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Nov 8, 2017 · Philip Glass - Wichita Vortex Sutra (1988) is a piano piece based on anti-war poem by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), written in 1966.
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Sep 15, 2015 · Wichita Vortex Sutra. Provided to YouTube by Sony Classical Wichita Vortex Sutra · Philip Glass Philip Glass: Solo Piano ℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment Released on:...
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"Wichita Vortex Sutra" is an anti-war poem by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1966. It appears in his collection Planet News and has also been published in Collected Poems 1947-1995 and Collected Poems 1947-1980. The poem presents Ginsberg as speaker, focusing on his condemnation of the Vietnam War.
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Feb 21, 2022 · “Wichita Vortex Sutra” reads like a prophetic and final antiwar poem, he concludes, “an elegy for the power of language in an age of competing information.” More detailed analysis of the poem (from 2006) by Stephen Kirbach in Jacket here. Bob Herz, Phil Memmer, and Stephen Kuusisto discuss the poem in a two-part podcast here and here
Music by Philip Glass. CAST: Piano. COMMISSION: Spoleto Festival USA and American Music Theater Festival. PUBLISHER: Dunvagen Music Publishers. * For important information regarding score rental & licensing, go to the CONTACT page.
May 29, 2017 · Philip Glass performing "Wichita Sutra Vortex", during a 1996 performance in Lawrence, Kansas as part of the Nova Convention Revisited.
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Wichita sutra vortex Lyrics: I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / But not afraid / To speak my lonesomeness in a car / Because not only my lonesomeness / It's Ours, all over...
