I saw this first in 1984, as an art student in Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't believe my ears; never heard or saw anything like it, thought it was phenomenal, still do.😮😮😮
My Lord.... the remarkable bookends I just experienced: I never fail to weep when the chorus begins to sing in Knee Play 1, Train. At the same time, the Counting Crows line shredded me with unexpected laughter. I am now nothing but a block of sentient unflavored gelatin. God Loves Us All.... or just ain't there.
Saw this at Lincoln Center back in the day. Could not believe what I was seeing or hearing. Was this a play? A film? An opera? Thought the top of my head had blown off. Absolutely fantastic. Then and now. My life has never been the same. Thank you Robert. Thank you Philip. Thank you Lucinda. Thank you Christopher.
@@sandyno1089 I get your point. And agree. Akhanaten was and is completely amazing. (Played hooky from work and saw it twice) But Einstein was of a different ilk. It came out in the mid-70s when nothing and I mean nothing like it had been seen at Lincoln Center. It. Was. Riveting.
I was told it went for many hours? I’ve used this to teach my students for experimental and physical theatre. I wish I had seen it live. The concept is amazing!!!
In the early 1980's I randomly decided to listen to the radio, this was not a usual thing for me to do, this is why I chose to deliberately have a listen, with headphones to a BBC broadcast I think, and so I sat down and closed my eyes and the station just so happened to start playing Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach, I can't remember exactly which part, but it was quite long, this isn't quite the end of the story though, as a 17 or 18-year-old at the time, and not on any drugs or anything mind-altering, my dad was on the sofa reading his newspaper or something - that's when it started.... I was drawn to an imaginary world with all this toing and frowing of incredible sounds, then I started to see some white stairs, going upwards, so I started to climb the stairs that seemed to be endless, like white marble, beautiful stone steps for as far as the eye could see, then, eventually I started to see that the stairs stopped, and I wondered what I would see at the top, as I got closer, I could see over the top, and saw that there was a depression, that was about 20 or 30ft below, and to get down, there were the same steps to step down them, in the middle there was a bathing pool, just like a modern swimming pool, with a few people stood in it, not swimming, just standing and talking to each other, with several other people on the steps sat down scattered randomly about the area, then, all of a sudden they all started to part as a figure on the other side of the steps arose then at the top, started to step down the incline and towards the pool, and all the people parted to allow this figure passage, not that there were many people there, then the figure started heading towards me, at the top of this place, the figure and all the people were wearing white robes, the main figure approaching me had a large hood and it hid their face, just as the figure started to walk around the pool and ascend the steps towards me, I had and incredible urge to leave, and said, I'm sorry bit I have to go, as I turned I heard a distant voice calling my name, repeating, and as I became aware of this voice I started to come out of my trance and realised it was my father calling me to catch my attention for some reason, and I just remeber telling him what I have just written above. It was an incredible experience for me, and I waited for the presenter of the radio station to say who it was, and Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: has forever been etched in my brain, and it was only when the internet came about after many many years that I decided to search for it, and this is the second time I have heard it, but the first on UA-cam. I had no idea that music was so powerful. Thank you Philip Glass for that incredible experience.
Oh I wish I had gone to New York in 2012 to see it again. 1976 the noise and attention made in 1976 living in Los Angeles I will never forget. How do the singers dothese difficult rhythms and even the counting changes without a score in front of them ? Bed from this opera is revelatory as is Night train . Train makes such a unique unforgettable experience upon first encounter. It is truly music that feels like the world we live in Now esp. the 1970's and 1980's in places where we are confronted with chaos it becomes our scarifying present !
At the end of the performance, the PG Ensemble came into the stage for their bow. I swear there was an... aura ... about them ... as though spending several hours playing this music had started warping spacetime itself around them....
I will admit, the first time I saw this, many years ago, I laughed at it. I did not understand what I was watching. Now, this is beautiful to me. I don't really know what changed.
Consummate performers committed to their craft in a time warp situation, is how I'd like to explain the absolute beauty of that. Makes you like living in a computer watching gateways open and close.
