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Einstein on the Beach

Index Einstein on the Beach

Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts (framed and connected by five "knee plays" or intermezzos), composed by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. [1]

79 relations: Achim Freyer, Adolf Hitler, Akhnaten (opera), Albert Einstein, Allan Kozinn, Alto saxophone, AM broadcasting, Antoine Silverman, Anton Batagov, Arts Centre Melbourne, Barbican Centre, Bass clarinet, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cadenza, Carnegie Hall, Carole King, Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Knowles, David Cassidy, Drum Corps International, Dutch National Opera, Electric organ, Electronic keyboard, Festival d'Avignon, Flute, Gerard Mortier, Grammy Award, Gwangju, I Feel the Earth Move, Intermezzo, Jennifer Koh, Libretto, List of Mr. Robot episodes, Los Angeles Opera, Lucinda Childs, Luminato, Mahatma Gandhi, Metropolitan Opera, Michael Riesman, Mr. Bojangles (song), Mr. Robot, Naxos Records, New York City Opera, Nonesuch Records, Opéra national de Montpellier, Opera, Opernhaus Dortmund, Pacifica Foundation, Palacio de Bellas Artes, ..., Parochialkirche, Paul Zukofsky, Philip Glass, Philip Glass Ensemble, Piccolo, Robert Wilson (director), SATB, Satyagraha (opera), Solfège, Songs from the Trilogy, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Sony Classical Records, Soprano saxophone, Staatsbank, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Stopera, Tapestry (Carole King album), Teatro Municipale (Reggio Emilia), Tenor saxophone, Théâtre du Châtelet, The Kitchen, The New York Times, Tim Fain, Tison Street, Tomato Records, University Musical Society, University of Michigan, Violin, Zellerbach Hall. Expand index (29 more) »

Achim Freyer

(born 30 March 1934) is a German stage director, set designer and painter.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Akhnaten (opera)

Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

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Allan Kozinn

Allan Kozinn (born July 28, 1954) is an American journalist, music critic, and teacher.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.

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AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting technology, which employs amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.

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Antoine Silverman

Antoine Silverman is a New York violinist, music contractor, and music arranger.

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Anton Batagov

Anton Batagov (born October 10, 1965 in Moscow) is a Russian pianist and post-minimalist composer.

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Arts Centre Melbourne

The Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly officially called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central Melbourne suburb of Southbank in Victoria, Australia.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance.

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Cadenza

In music, a cadenza (from cadenza, meaning cadence; plural, cadenze) is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists, usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing virtuosic display.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Carole King

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter.

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Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps

Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps is a World Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Christopher Knowles

Christopher Knowles (born 1959) is an American poet and painter.

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David Cassidy

David Bruce Cassidy (April 12, 1950 – November 21, 2017) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Drum Corps International

Category:WikiProject Drum Corps Drum Corps International (DCI), formed in 1972, is the non-profit governing body for junior drum and bugle corps in the U.S. and Canada.

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Dutch National Opera

Dutch National Opera (DNO; formerly De Nederlandse Opera, now De Nationale Opera in Dutch) is a Dutch opera company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Electric organ

An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ.

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Electronic keyboard

An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument, an electronic or digital derivative of keyboard instruments.

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Festival d'Avignon

The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Gerard Mortier

Gerard Alfons August Mortier (Baron Mortier, 25 November 1943 – 8 March 2014) was a Belgian opera director and administrator of Flemish origin.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gwangju

Gwangju is the sixth largest city in South Korea.

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I Feel the Earth Move

"I Feel the Earth Move" is a song written and recorded by pop singer-songwriter Carole King, which first appeared on her album Tapestry; additionally, the song is one half of the double A-sided single, the flip side of which was "It's Too Late".

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Intermezzo

In music, an intermezzo (plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work.

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Jennifer Koh

Jennifer Koh is an American violinist.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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List of Mr. Robot episodes

Mr. Robot is an American drama–thriller television series created by Sam Esmail.

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Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California.

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Lucinda Childs

Lucinda Childs (born June 26, 1940) is an American postmodern dancer/choreographer and actress.

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Luminato

Luminato Festival, Toronto's Festival of Arts and Creativity, is an annual ten-day celebration of the arts in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, launched in 2007.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Michael Riesman

Michael Riesman is a composer, conductor, keyboardist, and record producer, best known as Music Director of the Philip Glass Ensemble and conductor of nearly all of Glass' film scores.

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Mr. Bojangles (song)

"Mr.

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Mr. Robot

Mr.

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Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music.

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New York City Opera

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City.

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Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Bros. Records, and based in New York City.

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Opéra national de Montpellier

The Opéra national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon is an opera company located in the Place de la Comédie in Montpellier, France.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Opernhaus Dortmund

Opernhaus Dortmund is the opera house of Dortmund, Germany opened in 1966 and operated by the Theater Dortmund organisation.

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Pacifica Foundation

Pacifica Foundation is an American non-profit organization which owns five independently operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations known for their progressive/liberal political orientation.

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Palacio de Bellas Artes

The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is a prominent cultural center in Mexico City.

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Parochialkirche

The Parochialkirche (literally the Reformed parochial church) is a Reformed church in the Klosterviertel neighbourhood of the Mitte borough in Berlin.

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Paul Zukofsky

Paul Zukofsky (October 22, 1943 – June 6, 2017) was an American violinist and conductor known for his work in the field of contemporary classical music.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.

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Philip Glass Ensemble

The Philip Glass Ensemble is an American musical group founded by composer Philip Glass in 1968 to serve as a performance outlet for his experimental minimalist music.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for "small", but named ottavino in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "'s – or even the world's – foremost avant-garde 'theater artist.

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SATB

In music, SATB is an initialism for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, defining the voice types required by a chorus or choir to perform a particular musical work.

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Satyagraha (opera)

Satyagraha (Sanskrit सत्याग्रह, satyāgraha "insistence on truth") is a 1979 opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance DeJong.

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Solfège

In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a music education method used to teach pitch and sight singing of Western music.

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Songs from the Trilogy

Songs from the Trilogy is a 1989 compilation album of songs from Philip Glass’ operas Einstein on the Beach, ''Satyagraha'', and ''Akhnaten''.

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Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts is a major performing arts venue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and it is the country's largest soft-seat theatre.

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Sony Classical Records

Sony Classical Records (also known simply as Sony Classical) is an American record label founded in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.

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Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in the 1840s.

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Staatsbank

Headquarters of the East German Central Bank The State Bank of the GDR (German: Staatsbank der DDR) was the central bank of East Germany.

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Staatsoper Stuttgart

The Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) is a German opera company based in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Stopera

The Stopera is a building complex in Amsterdam, Netherlands, housing both the city hall of Amsterdam and the Dutch National Opera and Ballet, the principal opera house in Amsterdam that is home of Dutch National Opera, Dutch National Ballet and Holland Symfonia.

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Tapestry (Carole King album)

Tapestry is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler.

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Teatro Municipale (Reggio Emilia)

The Teatro Municipale (also since the 1980s called the Teatro Municipale Valli due to being named after the actor Romolo Valli) is a theatre in Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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Théâtre du Châtelet

The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.

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The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tim Fain

Tim Fain is an American violinist, perhaps best known for his performances in the movie Black Swan and his work with American composer Philip Glass.

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Tison Street

Tison C. Street (born May 20, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist.

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Tomato Records

Tomato Records is an independent record label based in New York City.

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University Musical Society

The University Musical Society (UMS) is a not-for-profit performing arts presenter located on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Zellerbach Hall

Zellerbach Hall is a multi-venue performance facility on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, west of Lower Sproul Plaza.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_on_the_Beach

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