Title: Music from the Screens Artist: Philip Glass/Foday Musa Suso Release Date: 1992 Label: Point Music Duration: 48:51 Album Type(s): Avant-garde UPCs: 028943296625, 028943296649 Genre: Classical Style: Minimalism Moods: Ambitious, Cerebral, Circular, Epic, Complex, Elegant, Restrained, Sophisticated, Uncompromising, Calm/Peaceful, Reserved Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. The Mad Cadi's Court
2. Leila Dies
3. Said and His Shadow Dance
4. Decorating the Dummies
5. Warda's Whorehouse
6. The French Lieutenant Dreams
7. The Arab Women Lament
8. Land of the Dead
9. Ansatou
10. 19th Century France
11. Said's Treason
12. The Orchard
13. The Village
14. Prison Song
15. Suso's Song
16. France
17. Night on the Balcony
18. North Africa - 1962

Year Type Label Catalog # 1992 CD Point Music 432966-2

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This collaboration between world composers Philip Glass and Foday Musa Suso presents a unique body of work grounded in musical virtuosity in both Western and North African musical cultures. The opening strains of "The Mad Cadi's Court" burst with an aggressive violin double-stop punctuated by an Algerian lute playing North African rhythms and tonalities. Strikingly different from what listeners have heard from Philip Glass from this era. These Algerian folk traditions permeate the entire disc, with many pieces energetic and others more esoteric and soundtracky. Composed as music for a production of Jean Genet's play The Screens, set in Algeria, the music both highlights and compliments the play's drama with sounds native to the setting of the play. Very welcome and refreshing. ~ Mark W. B. Allender, All Music Guide

Name Credits Allen Blustine Clarinet Ben Hudson Violin Foday Musa Suso Main Performer, Composer, Performer Jerry Grossman Cello Kurt Munkasci Producer, Executive Producer Laura Fried Engineer Martin Goldray Keyboards, Director, Conductor Michael Parloff Flute, Piccolo Philip Glass Composer, Performer, Main Performer, Liner Notes Rex Benicasa Percussion