Philip Glass, "Evening Song"
I like Glass's work on the whole, though I'll be the first to admit that he's written some things that are just flat unpleasant. This, though . . .
. . . is another matter entirely.
This is the concluding piece from his opera, Satyagraha, Glass's opera about Gandhi's organizing of Indian immigrant workers in South Africa, whom the British discriminated against, and out of which emerged his ideas about nonviolent resistance which he would later use to win independence for India. The opera itself is a bit hit-and-miss melodically, though more hit than miss. You'll want to sample it before plunking down $44 for it.
Douglas Perry is the singer, and Sanskrit is the language. And whatever the Sanskrit word for "gorgeous" is, this is it.
