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SINCE 2013: Books and books and books and books and occasionally other things

Twilight Music: Alter Ego, “Piece In The Shape of a Square” (1999)

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To celebrate the end of the Twentieth Century and the end of the millennium, Italian ensemble Alter Ego recorded a selection of pieces by Philip Glass. This piece, from 1968, is a a duet for two flutes, and is one of the most intoxicating, trance-inducing compositions I’ve heard in a longtime. Get hypnotized….

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