This is a very interesting, collective expression of Einstein's brain under pressure during the time he was going through trial, combined with his leisure memories, and his talent for constantly thinking about physics :) It took me years to figure this out, and I could not figure it out simply listening to the soundtrack. Now I finally see it. It is as challenging to see as looking at a multi-dimensional painting by Picasso. But that is exactly what it is. :) Glass has done an absolutely shimmering job of exhibiting how a musician expresses in tonality the values and processes of a Physicist's mind constantly at work!
I can’t help but feel that the final recapitulation of the intro also recontextualizes the ideas in his swirling mind as mimicking the patterns of nature. People and meaning arising from the fluctuations of matter just as short, meaningful phrases arising from the initially incomprehensible talk of the two lead. Though such thoughts that might otherwise be distressing, the conductor asserts that given how human expression of love arises from such processes, it has cosmic importance.
I was so intrigued after hearing Einstein on the Beach mentioned on a UA-cam channel, that I listened to some of it on Spotify. My curiosity increased so I bought the DVD set from Amazon which by coincidence was of this exact performance. Something I will watch again and again.
Philip Glass captured my ear in the 1980s, and I had the privilege of hearing him conduct Powaqqatsi at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 90s. Incredible composer.
I would love to see this “happening” (as I think I heard Glass himself describe it) I once randomly stumbled into a performance of Satyagraha. It was my first time in an opera house, and I went primarily because i loved Glassworks and Koyaanisqatsi. Satyagraha changed my life. I am now an opera fanatic. Sadly I have not seen any Glass since then! Akhanaten is top of my list!
Everybody talking about the music of Philip Glass but is nobody going to about Robert Wilson who created this masterpiece of visual perception where the time dilated with accelerations and decelerations of the rythm, of the speech and of the movements and the lights create a new cosmologic space never seen before in any theatral pièce?
I discovered this opera mid November, 2016, and I highly regret that I didn’t know of it back when Glass and Wilson were still in the business of producing it from time to time
Me and my friends had a red wine club at Uni. Used to get blasted and put the full opera on full blast. Then we went to Paris and got to see it live! Pretty sure this is the same production?
@Aqua Fyre why don't you learn something about the study of light and movement and perception behind the works of Robert Wilson? If you know nothing about history of Theater then don't talk, the work that Wilson and Glass made with Einstein on the Beach is pure innovation, there is nothing like it nor in Grotowski's works or Artaud's or Beck and Malina's. I suggest you to know before talking.
I was stumped while building an atom smasher in my garage until she said the thing about the balloon. You see, I needed a balloon and some mayonnaise to fix the atom smasher. Now its working. Problem solved, thank you Philip Glass!
@23:28 Wait hold up a minute. Nevermind the La-Fa La-Fa Do-Si! Looks like Helga got her a New York Times. It appears to be March 13, 1991 - Section B, Page 12. Wow!
In that very issue of the New York Times, on page C14, is an article on Trisha Brown, a founding member of the Judson Dance theater, the movement that established post-modern dance. Another Judson artist is Lucinda Childs, who did the choreography for Einstein On The Beach.
I adore recordings of this opera but have never seen it before, even on video. I find that I don't really care what incomprehensible things the actors and dancers are doing. I want to watch the musicians play.
It’s interesting that this filmed presentation uses multiple cameras and angles/perspectives. I assume the producers must have gotten permission because by doing they reinterpret the piece. Maybe Mr. Wilson was involved.
I'm guessing this is the BAM performance. Or is it a newer one? Would love to see/hear this live one day. It was my first exposure to Glass way back in the mid 1970s thanks to the original cast recording. I've been a Glass addict ever since.
I just listed to the recording during a 7 mile hike. Miraculously, nature and its elements just seemed to flow with the whole thing perfectly. Try it out next time you hike fellow Humans.
Certain forms of modern art aim at which theology aims, that is self-referentiality. Something becomes of value only because it has been decided at the table by those who are able to manipulate public opinion. It is like being in front of a banknote. It's just a piece of paper but the national bank said it was of great value.
