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"Love Divided By" for flute and piano
"Love Divided By" for flute and piano
Philip Glass: "Love Divided By" for flute and piano was written in 1992. The piece was commissioned by Susan Charlotte, an award-winning playwright and the founder of the theater company "Food for Thought", as incidental music for a theater project, Charlotte’s play titled "Love Divided By."
The music mirrors the play’s narrative structure through its hallmark minimalist techniques. The title "Love Divided By", an arithmetic allusion, is reflected in Glass’s use of additive and subtractive rhythmic structures. In the play, this symbolizes the "division" between characters and the emotional distance they must navigate.
The piece consists of four short movements that provide a shifting atmospheric backdrop for the drama.
In theatrical contexts, Glass often utilizes the flute to represent a "solitary human voice" against the more mechanical, rhythmic "clockwork" of the piano.
In 1992, Glass was deeply engaged in "collaborative theater," where the music was meant to be as vital to the storytelling as the script itself. This piece specifically supported Charlotte's focus on human relationships and the "mathematics of emotion": how love can be divided, shared, or multiplied among people.
At that time, Glass was at the height of his "theater-as-concert-music" phase. While he was finishing The Voyage for the Met, he was also deeply engaged in writing intimate underscores for New York’s independent theater scene. Love Divided By is a product of this "off-Broadway" collaborative spirit.
Glass Philip
Philip Glass (1937) is an American composer, widely considered one of the primary architects of minimalism.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in a family of a radio and record shop owner, he grew up immersed in the avant-garde, since the store’s "unsellable" inventory consisted largely of modernist and classical works such as Hindemith, Bartók, and Shostakovich.
He began studying the flute at age six and entered the Peabody Conservatory preparatory division. A child prodigy in academics, Glass entered the University of Chicago at age 15, where he studied mathematics and philosophy before moving to New York to attend the Juilliard School for composition.
The definitive "Glass style" emerged not in New York, but in Paris during the mid-1960s. Glass traveled to Paris on a Fulbright Grant to study with the legendary Nadia Boulanger, who enforced a rigorous foundation in counterpoint and harmony. While in Paris, he assisted sitar master Ravi Shankar in transcribing Indian music into Western notation. This encounter was transformative, leading Glass to abandon traditional Western development in favor of rhythmic cycles and modular structures.
Upon returning to New York, he founded the Philip Glass Ensemble to perform his own works. His breakthrough came with the landmark four-hour opera Einstein on the Beach (1976), created in collaboration with Robert Wilson.
While he is the face of Minimalism, he famously prefers the term "music with repetitive structures" to describe his sound, a mathematical architecture built with emotional resonance. In his later works, like his Symphonies and the Duo for Flute and Piano, his style became more Neo-Romantic.