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THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE: LOVELINESS AMID THE POLLUTION
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Symphony Hall was mobbed Sunday afternoon for the presentation of
Godfrey Reggio's 1983 film "Koyaanisqatsi" with live accompaniment by
the Philip Glass Ensemble.
%EC% The throng (demographically not at all your usual
Celebrity Series audience) had come to experience one of the basic
1980s artifacts. "Koyaanisqatsi" is 90 minutes of images, images,
images -- haunting, startling, dismaying ones. It amounts to perhaps
the greatest music video there ever was. Philip Glass' music, whic...
