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Philip Glass (Baltimore, 31 januari 1937) is een Amerikaans componist. Zijn muziek valt onder Minimal music, hoewel hij zelf de term theatermuziek gebruikt.

Glasspieces, with choreography by Jerome Robbins, was first performed by the New York City Ballet on May 12, 1983. The New York Times dance critic Anna Kisselgoff wrote: "When it opens, with thirty-six dancers in brightly colored practice clothes crisscrossing the stage in carefully planned patterns — all brilliantly set off against a graph-paper backcloth— the effect is both rich and uncluttered." Glass's music often stops without warning, and Robbins's dances do the same. "Suddenly," Tobi Tobias noted in New York, "as if there was a glitch in the city's heartbeat, all motion stops dead, and a second later the lights are quenched."

Tracklist:
01 - In The Upper Room, Dance I
02 - In The Upper Room, Dance Ii
03 - In The Upper Room, Dance V
04 - In The Upper Room, Dance Viii
05 - In The Upper Room, Dance Ix
06 - Glasspieces, Glasspiece #1 ('rubric' From Glassworks)
07 - Glasspieces, Glasspiece #2 ('facades' From Glassworks)
08 - Glasspieces, Glasspiece #3 ('funeral' From Akhnaten)