Bach + Glass, with Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry
Because the first three pieces of the program had established an intellectual across-time dialogue between Bach and Glass and an examination of Glass' Bach 'ancestry,' the unabashedly Romantic quality of Glass' new piece came as a surprise: in spite of the presence of familiar Glass rhythmic and harmonic motifs, the concerto contained new cadences and directions. In both piano-strings simultaneities and in the four p…