Philip Glass has always been a composer attracted to issues of social transformation and the forces behind them. Glass composed about 40 minutes of new music for violin and cello as the main body of his score The Crucible. Only half of that music was used in the 2016 production on Broadway and it was supplemented with Glass arranging a number of traditional hymns. What is presented on this album is the complete original music for violin and cello that Glass wrote for the play omitting the hymn songs as well as one short piece for violin cello and organ that was something of a last minute addition. While string instruments evoke an old world and timeless sound one can speculate that the decision for writing for the combination of violin and cello plays on the duality that is ubiquitous in The Crucible... light and dark goodness and evil male and female righteousness and injustice.

Tracklist:

Cue 1A
Cue 1B
Cue 2
Cue 3
Cue 4
Cue 5
Cue 6
Cue 7A
Cue 7B
Cue 8
Cue 9
Cue 10
Cue 12
Cue 11A
Cue 12B
Cue 14B
Cue 1C
Cue 5B
Cue 9B
Cue 5C

UPC: 801837011227
Label: Orange Mountain
Release Date: 1.20.17
Format: CD

Philip Glass - Glass: Music For The Crucible (CD)