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City guide at Town Hall New York, saturday 25 may 2024

Philip Glass Ensemble | Music in Twelve Parts

Sat 25 May 2024, 17:00 - Town Hall, New York

"Music in Twelve Parts, written by Philip Glass between 1971 and 1974, is a deliberate, encyclopedic compendium of some techniques of repetition the composer had been evolving since the mid 1960s. It holds an important place in Glass’s repertory - not only from a historical vantage point (as the longest and most ambitious concert piece for the Philip Glass Ensemble) but from a purely aesthetic sta