Philip Glass performs "Mad Rush"
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2008
- Philip Glass will be performing a benefit concert for the Garrison Institute on July 19, 2012 at 7 pm at the Garrison Institute. For more information and to buy tickets, visit the Garrison Institute website: www.garrisoninstitute.org/glass
Philip Glass (piano) performs, "Mad Rush," a piece originally written and performed by Glass in honor of the Dalai Lama's visit to North America in 1979. Glass begins by remarking that the legacy of Gandhi can be seen in the work of leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the Dalai Lama, who advocate for nonviolent, social change and by inviting listeners to consider "Mad Rush" as a play between wrathful and peaceful deities. Performance at "Satyagraha: Gandhi's 'Truth Force' in the Age of Climate Change" presented by the Garrison Institute on April 13, 2008 at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City. To find out more about the Garrison Institute:
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This is one of the best pieces ever written! people that say his music is simple, have a go playing it, you'll be shocked how complex the rhythms are
I mean sections are repeated, lets say for arguments sake he has an 8 bar phrase/idea. He will repeat that phrase/idea over and over yet that 8 bar phrase/idea contains complex rhythmic features. Didn't think the comment was particularly difficult to understand really? maybe try playing some pieces with other people. Im meaning his symphonies because keeping in time with many others all thinking they're playing the right thing is difficult to say the least
This music is not complex. In fact it is so simple and repetitive that the rhythms can easily be rememberedplayed, and mimicked (especially since it's in the foundational key of A minor). Take a look at a Stravinsky score or a late Scriabin score and notice the differences.
Once you get used to hearing and performing polyrhythms and polymeters, Philip Glass’ music isn’t that hard to learn. It’s just that a lot of styles of musis don’t use those techniques, so many people aren’t used to them.
It's loop music, beautiful, mesmerizing, just sooo calming..
Are they? It's just two ostinatos played in a triplet feeling (2 against 3 in the quiet part, and not sure, but i think 4 against 6 in the rush part) all tumbling around a I-V and a I-II chord progression. This is far from complex. It's appealing due to the simplicity. But it lacks a certain ingredient of great music - a surprise. Pleasant to listen to, but definitely not a masterpiece.
Philip Glass' music is exquisite aural joy.
I agree. however it's pretty much always the same thing. This is, for example, very very close to opening of glassworks etc
I agree with you. Everyone has their own musical tastes, but in my opinion, Philip Glass is an absolute musical genius and one of the best in modern times. If you study his music, you will see much complexity in these rhythmic cycles and not exactly simple to play correctly either. He takes the listener on a magical, emotional and satisfying journey. There is a reason that his scores are used in movies and the best of pianists and orchestras cover his work.
The genius is in the simplicity.
I love how one sound slowly flows in to another.
I was asked to compose a piece of somewhat indefinite length. Not actually a problem for me. ~ Glass
Honestly, I think Philip Glass is just as musical as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, whoever. The music is beautiful. And even though it's more simply than any of the composers, I hear the intent. And the intent is strong. This isn't as technically challenging. But I could listen to this any day of the week and be moved by it. The simplest music is the hardest to emote, and Glass proves here that he really knows the essence of what music means. And that's something special.
I saw him play this live in San Francisco last night.
Its one of the most incredible pieces I've ever heard. Thanks also for not clipping out the bit where he introduces it. It was nice to see and hear him talk and try and get a sense of him.
Philip Glass is a Genius
I was invited to see Philip Glass perform with his Orchestra in November 2001, as they performed his original composition music to the movie Koyaanisqatsi, while the film was played on a big screen overhead, at the Portland Art Museum. Ravi Shankar was also performing that same night a few blocks away. My Hindu wife later regretted not seeing Ravi play, but I'll always remember that the Philip Glass music and experiencing it live with the movie, changed my life. I've since then been trying to learn to play this piece, or at least in this style.
I'm so glad i don't need a movie acompanying this to love this...
"This is Mad Rush" instant tears and goosebumps. I think Philip Glass is slowly saving my life.
One of the great composers of our time. Gorgeous!
This leaves me full of emotion, yet speechless. Quite the pianist, quite the minimalist. Thank you, P.G.
Starts at 2:30.
thx :))
trojjer o
A hero!!!
SO beautiful I can hardly bear it. He can make one note sound like so much
Amazing. He makes this piece seem so easy to play. It just flows right out of his fingers. Beautiful.
Beautiful. Why watch this video if you don't like Glass? Why comment and criticize? You know what you're getting with him, even though each creation is unique and lovely in its own way.
I would like to put out there my appreciation for this performance to be on here. At anytime I like for free I can experience Philip Glass performing Mad Rush for free. That is something to behold my friends.
