I’m glad that Mr Glass has, in your view, largely mastered text-setting; and well as operatic orchestration. (I thought that a fairly large part of the orchestration of Akhnaton was brilliant; while, as I have mentioned before here, text-setting was a large problem, in my view, with the MET Opera’s The Voyage.) Having roots in Greek tragedy, I was less than happy to hear that Glass set ‘The Fall of Richmond’ section of Act 1, Scene IV as a wordless chorus.

Thanks again for your time and seriousness in preparing this.

(An erroneous definition of a tritone slipped through your proofreading. I saw it this morning when I quickly read your review before work, and I thought someone else might point it out by now. But perhaps this isn’t a Philip Glass day at Sequenza21 — or perhaps the opera intelligentsia of southern California is worried by the terrible fires, there.)