Todd Townsend:

>Driving home tonight, I heard Philip Glass's Violin Concerto for the first
>time.  It was just a first listen, but I was really intrigued by the piece.
>Oh learned colleagues, how is this piece rated? any particular performance
>recommended?

I'm not a Glass fan, so take my answer with a large helping of salt.  I
found it interesting in only one respect: that it seemed to abstract the
Sibelius concerto, of all things.  John Adams seems to use the Sibelius as
a model as well in *his* violin concerto, and I think that concerto one of
the best of the century.  Both concerti were written at roughly the same
time and both, I believe, for Kremer.  The Glass for me - and I wouldn't
describe myself as "learned" - just sort of burbles on and on and on and
...

Steve Schwartz