This is my favorite Glass piece. It is amazing how something that really looks so simple is capable of calling for so much feeling. For me, one of the main differences between Glass and other modern composers, be it minimalists or not, is that Glass is capable of creating a melody or something that our ear and brain interprets as being a melody, to which we hold throughout the piece. And the tempos, simply brilliant. Glass is in a class of his own. He'll be remembered as such 200 years from now.
Such a haunting journey into the farthest corners of our minds, and all from not a single word to propel us there. Just the echoing magnificence of a piano and a man's genius and we are on our way! Thank you so much dear Mr Glass, my journey will never end.
still tear up listening to him play this himself years later
he's completely into it... not strange for a composer, but it's so good to see. he's a genius
Every other modern song, such as hip hop, are too rhythmic, cookie cutter, straight, linear. It is REAL nice to hear this. This is real music. Music with soul. It has it's own separate rules and it's own feel to it. I just absolutely love it.
Just the stuff you hear... maybe?
+xlerosx lol no.
TheKSProduction Too rhythmic? lol wut
get out of here with these generalizations - awful comment.
Statements like this is what is wrong with (some) classical music fans - so ignorant and uninformed
Enjoy this music without denigrating other forms of expression PLEASE
Swag McSwaggy
Thank you for posting this, GarrisonInstitute.
This is one of my fav compositions! I'm in love with this piece, all the way!
I adore the music from Philipp Glass so much. Thank you for the wonderful video.
Love strongly Glass music: Awesome originality, misteryous sounds and harmony. Great!!
I performed this piece for my senior recital at Florida Southern College.
It's poetic that a taxi driver's music would make it to collegiate repertoire.
+Oli.Vyae A taxi driver who went to the University of Chicago to study mathematics and philosophy at age 15!
True.
+bananafreak1001 wow ! Taxi driver at age 15 !
What are you doing now? If you performed this piece you are no slouch!
guy is a pure legend
The thing about Brahms, Bach and Beethoven are they are one of a kind, as is Mr. Glass. This is a piece of a mans soul. Love it or hate it! Once you have your grand masterpiece written out put it up and we'll see how much better of a composer you are.
shut ur eyes and listen to this. and when the song is over, you open your eyes and forget where you are. when you come to realize where you are, go downstairs make some hot tea and smoke a cigar.
Just awesome!!!
Thanks for the tip!
truly beautiful...
Beautiful.
Repetitive? Boring? Far from it. Patience. Relax and absorb these musical thoughts of heartbreaking beauty. There is a subtly of emotion here not found in romantic classical music.
Well of course it’s repetitive, this is minimalism!
really is amazing!!!
i love him so so so much
This song strips away my ego, my selfishness, my desires and I want to surrender to the purity and childness of life. I don't want to fight anymore. I want to give and share with you.
This is real music greeting from Chile
Jesus what a piece of melody!!
very classy!
When I listened to this beautiful piece I kept thinking "What does this remind me of?" It just occurred to me...Someone like you by Adel, Go have a listen, you'll be surprised.
So goddamn wonderful
9:34 the woman at the bottom right corner sleeping lmaoo. Love this piece so much
Genius!!!
Given this is easter sunday and while not a big believer in resurrection...this work by maestro glass would be the perfect accompaniment
It's minimalist because you feel the emotion. He manages to create sensations within the listener while using a simple, repeated rhythm.
I WOULD LOOOOOVE TO HAD BEEN THERE.
I'm one "countryman" who enjoys Bach, Beethoven, Brahms (who was also considered a hack by some in his day) and Glass. Shedding my musical closed-mindedness has enabled me to get a lot more enjoyment out of music. Hopefully you'll someday do the same.
yo kaphilable, good for you. I'm 44 but I was a 16 year old weedhead once, I was into metal & hardcore punk and hangin w/ heshers but also studying classical piano.
My point is: you're right, it doesn't matter what your peers think. When you're out of high school 5 or 10 years, believe me, NO ONE will remember or care about the stupid shit. They'll remember you as the one with the balls to do what he wanted. You just keep doing what you do!
At 3:50 I just wanted to cry. breathtaking
otra maravilla de philip
I think he's a master in hes performances , i really do not get the negative comments at all. I love bach , motzart and other great componists thrue history. I think every one has a unique way of bringing emotions down to a piano , keyboard , guitar or violin.
Its most narrow minded to bring this mans work down. You can criticise it , maybe even dislike it , but people have lost there respect to one another somehow.
greetz from belgium
how inspiring is this?! Wow!
I would love to see him in concert.
Awesome
my god amazing...
