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GLASS: Les Enfants Terribles
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August 1, 2005
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GLASS: Les Enfants Terribles
Arand, Komar; Cazalet, Cutlip; Glass, Padgett, Sandresky, keyboards, Kemensek. Text and translation. Orange Mountain Music omm0019 (2)
Philip Glass will always have his advocates and detractors, but there's no question that his music is often extraordinarily well-suited to the other media - theater, dance and film - with which he frequently combines it. Les Enfants Terribles, newly available on CD, is a stellar example. Composed in 1996, Les Enfants is the third installment in Glass's trilogy of works based on the films of Jean Cocteau; Orphée (1993) and La Belle et la Bête (1995) preceded it. Cocteau's 1948 film (based on his own book) relates the creepy ...
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