From the Philip Glass Wikipedia entry: " Glass defines a "Knee Play" as an interlude between acts and as "the 'knee' referring to the joining function that humans' anatomical knees perform". While the "Knee Plays" helped to create the necessary time to change the scenery of Wilson's seven sets, these interludes also served a musical function."
These comments used to utterly perplex me until I stumbled upon the winning Crown performance. I cried a bit at the “two lovers” portion. So triumphant!
No it does not sound like schizophrenia.... Schizophrenia is a total out of placement with reality you are truly in a state where you cannot tell reality from fantasy and have delusional thinking and you will act on this delusional thinking no baby this is not schizophrenic this is beautiful
EOTB is way too long. It would have been more effective if cut by 2.5 hours. Some of the staging is mesmerizing. Other parts are just pointless and silly. The scenes are tableau that barely change - and need to if we aren't going to fall asleep. As a contemplative, dreamy, hypnotic meditation on physics, it works for a while, but having sat through it twice, I can say that a little goes a long way.
@@thom6746 I’m envious. Did a lot of people take advantage of being allowed to come and go freely as audience members? I’ve always wondered if this was distracting for the audience, but apparently was fine with Glass and Wilson.
@@asynchronicity some people walked out and never came back. Others did take breaks. I knew when the long, slowly changing scenes were, and took advantage of those. My guess is that more than half of the audience were fans, 25% were puzzled but intrigued, and the rest found it intolerably dull. I heard snoring at one point.
I feel terrible... everyone is spouting off on how incredible this is... and I think it's garbage and hurts my ears, my mind, and I feel stupider listening to it. I want sweet soft melodies filled with harmony and tonality. I want major key signatures and bunnies and butterflies. Perhaps due to it's complexity I am the stupid one who can't truly appreciate the noise.
There is no reason to feel terrible. It's not your thing. For me, it mesmerizes me. It is tonal with harmony. True though, there are no sweet, soft melodies. It is in a major key. You are not stupid because you don't appreciate it. It is good to know what you want and it is easy to find it here. Peace.
Well this is in a major key and it’s tonal so I don’t really know what you mean there. In terms of feeling like you don’t “get it”, this music takes a very different kind of listening from any other kind of music. I thought this was very weird when I first heard it, but then recently I tried again. And instead of “wanting more”, I focused on what was there. And then it captured me. I was mesmerized, and was just along for the ride. I also don’t get how you say this is complex. I think it’s the exact opposite. It’s so simple that it’s supposed to pull you into a trance. If you still don’t get it then, don’t worry. It’s certainly not everyone’s thing. Hell, it’s barely my thing. I have to be in a very specific mood to want to listen to this. Just know that it is tonal, it is major, and it’s not complex.
The Achnaten story could be imbued with so much more depth, so much more language, and controversy, and intrigue! Instead we get performers as if they're overdosing on thorasine or wading in wet concret. Posing. Not moving. Not speaking. This opera is a fraudulent work, with tired queens in the audience so desperate for LGBTQ representation that ignore the opera's lack of story, and lack of stakes, and lack of range of emotion. It's fucking awful.
XD. They tease you, and you act interesting when it's just slop. You are going to the greatest sadness, and madness, but if I can I will get away from you.
This is so boring 😅 maybe this is clever ☺️ but so annoying 🤣 crazy ..I am asking for cocktails Einstein on the beach 🏖️ not that boring moment .if the world is like that that!!,
I saw this first in 1984, as an art student in Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't believe my ears; never heard or saw anything like it, thought it was phenomenal, still do.😮😮😮
My Lord.... the remarkable bookends I just experienced: I never fail to weep when the chorus begins to sing in Knee Play 1, Train. At the same time, the Counting Crows line shredded me with unexpected laughter. I am now nothing but a block of sentient unflavored gelatin. God Loves Us All.... or just ain't there.
Saw this at Lincoln Center back in the day. Could not believe what I was seeing or hearing. Was this a play? A film? An opera? Thought the top of my head had blown off. Absolutely fantastic. Then and now. My life has never been the same. Thank you Robert. Thank you Philip. Thank you Lucinda. Thank you Christopher.
