concert to raise funds for Tibet. It was in a church around the store where I worked. That is how I met Philip Glass. Ironically what impacted me when I saw him arriving on stage that Sunday afternoon, was that he was wearing old blue jeans and a working man's shirt. It was a total new way for me to be around a "classical" environment
+Victor Morgado wow, Victor! Thanks for sharing your story with us!
Played this to my mother who is in a hospice with late stage cancer, she had the night terrors and couldnt sleep, even with heavy medication. She slowly slipped off into a deep sleep half way through, with a faint smile on her face. Thankyou coversart.
This story is a testament to what an amazing place New York is.
That is great to read about PG wearing Jeans and that shirt at the performance, because I'm going to perform this at the Chopin Salon in Warsaw on July 4 and don't have any fancy clothes - I'm going to tell them this story :)
Wonderful story!
master of repetitions. if art could mimic the repetitiveness of being alive it’d be a clause on a sheet written by Glass. the irony is you can repeatedly listen to this and still want to listen again like you never stop repeating a breath. Thank you Mr Glass.
Well said!
It’s called minimalism.
"Happy happy happy, everybody is happy."
Wonderful way to say it. And I agree. It's mesmerizing.
Ole! 👏
There's something about melancholy piano solos that reach right into my soul ;-;
My fears are banished. My doubts are stilled. My mood carefully cradled and levelled.
I remember the first time I listen to Glass.
It was like "what is happening to me ? I didn't knew these emotions before".
Years after, I feel exactly the same effect
Played this to my mother who is in a hospice with late stage cancer, she had the night terrors and couldnt sleep, even with heavy medication. She slowly slipped off into a deep sleep half way through, with a faint smile on her face. Thankyou coversart.
+RJ Moore You are most welcome. I wish you strength and courage.
God bless you.
you provided a bright light amongst the darkness. god bless you and your mother.
That's heavy...i wish u strenght.
I hope the music gave her peace. I played Rachmaninoff for my aging grandmother in her last days. she was being given a lot of morphine and my playing helped her slip into the oblivion. she could let go by the end of the piece. I guess she had never heard The Prelude of the Bells before.
Hi , I m a Sonographer MD and every day I begin in my offices with this piece, my patients thanks me for the music and I thank you. Some times my work it is not about "good news"· but the music helps me to create an atmosphere of care. We need more concerts in the hospitals and less TV !!!
Thank you very much for that. It is a very magic, theta music ready to help a better future to create.
Однозначно!
I truly hate television/screens at hospitals, dentists, etc. Love the idea of having quality, healing music instead!
True, I wish classical music and contemporary music like this was played in shops instead of that other stuff.
I couldn't agree more, Isaac!!
This is by far the best cover performance of Metamorphosis on the net.
Thank you, Jorge!
It’s good to listen to this on the harp just blows me away
I discovered his music in 2008 when I was 14. On an autumn afternoon, It was a very overcast rainy day in Los Angeles and I looked out my window to see the skyline gradually disappear into the dense rainy clouds. The rain was cold and when I opened the window I can smell it and feel the gusts of wind blowing in. Again, I listened to this album in Washington D.C. and Virginia on a very grey and rainy afternoon as I rode past the Potomac river and all the large government buildings - the music emphasizing the gravitas of their brutalist architecture. But for some reason it made me think of rainy days in New York before 9/11. So grey, cold, wet and melancholy, yet so beautiful and ethereal. A chilly nostalgia rains on me when I listen to this.
You've touched my imagination three years later. Art is contagious and far reaching in the best way...this music...your words. Thank you 💋
I see there are many of us commenting who find Glass to be our best accompaniment for focus on work. It's almost magical.
My heart weeps for the 869 thumbs in the wrong direction.
See my reply above.
Asked to write a piece that never ends, Glass nailed it.
could play this all by memory crica 2010. Played my whole life up to that point, and then for some reason I moved that year to an apartment, never got a digital piano and never played again. Life has a way of getting us off track. This was the last piece II had mastered, and I am back reliving it as I literally take the plastic off my new piano in my new house.
Good for you! Yes get back on the horse as it were 🙂🙏🏼
Hauntingly beautiful and calming, was driving home late last night from work and came across this on the radio, parked in front of my house until it was over, couldn't stop listening to it.
yes, I understand....it is so much theta. It is like life in the best way.
I know a piece has "got me" when my mind is playing it on waking.
