Re: 0.00043 %

[Kim Ponders <kponders@earthlink.net>]

Why, then, is he so well known? I remember how much hype surrounded his
Dracula music that came out several months ago. One or another of the
performing houses here in Boston showed the Dracula movie (you know which
one I'm talking about, can't remember the director's name just now) a few
weeks ago with the Glass music in the background (live or recorded, I'm not
sure). I was tempted to see it, only to suit my occasional lust for the
macabre, and had the same suspicion that the film and music together would
enhance each other, kind of like a rollercoaster ride.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice DuBois" <Adubois@NILESLIBRARY.ORG>
To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 5:26 PM
Subject: 0.00043 %


> The KNock knock joke reminds me of the exasperating one that goes:
> Knock knock
>  who's there
> Banana
> banana who?
> knock knock...
> (repeat whole thing 10 times)
> knock knock
> who's there
> orange
> orange who?
> orange you glad i didn't say banana?
>
> I think that joke has the same effect as Glass's music...
>
> I think Glass's of area of expertise, and one that he does a lot of, is
> music for movies.  I think that the atmosphere of "A Brief History of
Time"
> and "the Thin Blue Line" by Errol Morris were made better and more stark
by
> his music, but with this you must take into consideration that the film is
> primary and the music is only a trance-like sound in the background.
> Sitting through a whole concert of it... ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.  Varese on the
other
> hand-wowee!
>
> Glass is one of those artists who won't admit that DADA happened 80 years
> ago and doesn't realize that the wheel was already invented.  But of
course,
> out of Varese, Moondog and him, he's the most well-known....
>
> -Alice
>