Itaipu (Glass)

Itaipu is a four-movement symphonic cantata by Philip Glass. The composition was written in 1989,^[1] and pays homage to the Itaipu Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric dam, built on the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil. The text is written in Guaraní, with a translation by Daniela Thomas. It was commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and was first performed on November 2, 1989.^[2]^[3]

The four movements are titled:

Mato Grosso
The Lake
The Dam
To the Sea

Instrumentation

Woodwinds: piccolo; 2 flutes; 3 oboes; 3 clarinets in B♭; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon

Brass: 6 horns in F; 4 trumpets in B♭; 2 trombones; bass trombone; tuba

Percussion: tambourine; tubular bells; cowbell; maracas; triangle; wood block; cymbal; snare drum; tenor drum; bass drum

Mixed chorus

Keyboards: piano

Strings: 2 harps; violins I; violins II; violas; cellos; double basses

References

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External links

Itaipu on Philip Glass Official Website

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List of compositions
Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 (Company) String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak) The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia
Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Fall of the House of Usher The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Orphée Les Enfants terribles La Belle et la Bête Monsters of Grace White Raven In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American The Trial
Symphonies	No. 1 (Low) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 ("Heroes") No. 5 (Choral) No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) No. 7 (Toltec) No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 (Lodger) No. 13 (Truth in Our Time)
Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
Film scores	Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Dracula (1999) The Hours (2002) Going Upriver (2004) Roving Mars (2006) Notes on a Scandal (2007) Cassandra's Dream (2007) Fantastic Four (2015) Jane (2017)
Related articles	Philip Glass Ensemble Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Minimal music Robert Wilson Dennis Russell Davies David Henry Hwang Godfrey Reggio Errol Morris La Monte Young Steve Reich Terry Riley Kronos Quartet Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread
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Itaipu (Glass)

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