Vitreous Body, by Anthony Fiumara, Philip Glass, Slagwerk Den Haag

Vitreous Body

by Anthony Fiumara, Philip Glass, Slagwerk Den Haag

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1.	Chorale 04:10	info	buy track
2.	Petals 10:21	info	buy track
3.	Music in Similar Motion 12:23	info	buy track
4.	Remix 04:04	info	buy track
5.	North Star 04:30	info	buy track
6.	Vitreous Body 07:28	info	buy track
7.	Mad Rush 09:47	info	buy track

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In 2017, Slagwerk Den Haag (The Hague Percussion) asked me to put together a concert program for Glass’s 80 birthday. I made a concert program with some of my arrangements of music by Philip Glass, and new compositions of my own.

Inspired by the rhythmic patterns, the long lines and the modality in Glass’ early music, I arranged some of Glass’s works for this virtuoso percussion group. And in the spirit of these early minimal works, I composed the cycle Vitreous Body, as my percussive tribute to Philip Glass.

In Vitreous Body I made a small catalog of my language so far in six parts. In Petals and Remix I use Renaissance music that I stretch in various ways or quote with the sounds and instruments of today.

The slowness in Choral and North Star (a title I stole from Glass, though the music has got nothing to do with it) circling around a few tones that appear in different constellations.

Broken and Vitreous body, the melodies are rolling off as falling balls of wool. Broken has the form of a fractured vocal line, whereas in Vitreous Body eight voices are moving slowly but surely downwards.

I am happy and proud that this music is being released on Glass’s label Orange Mountain Music.

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released December 9, 2022

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Anthony Fiumara Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The music of Anthony Fiumara betrays a longing for immediacy, for powerful expression that has listeners by the short hairs straight away. The essence of his work lies in what Fiumara calls 'the skin or the sound’. An important pillar is the repetitive nature of Fiumara’s work, whereas the larger shape is buttressed by contrasts, or the blueprint of a rock song. ... more

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