Oh how I wish all countries have such radio...
Many of you probably are aware already but Glass was commissioned by a Brazilian ballet company to compose the score for a production called "Aguas da Amazonia" Portions of Metamorphosis were interwoven into that score. It was performed by the acoustic ensemble Uakti and can found on their album 'Glass: Aguas Da Amazonia'
Sometimes I listen to this twice in a row. It is haunting, sad yet deep and strangely uplifting.
There is sadness, but not despair. There is hope, a little hope, imbued in all this.
Finding solace here during the pandemic. Thank you.
God offers real solace.
This music touches a place in my heart I previously knew not existed.
What a marvel...
It's like Clair de lune on a sorrowful morn, Erik Satie just chilling musing at the world shifting as it all walks by an empty cafe, then Beethoven arises from apparent nothingness then with fragrant wild hair casts the Earth into a beauty beholden to a tremendous terror. Just wonderful.
Absolutely admirable. It's like I can feel the pain of the metamorphosis in me at the same time of observe the relief of transformation. Art and music have their way of touching the soul as we need it
ok....
I've been listening to Philip Glass since 1982, but your pace really moved me. Thank you. You're one of the few people who give each note its time and space . Especially the space between the notes.
Yes, as important as the note is the space between - like life's great moments, the pause for reflection in between is as sweet.
the space between the notes is sacred - the instant when all things are possible. If you believe in a god, this is where they live. This interpretation of Metamorphosis moves me to tears.
I hate hearing repetitive sounds, but this song makes me calm rather than mad. I discovered him because of our group project, it doesn't feel like one cause i did most of the work it's about a research about composers of the 20th century and i was like "why not search up their songs for reference?" Glad i did cause the songs of the composers I've heard so far is into my likings. I've always liked listening to solo piano songs but i didn't expect to love it this much, it reminds me of the time when i wanted to study how to play piano but couldn't cause it's expensive and my top priority back then was to get high grades so even if i could've afforded it i wouldn't be able to study it anyways. I hope somewhere near or even if it's far from the future i hope i could study how to play piano and play beautiful songs like this too. I mean it's never too late to learn new things
Philip Glass is a musical genius in our lifetime with modernism in his music with classical undertones. Classical training is obvious.
Never ever have I come across a composer who so immortalizes and reinforces the words of Victor Hugo....
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”.
One of my graphic design teachers would play music while we worked. Every class she asked what we wanted to hear and no one ever spoke up so I just always said Philip Glass.
haha! BelleFlower15, you are fantastic!
Well, in my case, I would probably alternate: a day with Philip Glass / then a day with Boards of Canada..
To compensate the repetitiveness, the lack of variation, the music must be absolutely beautiful - this is the essence of minimalism.
I was introduced to Mr. Glass music when 'Koyaanisqatsi' ( ha missed only one "a" ) was played on a PBS viewing. And ever since then I watched all "Qatsi" trilogy!!
Thanks Philip Glass, a Great American composer!
You've breathed new life into this exquisite music - it feels like a living thing, like no version I've ever heard
My daughter's music teacher made me discover that masterpiece during online class, when he was teaching the kids about repetitions and contrasts.
Anyone who has seen the movie or read the book "The Hours" can appreciate Phillip glass's fine music. It is extremely fitting. When I cease to live I would surely like this music playing, as it's heavenly. Also it helped me with the loss of a loved one, even before my actual loss.
this music is so good that every movie fits this music.
The right hand asking the question
The left hand answering
The left hand asking
The right answering
Hans Zimmer explains his music in this context.
It’s amazing how wordless music can speak directly to your soul. Love love love this piece and everything else Phillip Glass has created.
Listen to the soundtracks on Powaqaatsi and Koyanisqaatsi...beautiful
Music is wordless, songs have lyrics.
Este hombre propuso un prototipo de composición simple para que otros como Rick Wakeman o Vangelis la usaran a modo de ADN Para fundar la transgresión lirica, como lo fue y lo es, el Rock Sinfonico...
