It consists of nine twenty- minute sections and interspersed knee plays, its title figure wanders in and out of scenes playing a violin.  
One recording of this work, released by Nonesuch Records, replaced the late Samuel M. Johnson with Jasper McGruder, but kept the original cast.  Its Trial 2 contains a scene in a "Prematurely Air-conditioned supermarket", and its final section is entitled "Spaceship".  Trial 2 also contains a scene in which a Christopher Knowles poem is read over a saxophone and bassoon background, entitled "I Feel the Earth Move". It consists of nine twenty- minute sections and interspersed knee plays, its title figure wanders in and out of scenes playing a violin.  Directed by Robert Wilson, FTP, name this first entry in the "portrait" trilogy by Phillip Glass, an opera that focuses upon the developer of the theory of Relativity.
One recording of this work, released by Nonesuch Records, replaced the late Samuel M. Johnson with Jasper McGruder, but kept the original cast.  
{Einstein on the Beach}