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VIOLIN CONCERTO
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AKHNATEN
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Prelude
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Born in Chicago in 1937 to Jewish immigrant
parents, the American composer Philip Glass
began his musical studies on the flute and
violin, going on to study with Steve Reich at
the Juilliard School in New York, and later
with Darius Milhaud in Aspen and Nadia
Boulanger in Paris. By the 1980s Glass had
already made a considerable reputation for
himself in the field of composition now
generally referred to as minimalism. In his
output from the mid-1960s onwards, he had
examined the possibilities inherent in
subjecting very small amounts of musical
material often just a few notes to
extensive repetition, in a style having some
similarities to those of his compatriots and
almost exact contemporaries, who include
Terry Riley and Steve Reich. For a decade
Glass's concern lay, like Reich's (the two
composers were friends for some of this
time), in the audibility of the musical
processes in particular the rhythmic
processes generated by this approach.
From 1968, all his compositions were written
for the amplified group consisting mainly of
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