Piano and Orchestra -
Grade 4
SKU:
BT.MUSDU10804
Composed by Philip Glass.
Classical. Score Only.
Dunvagen Music Publishers
#MUSDU10804. Published by
Dunvagen Music Publishers
(BT.MUSDU10804).
English.
Interna
tionally renowned
minimalist Philip Glass
composed this Piano
concerto in the
traditional
three-movement form. The
first movement, titled
‘The Vision’
is classic Glass, with a
steamroller quality that
suggests theimmensedrive
and ambition the two
explorers needed to draw
on for their journey into
the wilderness. At the
beginning of the second
movement, the theme in
the solo Indian Flute
musically represents the
name
‘Sacajawea’,
theShoshoneIndian mother
and guide who assisted
the explorers on their
way, for whom the
movement is named.The
final movement, entitled
‘The Land’,
is an exploration of
expansiveness, both of
the land that was being
explored, butalso of
thegeologically expanded
time over which the
landscape has evolved,
and the great changes
that followed Lewis and
Clark’s
journey.This concerto is
designated as part of The
Concerto Project
recording series started
byGlass in theyear 2000,
currently in four volumes
and including eight
concerti.American
composer Philip Glass is
widely known as one of
the most celebrated,
influential and prolific
of the modern composers.
He is frequentlyreferred
to as aminimalist, though
he prefers to call
himself a composer of
‘music with
repetitive
structures.’ His
operas, among them the
renowned Einstein On The
Beach, are performed
across the globe, and he
has created workfor small
andlarge ensembles, film
and experimental theatre,
and founded his own
performing group, The
Philip Glass
Ensemble.
