Music On Vinyl - MOVCL052 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl
The second in Glass' trilogy about men who changed the world, Satyagraha's sub-text is politics. The opera is semi-narrative in form and deals with Mahatma Gandhi's early years in South Africa and his development of non-violent protest into a political tool. (Satyagraha is a Sanskrit word meaning 'truth force').
The first two acts each contain three scenes; the last is one continuous scene. Each act is dominated by a single historic figure (non-singing role) overlooking the action from above: the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore in Act I, the Russian author Leo Tolstoy in act II, the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., in Act III.
SIDE A
1. ACT I: THE KURU FIELD OF JUSTICE
SIDE B
1. ACT I: TOLSTOY FARM
2. ACT I: THE VOW
SIDE C
1. ACT II: CONFRONTATION AND RESCUE
2. ACT II: INDIAN OPINION
SIDE D
1. ACT II: PROTEST
SIDE E
1. ACT III: NEWCASTLE MARCH
SIDE F
1. ACT II: PART 2
2. ACT III: EVENING SONG