"Mad Rush," for organ, by Philip Glass. Live performance, July 7, 2016, at the Church of St. Andrew & St. Paul, Montréal (Québec). Organ: Casavant Frères, opus 1457; 1932/1978; Caron, Gagnon, Baumgarten, 1992.
Just learned that Mad Rush was written for organ on the occasion of the first public address of the Dalai Lama in North America in 1979 in the cathedral of St. John the Devine in New York. But please notice the young woman in the first row on the left completely wrapping herself up in the music. All my love for this woman.
This music was WAY ahead of it's time. Probably not until the late 80s did his music begin appealing to more " normal" people, and even then most who heard it thought it was too strange.. I have to admit I fell in love with Glass's music at first listen...the soundtrack to Koyaanisqaatsi and since then I love everything I've heard from Glass.
A mi me pasó algo similar. Escuche por primera vez (en la radio) fragmentos de The Photographer en los años ochenta. Pero a principios de los noventa fue mi definitiva fascinación con la presentación en vivo del video y la música de Powakatsi, en la ciudad de Guanajuato, en el Festival Internacional Cervantino. Fue una verdader alucinación ese video y esa música. Estuviero a los teclados Philip Glass y Michel Reysman.
One of the best living composers of our generation! Unfortunately some will only understand the mysteries of Philip Glass's notes after he is not here but when the time comes it will be too late!
Everything is temporary, and all that is solid melts into air. What I've learned from Mr Glass having only found him in the last 5 years. Existence is a fleeting experience my friend, and I would give everything I have to have had half the existence Phillip Glass has had and will leave behind, for the last few generations to come.
Moment majestueux d'une musique qui se laisse prendre. On est à l'opposé de la répétition "hard" des débuts de Philip Glass. Un toucher exceptionnel et envoûtant qui se laisse écouter dans le silence spirituel. Infinie.
What Markus Gabriel is to philosophy and the Dalai Lama to compassion and spirituality, Philipp Glass is to music. I bought a piano because of Philipp Glass and quietly and slowly began to empathize with this music. In my opinion, Mad Rush is one of the most meditative pieces of music out there. Adrian Foster's interpretation is perhaps the best.
Playing piano/organ pieces requires an enormously delicate sense of timing and intesity for the tunes to sound as they were thought to by the composer. And I think you are very talented concerning this particular delicateness, hence you play in a way that the whole composition ist just as harmonious and fullfilling to hear as it could possibly be. Thank you for your works!
ive tried. and i can honestly say its a gift to be able to accomplish anything close to the composers vision, always incomprehensibly amazing to hear it like this. i agree with you in every sense.
Entrar al mundo sonoro de Philip Glass con estas melodías y ejecutadas al órgano es una prueba dificil. Comprendo que los asistentes estén entre desconcertados e indiferentes.
Glass composed this piece with the intention that it would be played on a pipe organ in a big cathedral. Makes so much more sense this way. Really lovely.
The crowd and their walking meditation makes an interesting play with the zoom and the music. I find there is something carousel like to the music, round and round, up and down and with the linearity in the paths of the walkers, well, I like this little tune and video!
I am afraid I have mixed feelings about this performance. In the one hand it is executed perfectly and the sound is majestic! On the other hand the quick passages tend to be blurry. Not as crisp as on a piano. But of course that is due to the acoustics and to the characteristics of the instrument itself. But I am glad you posted this gem and I would have liked to be attending the performance. Thank you.
Ahhhh yeah! This my jam! You KNOW when the needle drops on this I gots to stop what I'm doing and listen in appreciation until the music brings feelings out from deep within my soul that I've buried for so long and with it tears on my face, dawg!
Phillip did say he was comfortable with the piece as piano interpretation now, and even played it on piano himself. All I meant is I prefer how the original organ makes a fluid sound. Some pianists have also made the fluid sound emerge, but others have made the piece very choppy via staccato.
