CD review: Glass & Ginsberg’s “Plutonian Ode”

The late great gay poet Alan Ginsberg channeled a ferocious anger and fear over nuclear proliferation into his 1978 epic poem “Plutonian Ode.” Composer Philip Glass, who was a friend and East Village neighbor of Ginsberg, responds with a similar urgency in his Symphony No. 6 “Plutonian Ode,” a mercurial score that’s nearly an hour-long (Orange Mountain Music). Soprano Lauren Flanigan gives the searing vocal part...