1,000 Airplanes on the Roof – review

National Museum of Flight, East FortunePhilip Glass's 1988 "science fiction music drama", as he termed it, has remained a rarity despite the current fad for Glass revivals. Maybe that's because it's hard to match the original site-specific setting: 1,000 Airplanes was first staged in a hangar at Vienna airport.Director James Brining and Red Note Ensemble may have managed it, though this performance was not only in a hangar, but underneath a Concorde. The musicians sat between the wings while th...

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