And Matt Ingalls’ piece a wonderful highlight as imagination always separates the men from the boys.

What struck me most forcibly about Train 1 from Einstein is that all of Philip’s music is basically gestural — David Harrington of Kronos described it this way to me many years ago — and that these gestures are always emotional, his complex repeats re-feeling these emotional gestures in repeated time.

Always the same but never the same — Mahler

Just out Glass Vln Cto # 2 — The American Four Seasons — a wonder.

Michael

I’ll also admit I was curious about the Glass, and it would have been nice to hear that live. (It’s not like Einstein on the Beach gets performed all the time.) But the other pieces sound like they were a treat, too, especially Matt Ingalls’ clarinet improv.