"This Is Not a Buddhist Prayer" by Garry Eister on the glass harp and Tibetan bowls

A composition written by GRAMMY nominated Garry Eister. This is the version made for the GlassDuo playing the #GlassHarp and #TibetanSingingBowls. GlassDuo have created an exceptional musical instrument from a set of custom made wine glasses. The result is the biggest professional glass harp in the world. Here’s a program note about the piece: In April of 2010, my wife, Mary, and I were tourists in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. On the morning of April 28th we visited the gorgeous and imposing Punakha Dzong, otherwise known as the Fortress Palace of Blissful Happiness. The building serves both civil and religious functions. We had arrived at the dzong on a day when upwards of 200 red-robed monks were holding services, chanting as they sat on mats on the stone floor inside the dzong’s main temple. For a tourist, Bhutan is not a very musical place. We heard these and other chanting monks, sometimes accompanied by the heterophonic outbursts of the trombone drones and oboe-like wailing