An opera. Look up Akhanaten. Head blown off.
@@sandyno1089 I get your point. And agree. Akhanaten was and is completely amazing. (Played hooky from work and saw it twice) But Einstein was of a different ilk. It came out in the mid-70s when nothing and I mean nothing like it had been seen at Lincoln Center. It. Was. Riveting.
I was told it went for many hours? I’ve used this to teach my students for experimental and physical theatre. I wish I had seen it live. The concept is amazing!!!
You've been fooled by the very most simplistic staging of unexplained abstract stage elements and ostinato recordings. You need to get out more.
@@jesuspectre9883 concept. Not staging. Not sound. You need to read more.
Lucky, lucky people who had the chance to experience this in real life. Like a big, brilliant comet that will never come back again.
In the early 1980's I randomly decided to listen to the radio, this was not a usual thing for me to do, this is why I chose to deliberately have a listen, with headphones to a BBC broadcast I think, and so I sat down and closed my eyes and the station just so happened to start playing Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach, I can't remember exactly which part, but it was quite long, this isn't quite the end of the story though, as a 17 or 18-year-old at the time, and not on any drugs or anything mind-altering, my dad was on the sofa reading his newspaper or something - that's when it started.... I was drawn to an imaginary world with all this toing and frowing of incredible sounds, then I started to see some white stairs, going upwards, so I started to climb the stairs that seemed to be endless, like white marble, beautiful stone steps for as far as the eye could see, then, eventually I started to see that the stairs stopped, and I wondered what I would see at the top, as I got closer, I could see over the top, and saw that there was a depression, that was about 20 or 30ft below, and to get down, there were the same steps to step down them, in the middle there was a bathing pool, just like a modern swimming pool, with a few people stood in it, not swimming, just standing and talking to each other, with several other people on the steps sat down scattered randomly about the area, then, all of a sudden they all started to part as a figure on the other side of the steps arose then at the top, started to step down the incline and towards the pool, and all the people parted to allow this figure passage, not that there were many people there, then the figure started heading towards me, at the top of this place, the figure and all the people were wearing white robes, the main figure approaching me had a large hood and it hid their face, just as the figure started to walk around the pool and ascend the steps towards me, I had and incredible urge to leave, and said, I'm sorry bit I have to go, as I turned I heard a distant voice calling my name, repeating, and as I became aware of this voice I started to come out of my trance and realised it was my father calling me to catch my attention for some reason, and I just remeber telling him what I have just written above. It was an incredible experience for me, and I waited for the presenter of the radio station to say who it was, and Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: has forever been etched in my brain, and it was only when the internet came about after many many years that I decided to search for it, and this is the second time I have heard it, but the first on UA-cam. I had no idea that music was so powerful.
Thank you Philip Glass for that incredible experience.
I was looking for the Counting Crows song... now I understand the meaning of life.
This genuinely made my day. Welcome, my friend
It's 42 😃
Same... I'll never be together again
@@philippaldowieser1942 hello fellow hitchhiker.👍
Stop counting crows and start counting random numbers....more rewarding.
The original was doomed to be lost to history. Now it's recreation on media has immortalised it for future generations to behold.
Oh I wish I had gone to New York in 2012 to see it again. 1976 the noise and attention made in 1976 living in Los Angeles I will never forget. How do the singers dothese difficult rhythms and even the counting changes without a score in front of them ? Bed from this opera is revelatory as is Night train . Train makes such a unique unforgettable experience upon first encounter. It is truly music that feels like the world we live in Now esp. the 1970's and 1980's in places where we are confronted with chaos it becomes our scarifying present !
At the end of the performance, the PG Ensemble came into the stage for their bow. I swear there was an... aura ... about them ... as though spending several hours playing this music had started warping spacetime itself around them....
There is a possibility, just a possibility, that you're f--ked in the head.
Please go on
I will admit, the first time I saw this, many years ago, I laughed at it. I did not understand what I was watching.
Now, this is beautiful to me. I don't really know what changed.