Thanks for taking out time to comment, I can't return all the love that's been showed to me through these comments ,Thanks for viewing. Where are you from?
how wonderful is it, Mad Rush is ful of feelings, sensibility.... Cette musique reste pour moi associée à un personnage, Yukio Mishima, une musique pleine de force, de passion, de violence. Elle est vraiment digne ce cet homme hors du commun, merci Mr Glass. Piano or organ, always wonderful. Arigato gosaïmashita Mishima senseï
Ça me ramène constamment au mouvement perpétuel de la Mer Soit douce où fureur... à chaque instant. Mad rush écrit pour le Dalaï lama en 1979(visite) Newyork Philip Glass
Joseph Campbell would agree with you. He said ancient caves with art drawn by "cavemen" could have a spiritual affect. And a cathedral even for a non-Catholic. I don't think these spiritual spaces demand orthodoxy; its society that puts a label on the front of these buildings and spaces.
It seems to me that this represents Philip Glass’ reception by the masses. Many will not understand and leave. Others will come, stay for a bit, then leave because they could not do the deep dive. The remains few will stay. And stay. Because they understand. Philip is not for the masses - he is for us. The deep, deep divers. Peace and rejoice all.
Philip Glass was, and is, for everybody, always. This is truly accessible beauty. Absolutely everyone on the planet should have as much exposure to beauty, balm, and uplift as possible, from whatever source is most accessible and meaningful to them. This gives me all of that, and has done since I first heard it, on Glassworks, on my Walkman on a train journey through the beautiful Scottish Borders in the mid-1980s. It was at an extremely difficult time in my life, and it cut through everything and soothed, re-centred, and re-grounded me. I have never forgotten that. And I *would* wish that on my worst enemy, in the hope that it helps heal whatever hurt has made them so angry, hurtful, and destructive, and that they might find a more peaceful, loving, way forward. And I'm very very far from being a religious person. I'm just a bloke, from a really good, loving family and a really good working-class community on Teesside, UK.
Sure! Here's the translation: In the Tripitaka, we find the Satipatthana Sutta. Augustine of Hippo found the stairway to paradise. And Philip Glass composed the music for it with 'Mad Rush.' This is Unio Mystica.
Y la nave principal se llenó, pero muchos se fueron. Qué halago para Dios, resonar de esta forma; y que tristeza que algunos mantengan su distancia. Ese día Adrian Foster levantó a los ladrillos de su cimiento y junto con los que se quedaron se transfiguraron y se fueron al espacio, donde prevaleció la música elevada de Glass, que renunciaba a todo, para interceder por la especie, al minuto 12 se cortó la vibración por nuestro llanto que nos hizo regresar.
Maybe the audience was told to get up and mill around the cathedral during the performance to experience the sound from different places? Otherwise it seems odd that they would just get up and walk around (I don't think they were leaving).
I would have to agree - it appears to be meditative strolling rather than purposeful walking - if not from different places then from different perspectives.
my old neighbor could not stand when I played Glass. it drove her mad. so some ppl there may not like it but this is magnificent to hear even 2nd hand.
Might not be leaving. When I go listen to the organ in the Oratory, I'll sit, but sometimes, I walked around a bit to hear the soundscape change from one place to the other, or to get right up close to the pipes. Is the camera set where the pipes are? I would guess so.
It's strange that so many people leave after 1 mn or so. Did they expect something else ? Obviously, lack of communication and advertising beforehand. I guess in Paris, there would have been a crowd there to watch and listen. But is this real organ ? this is an electronic one, not the Big Thing, that really impress you for a long time when you hear it… At least, the musician is facing away from the audience, or it would have been shattering for him
This is the real deal. The piano version sounds just like what it is- a transcription. Glass' swirling keyboard arpeggios don't translate well to pianoforte. Even the best pianists can't quite do it. This is an organ piece. Thanks for posting!
so sanft habe ich Philip Glass noch nie interpretiert gehört. aber auch ist es ein zirkel, den er sonst so gerne verwendet, untergang und neuerschaffung, hast du in konstanz umgemünzt
I thought for a moment the man is gone trow some money at him , is interpretation is ok but I think the people sitting there where not ready for that type of music
Good organ player (is very hard play this). But I like other organ version. Bad public. See since minute 10 if you want see good manners in the public :)
If you took lessons for a few years and decided "Fuck this is getting too hard, i'm gonna be a composer instead", you could still be as good as Philip Glass
Lol. Like asking Andy Warhol to paint the Sistine Chapel. It would’ve been a different result if he had played the koyaanisqatsi main theme. Or maybe No Time For Caution.