Search for Alexandra Streliski you'll be even more amazed :)
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Makes me feel hurt. Very deep in the soul
I originally came for the reason that Person of Interest played this song. Now each time whenever I play this song, it has a new meaning. I lost almost all of my friends, I changed schools, my love cheated on me, I had issues with my mom, continuing problems with my father; I broke and I wept for almost an hour. On one windy and cloudy afternoon as I was listening to Metamorphosis 5, I realized something. I realized that I don't really need to worry about all those friends I've lost, because in the end they never cared. Losing my best friend hurt, because all that happened was that I was being pushed away. I lost my other best friend, because he thought I was trying to "get at" him. I've lost a few family members, and a place where I thought was safe is just as bad as I thought - maybe even worse. Playing this song was a bit emotional for me, but also helpful; for the reason that I got to relive some of the memories that helped me. It sucks because majority of those friends helped shape me, my father is just someone who will never grow up and always stay in the past. I will grow and move, and since they're no longer with me, it has to be without them
wonderful story. thank you for sharing
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A true metamorphosis.
The unbelievable power of music, as a visual artist I am often in awe of how visceral and powerful music is. Hitting our emotions and feelings so much more directly often than any painting can.
Just cooked my self a good meal & have been listening to Philip Glass while eating it.
Lovely
I'm an "old" man, but about 30/40 years ago i discovered Philip Glass.. still today is always great. Hoping also for new generation
Of course! we love him!
You don't know me, but you have been with me as I write my thesis. When my brain needed a bittersweet jolt to aid reflection, your interpretation of Glass' incomparable imagination provided just what I needed to get through the countless hours. Thank you!
was this one of these theses that you humanities people write, about how your roids itch?
@@DrWhom Why make more room for the asshole when you can fill the cart with heart?
@@DrWhom going by your other comments, you have a personality that makes stale bread seem exciting.
I attended Philip Glass's first concerts in Paris and right away was mesmerized by his compositions; now my son is a great admirer of his work as well.
Me too, for the Festival d'Automne, it was amazing, a wonder, au Centre Culturel du Marais and before I went for the première of Einstein of the Beach at the Opera Comique.
I live in a Brazilian favela. After 4 nights without sleeping for the funk's sound and all parties, this morning, September 7th I listen this music after a few years. Thank you for transport me to other world. Thank you for the peace. Thank you for all beautiful pieces that you did, mr. Glass.
Seven+1 weeks ago we discovered our female cat Macka sitting in front of a big TV screen full of Philip Glas music Metamorphosic. She was glued to the tv screen for more than 33 minutes...Te too...🎶
😂😂 That's an excellent review right there!
The daughter of my neihbour is an excellent piano player, giving recitals in front of substantial audiences and it seems about a year ago she discoverd philp glass and metamorphosis. Gardening has become so much nicer these days!
she is a dark child
14:30 ive been searching for this piece for 8 years
This music was played on my brothers funeral.namaste.
Glass's whole musical world is that of the mesmerist. From the first, his work completely captured me. The Photographer was my introduction. I have continued to be mesmerized by his work, and how it has developed over so many years. Yes, some of the work does not reach the best of him -- The Tirol Concerto, etc. But his prolific output, when listened to in progression shows that he is truly one of our great composers. From classical compositions to film scores, he intrigues every time. At least this listener. Yes, it is work that needs attention -- close attention to its subtle but very real changes. But would you call Monet repetitive? Not if you actually see the those magnificent lilies in front of you. For me, it is the same with Glass. He does for my ear what Monet does for my eyes. If one listens closely, you can't help hearing the influence of Chopin's 'Nocturnes' in this work. His classical training is obvious. This video is even more compelling to watch because of all the hand work -- you can see the composition become visually alive. It's a superb performance.
This piece was used in a Battlestar Galactica episode titled Valley of Darkness. Amazing matching of music with the mood of the scene in that episode.
i love that part on 9:27. gets me every time. it's like the music is trying to get a feel for itself throughout its own uncertainty.
The first song I heard on the Person of Interest and had no idea it was Phillip Glass. Fantastic work! 👏
I had the fortune of listening to him playing this very album in Lisbon in early 90's and i still can feel getting lost in nowhere and the music filling the space as a unique existing presence. Woooowwwww
I saw him conducting an orchestra while playing "Powaqqatsi" in LIsbon and I was mesmerized. And become a fan. Until today.
you can say "I had the misfortune of" but not "I had the fortune of" - it is what linguists call a polarised expression, sadly there is no general rule that explains why this is so. you can say e.g. "I was fortunate enough to"
Absolutely essential for all P. Glass fanatics...marvelous interpretation of this powerful and hauting piece of art
totally agree, perfect interpretation, so much texture, really wonderful!