You finally appreciated it for what it truly is? 😊
this is the sound of concentration and hypnosis. you are captured, friend
Everything. Nothing. You are different and so is the river.
Lol i dont understand this shit
Consummate performers committed to their craft in a time warp situation, is how I'd like to explain the absolute beauty of that. Makes you like living in a computer watching gateways open and close.
This is a very interesting, collective expression of Einstein's brain under pressure during the time he was going through trial, combined with his leisure memories, and his talent for constantly thinking about physics :) It took me years to figure this out, and I could not figure it out simply listening to the soundtrack. Now I finally see it. It is as challenging to see as looking at a multi-dimensional painting by Picasso. But that is exactly what it is. :) Glass has done an absolutely shimmering job of exhibiting how a musician expresses in tonality the values and processes of a Physicist's mind constantly at work!
Thank you for this. Now it makes so much more sense as I was just introduced this morning to it.
@@SystemsSecurityLLC imagine if everytime you experienced something new that is not intuitive, someone told you precisely what it means. neat.
I can’t help but feel that the final recapitulation of the intro also recontextualizes the ideas in his swirling mind as mimicking the patterns of nature. People and meaning arising from the fluctuations of matter just as short, meaningful phrases arising from the initially incomprehensible talk of the two lead. Though such thoughts that might otherwise be distressing, the conductor asserts that given how human expression of love arises from such processes, it has cosmic importance.
@@teamoah3563it's not what it means anyway Lol
Lol sittin in music class hearing about minimal music and reading and commenting under this video
same lol, had to check the comments in class while watching this
I was so intrigued after hearing Einstein on the Beach mentioned on a UA-cam channel, that I listened to some of it on Spotify. My curiosity increased so I bought the DVD set from Amazon which by coincidence was of this exact performance. Something I will watch again and again.
Did they cut out the mic pops in the first minute? Ugz.
I wept with awe through the entire performance those many years ago.
That would be me as well, sitting with PG's boot on my neck for four hours :)
One day I’ll see a production of this opera.
I saw it at the Frankfurt Opera House in 1992. I liked it very much.
Philip Glass captured my ear in the 1980s, and I had the privilege of hearing him conduct Powaqqatsi at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 90s. Incredible composer.
I would love to see this “happening” (as I think I heard Glass himself describe it)
I once randomly stumbled into a performance of Satyagraha. It was my first time in an opera house, and I went primarily because i loved Glassworks and Koyaanisqatsi.
Satyagraha changed my life. I am now an opera fanatic. Sadly I have not seen any Glass since then! Akhanaten is top of my list!
Philips Philip glass música Philip glass música
Fli glass
Everybody talking about the music of Philip Glass but is nobody going to about Robert Wilson who created this masterpiece of visual perception where the time dilated with accelerations and decelerations of the rythm, of the speech and of the movements and the lights create a new cosmologic space never seen before in any theatral pièce?
Big props to the lead dancer of the Train scene. That takes a lot of stamina.
Practically everything going on musically here takes a lot of stamina ;) And this is just the start!!
So how long can you walk with your hand above your heart?
may i be boldly frivolous and say what we're all thinking? "these are the days my friends..."
And these are my i-i days... my... friends
I hope not .
@@penelopestuart5032 yeah but would it get some wind for the sailboat though? if anyone asks you, pleaaaaase. It was trees. It is like that.
Cool! Kinda reminds me of Laurie Anderson.
Unfortunately!
Masterpiece, wish i was there
I discovered this opera mid November, 2016, and I highly regret that I didn’t know of it back when Glass and Wilson were still in the business of producing it from time to time
Me and my friends had a red wine club at Uni. Used to get blasted and put the full opera on full blast. Then we went to Paris and got to see it live! Pretty sure this is the same production?
@@michaelberringer8595 if you saw it in 2012-14 then it would definitely be the same!
@@penelopestuart5032 Ye! Was brilliant. What discipline the performers have. Otherworldy really.
By the way, who were the performers? I would like to see the hole play...
