- 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
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
© Philip Glass
Media
Itaipú: II. The Lake
Itaipú: III. The Dam
Itaipú: IV. To the Sea
The Canyon