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Ross, in this sweeping and dramatic narrative, takes us from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of dramatic new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, riots, and friendships forged and broken. In the tradition of Simon Schama's The Embarrassment of Riches and Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club, the end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music."
+Aaron Sanchez I performed this piece for my senior recital at Florida Southern College.
It's poetic that a taxi driver's music would make it to collegiate repertoire.
It is interesting to see people compare Glass to Beethoven and Bach. Bach or Beethoven would have never even thought about composing like Glass. You cannot compare their music at all as they are expressing thoughts and emotion in a completely different way. Glass thought about music in a completely different way. There is absolutely no comparison.. it is what it is. Take it or leave it.
Glass' style is minimalist... the music reflects the concept.. it is unique, and as someone said.. either you love it or hate it.
Philip Glass. ¡Que maravilla!.
Welcome to the Philip Glass world !
great man of our time
@playingmusiconmars This is why I love him. He isn't clumsy, He is sloppy. And not by accident.
He's awesome don't know any other composers but he's awesome
People who do not like minimalist music think with minimalistic minds! A very narrow mind does not see the simplistic yet complex view to his music. I enjoy this type of music for it is unique and can expand your mind without the use of outside negative chemical influences. If I were to write a movie and need a soundtrack, Philip Glass would be the first person I would call.
Superbissim!
The people there didn't deserve to listen such a great composer. And here we are, watching the video :( So unfair.
I love this song so much--it's simply gorgeous the way the melody intertwines. Thanks so much for posting it!
There is always gonna be individualilty and freedom of expression in music do not fret :)
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we have much to learn
master!
The last living master of classical music. 100 years from now the art world will look back at Phillip Glass and say Genuis.
Thank you all..
Perhaps you should try to just listen to Phil's music and discover the variation in his pieces. It's all different.
what a huge audiencexD
thanks for making it out steve jobs. (far left)
+sandiago1904 That's Tony Boutee, I believe, who performed later with Glass.
Like most brilliant composers, I think his interpretation of his own work is not the best I've heard, however strange that may sound...
problème de prise de son, je pense! celle-ci est très bien: czcams.com/video/8Q0G0-9E5SE/video.html
It's awesome!!
Yes strange
I think he was nervous lol
perfeito
Who doesn't smoke weed and listen to awesome music? I listen to Brian Wilson solo stuff when I am stoned sometimes. Lol
Minimalism is kinda like classical music for stoners
Steve Reich?
Kyle Tomlinson No.
harsh crowd XD I feel you man
Levi Beverly Yeah they're no fun
Milito bom limda......
The art of dialogue with psyche. Thank you my friend.
he is coming in novemberrrr
Did he come?
@StrivetobeDust As far as I know, the earliest recorded version is found in 'Analog' (that's and interesting one, by the way). A later organ version is in 'Glass Organ Works', played by Donald Joyce.
Hello, he's from Baltimore, Maryland(USA)
@Erismena Hai ragione. Ho esaggerato a dire che uno deve solo lodare questa musica stupenda. Un puo' dire quello che vuole. Come no? L'Internet funziona cosi', ed io dovrei accettarlo senza obbiezioni. Mi sembrava strano criticare una performance cosi' bella, cosi' ammirevole. Perche' non criticare tanti altri video banali, di cui ce ne sono moltissimi. Non aveva molto senso, ma non importa. Grazie per le tue opinioni. Hai proprio ragione.
Some have an antenna where they can communicate the divine to us. You should listen to this individual.
@blasterxxrifle Absolutly!!!
its obvious isn't it? It's the weed that makes all those beautiful notes so colourful as they float happily around the brain like G-force and make you smile even more - or is it just me?
@malgucken08 I really really really needed to read that comment. I know so many music majors who are completely ignorant to certain styles of musicianship...and your comment sums it up perfectly.
@malgucken08 Did you quote that? I'm gonna write it down. Thanks if you did, thanks if you didn't but posted it. A lot of musicians should know about this.
@MikeyRGuitar I agree, and it is pretty technical; quaver triplets over straight quavers is tricky to keep in time. Regardless of whether the music has a melody it can still tell a story.
do listen to Truman sleep...it's awesome!!
@Erismena Sia cosi'. Ciao!
Yeah, I know most people will point out that he is a quite clumsy pianist and gets a few things wrong. But, all in all, it is always pretty nice to hear how the one who created something interprets it.
@MeckelBot u should start. its good for you
Philip Glass has done some truly minimalist stuff, for example:
watch?v=5antXqfUQrQ Philip Glass - Two Pages (for Steve Reich)
Minimal music isnt supposed to be void of emotion, its supposed to still be music, just with everything removed that can be removed without reducing it to non-music.