hope street tunnel blues piano music by philip glass & alvin curran bruce brubaker Z6798 “ … My father was not a musician, but he did play the harmonica.   With his harmonica, he imitated the sounds of trains, the sounds of the railroad.   He'd make the sound of the locomotive chugging, the sound of the whistle blowing.   Railroad sounds are in Alvin Curran's piece Hope Street Tunnel Blues III.   I think that those sounds are sounds of America: sounds of westward expansion, sounds of reaching out across a vast continent. “For a moment, I must describe pain, physical pain.   The pain a musician's body feels, the pain I feel ….   You'll notice this music is physically challenging.   We speak of “extreme sports” - I would call this extreme piano playing!   (Perhaps the pain caused by making these sounds is as much a part of this music as the sounds themselves?)   And I've thought that this pain is the pain of America: the sharp pain of dislocation, and relocation, the pain of reaching out across a vast continent.” - Bruce Brubaker, remarks to the audience before a performance in Finland, July 15, 2003 hope street tunnel blues MUSIC FOR PIANO BY PHILIP GLASS AND ALVIN CURRAN bruce brubaker PIANO 1. Philip Glass Knee Play 4 (from "Einstein on the Beach")     7:57     transcribed for solo piano by Bruce Brubaker 2. Philip Glass Wichita Vortex Sutra     7:45 3. Alvin Curran Hope Street Tunnel Blues III     16:23 4. Philip Glass Opening     5:48 5. Philip Glass Etude 5     3:58 6. Alvin Curran Inner Cities II     20:23 ARABESQUE RECORDINGS - distrbuted in Australia by Rockian Trading