Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Philip Glass – composer, keyboards
Foday Musa Suso – composer, kora
Martin Goldray – keyboards
Benjamin Hudson – violin
Michael Parloff – flute
Allen Blustine – clarinet
Rex Benincasa – percussion
Jerry Grossman – cello
Composed by Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso. Recorded for the incidental score to Jean Genet’s play The Screens, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, produced by The Guthrie Theater, 1989. Released on The Screens soundtrack album (Nonesuch Records).
“Night on the Balcony” is one of eighteen brief cues Glass composed for The Screens, a large-scale Guthrie Theater production of Jean Genet’s final and most ambitious play, first staged in Paris in 1966.
Philip Glass – Night on the Balcony Lyrics
(Night On The Balcony is a full instrumental piece by Philip Glass, and there has no lyrics.)
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