How is this like 'Ragas in Minor Scale?' You might broaden your exposure, mate! :)
Where is development?
Musicas de natal
He clearly inspired some of the best contemporary composers tho. Might be worth more to him than "attention" they don't all do art to flatter their ego. He's not your "struggling artist" he's vastly regarded as one of the most influential musician of the late 20th. He chose minimalism. He studied at Julliard and even got a Fullbright scholarship so i guess professionals perceived his potential and through the decades his talent as been recognized all over world as he got to work with many many operas, symphonic ensemble and artists. Bottom line is...have some fucking respect the man's a legend not a mainstream candyman.
I've never heard anything like this - it's haunting, mesmerizing and infinitely sad.
My Dad was a great classical music fan, loved things from Bach through to the Romantics (but pretty much stopped there). Mozart and Beethoven were his absolute favorites. He had no time for anything too modern, certainly not avant-garde or minimal. I sent this link to him just a few months before he died (age 87) and his response was: - "I have never been a big Philip Glass fan but this I like and I will do some more searching." - So good on you, Coversart, you opened up a new pair of ears there. :-)
-->> A year on, listening to this again and thinking of him. I miss him.
I heard Metamorphosis One first during the BSG episode Valley of Darkness. I'm pleased that I can listen to more of Philip Glass' amazing work here. Thank you!
Just two chords and my feelings are touched. It's such a sad and dignified piece of music. Hauntingly beautiful.
My Grandmother had one, It's still in my estranged Uncle's basement gathering dust. It has exceptional tone for all 88
that's so tragic sad. like Edward Scissorhands at the end of the movie sad.. you need to rescue it D';
I loved this piece when they used it in Person of Interest; it was so haunting
Western soft voodoo that brings up the deepest emotions. Amazing how acoustic strings can send people into such state. Merci Monsieur Glass !
The most beautiful song in existence.
Not a 'song'
An extraordinary moment. I am not normally a Philip Glass lover but l keep on going back to his Metamorphosis - heart rending
Silence in between hurts but that's live if you live it fully. Thank you for bringing the Light among us.
This play gives me comfort and solace ，and heals my tired mind , and melts away my suffering and sorrow , and purifies my stagnant soul .
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One of the most simple and most beautifull pieces in excistance! 35 year old man, this can make me cry if i think about certain things.
I’m in love with this pair of hands
Music which leads to the extreme depths of stillness where metamorphosis takes place.
My son (3 months old) and I listened to this together and LOVED it! He was kicking around and smiling so big. Thank you!
Philip Glass so evocative of unnameable, subtle yearnings and master of suspense .
This particular piece has grown with me over time. I keep taking away different meanings as my life continues to change. sometimes hopeless, sometimes full of hope. I suppose there is a particular beauty in the repetition that is hard to describe. I hope to see it live sometime.
at first i was thinking to read some essays and use this album as the background music, but i couldn't, i just can't help to stop what am doing and sink in the music to feel deep in it. It was so beautiful, one just simply can't ignore this beauty lies behind the lyrics.
My heart is quivered by this play
We were just learning about Modernism in English class, and I brought up how minimalist music kinda has the same sort of properties as Modernist literature, mentioning Philip Glass specifically. I had no clue that this song was directly inspired by "The Metamorphosis," arguably the most well known Modernist story!
listen to this so often while developing pictures in my bathroom and to see a photo emerge from nothing during on of the climaxes makes me marvel about the entire world at once. truly great piece and excellent performance
Thank you, Jaap!
Philip Glass shatters the ceiling on how music can be created constructed and imagined, beyond words.
So did sparks....
This is not intended to be morbid, but this music is what I want played as I transition from this body back to Spirit. I can feel the metamorphosis happening so sweetly and lovingly.
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That piano sounds. Nothing short of magical. Old pianos really sound so much sharper and more refined.. like a well-loved piece of wooden furniture - all the soft parts are worn away with wonderful stories, all the seams, joints, and grain are as dark as the most mysterious unknown, the tones are clear and carry forever unmuffled... your interpretation of Glass really showcases the output of such a fine instrument with an almost synaesthetic response in my perception.
This is full of win!
As wood ages, it gets drier and drier and this causes the cell walls shrink even further. This shrinkage and loss of even more water (wood is put into a dry box before building an instrument to get it down to 7%) allows the sound waves to travels even better along the woodgrain. This is why older instruments sound better and better with age.
