I never thought to look if Glass had done other movie scores. I'll see if I can dig them up.
My chief objection to the other Glass I've listened to is that he seems to devote each piece to a single musical what-if. He then droningly and invaryingly treats that as if it's his only musical fetish. Listening to his work feels like the equivalent of watching someone practice writing the letter F over and over again in as many variations as they can think of. That sort of exercise might be interesting to a calligrapher, and Glass's work might be of interest to a musician — which I am not! — but mostly I just want to find very nearly anything else.
The movie scores at least have some variation within them!
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My chief objection to the other Glass I've listened to is that he seems to devote each piece to a single musical what-if. He then droningly and invaryingly treats that as if it's his only musical fetish. Listening to his work feels like the equivalent of watching someone practice writing the letter F over and over again in as many variations as they can think of. That sort of exercise might be interesting to a calligrapher, and Glass's work might be of interest to a musician — which I am not! — but mostly I just want to find very nearly anything else.
The movie scores at least have some variation within them!