Spectacular . This is pure Art : Mysterious, surprising, creative , ... very emotional
inderdaad
@Aqua Fyre The pyramids? They're literally piles of blocks. The only thing impressive about them is their scale.
@Aqua Fyre Funny how ppl can't distinct art. Musical art, painting art, sculpture art, engineering art....do i have to continue?
@Aqua Fyre why don't you learn something about the study of light and movement and perception behind the works of Robert Wilson? If you know nothing about history of Theater then don't talk, the work that Wilson and Glass made with Einstein on the Beach is pure innovation, there is nothing like it nor in Grotowski's works or Artaud's or Beck and Malina's. I suggest you to know before talking.
@Aqua Fyre you really don't know who you're talking to
Staggeringly beautiful.
I want to hate this, but I watched the whole thing. I don't understand why I liked it. :)
I think that is similar to many people...
I was stumped while building an atom smasher in my garage until she said the thing about the balloon. You see, I needed a balloon and some mayonnaise to fix the atom smasher. Now its working. Problem solved, thank you Philip Glass!
Thank you MatPat this is rad
Exactly why I'm here XDD love it lol
Shoutout to Ollie for bringing us together
Where did MatPat mention Philip Glass?
lmao, im here because of emkay but yeah i dont understand this but its definitely interesting
@@zaephou2843 oh crap I don’t remember it was gtlive
A masterpiece. Thanks!
This is so weird. What the frick I can’t stop watching lmao
That’s the point. The fact the you can’t stop watching means it pulled you in. It intrigued you with it’s weirdness and not it’s got you in.
@@codascheuer8426
Nice time signature lol
imagine getting stuck at this train on the way to work in the morning
i heard this song while watching mr. robot. this is awesome
same
Treat yourself to the 2016 DVD and watch the entire opera. It’s life changing.
One of the operas of all time
It certainly is an opera
Underrated comment
J'ai vu ce chef d'oeuvre à Montpellier.... Fascinant !
Chef d’œuvre absolu!
awesome work. Thank you Onur Gazdağ Lovely! One of the best works of onur gazdağ. Love this work of yous
thats one of the plays i´ve ever saw!
@23:28 Wait hold up a minute. Nevermind the La-Fa La-Fa Do-Si! Looks like Helga got her a New York Times. It appears to be March 13, 1991 - Section B, Page 12. Wow!
Arson?
In that very issue of the New York Times, on page C14, is an article on Trisha Brown, a founding member of the Judson Dance theater, the movement that established post-modern dance. Another Judson artist is Lucinda Childs, who did the choreography for Einstein On The Beach.
Najlepsze!
先日10/8に神奈川県民ホールでの上演に行きましたよ。かなり良かったですね。この歌、割と最初の方に出てきますよね。
I adore recordings of this opera but have never seen it before, even on video. I find that I don't really care what incomprehensible things the actors and dancers are doing. I want to watch the musicians play.
I do not understand what other comments are saying about how “spectacular”this is if the entire thing is not only incomprehensible but also confusing.
@@AP-dd3xp There isn’t any meaning. Just listen.
I urge you to watch it, if you can. It's absolutely mesmerizing, and the visual is an integral part of the whole.
@@AP-dd3xp I think you make your own story up as you watch. Or not, and just sit back and listen. Either way it's enjoyable.
Esiste un prima e un dopo Einstein on the Beach, perché ha veramente segnato un punto di non ritorno per le arti performative.
Brilliant
It’s interesting that this filmed presentation uses multiple cameras and angles/perspectives. I assume the producers must have gotten permission because by doing they reinterpret the piece. Maybe Mr. Wilson was involved.
This is amazing
PERFORMING THEIR 2013 PROGRAM E=MC^2 DRUM CORPS INTERNATIONAL IS PROUD TO PRESENT
CAROLINA CROWN
Great Performance! However "Knee Play" sounds like a shock-video your friend would dare you to watch.
Edit: 4:22 nice
ESPECTACULAR!
글래스 - 해변의 아인슈타인 : 글래스의 업적은 무엇보다도 미니멀 음악의 창작 아이디어를 [음악극]으로 확대 한 것이다.
