In 1976, Glass had, through works for his ensemble of winds, voice and electric keyboards, reached his high Minimalist period, producing repetitive binary musical structures that could drive some listeners mad but convince a willing audience that ecstasy was just around the corner.
His innovative, even controversial approach ventured beyond standard string quartet, piano trio and sonata recitals to combine winds, voices, strings, piano and percussion into a single season — or a single program.
"The wind carries voices," one defense lawyer said in his opening statement, "the voices of people in pain, of people suffering".
And then -- three months later -- when they called me and asked me to come back in and record more dialogue for Frankenweenie, I asked ' Well, which character did I wind up voicing?' And the answer was that Tim still wants you to be the voice of Victor's Mom, the Weird Girl and the Gym Teacher.
Walking the white streets, you could hear the wind, distant voices laughing, your own soul turning to appreciate life fully.
The stone marks where the Hardy school used to be, where the wind carried voices of children -- the joyous static of tomorrow.
The corporate oligarchy did not exactly crumble that day, but it did shiver, however imperceptibly, in the chill wind of voices raised in protest.
A few dozen passengers on the top deck of the boat half-listened to the wind-muted voice of the guide as he noted the Empire State Building, the steamship Lilac and a group of kayakers off Chelsea Piers.
The opening scene shows Jane in desperate flight from Thornfield Hall, dashing across the stormy landscape as if pursued by demons and menaced by a ghostly, wind-borne voice.
When Mr. Glass wrote what is now Part 1, in May 1971, he meant the work's title to indicate that the piece, for keyboards, winds and voice, was built of 12 lines of counterpoint.
