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        • Philip Glass

        • The Canyon (1988)

        • Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc (World)

        Commissioned by the Voorheen ADM Oudegracht, The Netherlands

        • 2+pic.2.2.2/4.3.2+btbn.1/timp.8perc/pf/str
        • 18 min
          • 18th February 2023, Greeen Music Center, Santa Rosa, CA, United States of America
          • 19th February 2023, Greeen Music Center, Santa Rosa, CA, United States of America
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        Programme Note

        The Canyon is the second piece of a series of symphonically conceived "portraits of nature" (preceded by The Light and followed by Itaipu). The composition does not refer to a particular canyon; it is based on an idealized canyon of the imagination.

        © Philip Glass

        Media

        Itaipú: II. The Lake
        Itaipú: III. The Dam
        Itaipú: IV. To the Sea
        The Canyon

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        Discography