고전적인 서양음악의 화성적 요소에 대한 새로운 관심을 드러내는대 주로 반복도는 음형들로 구성되었고 대부분 3화음의 분산화음 형태이다.
si tu savais comme je suis d'accord avec toi
I feel like I'm at bingo.
Lmao
I really feel like this would be such an interesting opening to a band concert, if there was a band arrangement of it
Watch Carolina Crowns 2013 show called e/mc2
I'm guessing this is the BAM performance. Or is it a newer one? Would love to see/hear this live one day. It was my first exposure to Glass way back in the mid 1970s thanks to the original cast recording. I've been a Glass addict ever since.
필립글래스..!
I just listed to the recording during a 7 mile hike. Miraculously, nature and its elements just seemed to flow with the whole thing perfectly. Try it out next time you hike fellow Humans.
Anyone know where the rest of this opera can be found? It looks like past entries have been "scrubbed."
One might have to buy the CD set.
there’s this website that i “totally didn’t tell you about” that rhymes with bopera bon bideo where you totally cant find the entire recording
You can get this performance on 1080p Blu-Ray. It's awesome and worth every penny. It's great on a high-end stereo system.
Nice
Certain forms of modern art aim at which theology aims, that is self-referentiality. Something becomes of value only because it has been decided at the table by those who are able to manipulate public opinion. It is like being in front of a banknote. It's just a piece of paper but the national bank said it was of great value.
meaningless beautiful
Reminds me of Special K
I am embarrassed for Philip Glass and all of you for pretending to like this.
Glass was the composer right? Who directed this?
"Strange"? Don't worry, it's P. Glass!
Aaaah who doesn't love the occasional dose of schizoid avantgardismz!
Okay can someone please explain what is the pattern?! Is knee play a technique?
From the Philip Glass Wikipedia entry: " Glass defines a "Knee Play" as an interlude between acts and as "the 'knee' referring to the joining function that humans' anatomical knees perform". While the "Knee Plays" helped to create the necessary time to change the scenery of Wilson's seven sets, these interludes also served a musical function."
it's like Einsten was Kafka!!!
CAROLINA CROWWWWWWN!!!!
These comments used to utterly perplex me until I stumbled upon the winning Crown performance. I cried a bit at the “two lovers” portion. So triumphant!
@@penelopestuart5032 "Everything must have an ending, except my love for you. Impossible, you say?"
글래스(1937~)의 해변의 아인슈타인:
아방가르드 연극의 리더인 윌슨과 공동제작.
Like Wagner it is gesamkunstwerk. It has to be experienced in all its mayerial/media forms .
It’s a bit strange… but mezmerizing as well
Carolina Crown?
Sounds like Animal Collective ❤
The drugs in the 80s were really strong
0:00 Who has the bad mic?! Awful.
paroles svp
The Smartest Guys In The Room (2005).
This sounds like schizophrenia
No it does not sound like schizophrenia.... Schizophrenia is a total out of placement with reality you are truly in a state where you cannot tell reality from fantasy and have delusional thinking and you will act on this delusional thinking no baby this is not schizophrenic this is beautiful
Lol
Believe me it's not
4:50 28:40
Wow this is what crown 13 is based off of
auto correct the opera
ist sehr monoton.
nach ca. 15 Minuten geht es einem echt auffe Nerven.
🤔
Greg Egan brought me here.
Same 😀 !!!
😂
This copied a lot of licks from 2013 carolina crown
EOTB is way too long. It would have been more effective if cut by 2.5 hours. Some of the staging is mesmerizing. Other parts are just pointless and silly. The scenes are tableau that barely change - and need to if we aren't going to fall asleep. As a contemplative, dreamy, hypnotic meditation on physics, it works for a while, but having sat through it twice, I can say that a little goes a long way.
Twice? Haha
@@asynchronicity I love building and the knee plays, so, yes, I've sat through it twice. And that was enough for one lifetime.
