Manuel Zurria, flutes<\/p>\n
I’ve been a rabid fan of Philip Glass’s early austere minimalist pieces from the late ’60s and early ’70s since I was in high school, but while pieces like Music in Similar Motion<\/i> almost never left my turntable (much to the chagrin of the rest of my family), others were just names I read about longingly but was never able to actually hear. Thanks to a new two-CD set on the seemingly inexhaustible Orange Mountain Music label featuring the enterprising Italian ensemble Alter Ego, many of Glass’s earliest additive process works are finally available commercially. I have a particular fondness for Piece in the Shape of a Square<\/i>, a 1968 work which proves that early Glass and early Reich were not as stylistically far apart as their later work became.<\/p>\n
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