Music that saturates my emotions with memory and some regrets. Deeply moving and the reason why music -along with poetry- is an almost divine activity. I think of Rilke. I think of Yeats. Glass clarifies their imagery.
Rilke is really something isn't he? I've learned so much from his poetry and prose.
I love that interpretation of Glass' piano as a form of their imagery.
Have you ever read Robert Boy? Probably most influenced by Rilke and Yeats in many ways.
Poetry is very different to music, however, in that its emotional impact is more often than not due to a more or less conscious interpretation of the words rather than the inherent musicality in the words and their rhythms. The latter can enhance the emotions but are seldom the main carrier of them unless you pick words only for their musicality and not for their semantic content, put them together in a repetitive pattern until you forget what the word might have originally meant and just experience the rhythm and melody of them, which would be a poetic equivalence of a Glass piece, I guess. I don't know of any poets who makes such poetry, though I am sure there would be some who do.
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@Richard Signore, I totally agree with you. Music and poetry dive deep in our soul and bring us back meaning, images and symbols that remind our shares humanity.
I am fanatic falling in love with this music. Thank you Mr Glass.
This wonderful performance is the acme of beauty, admiration ,tribute and emotion
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Wonderful performance and recording. Thanks for this.
Many thanks!
I have never heard this before but I have already listened to it about a dozen times. I am in love with its haunting embrace.
it makes me happy)
Метаморфозы как река, возле которой можно сидеть и смотреть долго долго. Река жизни...
It's hard to deal with, sometimes, how much this music moves me. Thank you.
Thank you for listening, Kevin!
Philip glass is a mastermind
The piano is like an extension of his body...so fluid
This is absolutely beautiful, thank you!
I love mister Glass his work, so pure and elegant. Your intrepetation was wonderfull, thanks a lot.
Met with him by coincidence via a cheap second hand CD I found many years ago that I was curios to listen. Now I appreciate the little money I have paid for that CD so that I discovered a great artist and still listening..
I don’t agree with the critics’ description of Philip Glass’ music. This music if full of life, lows and highs, passion, intrigue. If you don’t hear this in this music you’re not getting it. I can’t believe you can be a music critic and not be able to hear!
It is of the highest finesse how he puts in this much emotion in his "repetitive" music And that’s why it’s so beautiful!
I love the octave chimes in the bass.
This video is the reason I learned to play piano. Thanks!
I am thinking the same, have you found the music sheets?
Piano changed your life didn't it? Or more like,it BROUGHT you to life
Thank you for this: the most sensual & satisfying presentation of Glass's music I've heard.
Wonderful! I feel as if I am at a half-abandoned mountain shrine in Japan.
So I've basically been obsessed with Glass' piano works lately, but I've totally slept on this one. It never really clicked with me like most of his pieces do, so I didn't bother to learn it, until I watched this video. Very inspiring. Thanks for the upload!
If you like Phillip Glass' work, you'll probably like Olfur Arnalds. He's similar. I would suggest his album "For Now I am Winter" or his work for the show Broadchurch.
This deserves more attention! As a big fan of Philip Glass' work, i really love the way you make it sound!
I totally agree with you. His songs are like haunting poetry and so much depth! BRAVO!!
@@wearetemporary I was clearly talking about coversart, not Glass himself.
So powerful. I'd love to be in the room with this being played from start to finish.
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Beautiful! I never tire of listening to this.
I keep listening to your version, it is deep and marvelous. Many thanks for sharing it.
Absolutely a trip in the inner workings of oneself if one takes the time to just breathe.
Thank you so much for this! Absolutely stunning record.
I can distort time by listening to this beauty, is what I wanted to phrase.
This rendition moved me to tears, great work!
MAD SPANNER eternity gracefulls
Give the gift of classical music to your children it will be like best gift to live on in them this is a masterpiece 👌
I had no idea who I was meeting back in 1989 on a train from Amsterdam to Berlin when I met PhillipGlass and his musicians...they were playing in Berlin and invited us to come see the show for free....VIP tickets...really?!, we were backpackers.....It ended up being one of the most memorable parts of our journey And now I see just how influential he was beyond his own work. It seems to me he also instilled a similar passion in Nils Frahm, who to this day I am enthralled with too. So beautiful to experience such passion in the artistry of music!
Филип гласс музыка из фильма иллюзионист