Philip Glass - Dance Nos. 1-5 [3LP] 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl, Deluxe

Philip Glass - Dance Nos. 1-5 [3LP] 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl, first time on vinyl, deluxe heavyweight sleeve with gloss laminate, PVC jacketThe music on Dance Nos. 1-5 was originally conceived as a three-way collaboration between composer Philip Glass, choreographer Lucinda Childs and artist Sol LeWitt. Dance received its world premiere in Amsterdam on October 19, 1979 and its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on November 29, 1979.Post-dating Einstein on the Beach - Glass's 1975-76 collaboration with director Robert Wilson - Dance was another Glass collaboration, this time with choreographer Lucinda Childs, known for her austere, athematically exact dances, and artist Sol LeWitt, who provided a ghostly, gigantic black- and-white film for several of the piece's five sections.Dance has an abstract purity that easily earned it the label “minimalist,” a term that Glass himself disavows but that seems appropriate, at least in this case. After Dance, Glass's music took seve