#einstein on the beach

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Facts about musicals? Specifically the longer ones

The longest musical ever written was Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday on the Beach With Einstein" which he wrote with Philip Glass. The two did not get along on the production, with Sondheim wanting lyrics that made sense and stories about the nature of art and entertainment, and Glass wanting random screams and a man walking across the stage pushing a ball made of snot for seven hours.

In the end, they compromised and the play ended up at 23 hours and no intermissions, with several almost-comprehensible scenes and well over three musical notes. Theater critic Jen Grimley called it "The most insufferable tripe ever performed, full of aggravating idiocy, misery, self indulgent filth and pain. A true 10/10 masterpiece."

[deerest-me]

please watch Einstein on the Beach

[agoodsongeveryday]

Day One Thousand and Eighty

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[sphoricus]

I’m on my second listen of Einstein on the Beach this week there must be something terribly wrong with me

[el-rombo]

(Whipering) "Hello, I'm Philip Glass, and welcome to my ASMR video."

(Einstein on the Beach - Prologue begins playing)

[franziskas-record-store]

“Waloyo Yamoni” might be the best closer ever, or at least it trumps everything in my top ten. It’s simply beautiful in every way, and it has such an explosive energy. Christopher Tin really outdid himself with it.

The only track I can think of that may come close to beating it is “Knee 5,” another incredibly beautiful and climactic peice. Both have moved me to tears. Both are fitting ends to the works they accompany. But “Waloyo Yamoni” is just so good.

[onlyroxxie]

@wilderspace

[visualpoett]

Ten years ago this month I went and saw this wonderfully trippy opera Einstein on the Beach at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Still think about it from time to time.

[teledyn]

No worries, I'll just watch this and then get to bed. Promise.

Einstein on the Beach, 2014, Philip Glass

See also Philip Glass classmate buddy's Einstein on the Fritz

[suchpostsveryblogwow]

[nonesuchrecords]

Composer/pianist Timo Andres is on The Next Track podcast to talk about a number of contemporary classical pieces, including those on his own Nonesuch albums Home Stretch and Shy and Mighty, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet, Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, Terry Riley’s In C, and works by Cage, Messiaen, Pärt, Rzewski, Takemitsu, and Sufjan Stevens. You can hear it here.

[helgaolgaroemer]

Regatt Olga Roemer by OLGA ROEMER a/k/a/ HELGA ROEMER

[x-heesy]

Thank You @wayward-cat <3

New Zealand beaches November 2024 🇳🇿

Look deep into Nature, and then You will understand Everything better. Albert Einstein

What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong 🎵

[crisp-burnt-water]

I believe myself to be a genius

of utterly unparalleled brilliance, far surpassing the ilk of einstein and verging upon the exalted plane of freddy r.s.b. fazbear himself, in my exclusive ability to associate every trashy pop song in existence with my current favorite slash ship.

[daenystheedreamer]

new davos in my head just dropped