I Feel the Earth Move
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"I Feel The Earth Move" is the third song in the TRIAL2/PRISON section of the opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass. The song is written in the same "minimalist" style as the rest of the opera, but has a traditional instrumentation of soprano saxophone and bass clarinet, omitting the electronic keyboard used in most of the songs in Einstein on the Beach. A poem by Christopher Knowles is read over the musical soprano saxophone and bass clarinet line, and in the poem's meanderings, it mentions such "TV personalities" as David Cassidy. A shortened version of this piece was chosen along with three other songs from Einstein on the Beach to appear on another Philip Glass album Songs from the Trilogy, which also included songs from Glass' operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten. The song's title is a reference to a Carole King song of the same name, from her album Tapestry.
