{"id":6387,"date":"2015-08-10T23:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T03:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2015-08-10T23:45:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T03:45:41","slug":"new-yorkphilip-glasssuzanne-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/new-yorkphilip-glasssuzanne-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Philip Glass\/Suzanne Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Philip Glass, Suzanne Vega, and Anton Sanko, 1989 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

I heard recently from a friend looking for a photograph I had taken years ago during a recording session with Suzanne Vega. So, I dug back into my archive, found the film, and began scanning the negatives. I remember that it was difficult lighting, and I didn’t want to use flash in the studio. So, it’s grainy film pushed in processing to get a little more speed out of it.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Anton Sanko and Philip Glass, 1989 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

It was the end of 1989, and she was working on her third album, which would be called \u201cDays of Open Hand.\u201d One of the songs, \u201c50\/50 Chance,\u201d included a string arrangement by Philip Glass. Present in the studio were Glass, Vega, producer Anton Sanko, and a string quartet.<\/p>\n

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\nSuzanne Vega, 1989 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

Stephen Holden of the New York Times later wrote:<\/p>\n

This song about an attempted suicide, a pop-minimalist answer to a Sylvia Plath poem, has a simple, lovely string arrangement by Philip Glass that underscores the sparseness of Ms. Vega’s language. It also sets off the emotional flatness of her vibratoless singing, which maintains a deadpan objectivity even in the words ”I love you.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Brian Rose, 1989 — \u00a9 Suzanne Vega<\/p>\n

At one point I handed the camera to Suzanne, and she took the photo above. Here is the finished song from the album:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/wDEkh2M-jt0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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