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I’m envious. Did a lot of people take advantage of being allowed to come and go freely as audience members? I’ve always wondered if this was distracting for the audience, but apparently was fine with Glass and Wilson.
@@asynchronicity some people walked out and never came back. Others did take breaks. I knew when the long, slowly changing scenes were, and took advantage of those. My guess is that more than half of the audience were fans, 25% were puzzled but intrigued, and the rest found it intolerably dull. I heard snoring at one point.
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Interesting. Thanks for describing your experience, appreciate that.
I like Philip Glass's music, but Lucinda Childs' choreography is completely ridiculous.
Not to mention the costumes.
C'est affreux ! Comment une telle laideur est-elle supportable ?
I feel terrible... everyone is spouting off on how incredible this is... and I think it's garbage and hurts my ears, my mind, and I feel stupider listening to it. I want sweet soft melodies filled with harmony and tonality. I want major key signatures and bunnies and butterflies. Perhaps due to it's complexity I am the stupid one who can't truly appreciate the noise.
There is no reason to feel terrible. It's not your thing. For me, it mesmerizes me. It is tonal with harmony. True though, there are no sweet, soft melodies. It is in a major key. You are not stupid because you don't appreciate it. It is good to know what you want and it is easy to find it here. Peace.
There's already tons of music like that.
Practically everything Glass has produced since the mid 80's fits that bill sadly.
Well this is in a major key and it’s tonal so I don’t really know what you mean there. In terms of feeling like you don’t “get it”, this music takes a very different kind of listening from any other kind of music. I thought this was very weird when I first heard it, but then recently I tried again. And instead of “wanting more”, I focused on what was there. And then it captured me. I was mesmerized, and was just along for the ride. I also don’t get how you say this is complex. I think it’s the exact opposite. It’s so simple that it’s supposed to pull you into a trance. If you still don’t get it then, don’t worry. It’s certainly not everyone’s thing. Hell, it’s barely my thing. I have to be in a very specific mood to want to listen to this. Just know that it is tonal, it is major, and it’s not complex.
WEIRD!
Kraftwerk did it first!
In 100 years time this opera will be totally forgotten. The Mozart operas on the other hand will still be performed.
It could be a balloon...
Look what you forgot -- Mozart's operas had TOO MANY NOTES. 👎
I sure hope not. I hope that in a 100 years time, they will be performing operas being written by their living composers. Not this opera or Mozart.
I disagree, this opera is completely groundbreaking and Philip Glass is a very well respected composer.
Remember that scene in Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carrey makes the most annoying sound in the world? He was wrong. It's definitely this.
Keep watching the Dumb and Dumber then...
This music was big finger to all other music back when Glass wrote it. He had a chip on his shoulder back then.
no
The emperor has no clothes. Random stage sets and ostinato music is not substance!
Lmao shut up this is good
counterpoint: yes it is
Let's hear what you think is better. Glass is worth $50 million these days. LOL
The Achnaten story could be imbued with so much more depth, so much more language, and controversy, and intrigue! Instead we get performers as if they're overdosing on thorasine or wading in wet concret. Posing. Not moving. Not speaking. This opera is a fraudulent work, with tired queens in the audience so desperate for LGBTQ representation that ignore the opera's lack of story, and lack of stakes, and lack of range of emotion. It's fucking awful.
@@jesuspectre9883 lmao triggered
First saw this play 13 years ago and it is just as ridiculous and stupid today as it was then lol. Such an odd/lame piece of "art".
XD. They tease you, and you act interesting when it's just slop. You are going to the greatest sadness, and madness, but if I can I will get away from you.
This is so boring 😅 maybe this is clever ☺️ but so annoying 🤣 crazy ..I am asking for cocktails Einstein on the beach 🏖️ not that boring moment .if the world is like that that!!,
so Bad music what the hell is this?? 😅😂
This is terrible
Idk about you, this is pretty cool
bad as hell
Really? what a pity.
Glad I’m not the only one here with a brain
Bad as in kickass?
@@jakenowell5211 Bad to the bone. The knee bone.
@@Spikastru I'm pretty sure he means bad as in cool