Philip Glass - "Mad Rush" - pedal part?

[Barnaby Page]

Hi all, does anyone know Philip Glass's "Mad Rush"?

I just received the sheet music this morning and have started playing it - it's the perfect lockdown piece, never-ending and barely changing!

But I'm baffled. On several YouTube recordings, I'm positive there are pedal notes being played in the section beginning at bar 53. (24/16, forte, a tempo.)

Yet in the Chester Music edition I received from Musicroom, there's no pedal part at all. In that section there aren't even any long notes which could be played on the pedal.

I'm wondering if the Chester Music "organ" edition is, in fact, just the piano score. Any ideas??

[myorgan]

Barnaby,

Do you have a link to the recording?

Michael

[JeffW]

There's a page on Glass' site for Mad Rush: https://philipglass.com/compositions/mad_rush/

The piece is for organ or piano. Listening to Donald Joyce's recording of it, there is 16' pedal appearing throughout: https://youtu.be/o8hWOlWuv5g?t=28

[You can hear the pedal/bass through with headphones--my computer's speakers didn't have much of the pedal sound]

Also, starting in measure 5 Joyce is clearly playing different pitches than are noted in the following (one of three typical piano scores I saw for sale): https://www.stretta-music.com/en/gla...nr-276041.html

The Joyce recording seems well received and widely available--it is puzzling his version of the score isn't readily found. It could be that since the work was originally for organ and then arranged for piano, the piano arrangement became the popular one and the organ version "fell out" of catalogs.

[voet]

The Philip Glass site that JeffW provided (https://philipglass.com/compositions/mad_rush/) lists three sources for the score. Two of them describe the score as Piano (organ), but one of them is for just for organ. Here is the link to that score: https://www.musicroom.com/product/musdu10148/philip-glass-mad-rush-organ.aspx

If you look at the sample page of the organ score, there is a pedal part, although it is not notated on a third staff. The tied pedal points in the first 9 measures and quarter notes with down stems beginning in measure 10 are what you hear played by the pedal on the Donald Joyce recording.