The hours : music from the motion picture / composed by Philip Glass.
By: Glass, Philip [composer.]
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Contributor(s): Riesman, Michael [instrumentalist.] | Laurence, Chris [instrumentalist.] | Ingman, Nicholas [conductor.] | Lyric Quartet (Instrumental group) [instrumentalist.].
Material type: 
MusicPublisher: New York : Nonesuch Records, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 2 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.Content type: performed music Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discUniform titles: Hours (Motion picture) Subject(s): Motion picture musicDDC classification: 781.542 GLA | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Reference | MTU Kerry North Campus Library Sound Garden | 781.542 GLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 38888000952113 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The score for the movie adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, composed by Philip Glass. The music is somewhat continuous, all built upon the same basic motives. The repetition of a three-note phrase is key to the course of the whole, emerging time and time again as the framework for variations around which the rest of the music is arranged. Beyond the simple three-note bits, repetition in general stands as an important part of the music, with the various works eventually dovetailing together in the same basic framework, bringing a sense of return as they come up. The movie features three separate stories of women, all interlinked in the same Virginia Woolf novel, whose lives share recurring themes with one another's. The music stands here to make an auditory note of the parallels with its repetition. The sounds stay relatively mundane for the majority of the work, mirroring the everyday lives which form the basis of the characters' struggles, but it can also go quite dark for periods, touching on the suicidal tendencies held by the various characters in the story. Standing alone, this album might seem rather lackluster with its general sense of dreariness and the unstopping repetitions, despite the prime performance by the Lyric Quartet. Alongside the movie or the novel, however, the score holds a deeper meaning, fitting in with the moods of the story quite well. ~ Adam Greenberg
Title from disc labels.
Program notes inserted in container.
The poet acts -- Morning passages -- Something she has to do -- "For your own benefit" -- Vanessa and the Changelings -- "I'm going to make a cake" -- An unwelcome friend -- Dead things -- The kiss -- "Why does someone have to die?" -- Tearing herself away -- Escape! -- Choosing life -- The hours.
Michael Riesman, piano ; the Lyric Quartet (Rolf Wilson, Edmund Coxon, violins ; Nicholas Barr, viola ; David Daniels, cello) ; Chris Laurence, double bass ; orchestra conducted by Nick Ingman.
Recorded Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios, London.
LP record.