Haunted Dancehall: Crash Ensemble - Glassworks

Friday, 3 November 2023

Event times:

20:00 - 22:00

Event location:

National Concert Hall

Event price:

€27.00

About this event

Friday’s line-up features three events. The Main Stage at the National Concert Hall will feature Crash Ensemble performing two important contemporary classical works, Glassworks by Philip Glass and In C by Terry Riley.

Written as a studio recording, Glassworks was released in 1982 as an LP and cassette on the CBS label, whose roster of artists includes Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen. The LP and cassette had their own separate mixes, the LP for home listening and the cassette with a headphone specific mix and was Glass’s successful attempt to create a more pop-oriented ‘Walkman-suitable’ work. “Glassworks was intended to introduce my music to a more general audience than had been familiar with it up to then.” - Philip Glass

In C written by revered American composer Terry Riley in 1964 is considered as one of the first great masterpieces of minimalism that has been performed all over the world from Steve Reich to the Malian ensemble Africa Express.